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  1. Two cocktails on tap for this evening. The first is an Aviation (gin, elderflower liqueur, lemon, and topped with club soda) because I feel rather light while the second is a Spring Collins (gin, lemon, creme de violette, cherry liqueur) because last week was Dame Joan Collins' 91st birthday and she has a great quote:

    Even when you win the rat race, you're still a rat...

  2. On 5/24/2024 at 9:22 PM, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    I don’t see him having a bright future. He’s not even at the intelligence level of boebert or MTG. He will soon fade from memory of the far right. There’s no doubt in my mind that he will only make the news in being arrested for shoplifting or some other low level crime. 

    Truth be told, I don't either. He's 21 years old now and running low on options. Not so much because he couldn't perhaps find something but moreso because he comes with a not insignificant amount of baggage.

  3. 20 hours ago, Hate said:

    I guess most of Surly is already passed out?  I'm getting a little drunk tonight!

     

    Not passed out as much as TMI.

    But tonight is one martini followed by some bubbly because we were celebrating and gosh darn it, it's good to be married for a long long time. Nice to have some memories that go back decades. Cheers!

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  4. A signed copy of his book normally costs $59.99. Imagine paying ~60 bucks for a 241 page book (~10 bucks for the Kindle edition) signed by a high school dropout that was co-authored by two other people (including Michael Quinn Sullivan) because owning this book must in some small way prove one's worthiness as a patriot. He's got a bright political future ahead of him in the GOP. But he's going to need help when it comes to drafting anything beyond a note to teacher excusing him from PE.

  5. Fucking hell. Spouse made Cosmopolitans during dinner prep and then finished with a Pegu Club and I am tipsy. But its Friday so whoooo. Oh, and using the Tanqueray Seville Orange Gin in a Pegu Club is not a bad way to construct the cocktail. But after the Cosmos can't say that my judgement is legit.

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  6. Bumping this thread because there is a Season 1 marathon prior to the release date of Season 2 (June 16th) for those of you who don't stream it/ are interested. This weekend on Saturday (HBO2) starting at 12:00pm CDT.

     

     

  7. 14 hours ago, mchookem said:

    also that^ pic was taken at 10:20pm 😮

    You DID remember to change your watch right? I kid, I kid. Really happy for your family; the whole experience (even the traffic issues) will have so many memories and stories for all of you.

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  8. While technically a liqueur and not a gin, per se, we have really enjoyed Plymouth Sloe Gin. It's a little hard to find, but it makes an outstanding *Charlie Chaplin. Made them while cooking supper last night.

    1 oz Plymouth sloe gin (there are other brands, but there is absolutely a difference)

    1 oz Rothman and Winter Orchard Apricot Liqueur (same as above, I think this brand uses the apricot flesh instead of the pit and it is lovely)

    1 oz fresh squeezed lime juice

    Note: we do NOT add the simple syrup that some recipes use; the liqueur is sweet enough for us.

    Shake with ice, strain into cocktail glass.

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    *This is an older cocktail, apparently featured at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in the 1920's. We've found the older cocktails are often less sweet which is our preference.

     

     

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  9. 12 hours ago, satyanash said:

    Appropriately, I just recently finished reading Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World.

     

    It's very interesting to read Doyle's description of an Allosaurus, based on the state of paleontology in 1912:

    In the deep shadow of the tree there was a deeper shadow yet, black, inchoate, vague—a crouching form full of savage vigor and menace. It was no higher than a horse, but the dim outline suggested vast bulk and strength. That hissing pant, as regular and full-volumed as the exhaust of an engine, spoke of a monstrous organism. Once, as it moved, I thought I saw the glint of two terrible, greenish eyes... The thing moved forward with a dreadful snarl. Lord John never hesitated, but, running towards it with a quick, light step, he dashed the flaming wood into the brute's face. For one moment I had a vision of a horrible mask like a giant toad's, of a warty, leprous skin, and of a loose mouth all be-slobbered with fresh blood. The next, there was a crash in the underwood and our dreadful visitor was gone.

     

    Off topic, but I do wish more people used 'inchoate' and other expressive words in their vocabulary. The idea that one is a snob or high falutin' for possession of such vocabulary when languages are as much art as they are communication tools is one I lament. I fear it is something being lost in education (no CR) when having a wide range of words from which to select is denigrated. Sure, sometimes the most appropriate phrase is "Oh shit, the brakes are out" as opposed to " a calamitous tragedy is upon us," but it's nice to have both at one's disposal.

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  10. On 4/10/2024 at 4:26 PM, Chewbacca said:

    The seasonal Hendrick's (Grand Cabaret) is fantastic. 

    We picked this up a while back and I agree, it's pretty good.

    In addition to our usual faves, have added a couple of others to the stock.

    The Eden Mill Original is a good gin.

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    Have not yet cracked open The Sassenach nor the Red Door:

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    I'll be pleasantly surprised if the Red Door works in our house only because it's supposed to have a fairly bitter orange come through and while I'm a fan of the Negroni as well as absinthe based cocktails, spouse is not so much so we'll see what he thinks. Cross fingers.

    Speaking of absinthe, we made the Corpse Reviver No. Blue last night as well as a French Blonde (which doesn't have absinthe but does have grapefruit juice and since we prefer white grapefruit juice to ruby red in cocktails, it has that bitter note underneath.

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    Obviously pics aren't mine, I never remember to snap a pic until after we've finished. I can say that the blue curaçao liqueur does indeed turn the drink a very pretty blue. And don't skip the absinthe rinse for the glass either, it adds just enough to give it some flair.

