Mrs. had a birthday party last weekend. She requested that we serve a drink called "Jalapeno's Revenge", which she found on the Jose Cuervo website, I think.

Anyway, the ratios are:

4: silver tequila which has been infused with jalapeno
3: blood orange juice
2: triple sec
1: lime juice

I did it this way:

Pour a bottle of tequila plus another splash (to bring the total up to 800ml from 750ml) into a pitcher. Add a sliced jalapeno. Let that sit for a three hours.

Scoop out the jalapeno slices, put them in a bowl on the side for garnish, if people want them.

Add 600ml of blood orange juice (about 8 oranges), 400ml of triple sec, and 200ml of lime juice (about 8 limes).

Or: 1 bottle tequila (750ml=25oz), 18oz OJ, 12 oz triple sec, 6 oz lime juice.

Stir it up. Drink with ice.

Recipe said to serve in salt-rimmed glasses. We chose not to.

It's just a bit spicy, not really hot - as confirmed by our spice-averse friend. And very tasty. Though it would probably work fine with regular OJ, the fresh blood orange juice gives the drink a nice deep pink/orange color. It was delicious, as you might suspect. I'm not sure if what I felt in the morning was the jalapeno's revenge, or the champagne's revenge, or the beer's revenge, or the red wine's revenge, or... But something set me up the bomb. Use with caution.

On January 26, the Disney Channel made a gentle stride into a more progressive era by featuring its first-ever same-sex couple on an episode of Good Luck Charlie, introducing two lesbian moms who bring their child over for a playdate, then show everyone they’re just like normal parents by not scissoring or establishing a golf pro shop in front of the kids. It was, as you might imagine, a controversial subject among those who spend their entire lives looking for things to be outraged about—such as One Million (Totally Not Gay) Moms, who sent out an urgent call for “conservative families” to raise their voices and decry Disney’s introducing these gay characters for one episode, right before they disappear forever, because Good Luck Charlie’s series finale is Feb. 16. Now police are investigating some voices who have been making death threats aimed at the show’s star, Mia Talerico. By the way, Mia Talerico is 5 years old.

A new video posted to YouTube on January 28, 2014, exposes an involuntary process of deep disclosure taking place during former CIA employee and NSA contractor Edward Snowden’s recent interview with German television broadcaster Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) taped in Moscow. The video demonstrates how secret messages encrypted backwards in the whistleblower’s statements relate details of telepathic contact with human extraterrestrials.

Instead of watching the Super Bowl this Sunday, I'm going to go see ... Neutral Milk Hotel.

I don't think there could be anything more hispterish than that.

(And then on Tuesday, Robyn Hitchcock! And then in March, St Vincent and Stephen Malkmus! And I just bought the Slint box set)

Deputies say he admitted to shooting the two men because he thought they were trespassing on his property.

Sheriff McComas says the land actually belonged to Garrick Hopkins. He had just purchased it and was showing his brother where he and his family were planning to build their new home in the coming weeks...

Investigators said [Black] told dispatchers the two men were breaking into his shed, but sheriff's officials said the shed wasn't his.

You will all be shocked to learn that the two dead men were - according to the sleuthing of a commenter on the gawker article - black.

13 apocalyptic pictures of Kiev's streets of rage

George Zimmerman is continuing his artistic renaissance by releasing a fiery painting of the special prosecutor who charged him in the killing of teenager Trayvon Martin.

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The painting depicts Florida State Attorney Angela Corey pinching her fingers together in red and orange hues. "I have this much respect for the 'American judicial system. Angie C," it reads.

As the New York Daily News points out, the painting copies an Associated Press photo of the moment when Corey publicly announced a second-degree murder charge against Zimmerman in April 2012.

Last month Zimmerman sold a painting of an American flag -- apparently copied from a Shutterstock image -- on eBay for $100,099.99.