Was wondering if you would see this. A great bar. We met the owner, Fabiola and had some great drinks. Will be back soon and will post some of her stuff.
The pansy topper is cool... I love using flowers for garnish. Nasturtium on potato salad. Marigold petals on guac. Pansies for a bright splash on anything.
There's a bar on the Carnival Jubilee called the Golden Mermaid that serves a similarly constructed cocktail and that was the first time I had ever experienced air foam... it too was violet. I'm a fan! Like you said, it doesn't have to be there, it's just a better drink when it is.
Nothing to it. 5 or 6 tubs of dried pasta. Tubs keep the m out. 1 or 2 tubs of cookies and crackers. 20 lbs of assorted dried beans. 20 lbs of rice. Powdered dairy stuff. Pickles and condiments. Canned veggies and tomato sauce by the case. Your favorite marinara. Tuna and canned chicken and salmon if you like it. Cases of chicken and beef broth unless you can your own. Flour of every variety that you use, plus baking powder, baking soda, yeast and sugar.
Coffee and tea. Chips and salsa. Enchilada sauce. Velveeta if you're not too proud. Powdered mashed potatoes. 50 boxes of Rice-A-Roni, get it when it's on sale. Olives and olive oil.
That's what we have basically, plus home canned goods. I'm assuming that you can supplement with local fresh veggies.
Oh, you’re getting way ahead of me. Way way, way ahead of me. I’m gonna steer you towards the comment. I just posted at the top, and then I’m gonna come back and read what you said as soon as I get Daphne up the stairs here and get all the cats sorted.
I lost my pride about Velveeta when I was in grad school. To my mortification, my children much preferred that to the real thing when it came to cheese sauce.
I guess Matty Forehead couldn't stand being one-upped by that idiot who claimed he's been teleported to Waffle Houses or JD Vance saying UFOs are real:
"...Gaetz made the shocking statement during a guest appearance on the “Benny Show” while speaking with host Benny Johnson.
“I had someone come and brief me, wearing a military uniform, worked for the United States Army, that was briefing me on the locations of hybrid breeding programs, where captured aliens were breeding with humans to create some hybrid race, that could engage in intergalactic communication,” Gaetz said...."
Tiedrich has this in his "This Week in Stupid" post:
I'm not an expert in cross examination, but that's a deceptively phrased statement.
What countries uniform was this person wearing? And while he said "worked for" the tense isn't clear, he could easily mean long before the meeting but not when the meeting took place.
He could just mean a random crazy Florida person who was wearing an Admirals uniform and was last in the Army 30 years ago when their brain went a bit funny.
PAY ATTENTION TO ME! PAY ATTENTION TO ME! DON'T PAY ATTENTION TO HIM! DON'T PAY ATTENTION TO HER! PAY ATTENTION TO ME! AND BE SURE TO MAKE A DONATION AND RECEIVE YOUR SPECIAL GIFT! PAY ATTENTION TO ME! DONATE NOW!
I never posted my pics from the Buffalo art museum. There is a giant Pollock there and the docent showed me a spot where a bug was smooshed into the canvas. I haven't seen the film since it was released. Seeing a large work in person felt meditative. The whole museum blew me away and I really ought to share the pics.
Why bother saving money? We're all gonna die! Might as well do some gambling, right?
So the prospective candidates for upcoming vacancies in the cabinet are getting odds.
Jill Stein is the even money pick for DNI.
Mike Lindell gets you two dollars for every dollar you bet if he ends up Sec. State. But the odds reverse if you go with him getting Interior.
Ben Shapiro is also getting odds for State. But that bet is for chumps. Don't waste your dough.
The surprise action is on Scott Bessent winning the internal power struggle against JD Vance and being appointed "acting VP". JD will be farmed out to the newly created 'Department of Low Energy'. It's a 10,000 to one bet and I got $50 burning a hole in my hand.
