I cannot be friends with anyone who likes eggnog.
f/k/a Fitz-Hume | Email | Homepage | 12.24.05 - 1:39 pm | #

I agree. This isn't much of a fight. Then again, it's not really an unresolvable issue since we're clearly right.
E. McPan | Email | Homepage | 12.24.05 - 3:29 pm | #

But eggnog is good!

And please, while this may be worth getting into, let's not have a whole comment thread on eggnog. Thanks.
Milbarge | Email | Homepage | 12.24.05 - 4:12 pm | #

Milby, I hate to point this out (well, not really), but you DID say we could "Take sides and pick a fight over some unresolvable issue", that we should "feel free to run amok in the comments," or that we might discuss "Anything else that's on your mind." Those are your rules, you can't go back on them now!

I hate eggnog too, so I'm going with Fitz and E. on this. Eggnog is the devil.
energy spatula | Email | Homepage | 12.24.05 - 6:07 pm | #

How about an update of your Booker song parodies, as we approach Booker's birthday?

See:http://sentencing.typepad.com/ sentencing_law_and_policy/2005/12/ a_christmas_sen.html
Doug B. | Email | Homepage | 12.24.05 - 9:15 pm | #

Eggnog is not the devil. The products of chickens and rum/brandy can never be wrong. It is fortifying and calorific. It was a favorite of George Washington. It was also a popular wintertime drink throughout Colonial America. Therefore it is unAmerican not to like eggnog. Discuss.
Beanie | Email | Homepage | 12.24.05 - 10:00 pm | #

Eggnog is thicker but straight liquor is quicker.

I can't tell if this is the best or worst gift, but Mom gave me a WalMart gift card. This makes sense in my hometown, where most of the other stores went under with WalMart's entrance, but not so much in Manhattan. I don't think there's a WalMart even in the boroughs.

Favorite holiday food: tamales. Ohh, tamales. Maybe instead of a whole Taco Cabana, I'll drop out of law school and just open a tamale stand. Except I guess I'd need a beef option for kosher/ halal eaters (less of an issue in Texas).
PG | Email | Homepage | 12.25.05 - 10:15 pm | #

Eggnog is yucky.
Wayne | Email | Homepage | 12.26.05 - 11:14 am | #

There is literally NOTHING better than Taco Cabana at 2am on a hot Texas Friday night...swear to god...breakfast tacos are the cure to anything that liquor will do to you over the course of an evening. And the salsa bar, oh sweet baby jesus, the salsa bar.
energy spatula | Email | Homepage | 12.26.05 - 11:09 pm | #

Eggnog rocks. Except for the fact that there are 6,000 calories in every sip. But think of all the protein!

PG, I love your rip-off of Ogden Nash. And tamales... oh how I miss tamales! The real home-made ones, not the disgusting ones in the freezer case. Those are an abomination.
Citations | Email | Homepage | 12.27.05 - 10:38 am | #

E. Spat, how could you? Whataburger taquitos >>>> Taco Cabana breakfast tacos.
Dylan | Email | Homepage | 12.27.05 - 2:26 pm | #

Oh Dylan...I am SOOOOO disappointed in you. Taco Cabana serves BOOZE! Nothing is better than breakfast tacos and beer in the middle of the night! Except maybe a sausage on a stick in the parking lot of the country bar being sold out of an igloo cooler by someone of dubious background and THEN going to Taco Cabana. I miss that so much!
energy spatula | Email | Homepage | 12.27.05 - 3:25 pm | #

But they don't serve it after 2:00 a.m.!

So there.
Dylan | Email | Homepage | 12.27.05 - 3:54 pm | #

In San Antonio, last call was at 1:30 (I think). All I remember is that we could leave the bar before the horrible "oh god, the lights just came on and we all look like drunken crackwhores" moment, and still get to TC in time for a beer.
energy spatula | Email | Homepage | 12.27.05 - 4:13 pm | #

Citations, it's been a tamale binge all week. Tamales made by my aunt's co-workers on Saturday; tamales topped with chili last night at Cafe del Rio.

I stopped by WalMart before dinner, and was reminded by the piles of it on sale in the aisle that I must stock up on black eyed peas before returning to Manhattan. God only knows whether I'd be able to find any for Jan. 1 there. I would have trusted Harlem, but I ordered delivery from a Harlem BBQ place and the BBQ chicken sandwich was pieces of boiled chicken meat with BBQ sauce poured on it. If you think freezer tamales are an abomination, try "BBQ" that's never seen a grill.
PG | Email | Homepage | 12.28.05 - 1:06 am | #