Love Them Virgins...

i have to admit, the title is nothing more than an attention getter, but there is a correlation between virgin lemonade and newman's day- paul newman. although newman's day has absolutely nothing to do with virgin lemonade, i feel it's only proper to mention how delicious it is, for a non-alcoholic beverage, before continuing on to the booze portion of this post. for those of you that don't hit the booze, you could substitute it for the brew today.

today is newman's day. newman's day is allegedly named after paul newman and is an annual tradition at many colleges across the country. the basic idea is that you must consume 24 beers within the 24 hours that make up april 24. the holiday's name was coined by paul newman who once said "24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. coincidence? i think not." it's not just fun and booze though, there are rules to be followed on newman's day, which include:

1) no puking.
2) no making changes to your normal daily schedule.
3) no sleeping or napping outside of your typical sleep schedule.
4) all 24 brews must be consumed between 12:01am and 11:59pm on april 24.

as of right this minute, you have only 12 hours and 40 minutes to catch up and participate in this glorious holiday. but if you're afraid you'll run out of time, and you'd prefer, you could also celebrate newman night tonight by having a dinner party consisting largely of newman's own brand food. a classic paul newman movie should be viewed during dinner (i recommend 'cool hand luke') and whenever newman enters a new scene, the partakers of your little dinner party should take a drink of a newman's own beverage (i recommend virgin pink lemonade) spiked with hard alcohol (for which i recommend zyr vodka).

on that note, i'm going to grab another yuengling...