Nice timing, I was just gonna get malic acid off amazon for an acid adjusted pina colada, but you mentioned home brew stores and theres one a block away that should have it. Plus tomorrow I have both those dranks, it's Saturday dangit, no rulez.
You're usually so very specific about your ingredients, so I'm asking what could be construed as a stupid question. Out here in the California desert, Minute Maid is a rarity. Will any OJ (sans Simpson) work? I usually buy Simply Orange but Florida's Natural is also readily available.
I don't imbibe much these days, but looking forward to trying this. Now to find a thrift store pair of Manolo Blahniks that will fit a men's 11 1/2!
Hooper, that is one gorgeous cocktail! And Cosmo's are one of my favorites, so I'm gonna have to try this one! Also, I learned a thing or two about acid-corrected orange juice (i.e. have never heard that term!). That part will be a bit of a challenge, but I'll figure it out.
Recovering from a stomach ulcer. Supposed to avoid alcohol for a couple of weeks. What might be a very low acid drink I can start with next month to test the waters that isn't tossing a half an oz of vodka into a bottle of ginger ale?
Even the ginger ale would be acidic. Brown liquor and four parts water is my regular highball. The water is neutral unless something specific is used, as in more alkaline, which could be an option.
I'm sure Hooper has cocktails that involve sodium bicarbonate, the main ingredient of Alka-Seltzer (it is in club soda, after all) but I'd be careful of the versions that contain aspirin, that could cause serious stomach bleeds when combined with alcohol (yes, I went Debby Downer on a good joke but just being professional)
I’ll have a glass of wine now and then with a friend, but in general I’m completely take it or leave it when it comes to alcohol. So that’s not the sort of thing I would have known, and I am completely supportive of you taking the opportunity for a PSA like this.
Chocolate, now that’s a whole different kettle of fish.
Guys, the new Reading Rainbow episode is now on youtube. I haven't had a chance to watch it yet, but I'm sharing the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHAIjSkmnYI I believe it's going to be every Saturday for 4 weeks.
“[The NFL] suck[s] and we’ll win and God will bless us and we’ll stand and be proud of ourselves at the end of the day and they won’t be able to sleep at night.” –drunken ICE Barbie
So the MAGAs are going to make the Super Bowl a shit show, with ICE Barbie deploying Trump's Camoshirts all over the area to harass attendees. el TACO will start threatening the NFL just as soon as he is done threatening the universities, starting a war with Venezuela and hustling some Gaze 'peace plan' in order to win the Nobel prize.
Will the NFL fold and cancel Bad Bunny? Will they instead do some "equal time" thing and get Kanye or some other Nazi to perform to represent the MAGA? Will they do some bullshit 'Charlie Kirk Memorial' bullshit?
Meanwhile people in Portland are being beaten by Trump's Camoshirts.
Now we know why the EPA tossed all concerns about the deadly endocrine disruptors, PFAs. AI datacenters guzzle and pollute them. They are also in firefighting foam, which we seem to need more and more of with the climate increasing wildfires. News facts I read in today’s Guardian.
When economic times are bad people forego adoptions and fosterings of shelter dogs resulting in overcrowding and eventual euthanasia. Thursday night, dozens of dogs were scheduled for euthanasia at shelters in Fulton and DeKalb counties in Georgia. It seems that the cost of Trump's economy isn't just being paid by the human population. There will be more of this to come.
This happened also during his first term. I would just cry uncontrollably at the posts our local animal shelter would do and how they would make the doggos and kitties look attractive to potential adopters.
They usually end up being sheltered because of abuse, neglect or the tragic loss of their human friend. They know nothing of economics and only seek care and security. They usually give back more than they take. It is sad.
According to one of Vladimir Nabokov's loveliest literary observations, in his lecture notes on "The Metamorphosis," Gregor is a beetle, not a cockroach:
“[Gregor] approaches a cockroach in only one respect: his coloration is brown. That is all. Apart from this he has a tremendous convex belly divided into segments and a hard rounded back suggestive of wing cases. In beetles these cases conceal flimsy little wings that can be expanded and then may carry the beetle for miles and miles in a blundering flight. Curiously enough, Gregor the beetle never found out that he had wings under the hard covering of his back. (This is a very nice observation on my part to be treasured all your lives. Some Gregors, some Joes and Janes, do not know that they have wings.)”
50 Cent mocks longtime rival Sean 'Diddy' Combs after sentencing: ‘I’ll take his gigs’
"50 Cent wasted no time mocking Sean "Diddy" Combs after the music mogul was sentenced Friday to 50 months in prison on federal prostitution charges.
The rapper, whose real name is Curtis Jackson, posted on X not long after Diddy's sentence was revealed, offering to take his spot at an upcoming speaking engagement.
"Hey to whoever was booking Diddy for speaking engagement. I heard he won’t be able to make it, 🤷 I’m available! 😆" 50 Cent wrote, including a link to his website, G-Unit Brands."
My parents - who were Southern Methodists - had for some reason stuck in the backyard a concrete bird bath held up by a statue of St. Francis. I remember at about 6 years old asking who he was.
