The Telephone Room will remain Drunk until April

Drunk Dialing by Kristen Ramirez, that is... Come see the show for the first time, or make an appointment to fall in love with it all over again. If you need more information about the artist, check out this Q & A from the Seattle Times. Hot off the press!

If you'd like some Drunk Dialing inspiration of your own, the Telephone Room recommends the following recipes (courtesy of the Bartender's Guide by Trader Vic, 1947 edition). Try them all, and remember to call...The Telephone Room Gallery!

Do Be Careful Cocktail

1/2 oz. gin
1/2 oz. cointreau
1/2 tsp. grenadine
1/2 tsp. lemon juice

Shake with fine ice, strain into chilled cocktail glass

Artist's Special Cocktail

1/2 oz. bourbon
1/2 oz. dry sherry
1/4 oz. lemon juice
1/4 oz. Groseille syrup (you can use currant or raspberry syrup)

Shake with cracked ice, strain into chilled cocktail glass

Oh Oh Mac Cocktail

1/2 oz. brandy
1/2 oz. lillet
1/2 oz. lemon juice
1/2 oz. cointreau

Shake with cracked ice, strain into chilled cocktail glass

Each recipe serves one.

Drunk Dialing by Kristen Ramirez is on view at the Telephone Room Gallery until March 26, 2010 and is always viewable by appointment at thetelephoneroom@gmail.com.

The Morning After the Night Before

The holiday season is upon us, and the wintry nights are filled with festive opportunities to raise a glass of cheer. It's a story as familiar as Dickens' A Christmas Carol -- and as tragicomic as A Christmas Story: Chasing away the chill with hot toddies, sipping one or five too many glasses of eggnog... Perhaps you evince an admirably strong commitment to sampling each and every last seasonal beer -- 'tis the season, right? And you needed a tall glass of whiskey to wash down that mouthful of Aunt Edna's 100 proof rum cake.

Oh, dear. Sometimes the consequences of holiday spirit are more than a churning stomach and that foggy feeling... Somewhere between the White Elephant Gift Exchange and the cold, gray light of day, did you call to tell your ex how you feel about their (subpar) new paramour? Maybe you had to ring up everyone from work to tell them how much you love them -- you really, really love them.

The Telephone Room Gallery would like to help you through your recovery. Break out of your shame spiral and help Kristen Ramirez create her work for the Telephone Room's February 2010 show.
And remember, you're helping others when you tell Kristen how they drunkenly called you.

From Kristen:
DRUNK DIALING. I need your best drunk dialing story. Send a few words, send a five-paragraph essay, but do it now! You know you've got one.
I'll be showing work at the world's smallest and most adorable gallery in February 2010 (Tacoma's Telephone Room Gallery www.thetelephoneroom.blogspot.com). Inspiration shall come in the way of your drunk dialing anecdotes, to be inscribed in a sea of booze bottles.
Email me your juicy confessions now: ktramirez@hotmail.com. All stories will remain anonymous.

What will you do this summer?

Upcoming November 2009 Telephone Room exhibiting artist Kristen Ramirez was selected by the City of Seattle Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs to be the artist in residence in Seattle's Fremont Bridge tower.
While some of us will be draped across kiddie pools in the throes of Otter Pop induced brain freeze, Ramirez will be creating a public art project inspired by the venerable drawbridge. Find out more in this article and this episode of Art Zone from the Seattle Channel.
Here at the Telephone Room Gallery, we'll be using our trusty namesake rotary dial to leave our Fremont Bridge thoughts and memories for Kristen's consideration at 206-455-9983.

UPDATE: Kristen's blog about the residency can be found here, or bend an ear to her feature on NPR's All Things Considered!