Iran is already using the perfect message frame: "The Regime Changed, But the West Hasn't”. This is the line that rewrites the entire conflict. The US stated objective was regime change. The Supreme Leader is dead. A new leader governs, but the bombs keep falling. Iran doesn't need to win the argument — it just needs to keep asking the question: "What exactly are you still fighting for?"
What IRAN has won so far:
Tollkeeper on the Strait of Hormuz.
Sanctions-proof oil revenue.
Domestic unity.
Generational leadership renewal.
Regional military credibility.
Moral high ground.
Coalition fracture, splitting of Western alliance.
Never in my life would I have thought it would work out this way. I GUESS we've "always" done shit like this, the "regime change" in other countries and no President was ever really held to account.
Those Presidents were just more "presidential" I guess
>>A Fox host says ‘many people’ think women shouldn’t be president. <<
Busted clock, blind squirrel, etc. Based on results, many people in this stump jumping, hick ass, shithole country do in fact believe that women shouldn't be president.
"Then they'll raise our taxes and give our money to illegals. On April 21, vote NO on partisan gerrymandering" while showing an old concerned looking white couple. Heard on ad in Virginia. Fuck off with your scaremongering.
BUT it's more like they just don't trust government as a whole. So while they absolutely believe those ads, it isn't like it paints Republicans better when they've certainly been doing way worse shit in front of our faces for over a year. So its more "both sides are corrupt"
There’s a super pac I’m 100% sure is Peter Thiel’s money that I’m getting blasted with on YouTube using the language of the civil rights struggle to imply gerrymandering is a similar fight and to vote no.
What’s amazing is all of this “Obama wants you to vote no” language is going to get just as many know nothing republicans to vote yes because eff Obama
When I become President, I'm going to have a fighter jet go supersonic over Hegseth's house.
Note: If you've ever experienced a supersonic boom at ground level, it's LOUD! I was at the periphery of such an event and it scared the bejeezus out of me. Those close to the epicenter experienced blown out windows.
Ever had the Air Force Thunderbirds or Navy Blue Angels practice over your neighborhood? In another context, the sound might evoke Kenny Loggins’ “Danger Zone.”
Have experienced. Also got to experience elderly relative yelling at young AF 1LT. relative had experienced broken windows on their home on multiple occasions (they lived in a rural area near AFB, so got boomed on the regular…usually high enough not to break windows but 2 or 3 times over about 20 years it happened). LTs pointed out was that was a risk of building so close to AFB. Relative went off pointing out that their father in law had built the house BEFORE the Wright Brothers flew so AF should not have built and be flying so close to the house. That was back in the 80s and I haven’t heard sonic booms there in decades.
Well... Traditionally their employer. That's how jobs work.
I'm not sure about Elon, I don't think he pays people if he can avoid it, and he notoriously doesn't employ any PR or media people because he's a lunatic and an idiot.
The legacy media hasn’t come close to deep diving into the absolute fraud that is your son and the Ponzi scheme of lunancy behind the valuations of his companies.
The legacy media still doesn't hate on Elon, and public perception has only turned particularly against him in the last 5 years. The fuck is she talking about?
I agree - I think that post was more about that than defending her son.
I see HarperCollins is the publisher - and they are also publishing JD Vance's new book ( describing his conversion to Catholicism - with a picture of a Methodist church gracing it's cover ).
I expect shit like this from firms like Regnery - but not really from one of the "Big Five" of the publishing world. I guess that's how they got to the "Big Five", by publishing any drivel they receive.
Like any company they are for profit. Their people ran the numbers and determined there was enough SuperPacs and Republicans organizations willing to buy it at the bulk price and give it away to donors to make a buck off of it.
I no longer have a subscription, but I still have the habit of reviewing the headlines there - and if something strikes me, I'll look for an archived copy.
So that’s why they launched when they did. Super easy to find, so no squabbling “I told you to turn left when we hit the edge of the inner Van Allen belt, but nooooooo…you insisted on going straight.”
Questions and complaints here.
Da man.
Speaking of mixology...
We're gonna go get coctels later!
https://www.bekebsma.com/about
For Jesus.
