oh my! I just made this with Diplomatico Venezuelan Rum and I added 1/4 tsp of simple syrup (other than that, followed the recipe exactly). Perfection!
Rum? I’m beginning to get the distinct impression that in some quarters should you pour a stout in a flat inverted cone glass on a stem, it would magically become a martini.
“Fong was the only candidate who filed to run for the 32nd Assembly district seat.”
And he can’t hold both offices at once, right? So if he wants to run for Congress he obviously needs to drop out of the Assembly district race since he’ll win by default.
I think he should run for 20 or 30 more taxpayer-funded jerbs in the same election. If he wins more than one, he gets to pick the jerb he wants and appoint whoever he chooses to fill the other(s). It's only fair!
I'm trying to get this out of my mind and onto video (Mrs. Toomush filmed it). We had a very weird day at the Minnesota Zoo last week. We were in their tropical section, and it seemed like I had long, uninterrupted, intimate conversations with both a giant lizard and a boxfish. The boxfish thing especially went on a long time. He followed me, just across the glass, a distance of more than thirty feet across the aquarium, stopping every time I stopped, and looking intently at me with distinct interest. It was all weird and encouraging/disconcerting...
I watched the new Indiana Jones last night. They used the power of deep fakes to make him look young and hot again at the beginning while the other people stayed the same age the whole time, which is a thing now I guess. 4/5 - will probably recommend.
We all know the many tales of heroism and tragedy resulting from The Martian Invasion, this is the little-known story of the Martian landing craft that veered off course and crashed just outside of Pachuco, Texas. It's a hoot.
I thought so, but had to look it up--Kate Moss would have been 9 in 1983, and she wasn't a model until 1990 or so, so it would have to have been someone else with the chocolate martini.
3.5” Floppies? New fangled nonsense. There was one of these “choose the oldest disk type you have used” on LinkedIn, and it didn’t even reach back in time to 8” floppies - I did use those, but 5.25” were current when I was getting into computers.
Same here. My parents had a stack of 78s, and a fancy "record player" that handled 78, 33, and 45 records. (Routine once they became "turntables", but at the time it was very high tech.)
There was also a 16 RPM speed that nobody I knew owned any discs that could be played at that speed. Made for some giggles under the influence of certain substances, though.
My grandparents had a Victrola. You wound it up and it played cylinder records. They only set it up a couple of times when I was a kid. The radio was on sometimes during the day and the TV was only used at night. Evening news through late news.
My grandfather had a fancy transiter radio with a leather cover so it wouldn't get damaged.
I thought of them yesterday driving to the airport to pick up the kids -- FZ's "Black Napkins" was up in the rotation. That's a really wonderful piece of music.
oh my! I just made this with Diplomatico Venezuelan Rum and I added 1/4 tsp of simple syrup (other than that, followed the recipe exactly). Perfection!
Will you please tell me why Kahlua is very, very bad? I just bought my first bottle of it and started making White Russians, which I love!
Whatever that is, as tasty as it sounds, it is NOT a martini.
Rum? I’m beginning to get the distinct impression that in some quarters should you pour a stout in a flat inverted cone glass on a stem, it would magically become a martini.
Whaaat? No eggnog?
A new thread appears to be up!
I miss Greg Lake.
https://youtu.be/FhzNmEQg0EI
Ralph and Geoffrey too, also.
Qevin McCarthy’s hand picked successor to his Congress seat may be ineligible to run:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/california-election-officials-say-assemblymember-vince-fong-cant-run-for-congress-in-bakersfield/ar-AA1lzWN5
“Fong was the only candidate who filed to run for the 32nd Assembly district seat.”
And he can’t hold both offices at once, right? So if he wants to run for Congress he obviously needs to drop out of the Assembly district race since he’ll win by default.
Ca SoS: Pick your lane
Rethugs: We want ALLLLLLL the road.
Quevin could not hand-pick a booger.
You kidding? They are the only things blocking his brain from falling out.
I think he should run for 20 or 30 more taxpayer-funded jerbs in the same election. If he wins more than one, he gets to pick the jerb he wants and appoint whoever he chooses to fill the other(s). It's only fair!
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Or he can just be ALL the officers! It worked for Pooh-Bah in "The Mikado"...
I'm trying to get this out of my mind and onto video (Mrs. Toomush filmed it). We had a very weird day at the Minnesota Zoo last week. We were in their tropical section, and it seemed like I had long, uninterrupted, intimate conversations with both a giant lizard and a boxfish. The boxfish thing especially went on a long time. He followed me, just across the glass, a distance of more than thirty feet across the aquarium, stopping every time I stopped, and looking intently at me with distinct interest. It was all weird and encouraging/disconcerting...
