Okay, I was LITERALLY about to say that I thought gimlets were made with vodka and that I cannot drink gin because I got violently, and I mean violently, ill on it on high school. And all I can say is that I am really glad I actually read the article before stupidly posting that, even though that is exactly what I am doing now.
We didn't have Hendricks, so we used Beefeaters. I just bought a plain old cucumber, so we used that instead of an English/hothouse cuke. And then we added tonic, so we basically gin and tonic'ed it. Delicious!
Say, I have everything except a lime, I might make this one for Saturday apres errands drink. I’ve been noming Persian cukes from the farmers market lately, so tasty.
Oy. This is the description from the Ontario Liquor Board on Henley's Gin:
𝘐𝘯𝘧𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘉𝘶𝘭𝘨𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘙𝘰𝘴𝘢 𝘋𝘢𝘮𝘢𝘴𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘢 (the sine qua non of rose perfume) 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘤𝘶𝘤𝘶𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘴.
As a fanatical antique rose gardener, this is my idea of nirvana! Except for the $55.00 price.
I hope that before I die I get to taste this (along with Aperol). I haven't cared much for gin but this is 𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙡 and most wondrous! Thank you. Very, very cool, 'such stuff as dreams are made on' for this rose gardener.
Technically I think a 'sweet' martini would be more accurate. You'd be asking for more vermouth.
Although a fancy bartender might have some of the very rare original sweet gin (notice gin is often marked as dry, its because the original gins from the great age of everyone in London being constantly hammered because life was horrifyingly bleak, were sweet. But everyone preferred the dry gin, so that's basically all anyone makes.)
I made a martini last night, and I snuck some tequila into it. Very savory cocktail.
If you're coming, the hubs and I will be down there on Wednesday the 22nd on an all-day pass. I'm aware that it's going to be hotter than Satan's scrotum but the idea of drinking my way through that is somehow hilariously appealing.
I exclusively drink Hendricks if I’m drinking gin. In addition the original, I’ve also enjoyed their Oasium and Grand Cabaret versions.
I’m not actually a fan of cucumbers, but my introduction to Hendricks was in a cocktail that included the St. Germaine, but substituted fresh lemon juice instead of lime and no cucumbers. Delicious!
Matthew, I'd like to share a memory with you if I may. This was Norma Jean The Great's (my mom - sadly gone **sighs**) favorite drink during the summer. She made a cucumber with basil gimlet, and I can still smell the aroma of that drink in her hand. What a wonderful memory you brought back to me on this soft and warm early summer night. Thank you.
If memory serves it's a simple lime gimlet with a slice of cucumber and a few basil leaves she would rub between her fingers. The smell was incredible.
🍩 International Day for the Fight against Illegal Unreported and Unregulated Fishing
🇮🇷 Khordad National Uprising (Iran)
🍩 National Donut Day
🍩 National Gingerbread Day
🍩 National Lincoln Loud Day
🍩 National Moonshine Day
🍩 National Sorry I Was on a Boat Day
🍩 National Veggie Burger Day
🇬🇶 President's Day (Equatorial Guinea)
🍩 Randol Fawkes Labour Day
🍩 Sausage Roll Day
🍩 Thank You Day
🍩 World Environment Day
🌖 On this day the Moon will be in a Waning Gibbous. During this phase the Moon can be seen in the early morning daylight hours on the western horizon. This is the first phase after the Full Moon occurs. It lasts roughly 7 days with the Moon’s illumination growing smaller each day until the Moon becomes a Last Quarter Moon with an illumination of 50%.
