Nice drink, but you need a name for it. I suggest you call it an Eating Raoul. So.far as I know, no cocktail has taken that name, which is kind of shocking. Really, nobody has used that name yet?
This cocktail is a good anodyne for the cheap wine that gives the protagonists stomach cramps (ginger is good for the digestion), and the name is also a nod to Raul Julia, who strikes me as someone who would be fond of this drink, and who's second-most famous character shares his name with this drink's core ingredient.
Ok I mean this as a high compliment bc I love when the J Peterman catalogue takes me away (sue me!), and this has the same sense of being transported elsewhere. Thanks for the lesson. This summer, I'll get a couple bar-ish things and a Nick and Nora glass and sit outside listening to the peepers and the meep bird and hope the sandhill crane shows him or herself.
Lol yes that too! I found an old one laying around this week and the scenarios are absurd and not at all true but I love them anyway! I totally could see them having an urban sombrero in that catalogue!
Żubrówka! (the original). My father would buy it for special occasions and holidays. As a kid, I used to be fascinated by the blade of grass. I don't think I ever tried it, alas.
Of those ingredients, I keep exactly one, the lemon juice, stocked in my house. I have tap water and usually have sugar in some form, so lemonade it is ;)
During lockdown, the one thing I didn't have was citrus, because juicing citrus for one when you're used to doing it for 6-10 is depressing. Also I wasn't drinking enough to go through it before it went off. I did end up with a nice collection of citrus-free drinks (filed under "quarantinis"), and 20-odd bottles of booze to make them with, most of which I still have.
Our former upstairs neighbor, a theater director who'd done theater in Ukraine, always had a bottle of bison grass vodka sitting out whenever we'd have dinner with him.
Trump spouting gibberish about tariffs and car plants that don’t exist. I don’t know how the media isn’t sick to death of hearing him repeat the same bs day in and day out and not want to put him in a straitjacket.
I wrote a ban hammerable thing so here's a nice thing.
I was out of money for three weeks. Last night my phone rang because my daughter paid the bill. She paid it because she missed me. We talked for an hour and laughed.
Judge privately admonishes prosecutors for grandstanding at hearing for press dinner gunman
"CNN's Katelyn Polantz shares exclusive CNN reporting with Boris Sanchez. She reports that a federal judge privately admonished prosecutors for attempting to grandstand Thursday at a detention hearing for the White House Correspondents’ Dinner gunman, according to a transcript obtained by CNN."
When I went to gas up the car today (local business, favorite of ours, typically low prices), the price was $4.19. Ten cents higher than the morning before according to Mom. When I was filled up and left, the price had gone up in real time to $4.21.
One wonders what will win out re: the MAGAts - their nihilism or their need to keep cash in their wallets.
I've taken to topping off my car every time I go past a gas station and have a moment. I figure right now it's the cheapest it'll be for quite a while. I don't use much gasoline, but still.
I refer to some of my shopping instincts as "Late Soviet Era Shopping." If you need bread, but all they have is sponges; buy sponges because you never know when you'll see them again.
And remember, the hardware store usually has a little bit of toilet paper, and might even have a bag of flour. People don't always think of all the places that might stock a tiny bit of a certain item.
Just stepped out on the balcony. Heard the unmistakeable trill of a redwing blackbird. That's a sound that takes me back to being a little kid on the farm in southwest MN.
South Minneapolis is dotted with lakes and ponds. 100 years ago, greedy dumbasses decided to drain most of the little ponds and build (and sell) houses. They all had wet basements of course.
About 1987, right when I moved here, we had a superstorm. Got like 7" of rain in an hour. One guy in one of those houses went downstairs to make sure his sump pump was working. Right then, the foundation wall gave way and caved in. Fell on him. Pinned him down. He freakin' drowned in his basement.
After that, the city and the insurance companies decided that was enough of that. They bought up a lot of those houses, demolished them, and restored the ponds; connecting them to the storm drains. We have one of those on the end of our block. My house is a good 20 feet higher, so dry basement. But that little pond is marvelous. Full of ducks, turtles, toads; lined with willows and other trees that like getting their feet wet. Herons stop by. Just an oasis in the city.
My primary experience with red wing blackbirds is being attacked when I run past their nest(s) during certain weeks of the year. They like to attack the top and back of my head with, I assume, their claws (talons?) or their beaks. Fearless and aggressive, they are. Pretty too.
They build their nests low, right by the water's edge. So for those few weeks, they're super vulnerable. And territorial. So pretty aggressive, as you learned. Our neighborhood is full of marauding cats, raccoons, opossums too. Two of the marauding cats are mine. I bet the local marauders learn pretty fast it's not worth it.
OT rant, I have looked up reactions to Drumpf wanting to give ICE a new name NICE, and I was somewhat surprised how many mentioned That Hideous Strenth. The irony, there was a time when you could expect conservatives to be familiar with CS Lewis...