JEALOUS. I would go to a bar like this, ask "Why do maragaritas taste so good?..." and then demand the bartender answer the question in a glass.
Was wondering if you would see this. A great bar. We met the owner, Fabiola and had some great drinks. Will be back soon and will post some of her stuff.
Fantastic. I'd love to see what Fabiola's thinking.
So pretty
You must love working at a nice cocktail bar better than working at the country club? You wouldn't make many of these at the country club.
It's night and day. I've never had a job I've loved so much.
Who let the dogs out?
Did you see that documentary? The origin of the song is a long and winding road. Good watch!
Is there such a thing as bubbly red wine?
Yes.
I enjoy Lambrusco on occasion...
The pansy topper is cool... I love using flowers for garnish. Nasturtium on potato salad. Marigold petals on guac. Pansies for a bright splash on anything.
The daylilies are on the list as survival food.
Awesome job, yet again, My Lord Matthew of Hooper! 🤩 Outta the mother loving park!
There's a bar on the Carnival Jubilee called the Golden Mermaid that serves a similarly constructed cocktail and that was the first time I had ever experienced air foam... it too was violet. I'm a fan! Like you said, it doesn't have to be there, it's just a better drink when it is.
Your drink is beautiful.
I college, we would fill the stem of a champagne coupe with Wild Turkey and top it with cheap champagne, dubbing it a Cold Turkey.
We used to grind up a quarter gram of coke, snort it and then light a cigarette while sipping ice cold beer from the can. We called it Tuesday.
"Can you change the TV from the game to Real Housewives of Cousin Lick, Kentucky?"
Love it, would love to have it served to me with foam.
The top of that drink looks like a rooster or chicken to me. Is that a nod to Easter? Seriously, it does.
Honestly, I don’t see it.
Drink a couple more and it'll come into or out of focus for you
{tries to come up with something to complain about, momentarily stumped}
ETA: {remembers} Had trouble falling asleep, then Serendipity woke me up crying in the night! {sputters}
1 a.m. and I just got here because sleep would not come.
Do you wanna help me design my pantry renovation?
Nothing to it. 5 or 6 tubs of dried pasta. Tubs keep the m out. 1 or 2 tubs of cookies and crackers. 20 lbs of assorted dried beans. 20 lbs of rice. Powdered dairy stuff. Pickles and condiments. Canned veggies and tomato sauce by the case. Your favorite marinara. Tuna and canned chicken and salmon if you like it. Cases of chicken and beef broth unless you can your own. Flour of every variety that you use, plus baking powder, baking soda, yeast and sugar.
Coffee and tea. Chips and salsa. Enchilada sauce. Velveeta if you're not too proud. Powdered mashed potatoes. 50 boxes of Rice-A-Roni, get it when it's on sale. Olives and olive oil.
That's what we have basically, plus home canned goods. I'm assuming that you can supplement with local fresh veggies.
Oh, you’re getting way ahead of me. Way way, way ahead of me. I’m gonna steer you towards the comment. I just posted at the top, and then I’m gonna come back and read what you said as soon as I get Daphne up the stairs here and get all the cats sorted.
I lost my pride about Velveeta when I was in grad school. To my mortification, my children much preferred that to the real thing when it came to cheese sauce.
You too??? luv
[sobs in gratitude]
I'm having lunch at Rick's in Casablanca this Fall -- what is a good WWII nostalgic drink to order (and not too heavy)? Thanks!
French 75, like they used to make at Harry’s New York Bar in Paris.
Hooper taking sexy cocktail photos like a friggin' cocktail influencer at this point.
I was VERY disappointed to earn that he is married!!!
I guess Matty Forehead couldn't stand being one-upped by that idiot who claimed he's been teleported to Waffle Houses or JD Vance saying UFOs are real:
Link: https://www.the-express.com/news/us-news/203763/matt-gaetz-claims-us-military-breeding-aliens
"...Gaetz made the shocking statement during a guest appearance on the “Benny Show” while speaking with host Benny Johnson.
