Now that IAAFOTS is entering its second year, I thought it might be good to shake things up ever so slightly with a new idea I'm calling Topic Of The Week. This gambit will allow us to delve more fully into the given subject and really get a handle on it; of course, mischevious otters, classy collectibles, and everything else you've come to expect will continue to be interspersed with posts on the featured theme. The inaugural topic for this Holy Week will be cocktails, a disappearing artform which I've been thinking about quite a bit recently. In a moment, the first of these thoughts...