Tiki Bar TV is a "video podcast" you can subscribe to via iTunes (or watch online in Quicktime format). Each episode is set in a home tiki bar and showcases a different cocktail that conveniently solves some predicament for the cast, who get steadily drunker as the show goes on, and ad-lib hammily throughout.

The current installment teaches you how to make a London Fogcutter:

2 oz. Gin
1 oz. fresh-squeezed lime juice
6 oz. of Champagne (doesn't have to be French)

Serve on ice

And remember, only fresh-squeezed lime, never from a can, you f*ckin' savage!

via Tiki Talk

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I'm incredibly excited to report that real progress is being made on the tiki-bar front (photos here). The floor tile is in and grouted, and our contractor started building the bar today. We were a little concerned when the grout color we'd picked for the tile came out much lighter than the samples, but we've since decided it's going to look fine once the bamboo and molding goes up on the walls.

My contractor came up with the brilliant idea of making the top of the bar a decoupage; I'll cover it with Hawaiian and Asian ephemera (postcards, drink coasters, old photographs, etc.), and he'll pour a layer of clear epoxy over it to seal everything in.

To celebrate the grand opening, I'm going to crack open another bottle of the 15-year Rhum Barbancourt from Haiti that I picked up last month in California. This stuff is even better than Havana Club, and damn, is it smoooooth!

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