“I had someone come and brief me, wearing a military uniform, worked for the United States Army, that was briefing me on the locations of hybrid breeding programs, where captured aliens were breeding with humans to create some hybrid race, that could engage in intergalactic communication,” Gaetz said...."
Tiedrich has this in his "This Week in Stupid" post:
Link: https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/this-week-in-stupid-april-4-edition
I'm sorry...
"... wearing a military uniform..."
And
"...worked for the United States Army..."
I'm not an expert in cross examination, but that's a deceptively phrased statement.
What countries uniform was this person wearing? And while he said "worked for" the tense isn't clear, he could easily mean long before the meeting but not when the meeting took place.
He could just mean a random crazy Florida person who was wearing an Admirals uniform and was last in the Army 30 years ago when their brain went a bit funny.
Or, he could just be lying about the whole thing - a far simpler explanation, and well within the limits of Gaetz's lack of ethics
Also “I want to be attorney general”
PAY ATTENTION TO ME! PAY ATTENTION TO ME! DON'T PAY ATTENTION TO HIM! DON'T PAY ATTENTION TO HER! PAY ATTENTION TO ME! AND BE SURE TO MAKE A DONATION AND RECEIVE YOUR SPECIAL GIFT! PAY ATTENTION TO ME! DONATE NOW!
Everything I know, I learned from Donald Trump.
Have you considered a career in media relations?
I re-watched Pollock again yesterday and the scene with Ed Harris painting the big canvas never ceases to amaze me.
I never posted my pics from the Buffalo art museum. There is a giant Pollock there and the docent showed me a spot where a bug was smooshed into the canvas. I haven't seen the film since it was released. Seeing a large work in person felt meditative. The whole museum blew me away and I really ought to share the pics.
You should!
Tangent on the “giant picture”
Little city in Wisconsin has this one, it’s amazing
https://onmilwaukee.com//images/articles/mw/mwa/mwa_fullsize_story1.jpg
Info:
https://www.reddit.com/r/museum/comments/3cxg1d/carl_von_marr_the_flagellants_1889/?solution=f16491b6bef8b221f16491b6bef8b221&js_challenge=1&token=bbbe4bf1c9a2b5160829c4be34da5861efb549e9618e878f9476e20bcdd5c341
Why bother saving money? We're all gonna die! Might as well do some gambling, right?
So the prospective candidates for upcoming vacancies in the cabinet are getting odds.
Jill Stein is the even money pick for DNI.
Mike Lindell gets you two dollars for every dollar you bet if he ends up Sec. State. But the odds reverse if you go with him getting Interior.
Ben Shapiro is also getting odds for State. But that bet is for chumps. Don't waste your dough.
The surprise action is on Scott Bessent winning the internal power struggle against JD Vance and being appointed "acting VP". JD will be farmed out to the newly created 'Department of Low Energy'. It's a 10,000 to one bet and I got $50 burning a hole in my hand.
Vance's sugar daddy, Peter Thiel, is too rich. That much money gives you a voice at the table where the VP is decided.
If Elon got kicked to the curb how the fuck does Pete rate better treatment?
I wonder of Vance has been making other "connections" with all the vacations he's been taking.
Why go to college? Why go to school?
Don't even need that peanut butter to last a couple of days.
But I will never let go of the speakers or the headphones or any of the records to play
Reality bites back. When the Nazis went to war, they lost in the end.
"Trump Just Lost a War for America — No One's Done That Since Nixon"
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/4/4/2376264/-Trump-Just-Lost-a-War-for-America-No-One-s-Done-That-Since-Nixon?
Iran is already using the perfect message frame: "The Regime Changed, But the West Hasn't”. This is the line that rewrites the entire conflict. The US stated objective was regime change. The Supreme Leader is dead. A new leader governs, but the bombs keep falling. Iran doesn't need to win the argument — it just needs to keep asking the question: "What exactly are you still fighting for?"
What IRAN has won so far:
Tollkeeper on the Strait of Hormuz.
Sanctions-proof oil revenue.