Today in History: First Clinical AIDS Cases Published (1981), Apple II Computer Goes on Sale (1977), Robert F. Kennedy Shot (1968), Bus Segregation Ruled Unconstitutional (1956), First Person on FBI Ten Most Wanted (1949), Lizzie Borden Murder Trial Begins (1893), Uncle Tom's Cabin Serialization Starts (1851), Youngest Female Pilot to Cross the Atlantic (1994), Youngest College Graduate (1994), First Woman Jockey to Win a Triple Crown Race (1993), Roy C. Sullivan Struck by Lightning for 6th of 7 Times (1976), Six-Day War Begins (1967), First Black US Air Force Academy Graduates (1963), First Black Referee for a Heavyweight Boxing Championship (1952), Gold Standard Dropped (1933), Presley Performs Hound Dog on Milton Berle (1956), Internation Communist Conference Begins (1969), Bose-Einstein Condensate First Produced (1995), Teton Dam Collapses (1976)
Today's birthdays: Kenny G, Pete Wentz, Nick Kroll, A$AP Rock, Marky Mark, Brian McKnight, Ron Livingston, Buck Angel (The Man with a Vagina), Jeff Garlin, Suze Orman, Laurie Anderson, Colm Wilkinson, William Boyd, George G. Blaisdell (Invented the Zippo Lighter), Pancho Villa, Jean-Antoine Chaptal (Discovered Adding Sugar to Wine to Increase Alcohol Content), Chad Allen (Played Autistic Child Tommy on St. Elsewhere), Bill Moyers, Christy Brown (My Left Foot Was Based on His 1954 Autobiography), Richard Scarry, Pat Garrett (Shot and Killed Billy the Kid), John Couch Adams (Correctly Predicted the Existence of Neptune)
Today's deaths: Ray Bradbury, Mildred J. Hill (Composed Happy Birthday to You), Richard Johnson (Turned Down Role of James Bond), Mel Tormé, Conway Twitty, Min Chueh Chang (Co-inventor of the Birth Control Pill), Thornton Waldo Burgess, O. Henry, Stephen Crane
Well, I was originally worried how Simba would react to the Crewbies. It looks like Simba is okay with them. They are all on the same chair right now. Simba looked at them and went back to sleep.
These people are sick and, while Democrats are the only sane option, they are not going to be willing to root these people out in the way that will be necessary.
***
A new White House webpage starts like a horror movie trailer, according to New York Times columnist M. Gessen — glowing green letters against a dark backdrop, the words "aliens" and "declassified," and the promise of a 60-year government secret about to be revealed.
Then comes the twist, Gessen wrote: the "aliens" aren't extraterrestrial. They're immigrants — "the kind hunted by ICE."
The page announces that "aliens have been walking among us, living in our neighborhoods," shopping in the same stores and attending the same classes as American children. "That's the joke," Gessen wrote. "Human beings are described as nonhuman invaders. Fascism, but make it a troll."
Gessen wrote that the page, which invites users to look up immigrants supposedly arrested on criminal charges in American cities and towns, belongs to "a subgenre of Trumpian gestures that are menacing and sophomoric at the same time." Ernesto Verdeja, a genocide-prevention expert at the University of Notre Dame, described it to the columnist as "grotesque and terrifying and juvenile."
With phrases like "They do not belong here" and "Deport them all," Gessen wrote, the page struck the columnist as "an incitement for Americans to commit acts of violence against immigrants."
Benjamin Valentino, a professor of government at Dartmouth College, offered a different read, that the purpose is to get Americans to do nothing.
"They want a majority of the population to turn their backs," Valentino told Gessen. "That's all that's necessary."
Ari has Erin Brockovich on, to talk about 'AI datacenters facing backlash'. I'd love to hear HER, but I don't have the patience to un-mute and listen to him interrupt her 52 times to say, 'let's just take a step back here, while I treat my audience like 1st graders who are learning See Spot Run'.
John Doe: "WTF with this construction crew? Hey, easy money, you gonna finish this bridge sometimes this year?"
Bucky: "Shut the fuck up, John Doe, if that's even you're real name. I'm crossing."
Brook: "I'm with you fellers."
From the article:
More crossings are scheduled to open in the near future. The largest of them, the Wallis Annenberg wildlife crossing in Southern California, will become the world’s largest after its scheduled opening at the end of the year. The bridge spans the breadth of the 10-lane 101 freeway.
I thought of you the other day. We got this new mickety-doo-dah engineer called Aoife. She's kind of bad ass. I couldn't say anything, of course, but yeah. She's an Irish dancing champion and pro wrestler. And engineer.
I found these fabulous baggy striped cotton pants that I have named my Armand Goldman pants (but I dont have the matching shirt). I love them. They're as comfy as pajama pants and I can wear them in public with no shame.
I discovered Hendricks a few months back. I bought it because the bottle, makes me feel in a tavern in some port in England circa 1812. The gin is very good.
Questions here. I’m consider setting up a GoFundMe to pay my way for Tales of the Cocktail in late July. The stories would be epic. Opinions welcome.
https://talesofthecocktail.org/events/tales-of-the-cocktail-new-orleans/
Okay, I was LITERALLY about to say that I thought gimlets were made with vodka and that I cannot drink gin because I got violently, and I mean violently, ill on it on high school. And all I can say is that I am really glad I actually read the article before stupidly posting that, even though that is exactly what I am doing now.
