In honor of our drinking podcast…
This design was suggested to me by Gentlemen Jesse and Lee. During their travels abroad, they discovered a sign featuring the staff with a snake intertwining it that symbolizes medicine or pharmacies (the Rod of Asclepius, although the Caduceus is also occasionally used) and both mistook the staff for a martini glass. Read into that what you will, but both agreed that the healing powers of the martini surely exceed anything available over the counter.
As regular listeners and/or readers have no doubt noticed, the League strongly supports drinking with both leisurely and adventurous activities. With that, I now present what we here at the LGA have deemed, “The Hippocratini”. The symbol of approval for drinking as the cause of, and solution to, many of life’s problems.
This was an amazing little piece of art I came across while doing some research recently. It’s a lithograph by Nathaniel Currier during the extremely popular (note the use of highly sarcastic italics there) Temperance Movement in the United States. In honor of our second Drinking podcast, I pass this warning on to you.
I’m happy to say that our current active LGA members seem to be hovering around Step 5 so far… although the argument could be made that some of us have advanced to Step 6.
I was walking in San Diego recently when, as I waited at a crosswalk, I noticed that the nearby “Pedestrian Crossing” sign had been defaced. Someone had rather crudely drawn a big pair of googlie eyes on the poor chap trying to cross the street on the sign. This turned out to be a moment of inspiration for me and upon returning home, I sat down and sketched out this piece.
There are so many signs trying to call attention to so many things. It became clear to me that something people will want to watch for in the future will undoubtedly be a proper Gentleman Adventuring…
We mentioned the official LGA Curios Cabinet in our last podcast when Gentleman Jesse presented us with the plaque of St Brendan’s Boat, so I thought I’d present some pictures of both for our listeners. The plaque represents the possible discovery of America by St Brendan in his leather canoe some 1000 years before Columbus.
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Tags: Cabinet, Curios, St Brendan
As we promised during our podcast about the trip to the Mt Laguna Air Force Base, here’s an aerial photo of the area we were in. We came up along the road next to the Enlisted Quarters and explored the buildings along that main road up to somewhere around the Dining Hall. Appropriately enough, that’s where we stopped and had our amazing lunch that our Chief Epicurian, Gentleman Lee, so kindly prepared for us. Having now seen this overhead map, it would appear we missed several of the buildings and may need to go back out to properly explore the remaining sites.
http://wikimapia.org/5329703/Mount-Laguna-AFS-site