Okay, so I read One Day, by David Nicholls six months ago, when my friend, who’s…A player, read it and decided that he wanted real love. Any book that could elicit that kind of transformation was worth a read. Ok, fine I skimmed it! Which is how I missed this awesome part, which I found thanks to Gaskella’s blog:
‘I eat out most days now. As a matter of fact, I’ve been asked if I want to review for one of the Sundays.’
‘Restaurants?’
‘Cocktail bars. Weekly column called “Barfly”, sort of man-about town thing.’
‘And you’d write it yourself?’
‘Of course I’d write it myself!,’ he said, though he had been assured that the column would be heavily ghosted.
‘What is there to say about cocktails?’
‘You’d be surprised. Cocktails are very cool now. Sort of a retro glamour thing. In fact -’ he put his mouth to the empty martini glass ‘-I’m something of a mixologist myself.’
‘Misogynist?’
‘Mixologist.’
‘I’m sorry, I thought you said “misogynist”.’
‘Ask me how to make a cocktail, any cocktail you like.’
She pressed her chin with her finger. ‘Okay, um … lager top!’
‘I’m serious , Em. It’s a real skill.’
‘What is?’
‘Mixology. People go on special courses.’
‘Maybe you should have done it for your degree.’
‘It would certainly have been more fucking useful.’
Awesome right? This is why you shouldn’t skim books. Also, eat your vegetables. Diet fads come and go. Vegetables are solid.
P.S. Yes, this will be a movie…But! It will have Anne Hathaway, and Nicholls wrote the screenplay too, so it won’t be that bad.
