If you were on Drunk History, what would you drink & what topic would you discuss?
6 bottles of wine and zora neale hurston
Mojitos and the 1763 lacrosse game-turned-Indian-takeover of Fort Michilimackinac
Absinthe and Verlaine shooting Rimbaud.
gin & tonic and the lost generation or historical women writers OR the fucking Romantics and their shenanigans
Tequila and the mayans
Spicy margaritas and the Reformation and Counter-Reformation bitchy argumemts between Luther and the Catholic Church
Two bottles of pink moscato and Alice Paul
Captain Morgan and the Romani people
Margaritas and the Great Vowel Shift
André Blush Champagne and the motherfucking Crusades, with an intense focus on Frederick II Hohenstaufen, that rascal
Whiskey, Nashville 1863.
margaritas and the chosin reservoir
bourbon and the cumberland game
Vodka and sex workers.
Blind Archer whiskey and the history of superhero comics with a focus on Jack Kirby.
Either that or the Stonewall riots.
2.75 glasses of Whiskey Sours and the totally illegal and unconstitutional seizure of the sovereign nation of Hawai’i by the United States of America.
i want that one for real tho.
Amaretto sours and the unintentional consequences of the Reformation.
Or the Crusades.
Or the Cold War.
Hard cider and Renaissance Italy and who the fuck has a taxidermied Last Supper of their enemies anyway.
Applejack and the Tudors.
No this is not just so I could filk Henry the VIII I Am while drunk in the rudest terms possible WHY WOULD YOU THINK THAT.
(I’m still not really here but someone linked me this:)
Nk’mip syrah and mediaeval English court of chancery. NO SHUT UP IT’S WAY MORE EXCITING THAN IT SOUNDS.
A bottle of port and the human elimination of smallpox.
On the one hand of course I want to talk about an organizing victory I was involved in. So is recent history ok? Then The Defeat of the Jets’ West Side Stadium! It was over a decade ago and is indicative of many fights against sports stadium boondoggles that have plagued our country.
Who doesn’t want to see indicted and disgraced fmr Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver on the screen some day?! We can even work in our people dressed up as 40 story luxury apartment buildings to protest the Barclays Arena. We lost that one, but what a visual!
Or The Rise and Fall of Brooklyn Political Boss Assemblyman Vito Lopez? That takes decades and points to trends in state and local politics that can be observed in cities across the country in post-Civil Rights Era politics.
And I guess I’d have to drink Rheingold followed by Brooklyn Brewery’s Pennant Ale to symbolize the changes to NYC’s waterfront brewing facilities.
And if I can’t talk about something I was involved in then I’d probably choose Jack Kirby vs US Nazi Sympathizers. I’d LOVE to see comedians performing as Mayor LaGuardia and Jack Kirby. And we could all use some images of people taking domestic nazis down a peg.
Now, I need @racefortheironthrone @gothshostakovich and @stalkingrichhall to tell me what they’d do. Cuz those would actually be awesome.
Shoot, I would love to be in the audience for all of Elana’s histories!
And I did recently buy a bottle of Shostakovich and Sollertinsky’s favorite Georgian wine (Tsinandali, a dry white from the Kakheti region) to drink while I work on translating their letters. If someone wanted to film me getting tipsy and talking about their friendship and the early Soviet classical musical scene…I would do it. It would end in tears, but I would do it.
That would be such a good episode! Most Americans know NOTHING of this subject and you would do such an interesting job of it!
Rum and Lewis Baxter.
Then again, my high point as a history nerd is giving an impromptu lecture on Western European history from the fall of Rome to WWI to keep a driver awake during a road trip from Davis to Santa Barbara. Managed to cover political, economic, and cultural aspects, and didn’t get tripped up on the timing of the Reformation.
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