Oh cold medicine you devil, what you do.... now that I am mostly awake.
While most avoid things on Friday the 13th, ladders, hockey masked camp staff with chainshaws, black cats, here at OMG we embrace the Gray Goose , the number 13 and a bat or two.
Austin again is doing his civic duty. This time at the signing of the new NC Film legislation, good both for the economy of North Carolina, and another positive step for small and independent films as well as larger budget productions being made outside of Hollywood.
Thank you to Spooky and Vesperlynd for the great pictures from yesterdays signing. Check out all the great pictures and posts over at Austin Nichols Journal. 
Governor Perdue looks about as tall as Sophia in these pictures, and you can see how Austin how far he has to bend down to hug it out. And you know that he turned on all his natural Southern Charm, and who could resist that?
Check out the video of the cast and Gov. Perdue. Especially Mr. Nichols at the end.
episodes are in the can more than half of OTH Season 7 is done. Can we expect more Austin in the back 9+ ? Will Julian get to make a
Austin has talk about a Notebook kind of romance for Brooke and Julian. Really? Seriously.. Really? Cause it is seems so not that and more like The Devil wears Prada and has a boyfriend instead. (And no I don't mean Annie either)
Enough to make you batty, or drink a batinni. The millions of bats in Austin may have gone further south for the winter, but that doesn't mean you can't drink till their return. The Four Seasons Hotel in Austin is one of the best places to watch the annual evening flight of the bats under the Congress Bridge. They have also won the best Batini in Austin several times.
Batini BlackRecipe courtesy The Four Seasons in Austin
Ingredients
* 2 ounces vodka
* 1/2 ounce blue curacao
* 10 fresh blackberries
* Splash simple syrup
* Splash grapefruit juice
* Splash Champagne
* Blackberry and bat-shaped mint, for garnish
Directions
Add vodka, blue curacao, blackberries, simple syrup and grapefruit juice to a martini shaker and shake vigorously until the drink turns a deep purple. Strain into a cocktail glass and top with a splash of champagne. Garnish with a blackberry and a bat-shaped mint.
And their Batini Thyme
Batini Thyme
2 ounces Tito's Handmade Vodka "infused" with fresh thyme
1 ounce peach schnapps
Shake ingredients and serve straight up. Garnish with frozen peach slices carved in the shape of bats.