My health insurence is covered as a retirement benefit and every year I get a house visit by a visiting nurse, and every year I get to take the same cognitive test that Trump takes.
I ACED IT AGAIN THIS YEAR!
I must admit that I was tempted to fuck around with her and call the camel a llama.
Questions here. Not too busy yet, but that’s going to change fast.
This one sounds just perfect for me!
“A gassy, herbal spirit” I wish Bob Marley would lay off the cosmic patties.
Nice drink, but you need a name for it. I suggest you call it an Eating Raoul. So.far as I know, no cocktail has taken that name, which is kind of shocking. Really, nobody has used that name yet?
This cocktail is a good anodyne for the cheap wine that gives the protagonists stomach cramps (ginger is good for the digestion), and the name is also a nod to Raul Julia, who strikes me as someone who would be fond of this drink, and who's second-most famous character shares his name with this drink's core ingredient.
Ginger liquor sounds lovely.
Doesn't it?
IFTFY
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Ok I mean this as a high compliment bc I love when the J Peterman catalogue takes me away (sue me!), and this has the same sense of being transported elsewhere. Thanks for the lesson. This summer, I'll get a couple bar-ish things and a Nick and Nora glass and sit outside listening to the peepers and the meep bird and hope the sandhill crane shows him or herself.
I too love the prose of that catalogue
(Urban Sombrero)
I’m buying the vomit poncho.
Lol yes that too! I found an old one laying around this week and the scenarios are absurd and not at all true but I love them anyway! I totally could see them having an urban sombrero in that catalogue!
Żubrówka! (the original). My father would buy it for special occasions and holidays. As a kid, I used to be fascinated by the blade of grass. I don't think I ever tried it, alas.
Can I substitute Popov with some lawnmower clippings? Asking for they guy behind the 7-11 .
Bolshoi Spasiba
GET OFF MY LAWN!
Of those ingredients, I keep exactly one, the lemon juice, stocked in my house. I have tap water and usually have sugar in some form, so lemonade it is ;)
During lockdown, the one thing I didn't have was citrus, because juicing citrus for one when you're used to doing it for 6-10 is depressing. Also I wasn't drinking enough to go through it before it went off. I did end up with a nice collection of citrus-free drinks (filed under "quarantinis"), and 20-odd bottles of booze to make them with, most of which I still have.
Our former upstairs neighbor, a theater director who'd done theater in Ukraine, always had a bottle of bison grass vodka sitting out whenever we'd have dinner with him.
"It’s a grassy, herbal spirit that barely resembles American vodka."
There's a "vodka agricole"? Interesting.
AGAIN
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Well, they can’t help themselves now can they. JFC!
Trump spouting gibberish about tariffs and car plants that don’t exist. I don’t know how the media isn’t sick to death of hearing him repeat the same bs day in and day out and not want to put him in a straitjacket.
They don’t have a choice. This lot couldn’t get hired by a PR shop.
Also all the other jobs are at places owned by the same billionaire.
AOC on the reason behind Combover Caligula wanting his face plastered in the special U.S. passport:
https://www.comicsands.com/aoc-trump-mount-rushmore-passports?
𝗡𝗼𝘁 𝟭, 𝗡𝗼𝘁 𝟮, 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝟱 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗝𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝗟𝗶𝗳𝗲𝘀𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝘀 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗹 𝗕𝘂𝘀 𝗗𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗟𝗼𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/not-1-not-2-but-5-students-jumped-into-lifesaving-action-after-their-bus-driver-loses-consciousness/
I wrote a ban hammerable thing so here's a nice thing.
I was out of money for three weeks. Last night my phone rang because my daughter paid the bill. She paid it because she missed me. We talked for an hour and laughed.
My daughter missed me.
SQUEE!!!!!! Good times news. Thank you for sharing that.
WT*Funmoderated* happened to Wednesday @ Wonkzoom.com
CNN. Paywalled, whatever.
Also too, shocker.
Judge privately admonishes prosecutors for grandstanding at hearing for press dinner gunman
"CNN's Katelyn Polantz shares exclusive CNN reporting with Boris Sanchez. She reports that a federal judge privately admonished prosecutors for attempting to grandstand Thursday at a detention hearing for the White House Correspondents’ Dinner gunman, according to a transcript obtained by CNN."
It’s not like they’re likely to have a presser following a conviction.
I saw in the news earlier that Spirit Airlines will not be bailed out by the fraudster in chief. Bankruptcy it is.
Again.
Make it so!
Buy the planes up on the cheap and create Trump Deportation Airways!
Ding! Ding! Ding!
Winner Winner Chicken Dinner!
