ok yeah, i'm a bartender. so everytime my little brother looks for a gift for me it's bar-based... last bday i got a 4-bottle spinner to pour drinks. then when he came home from Taiwan after visiting his gf's family, he brought back this special bottle. i'm not sure exactly what it was ... plum something, apparently pretty potent stuff, but the kicker was the packaging. it had an image of an old man smiling and offering you this drink on the front, then on the back he was beaten up and bruised like the bottle had kicked his ass (apparently having drank some). this was inspiration for Yakesaki 2006. Me, kel (little bro), ken (big bro), susie (sister-in-law), judy (kel's gf) and my roomie Julia on a sunny afternoon in May -- we BBQ'd, took Naomi (my niece) to the pool for the first time and inagurated this event by drinking this plum stuff and about 6 more bottles of champagne. Needless to say, everyone slept over and in the morning we watched the video from the previous night. when sober, video taped drunkenness leaves you in stitches. here are a couple of highlights from the evening.