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  11. 16 minutes ago, Sawbonz said:

    Isn’t supervision and provision of the delivery of mail the exclusively within the purview of the federal government? Seems like that is pretty explicitly laid out in the constitution

    Louis "I'mma gonna fuck up this service" DeJoy has entered the chat.

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  12. Number of dead links so don't know if these were posted before:

    Joe Keery (DJO) of Stranger Things, Free Guy, etc sings:

    Andrew Garfield (actor) from The Amazing Spider-Man, Hacksaw Ridge, etc sang quite a few songs in Tick Tick Boom, the Lin Manuel Miranda film about Jonathan Larson. I don't know that I'd call him a musician, but AFAIK, he had little to know musical background prior to the role. Ryan Gosling, however, actually was in a band or two long before he sang the Ken song at the Oscars. Eddie Redmayne had a choral background that earned him scholarships to uni, but I don't know that he composes. He was in the Les Mis film with Crowe.

     

  13. 1 hour ago, Al_4_ISU said:

    Yes.  Memorial Day week is a notorious window for F5s throughout tornado alley.  Moore, Joplin, and Parkersburg were all within a 5 day window on the annual calendar.

    Funny story about Parkersburg.  My in-laws have a boat slip on the Mississippi in Prairie Du Chien, WI and their slip neighbors are a couple from Parkersburg.  The first time we met them I asked "did you guys come out of the tornado ok?" and the wife goes "FUCK NO" and I respond, "sorry to hear that.  Can't imagine what it's like to lose your house".  She goes "no, we got spared.  I wanted a new fuckin' house like the rest of town!".

    Prairie Du Chien. Now there's a name I haven't heard in a while. Used to visit Villa Louis on the reg (they offered classes on cooking on a wood stove) and loved the Ft. Crawford museum there. (the story about the doctor who treated the man with a window in his stomach was memorable) Pretty area with a lot of history.

    Stay safe!

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  14. Monday...meetings, meetings, meetings. Ugh. So, martini Monday. The Botanist gin, Noilly-Prat vermouth, and 3 Mezzetta Super Colossal Spanish Queen cocktail olives on a pick. Cheers!

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  15. Oh, I forgot to add that Jesse Plemons and Emma Stone are set to reunite in another Lanthimos film, Bugonia. Stone, if I understand correctly, finds working with familiar cast & crew preferable (hence the Gosling/Stone 3 movies together), and this will be something like her fifth film (including shorts) with the director. It seems to be a good formula for her cause she's done some fantastic work. Would love to see her reunite with Garfield in a non-Marvel/Sony drama piece, but the pap/fan drama would be insane so can't say I'd blame them for avoiding that.

     

    Added an edit to include another female. I ended up with a lot more females on my list than males but then realized that the 40-50 year age group for males has so much talent (Gosling, Redmayne, Andrew Scott, Cumberbatch, Reynolds, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Rami Malek, Joaquin Phoenix, Bradley Cooper, etc) that it may be harder for the younger guys to break into certain roles.

  16. Most of the top names listed I'd watch if I saw their names in the cast--Emma Stone for certain, absolutely love her; Margot Robbie, Florence Pugh, Anya Taylor Joy, Saoirse Ronan, Jodie Comer, Carey Mulligan, Zendaya along with the males. Completely agree about Jesse Plemons, Adam Driver, Barry Keoghan, Dev Patel, and Michael B Jordan but I'm not completely overwhelmed by Chalamet and Butler. I haven't seen as many of their movies though so I may not be giving them a fair shot. Andrew Garfield is 40 right now so kind of a squeaker on the age bit but he is amazing in whatever he does.

    At 39, Scarlett Johansson is on my list as well, along with Janelle Monae and Lashana Lynch.

    I'm rather delighted at the range of talent in the <40 category, it bodes well for the movies yet to come.

  17. Had some leftover salmon from another meal so tonight while cooking made a tequila sunrise while making salmon cakes with a dijon mustard sauce, salad, and a mashed carrots. Since the sauce uses white wine, well you know once you've opened the bottle then you've got to finish it off. Nice meal and we are full and feisty.

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  18. Cleaned out the fridge tonight so a little of this and a little of that and thus dirty Gibsons which go with pretty much errything. Gin was Eden Mill Original Scottish Gin. Two in and Wednesday is almost the weekend.

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  19. Finished While My Sister Sleeps (2009) by Barbara Delinsky. It's short but not a beach read that's for sure. Not sure if I liked it but then the story involves a sibling who is incapacitated at a hospital and the family going through some things (to put it mildly and hopefully not spoiling the plot).

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    Have begun Demon Copperhead (2022) by Barbara Kingsolver; a 2023 co-recipient of the Pulitzer Prize and thus far this has been rather good.

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  20. Spouse made a riff on the Frenchie, which is a cocktail made with gin, elderflower liquour, and grapefruit juice, but subbed out the elderflower for Paula's grapefruit liquour (from Austin) and added a scant dose of lemon juice and it was quite tasty. I'm a fan of the citrus based cocktails and this one (okay, maybe two or three) hit the spot. Cheers!

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  21. 9 minutes ago, hookem2010 said:

    I'm confused if people are unaware of these facts, don't believe them, don't care or don't think that it will impact them or their offspring. It baffles me, honestly.

    Because the concept of insect populations and their place in the food chain/world is confusing for some people. National Geographic had a nice gen pop article about insect populations several years ago that was quite informative.

  22. Finished The Motion Of The Body Through Space (2020) by Lionel Shriver. Slightly satirical story of a long married couple (ages 60+) and their attempts to come to terms with their physical age, retirement (his and not by choice), and the exercise 'craze' of pushing one's limits.

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