It was just interested in the mackerel in your back pocket.
Your spirit animal?
It was weird like that, yeah...
If you were a boxfish in an aquarium and you had the chance to just fuck with someone, wouldn't you?
I watched the new Indiana Jones last night. They used the power of deep fakes to make him look young and hot again at the beginning while the other people stayed the same age the whole time, which is a thing now I guess. 4/5 - will probably recommend.
Working on this today.
COOTER'S LIQUOR
https://downtowndeco.com/products/cooters-liquor-dd57
You just reminded me of one of the great stories of our times- Howard Waldrop's "Night of the Cooters."
https://substack.com/profile/671070-paulomatic/note/c-45935432?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=edsu
We all know the many tales of heroism and tragedy resulting from The Martian Invasion, this is the little-known story of the Martian landing craft that veered off course and crashed just outside of Pachuco, Texas. It's a hoot.
In queer women's community "cooter liqueur" is something quite different.
LOL. YES!
If it turns out nice I will do this next.
https://downtowndeco.com/products/the-atomic-cafe-dd56
Is this like model railroad cityscape stuff?
Yep.
Happy Christmas Eve Eve from Miss Betty and me.
I tried to post a picture of Betty; it is in notes. My old lady kicked in and I didn't get it here. I need more coffee.
So Demure....
Thank you, Chicken!
And a joyous Boxing Day Eve Eve Eve to all those who celebrate.
Just for the record - even though Hooper's cocktail is still the nominal topic, it's okay to stop drinking now, isn't it?...
It's like shampoo directions: rinse, repeat. How many times am I supposed to repeat?!?
No. You must power through. No regerts!
I thought so, but had to look it up--Kate Moss would have been 9 in 1983, and she wasn't a model until 1990 or so, so it would have to have been someone else with the chocolate martini.
Kate Moss would have been 9 in 1983
Glad she didn’t live in Matt Gaetz’s neighborhood
Test your age: https://substack.com/profile/155708860-1d5051d5221d/note/c-45932981
A Bic pen cap makes the best repair tool. Ask me how I know.
I fashioned a crank device from a bent paperclip.
Nice.
I have a t-shirt with a cassette tape on it that says "analog is warmer".
Shouldn't it be a sweater?
I got it. It took a minute though because I thought they were 3.5 floppies.
3.5” Floppies? New fangled nonsense. There was one of these “choose the oldest disk type you have used” on LinkedIn, and it didn’t even reach back in time to 8” floppies - I did use those, but 5.25” were current when I was getting into computers.
My first rig was a Commodore VIC-20 with a cassette drive.
The US military had systems using 8" floppies as recently as 2017.
(The kid in "WarGames" had a more advanced system than the one he was hacking into.)
I was cutting edge, as a CAD operator, I had tapes!
Those weren't even invented when I was a child.
I have that cartoon on a floppy disc
Geez - I'm from the age of 45s'!...
Same here. My parents had a stack of 78s, and a fancy "record player" that handled 78, 33, and 45 records. (Routine once they became "turntables", but at the time it was very high tech.)
There was also a 16 RPM speed that nobody I knew owned any discs that could be played at that speed. Made for some giggles under the influence of certain substances, though.
Ours was in a big cabinet that you could also store the records in.
We had a steam-powered Victrola.
My grandparents had a Victrola. You wound it up and it played cylinder records. They only set it up a couple of times when I was a kid. The radio was on sometimes during the day and the TV was only used at night. Evening news through late news.
My grandfather had a fancy transiter radio with a leather cover so it wouldn't get damaged.
Coal-burning? Those made a mess of the ceilings after a while.
Never really caught on, but I can see them becoming popular in Texas.
Sure - and we had to hold the needle in our left hand, while we spun the disc with our right. You wind-up folks had it easy!...
How did your fingerprints sound? You have to register the copyright on those, ya kno.
[blushes deeply]
I got it, so I'm an old.
I still have ave a boat load of Dead shows on cassette (I still have a box or two of blanks.) Wish I had a tape deck in my car.
Haven't seen Black Napkins in a while. Anybody?
popped in for a minute yesterday
Glad to hear it.
I thought of them yesterday driving to the airport to pick up the kids -- FZ's "Black Napkins" was up in the rotation. That's a really wonderful piece of music.
No, and wasn’t he having a health issue 🙁?
I seem to remember that but it was a while ago.
Oh, dear.