A little while ago I posted about the Signature Cocktail contest being held by Rum Dood, The Rum Connection, and The Floating Rum Shack. Well, the winners have been chosen and each signature drink looks delicious. Congrats to the winners, congrats to each respective site for their new cocktails, and congrats to us for having a new trio of drinks to imbibe. I can’t wait to try them out.

Rum Dood’s Signature Drink

The Rum Connnection’s Signature Drink

The Floating Rum Shack’s Signature Drink

This is a review that should have gone up last week and it’s another white rum – DonQ Cristal. DonQ is the product of the Serralles family who have been distilling what they tout as “the finest, best-tasting rum in the world” for six generations. Now, that’s an impressive claim to make about their product and one could chalk it up to the inherent pride of Puerto Ricans, but six generations is nothing to scoff at though so maybe it’s more than bravado.
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I didn’t really do a Monday Catch-up last week. I was on-call for work all week and generally on-call makes me cranky, crabby, and solely interested in getting as much sleep in between calls. So apologies for the slowness of last week and apologies in advance for future weeks where I’m on-call.

In other news, yesterday was the Fourth of July. And it was boring. Now, I was already planning for boring because I was on-call and that means I really can’t make plans to go out and do anything. But I had hoped that I could stand outside and see some fireworks. Unfortunately we had typical Seattle cloud cover last night so no actual fireworks were seen. Just bursts of colorful haze in the night sky and the “boom boom BOOM crackle” of celebrations going on anyway.

Today I’m off work though, so I’m home drinking copious quantities of rum from a pineapple. Hu-fuckin-zzah!

My foul mood didn’t provide me with much interest in anything, but here are a few things that I didn’t mention last week.

Captain Jack Sparrow has been sighted. Johnny Depp has been caught by paparazzi  all decked out in his pirate attire for Pirates 4. Via PopSugar

BP is ruining our shipwrecks. In addition to fucking up the wildlife and the coastal wetlands, the BP Oil Spill is also threatening the historic shipwrecks that rest in the depths of the Gulf of Mexico. Via Huliq

Morocco was pirate central. I’ve always wanted to go to Morocco and this article on Morocco’s pirate history only fuels that fire. Via Financial Times

Image info: WhyIsTheRumGone.com’s tiki consultant sent me a picture of what he says is the Black Pearl. He’s on vacation in Hawaii and says it’s visible from his hotel room and that he was going to be taking better pictures. The one in this post is from his cell phone and is a bit… Loch Ness Monster-y

This is a good week for wenches. It seems Marisa Miller is the new Spokeswench for Captain Morgan rum. Her official title is “Official First Mate”. I’m sure putting the word “Mate” near anything to do with Marisa Miller is anything but coincidence.

For anyone not familiar with Marisa Miller, you’re dead, blind, completely out of touch with media, or perhaps all of the above. Above all however, you’re missing out.

She’s been the number one spot in Maxim’s Hot 100, models for Victoria’s Secret and has been on the cover of Sports Illustrated’s Swimsuit Issue. And that’s just scratching the surface of her professional sexiness. You should see her in the Harley Davidson campaign. Wow!

In regards to working with the Captain:

“It’s a great opportunity to work with a brand that is synonymous with fun,” said Marisa Miller. “Captain Morgan is all about celebrating legendary times and I’m excited to be on board as the Captain’s First Mate.”

Eye candy after the jump

Just because I’ve been busy this week and not in a very good mood doesn’t mean that I would skip Wench Wednesday.

I’m not that cold-hearted.

In fact, I think you’ll find that I’m kind.

Very kind.

Because not only do I have a wench for you, I’ve got a pinked haired one with an English accent who makes videos.

Sweet Mercy, hallelujah.

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