LOLOLOLOL *sob*
https://bsky.app/profile/econanalytica.bsky.social/post/3mksrnktn5s24
When I went to gas up the car today (local business, favorite of ours, typically low prices), the price was $4.19. Ten cents higher than the morning before according to Mom. When I was filled up and left, the price had gone up in real time to $4.21.
One wonders what will win out re: the MAGAts - their nihilism or their need to keep cash in their wallets.
I've taken to topping off my car every time I go past a gas station and have a moment. I figure right now it's the cheapest it'll be for quite a while. I don't use much gasoline, but still.
I refer to some of my shopping instincts as "Late Soviet Era Shopping." If you need bread, but all they have is sponges; buy sponges because you never know when you'll see them again.
And remember, the hardware store usually has a little bit of toilet paper, and might even have a bag of flour. People don't always think of all the places that might stock a tiny bit of a certain item.
We boomeranged in 48 hours from $4.09 to $4.35 at one of the 3 stations in my neighborhood. Yikes.
In normal times, the price updates once a day around 7 a.m. depending on the store. The oil shock I’ve been warning people was coming is almost here.
Racism.
Then let them go broke.
Word.
Just stepped out on the balcony. Heard the unmistakeable trill of a redwing blackbird. That's a sound that takes me back to being a little kid on the farm in southwest MN.
South Minneapolis is dotted with lakes and ponds. 100 years ago, greedy dumbasses decided to drain most of the little ponds and build (and sell) houses. They all had wet basements of course.
About 1987, right when I moved here, we had a superstorm. Got like 7" of rain in an hour. One guy in one of those houses went downstairs to make sure his sump pump was working. Right then, the foundation wall gave way and caved in. Fell on him. Pinned him down. He freakin' drowned in his basement.
After that, the city and the insurance companies decided that was enough of that. They bought up a lot of those houses, demolished them, and restored the ponds; connecting them to the storm drains. We have one of those on the end of our block. My house is a good 20 feet higher, so dry basement. But that little pond is marvelous. Full of ducks, turtles, toads; lined with willows and other trees that like getting their feet wet. Herons stop by. Just an oasis in the city.
I love their calls.
Minneapolis is a beautiful city, especially once it thaws out.
After the first good drenching rains washes the sand and salt away, and homeowners pick up the trash that gets caught up in the snowbanks.
My primary experience with red wing blackbirds is being attacked when I run past their nest(s) during certain weeks of the year. They like to attack the top and back of my head with, I assume, their claws (talons?) or their beaks. Fearless and aggressive, they are. Pretty too.
Thankfully, have never had a flooded basement.
They are very territorial. There were times we didn’t go out to the end of our dock.
They build their nests low, right by the water's edge. So for those few weeks, they're super vulnerable. And territorial. So pretty aggressive, as you learned. Our neighborhood is full of marauding cats, raccoons, opossums too. Two of the marauding cats are mine. I bet the local marauders learn pretty fast it's not worth it.
In the same vein of "what can I make with what I've got":
https://www.dalelyles.com/2024/05/10/new-cocktail-semeles-flame/
and
https://www.dalelyles.com/2024/11/25/new-cocktail-unnamed-bourbon-cocktail/
and truly
https://www.dalelyles.com/2024/12/02/new-cocktail-the-citrine/
Fuckin' Bezos ...
‘𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲’ — 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗗𝗼𝗻 𝗝𝗿. 𝗮𝘀 𝗵𝗼𝘀𝘁 — 𝗯𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗰𝘂𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝘀 𝗔𝗺𝗮𝘇𝗼𝗻 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗼𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝗯𝗼𝗼𝘁: 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁
https://nypost.com/2026/04/30/business/the-apprentice-with-don-jr-as-host-is-being-discussed-by-amazon-report/
Yeah, good luck with that.
The apprentices have to figure out how to steal money from the Treasury or they get fired.
3 more episodes of The Boys and we cancel.
OT rant, I have looked up reactions to Drumpf wanting to give ICE a new name NICE, and I was somewhat surprised how many mentioned That Hideous Strenth. The irony, there was a time when you could expect conservatives to be familiar with CS Lewis...
Hi Wonkets. Here is your evening Zelenskyy. Nationalize Firepoint? https://www.president.gov.ua/en/news/bude-zbilsheno-groshove-zabezpechennya-dlya-nashih-vijskovih-104189
https://bsky.app/profile/uk-news.bsky.social/post/3mksvls5ygm25
Ukraine Is Now An Arms Superpower
https://www.europesays.com/uk/931308/
Fiber optic drones being tested in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. (Photo by Jose Colon/Anadolu via Getty Images.) When the…#uk #news #uknews
Cards, they have them.
My health insurence is covered as a retirement benefit and every year I get a house visit by a visiting nurse, and every year I get to take the same cognitive test that Trump takes.
I ACED IT AGAIN THIS YEAR!
I must admit that I was tempted to fuck around with her and call the camel a llama.
Go with dromedary.