Drinks list!! (partial)

Current t-shirt: "Oh no, the Butterflies Are Escaping!" by Oopsy Daisy
By the same people who make Emily the Strange, http://www.emilystrange.com/, but I think it's no longer available.

Current music: Sunset Rubdown (Spenser Krug is a god)
http://www.absolutelykosher.com/sunsetrubdown.htm

Ok, I've got three books for the fall menu drinks list:

Malt-liquor - exactly! - when you need it:
That White Girl, by JLove (Atria, August)
Story of a white girl who joins the Colorado Crips, specifically the Rollin' 30s. Reads like thinly veiled memoir, and golly but it's good. Let's you remember what it was like to be a kid. I haven't finished it yet, but will be majorly disappointed if it takes that predictable moralistic turn at the end.

Non-alcoholic alternative with a kick:
Cairo, by G. Willow Wilson (DC Comics, October)
Lyric, folklorish, yet up-to-date and swimmingly good graphic novel about a Jinn, a lost Lebanese American and a word nailed in a box. Better than "Pride of Baghdad," which was itself pretty phenomenal.

Lit-chick special (like a Manhattan, only really, really dry)
The Last Chicken in America, by Ellen Litman (Norton, September)
Short stories about a newly immigrated family. Replete with irony, dry wit, and multicultural misunderstanding. People in Brooklyn will be talking about it. Yes, it's a rather safe drink, but safe drinks exist for a reason.

Love and Lots of Salt,
The Red Pooka!