But You All Look Alike - Misconceptions

Jewel of the Nile

1 1/2 oz Gin 1/2 oz green Chartreuse 1/2 oz yellow Chartreuse In a mixing glass half filled with ice, combine all ingredients. Still and strain into a cocktail glass.

"At the request of a friend who is at my house and laughing at me posting drink recipes:" Dirty Girl Scout

1 oz Bailey's Irish Cream 1 oz Kahlua 1 oz Vodka 1 tsp green Creme de Menthe

In that 1/2 full of ice shaker, combine all of the ingredients. Shake well. Strain into an old fashioned glass almost filled with ice cubes. (tastes just like a thin mint cookie that you stuck in the freezer!)

Flying Dutchman

2 oz Gin 1/2 oz Cointreau or Triple sec

In an old fashioned glass almost filled with ice cubes, combine gin and Cointreau. Stir well

Moscow Mule

1 1/2 oz Grey Goose Vodka juice of 1 lime 1 12 oz Cock N Bull Ginger Beer - ice cold slices of lime and 2 chunks pineapple

In a 20 oz glass appx 1/2 filled with ice cubes, mix vodka, lime juice, and Cock n Bull ginger beer. Garnish with slice of lime and pineapple chunks.

Color changePink Paradise

2 oz tequila 3 dashes bitters Pour tequila into mixing glass 1/2 filled with ice. Stir well. Put the bitters in a brandy snifter and swirl it to coat the glass. Discard the remaining bitters. Strain the tequila into the snifter.

At one point I posted an image of a frothy pink concoction and asked her to come up with a cocktail for it... and she did!

Pink Squirrel

1 1/2 oz Creme de Noyaux 1/2 oz white Creme de Cacao 1 oz light cream in that 1/2 ice filled shaker, combine all ingredients. Shake well. Strain into cocktail glass or blend with small amt of ice and turn into a frosty

Lisa, here's yours! Champagne Rum Punch

(Makes 30 - 6oz punch cups) 1 liter light rum 1 liter anejo rum 1 (750m) bottle sweet vermouth 1 (750 ml) bottle champagne 1 quart orange juice 1 cup cranberry juice (although I like a hair more personally) 2 oranges cut into rounds (thin slices) In a large punch bowl, combine the light rum, anejo run, vermouth, champagne, orange juice and cranberry juice. Stir well. Add 1 large block of ice (or if you're working on a theme a small ice sculpture of perhaps a mermaid or a ship) and garnish with the orange slices

...........PARTY!!!!............

BAD day for Capt Bluebeard Mutiny

1 1/2 oz dark rum 1/2 oz Dubonnet Rouge 1 dashes bitters 1 maraschino cherry

In the shaker 1/2 full of ice (again), combine rum, Dubonnet and bitters. Strain into cocktail glass and garnish with the cherry

And FINALLY a coconut tequila recipe (had to hunt one up) Coconut Crusher

1 part 1800 Coconut 1 part pineapple juice Combine ingredients in a shaker and strain into a rocks glass filled with ice

Image posted by siren Sanndi, showing the aftermath of Bridget's witchcraft

We just scheduled another online soiree on June 30 for the rollout of the GODDESS issue. First question I was asked, "Will Bridget be bartending again?" Perhaps with your cajoling, she will!

But You All Look Alike

Demythtifying the Stereotypes

by Eleina Fae, Contributing urban fairy

(Note: Neither la Vie Sirene nor Siren School are responsible for the personal opinions of Miss Fae)

We all know how it feels to be lumped into a general category, worse yet, one to which we don't belong. If I had a shekel for every time I've been called a pixie, I'd be a gazillionaire!

• "You're from Germany. I can tell." "Actually,

I'm Dutch. I'm from the Netherlands.. you know, Holland?" "Same thing."

• "You'll have to speak English. I don't speak

Mexican." "Neither do I, because there is no such language! It's Spanish! Besides, I'm from

Portugal." "Same thing."

• "I can't tell you Chinese apart." "But I'm

Korean. And he's Vietnamese. And she's from

Japan!" "Same thing."

Not the same thing!

Perhaps no fae race has been subject to more confusion and stereotyping than that of the mers. Well, I am here today to set the record straight!

MERMAIDS

To start, let's consider the consensus definition of mermaids: 'legendary aquatic creatures with the upper body of female humans and the tail of a fish.' This is quite correct. But what many fail to realize is that the term legendary does not mean mythical; it means famous, celebrated, noteworthy, that sort of thing.

Like most life forms, they are ever evolving, with body attributes varying depending on their region. Whereas the tail to leg transformation used to be a painful and costly process, most modern mermaids in North America are able to make the transition to duobus cruribus (two legs), simply by exiting the water. In certain cases, most notably in the Sahara desert, mers who are kept from the water for an extended period of time may lose their ability to return to tail form. Some of these opt to transition into genies.

UNDINES

These elementals are described in European folk tales as fairy-like creatures, but of course, this is not exactly accurate.

Generations ago, tabloid journalism over a German water nymph who cursed her unfaithful husband led to the race being saddled with responsibility for what is unfairly known asthe Ondine Curse, i.e. sleep apnea.

As water spirits, undine tend to stay close to home in forest pools and waterfalls. Their soothing voices are sometimes mistaken for trickling or running water. Prior to the faemenist movement, undine were deprived of souls, unless they became a wife and mother. Those who stood up for their independence as single females were labeled wraiths —hard to believe in this day and age.

Syrian Atargatis Mermaid Goddess Ruler of the Seven Seas

Illustration by Arthur Rackham, 1909 from the 1811 book Undine by Baron Friedrich de la Motte Fouque