Sips Reviews

  An energy drink for the discerning palate..? I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Energy drinks on on sale off the street downtown. I watched neon signs glow in the dark near the drink cooler. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die. I have taken up living at the homeless camp again. The camp is probably a fairly close approximation of what our prehistoric societies must have looked like: a band of desperate people barely scraping out an existence, a loose coalition led by the largest and most fearsome among us, and in my case, that is a large man of Haitian extraction that is known by the mononym "Blaster" to the other camp-dwellers. Our lives in this prehistoric state are as nasty, brutish, and short as Hobbes thought they would be. While survival is our primary goal, Blaster  is ambitious and ruthless and tries to drag us out of our rut. We truly are hunter-gatherers, and I have become one of the hunters, but the quarry t...

The "alcopop" of Canadian "rave culture." Long have I traveled the wastes; my bones brittle, my muscles frail, and my skin cracked and wrinkled. In the years of my journeys I have seen the rise and fall of many cultures, subcultures, and cults; one that has neither waxed nor waned is the strange drinkers of the blue, the "REVelers"... If you seek information, I wish you luck, for you will find that it is scarce , and if you seek to read the sacred texts of the cult itself, you will find that their own instructions:  " http://www.reverage.com/ " lead to an entirely new and different set of scrolls. The true nature of Rev  is obscured to all, only known by those who have imbibed the drink and those strange, arcane zealots that produce it and carefully guard its secrets. I consider myself an academic, a seeker . I will ever disparage research and the testimony of others; but, whenever possible, I prefer firsthand experience. Many times have I seen t...