Domestic unity.
Generational leadership renewal.
Regional military credibility.
Moral high ground.
Coalition fracture, splitting of Western alliance.
And they’re horrible and do horrible things and yet, we come off as worse.
Never in my life would I have thought it would work out this way. I GUESS we've "always" done shit like this, the "regime change" in other countries and no President was ever really held to account.
Those Presidents were just more "presidential" I guess
Hey Jesse, go stick your wiener in a wood chipper, for fuck’s sake.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/04/jesse-watters-fox-pam-bondi-darfur-lebanon-senegal
>>A Fox host says ‘many people’ think women shouldn’t be president. <<
Busted clock, blind squirrel, etc. Based on results, many people in this stump jumping, hick ass, shithole country do in fact believe that women shouldn't be president.
Except that he’s voicing his own opinion in a passive-aggressive way instead of owning it.
Absolutely. And the POS's passive-aggressively expressed personal opinion is, nauseatingly enough, factually accurate.
Ok people. I think I will go sit on the bench in my yard and listen to the birds. Peace out.
Gertrude will wish you a happy Caturday as soon as she wakes up. Which will definitely happen sometime today.
https://substack.com/@sayitwithwookies/note/c-238108155?r=2kw0pf
Awwwww, what a sweet babby tabby
I wish I could sleep the way kittehs sleep!
"Then they'll raise our taxes and give our money to illegals. On April 21, vote NO on partisan gerrymandering" while showing an old concerned looking white couple. Heard on ad in Virginia. Fuck off with your scaremongering.
Theil needs to get his corrupt money the fuck out. He’s up there in the top ten of people I hate and want bad things for them.
My sister lives in Virginia, it's working 😥
BUT it's more like they just don't trust government as a whole. So while they absolutely believe those ads, it isn't like it paints Republicans better when they've certainly been doing way worse shit in front of our faces for over a year. So its more "both sides are corrupt"
There’s a super pac I’m 100% sure is Peter Thiel’s money that I’m getting blasted with on YouTube using the language of the civil rights struggle to imply gerrymandering is a similar fight and to vote no.
What’s amazing is all of this “Obama wants you to vote no” language is going to get just as many know nothing republicans to vote yes because eff Obama
Unfortunately it worked for Youngkin.
I have to mute that stuff or I end up yelling at the teevee.
These are showing up on YouTube for me. Along with the occasional Obama "Vote YES" ads.
AdBlock Plus.
I don't watch adverts on YouTube.
AdBlock Plus does nothing for me when it comes to YouTube. Works good elsewhere, but YouTube defeats me.
You can also try Privacy Badger and uBlock Origin. One of those should help.
Our taxes are going straight into Turnip's pocketesssssssss. I'm sure MAGA is just fine with losing their $$$ to him though.
When I become President, I'm going to have a fighter jet go supersonic over Hegseth's house.
Note: If you've ever experienced a supersonic boom at ground level, it's LOUD! I was at the periphery of such an event and it scared the bejeezus out of me. Those close to the epicenter experienced blown out windows.
Ever had the Air Force Thunderbirds or Navy Blue Angels practice over your neighborhood? In another context, the sound might evoke Kenny Loggins’ “Danger Zone.”
Have experienced. Also got to experience elderly relative yelling at young AF 1LT. relative had experienced broken windows on their home on multiple occasions (they lived in a rural area near AFB, so got boomed on the regular…usually high enough not to break windows but 2 or 3 times over about 20 years it happened). LTs pointed out was that was a risk of building so close to AFB. Relative went off pointing out that their father in law had built the house BEFORE the Wright Brothers flew so AF should not have built and be flying so close to the house. That was back in the 80s and I haven’t heard sonic booms there in decades.
When your mom is your only defender you're living life wrong.
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:t6ubj2wlhc34awzcymh3qpur/bafkreid7wp4z2tpxtkignrz7s7pinexs67wu2kcoeeetzdt5hqglkpaa74
Who is paying them?
