Owner: Champagne and Benzedrine URL:http://champagneandbenzedrine.blogspot.com/ Join Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 15:35:20 -0600 Rating:0 Site Description: A blog for grown ups! Featuring a masculine perspective on adult things like sex, love, romance and relationships Site statistics:Click here
'Just Mates' - a short story... 2009-01-21 13:10:50 I've never seen When Harry Met Sally, but I’ve heard the principle – that guys can never be ‘just friends’ with a girl.Now as far as Helen and I go, you’d think we blow that misconception straight out of the water. We hang out all the time and have tons of fun together. She often tells me that I’m her best mate and tells me everything - like we’d been friends all our lives.But while Read more:story
, short story
Arabic Tattoos by Jon Udelson 2009-01-21 10:55:10 In the Qu’ran, any type of body modification is considered blasphemous – especially things like piercings or tattoos. However, the popularity of personal tattoos written in Kufic-style Arabic
script is on the increase, prompting author Jon Udelson to examine this contradiction in his new book ‘Arabic Tattoos
.’Udelson examines the accounts of over 40 tattooed people, each one having chosen
What is the Quantum of Solace? 2009-01-14 10:47:36 "The Governor had presented Bond with a theory concerning love, betrayal and cruelty between marriage partners. Calling it the 'quantum of solace,' the governor believed that the amount of comfort on which love and friendship is based could be measured. Unless there is a certain degree of humanity existing between two people, he maintained, there can be no love. It was an adage Bond had accepted a Read more:Solace
Welcome to Champagne and Benzedrine... 2009-01-12 14:45:44 Welcome
to my new blog! If you're wondering about the title, it's a quote from a James Bond novel - Moonraker, to be exact. In that book, James Bond quaffs Dom Perignon '46, mixed with powered benezedrine (a form of speed) to give him the edge to outwit the crafty Hugo Drax in a high-stakes game of bridge. The hangover the next morning inspires Bond to curse: "Champagne
and Benzedrine! Never agai