We didn't have Hendricks, so we used Beefeaters. I just bought a plain old cucumber, so we used that instead of an English/hothouse cuke. And then we added tonic, so we basically gin and tonic'ed it. Delicious!
Buying Hendrick's to make it proper next weekend.
YAY! And thank you *so* much!!
*runs to practice*
So is a Gimlet Gimli's child?
Yes!
Say, I have everything except a lime, I might make this one for Saturday apres errands drink. I’ve been noming Persian cukes from the farmers market lately, so tasty.
I love a cucumber gimlet but mine does not use St Germain, so likely far more tart, but I will try this.
However, just back from several days in NOLA so giving my body a break from alcohol for a spell...!
Oy. This is the description from the Ontario Liquor Board on Henley's Gin:
𝘐𝘯𝘧𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘉𝘶𝘭𝘨𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘙𝘰𝘴𝘢 𝘋𝘢𝘮𝘢𝘴𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘢 (the sine qua non of rose perfume) 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘤𝘶𝘤𝘶𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘴.
As a fanatical antique rose gardener, this is my idea of nirvana! Except for the $55.00 price.
I hope that before I die I get to taste this (along with Aperol). I haven't cared much for gin but this is 𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙡 and most wondrous! Thank you. Very, very cool, 'such stuff as dreams are made on' for this rose gardener.
I can't do Hendricks. I've tried. Now, Bowling & Burch might be a worthy sub.
We were watching an old movie last night where the martinis were ordered “very dry”. Got us to thinking—everyone always wants their martinis very dry.
If I order an extra wet martini, what would that mean?
(I have had one martini in my life so I don’t know).
Technically I think a 'sweet' martini would be more accurate. You'd be asking for more vermouth.
Although a fancy bartender might have some of the very rare original sweet gin (notice gin is often marked as dry, its because the original gins from the great age of everyone in London being constantly hammered because life was horrifyingly bleak, were sweet. But everyone preferred the dry gin, so that's basically all anyone makes.)
I made a martini last night, and I snuck some tequila into it. Very savory cocktail.
I think it might mean "extra sweet"
That's what my mother explained to me
So dry vermouth and not sweet vermouth and not a lot of that
But I too am in "that's all I know" territory with this one
For that matter, what do "dry", "sec", "brut" even mean?
Sugar content.
ooooh, Mr. Hooper, do eet! (The Go Fund Me thing-y).
Do whatever you can to go to this thing! What a blast!
*fans self*
I thought this drink was called a Screaming Viking?
Do it.
It will work or not.
I'd love the stories.
If you're coming, the hubs and I will be down there on Wednesday the 22nd on an all-day pass. I'm aware that it's going to be hotter than Satan's scrotum but the idea of drinking my way through that is somehow hilariously appealing.
I exclusively drink Hendricks if I’m drinking gin. In addition the original, I’ve also enjoyed their Oasium and Grand Cabaret versions.
I’m not actually a fan of cucumbers, but my introduction to Hendricks was in a cocktail that included the St. Germaine, but substituted fresh lemon juice instead of lime and no cucumbers. Delicious!
Matthew, I'd like to share a memory with you if I may. This was Norma Jean The Great's (my mom - sadly gone **sighs**) favorite drink during the summer. She made a cucumber with basil gimlet, and I can still smell the aroma of that drink in her hand. What a wonderful memory you brought back to me on this soft and warm early summer night. Thank you.
Don't just tell a lovely story, Holly! How did she prepare it 😳!
I just posted the Norma Jean story down stream.
If memory serves it's a simple lime gimlet with a slice of cucumber and a few basil leaves she would rub between her fingers. The smell was incredible.
Do it!! Folks here would contribute, including me. I, for one, like your stories, and would be delighted to help you acquire more.
Clark and Simba are practicing mutual pillowing on Timeshare Chair.
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Today is 6/5/2026 (Friday)
🍩 Constitution Day
🍩 Earth Overshoot Day
🍩 Hot Air Balloon Day
🍩 International Day for the Fight against Illegal Unreported and Unregulated Fishing
🇮🇷 Khordad National Uprising (Iran)
🍩 National Donut Day
🍩 National Gingerbread Day
🍩 National Lincoln Loud Day
🍩 National Moonshine Day
🍩 National Sorry I Was on a Boat Day
🍩 National Veggie Burger Day
🇬🇶 President's Day (Equatorial Guinea)
🍩 Randol Fawkes Labour Day
🍩 Sausage Roll Day
🍩 Thank You Day
🍩 World Environment Day
🌖 On this day the Moon will be in a Waning Gibbous. During this phase the Moon can be seen in the early morning daylight hours on the western horizon. This is the first phase after the Full Moon occurs. It lasts roughly 7 days with the Moon’s illumination growing smaller each day until the Moon becomes a Last Quarter Moon with an illumination of 50%.