Well... Traditionally their employer. That's how jobs work.
I'm not sure about Elon, I don't think he pays people if he can avoid it, and he notoriously doesn't employ any PR or media people because he's a lunatic and an idiot.
And if you're Hicseth and Jesse Watters, even your mom wont defend you.
And Miller and Brainworm who's entire families won't defend them
An ever expanding list.
lmao
Look, everybody, Apartheid Lucille Bluth is plugging a book!
The legacy media hasn’t come close to deep diving into the absolute fraud that is your son and the Ponzi scheme of lunancy behind the valuations of his companies.
STOP MAKING FUN OF MY WEIRD HATEFUL BOY
His proposed IPO of SpaceX is supposedly valued at $2 trillion. Talk about "make-believe money"
The legacy media still doesn't hate on Elon, and public perception has only turned particularly against him in the last 5 years. The fuck is she talking about?
Maye Musk is a racist Afrikaan piece of shit
Unfortunately she is also a racist Canadian piece of shit.
“How could anyone not adore my special, special boy?” Who is going to read this person’s book? Seriously, a book by Elon Musk’s Mom. Sounds riveting.
She has no shame.
Your son is a Nazi Psychopath, get fucked!
Just like her.
Plugging her book. Apple/tree.
I agree - I think that post was more about that than defending her son.
I see HarperCollins is the publisher - and they are also publishing JD Vance's new book ( describing his conversion to Catholicism - with a picture of a Methodist church gracing it's cover ).
I expect shit like this from firms like Regnery - but not really from one of the "Big Five" of the publishing world. I guess that's how they got to the "Big Five", by publishing any drivel they receive.
Like any company they are for profit. Their people ran the numbers and determined there was enough SuperPacs and Republicans organizations willing to buy it at the bulk price and give it away to donors to make a buck off of it.
Like I said - "publishing any drivel they receive"
SubSlack getting all wodgety!
That's been happening to me a lot lately. All of a sudden everything freezes up and I have to quit and relaunch.
Once again, WaPo reaches for the stars in their reporting of critical issues, in this "featured video":
"𝐃𝐨 𝐦𝐞𝐧 𝐨𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐬𝐞-𝐬𝐦𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐬?"
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xg91LqcPII&t=4s
[ the vid at the WaPo site does not have an independent link ]
I'm not going to tell you - but I also see that this subject is being reported by a myriad of sources.
I regret I only had one account to cancel and I did so back in 2024.
I no longer have a subscription, but I still have the habit of reviewing the headlines there - and if something strikes me, I'll look for an archived copy.
Wait ... didn't I see this news headline in "Idiocracy"?
This is an important deep dive of research reporting!
Democracy has died in broad daylight.
They helped murder it.
And it stinks.
Thanks Bezos! 🤬
Fucking tumbrel filler.
Pretty much
https://64.media.tumblr.com/7a53bd4b47780836125b619eab2bdde5/7c2e1031a3888e41-c2/s1280x1920/e8dbda8f4832d04064c272a44274233e92440925.jpg
So that’s why they launched when they did. Super easy to find, so no squabbling “I told you to turn left when we hit the edge of the inner Van Allen belt, but nooooooo…you insisted on going straight.”
Two days in a row the moon has been spectacular. Here is last night's. https://substack.com/profile/155707511-oblivias/note/c-238096593?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=2kpcon
It’s primping for its closeup.
I'm on the West Coast, looking at a big ol' moon right now!
Spectacular photo!
(I'm watching 'Mexico Life' on HGTV right now and they are condo hunting in PVR!)
There are a lot of condos available. I looked at 20 all over the area and decided that La Cruz beach front suited me.
NICE!
Caturday: Easter Basket Edition
https://substack.com/@tehbaddr/note/c-238093518
nothing is opossumable!
Possumbilities is a local shop:
https://www.awesomepossumz.com
Oh my goodness—the little crocheted possum babies for Valentine’s Day!
Opossums are SO cool!!! They don't get rabies and they eat ticks!
Man, I got that 180 degrees out...