My friend Cathy has a blog. It's superb, and something to be aspired to.

ccmarshall.blogspot.com/

Her recounting of midwest midcentury Chinese-restaurant mixology reminds me of the legendary "Low Tide" cocktail (whose recipe I include here as it is mysteriously absent from Google results, at least the ones I could bother wading through):

1 part Kahlua
1 part clam juice

mix well, serve straight up.

And regarding junk mail, my friend Kris has a plan for living of the grid that goes something like this:

1. Move to Vermont house with a wood stove
2. Order something insignificant from every catalog one has.
3. Heat house by burning resultant junkmail tsunami