Today in History: First Clinical AIDS Cases Published (1981), Apple II Computer Goes on Sale (1977), Robert F. Kennedy Shot (1968), Bus Segregation Ruled Unconstitutional (1956), First Person on FBI Ten Most Wanted (1949), Lizzie Borden Murder Trial Begins (1893), Uncle Tom's Cabin Serialization Starts (1851), Youngest Female Pilot to Cross the Atlantic (1994), Youngest College Graduate (1994), First Woman Jockey to Win a Triple Crown Race (1993), Roy C. Sullivan Struck by Lightning for 6th of 7 Times (1976), Six-Day War Begins (1967), First Black US Air Force Academy Graduates (1963), First Black Referee for a Heavyweight Boxing Championship (1952), Gold Standard Dropped (1933), Presley Performs Hound Dog on Milton Berle (1956), Internation Communist Conference Begins (1969), Bose-Einstein Condensate First Produced (1995), Teton Dam Collapses (1976)
Today's birthdays: Kenny G, Pete Wentz, Nick Kroll, A$AP Rock, Marky Mark, Brian McKnight, Ron Livingston, Buck Angel (The Man with a Vagina), Jeff Garlin, Suze Orman, Laurie Anderson, Colm Wilkinson, William Boyd, George G. Blaisdell (Invented the Zippo Lighter), Pancho Villa, Jean-Antoine Chaptal (Discovered Adding Sugar to Wine to Increase Alcohol Content), Chad Allen (Played Autistic Child Tommy on St. Elsewhere), Bill Moyers, Christy Brown (My Left Foot Was Based on His 1954 Autobiography), Richard Scarry, Pat Garrett (Shot and Killed Billy the Kid), John Couch Adams (Correctly Predicted the Existence of Neptune)
Today's deaths: Ray Bradbury, Mildred J. Hill (Composed Happy Birthday to You), Richard Johnson (Turned Down Role of James Bond), Mel Tormé, Conway Twitty, Min Chueh Chang (Co-inventor of the Birth Control Pill), Thornton Waldo Burgess, O. Henry, Stephen Crane
Happy birthday Laurie!
"The Pasta Grannies" presents Rosa from Piemonte, making 2 kinds of pasta with sauce, on her pair of stoves, one gas-burning, one wood fired.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oq_wqr3k32Q
Well, I was originally worried how Simba would react to the Crewbies. It looks like Simba is okay with them. They are all on the same chair right now. Simba looked at them and went back to sleep.
https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!X87s!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fmedia_upload%2Fcomment%2F87cbe660-7ddd-4619-8baf-18c523802583%2F2e06ecd6-fa1c-4cd6-80fa-93cb7a43894b.jpeg
Hop on Pop!
Awesome!
The kittens will learn that Time Share Chair must be shared.
It looks like Simba finds that Clark makes an acceptable pillow for the timeshare chair
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🩶
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You understand that according to Google, one more kitty and you're a "cat lady."
My neighbors call me The Crazy Cat Man from back when I had four kittehs previously.
Thanks for the booze, Hoop...
Majority Report on Screwworms and the Senate Race controversies...
https://www.youtube.com/live/yBB3Ohx_e98?si=KL67fZVFvViIMiau
And somehow those two topics seem right together.
Watch and you'll see the links
So it looks like Jimmy Kimmel is getting the big post-Colbert boost. Jimmy Fallon not so much. Hamilton is okay with that.
CBS SHOOK By Viewers Exit After Colbert Firing; Kimmel Now 'Late-Night King', Byron Allen Struggles | ETimes (6:23) : https://youtu.be/2pOnmlOmLuA
Now I might consider watching "The Byron Allen Struggles"
WTF did they expect? Losers.
Fallon is . . . well, this is my week for not saying mean things about people. 😃
I courteously ask that you come sit by me.
Next week.
FUCK Jimmy Fallon. Put him in the same rocket as Musk and Bezos.
I'd be happy to help sling him in...
These people are sick and, while Democrats are the only sane option, they are not going to be willing to root these people out in the way that will be necessary.
