Katrina cocktails

Poppy Z. Brite:

A local writer -- I think maybe it was Ronnie Virgets in Gambit -- reports having invented a cocktail to get him through the post-K days, the V-11: V-8 juice plus Vodka, Valium, and Vicodin. A kind friend sent me some of his pain pills, and I think I am going to invent the DEaD: Daiquiri (Eggnog) and Darvocet. It doesn't have quite the same ring as the V-11, but it will do.