You know when you have just one of those days – when everything sucks, and nothing goes your way? Monday, I had one of those days. I snapped at every single person who spoke to me, who reached out to me, who even asked me a question. I was miserable.
A fabulous friend, who totally gets the whole moody thing, suggested I do a “match your liquor to your mood post”, and I’m finally in a better place so I can actually look at the idea of that without scowling.
The next time you’re having a shit day, and nothing is going …read more

When I was in Seattle recently meeting Gary Vaynerchuk, I got to talking to my bartender. We talked cocktails, as is my wont, and he told me about this little place that I’d never heard of before. Called the ZigZag Cafe, it was apparently the place in Seattle for cocktails.
He told the story that these two young bartenders opened this place so that their friend, this older, rockstar bartender would have a place to shine. He told me that the ZigZag Cafe had, hands down, the most well stocked bar in the city.
I stopped in to check them out, and …read more