***
A new White House webpage starts like a horror movie trailer, according to New York Times columnist M. Gessen — glowing green letters against a dark backdrop, the words "aliens" and "declassified," and the promise of a 60-year government secret about to be revealed.
Then comes the twist, Gessen wrote: the "aliens" aren't extraterrestrial. They're immigrants — "the kind hunted by ICE."
The page announces that "aliens have been walking among us, living in our neighborhoods," shopping in the same stores and attending the same classes as American children. "That's the joke," Gessen wrote. "Human beings are described as nonhuman invaders. Fascism, but make it a troll."
Gessen wrote that the page, which invites users to look up immigrants supposedly arrested on criminal charges in American cities and towns, belongs to "a subgenre of Trumpian gestures that are menacing and sophomoric at the same time." Ernesto Verdeja, a genocide-prevention expert at the University of Notre Dame, described it to the columnist as "grotesque and terrifying and juvenile."
With phrases like "They do not belong here" and "Deport them all," Gessen wrote, the page struck the columnist as "an incitement for Americans to commit acts of violence against immigrants."
Benjamin Valentino, a professor of government at Dartmouth College, offered a different read, that the purpose is to get Americans to do nothing.
"They want a majority of the population to turn their backs," Valentino told Gessen. "That's all that's necessary."
Stochastic Terrorism--It's What's For Dinner!
Is Melania getting nervous? Kinda thick accent she's got there.
That site came out a couple of weeks ago. But glad people are now seeing the absurdity of it.
Ari has Erin Brockovich on, to talk about 'AI datacenters facing backlash'. I'd love to hear HER, but I don't have the patience to un-mute and listen to him interrupt her 52 times to say, 'let's just take a step back here, while I treat my audience like 1st graders who are learning See Spot Run'.
Ben Palmer's latest. "Deport them for not liking my dog"
*Corgi mix. What did she expect??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouDerMVG_ys
Three deer cross the road.
"Mule deer already using incomplete $20m wildlife bridge [over the 97] in California
Within the last few days, a camera trap caught images of three mule deer using structure for the first time"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/04/california-wildlife-bridge-mule-deer
John Doe: "WTF with this construction crew? Hey, easy money, you gonna finish this bridge sometimes this year?"
Bucky: "Shut the fuck up, John Doe, if that's even you're real name. I'm crossing."
Brook: "I'm with you fellers."
From the article:
More crossings are scheduled to open in the near future. The largest of them, the Wallis Annenberg wildlife crossing in Southern California, will become the world’s largest after its scheduled opening at the end of the year. The bridge spans the breadth of the 10-lane 101 freeway.
New halal joint on the corner is in the sweet spot of good & cheap & quick, better get that lamb and pickled red cabbage while it's fantastic!
I thought of you the other day. We got this new mickety-doo-dah engineer called Aoife. She's kind of bad ass. I couldn't say anything, of course, but yeah. She's an Irish dancing champion and pro wrestler. And engineer.
I'm looking forward to the day she hands you your limey ass.
I'm far too weaselly to give her that chance because she probably fucking would.
::industrial strength smirk::
mmmm ... lamb shawarma. I miss the halal cart from when I worked in the city.
It's sublime, and tastes even better the next day cold.
Mine never lasted that long. No halal places in this WASP town.
It could last here. Still, early days are best days in the restaurant biz.
Oooh. AI Evildata center project (damage map) being done by Erin Brockovich; this could be very good.
This might amuse someone.
https://amberbateman.substack.com/p/why-i-dont-trust-adam-kinzinger
Adam who?
I found these fabulous baggy striped cotton pants that I have named my Armand Goldman pants (but I dont have the matching shirt). I love them. They're as comfy as pajama pants and I can wear them in public with no shame.
LOL!
I'm like Agador Spartacus with real shoes in my old age.
One reward of growing old is sometimes misreading print. ...
"I found these fabulous baggy striped cartoon pants ..."
I LOVE cartoon pants!
Albert (in character) replies: "Oh yes, Coleman! The 'd' is silent in America... we don't know where we are until we hear our last name pronounced!"
I wear harem pants when I go out. Cool and comfortable. We live in the desert.
Thai boat pants are the bomb, and they never tell you when you're gaining weight which I consider very tactful in a pant.
I'm very short. The elastic around the ankles is part of what makes harem pants work for me.
I discovered Hendricks a few months back. I bought it because the bottle, makes me feel in a tavern in some port in England circa 1812. The gin is very good.
It looks like it's medicinal, and it's safer than raw milk!