For many months all I wanted was to be St. Francis. I'd spend a lot of my free time in the backyard trying to be as serene and quiet as possible in an effort to get birds and animals to come to me.
The new conditions for federal funding the Trump administration offered to MIT put the school in a no-win situation, people on the Cambridge campus and throughout academia said Friday: Agree to the federal government’s terms and surrender some academic freedom, or refuse and risk further punishment.
The White House’s proposed “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” — sent to MIT and eight other top-tier universities this week — ties access to federal money to a string of conditions that, if agreed to, would effectuate the most substantial changes MIT has seen to date and fundamentally transform an economic powerhouse of Greater Boston.
The 10-point document asks the list of schools — which also includes Brown and Dartmouth — to cap international student enrollment, freeze domestic tuition rates for five years, and commit to strict definitions of gender. Some of those requests, such as reducing tuition and the number of international students, are popular with many Americans. But others, including one to limit the speech of university employees, strike at the heart of freedom and independence that universities have long prized.
The offer amounts to “a loyalty oath to the federal government,” said Catherine D’Ignazio, an MIT professor of urban studies and planning.
What the hell, man. Yesterday it almost hit 90F. On October fucking third. This morning it was 70F and humid as fuck at 5:30 a.m. On October fucking fourth. Dusted off the ol' reel mower to put a final cut (or what I hope will be a final cut) on the backyard and got swarmed by mosquitos as if it were prime time mosquito season. Average temps for this time of year are 72 and 41.
I hope they remind the court that Jakey's mommy wrote a frantic letter to the jail telling them that liddle' shaman boy would have a tummy owie if they refused to serve him his organic, vegan diet.
Over at the jail, hilarity ensued.
ETA: Note that the alleged "vegan" frequently wears animal horns and fur. HAR.
Busy. Questions here.
Nice timing, I was just gonna get malic acid off amazon for an acid adjusted pina colada, but you mentioned home brew stores and theres one a block away that should have it. Plus tomorrow I have both those dranks, it's Saturday dangit, no rulez.
You're usually so very specific about your ingredients, so I'm asking what could be construed as a stupid question. Out here in the California desert, Minute Maid is a rarity. Will any OJ (sans Simpson) work? I usually buy Simply Orange but Florida's Natural is also readily available.
I don't imbibe much these days, but looking forward to trying this. Now to find a thrift store pair of Manolo Blahniks that will fit a men's 11 1/2!
Your favorite bottled orange juice will be just fine.
Hooper, that is one gorgeous cocktail! And Cosmo's are one of my favorites, so I'm gonna have to try this one! Also, I learned a thing or two about acid-corrected orange juice (i.e. have never heard that term!). That part will be a bit of a challenge, but I'll figure it out.
Which weighs more: the Chrysler Building or the Great Pyramid of Giza?
The pyramid is awkward, tough to get a good grip, the Chrysler is much more manageable. Lift with your legs!
which one would win in a fight?
The pyramid because it’s pointy.
The Chrysler building is mostly hollow. I would guess the Pyramid weighs more.
A full Donnie Depends
If I buy the powdered chemical ingredients am I going to get put on a DEA watch list like Walter White?
Powdered alcohol would be reeeeealy something...
only if you make a molotov cocktail out of it
I think the question is more of a when then an if; specifically, when this happens, will it be worth it?
…you’re asking me to guess how the Trump administration will treat you?
I think even the answer to that depends on who's buying
:-/
Beautiful drink, I love a cosmopolitan.
Recovering from a stomach ulcer. Supposed to avoid alcohol for a couple of weeks. What might be a very low acid drink I can start with next month to test the waters that isn't tossing a half an oz of vodka into a bottle of ginger ale?
Isn't scotch and milk the old Wall Street remedy for an ulcer?
Even the ginger ale would be acidic. Brown liquor and four parts water is my regular highball. The water is neutral unless something specific is used, as in more alkaline, which could be an option.
Maybe a splash of this with your ginger ale and the vodka
https://www.ccassis.com/
If I can find a bottle of that, I will. I do have creme de cassis from DeKuyper on the shelf if I can't, though.
Cosmopolitums
That sounds like a challenge to invent a cocktail that incorporates Alka-Seltzer.
I'm sure Hooper has cocktails that involve sodium bicarbonate, the main ingredient of Alka-Seltzer (it is in club soda, after all) but I'd be careful of the versions that contain aspirin, that could cause serious stomach bleeds when combined with alcohol (yes, I went Debby Downer on a good joke but just being professional)
Hey, at least you thought it was funny!
I’ll have a glass of wine now and then with a friend, but in general I’m completely take it or leave it when it comes to alcohol. So that’s not the sort of thing I would have known, and I am completely supportive of you taking the opportunity for a PSA like this.
Chocolate, now that’s a whole different kettle of fish.
I have heard (ok, it was an episode of MASH) that milk is supposed to be easy on an ulcer, so a White Russian?
that's what they used to believe but actually the protein in milk stimulates acid secretion so it is not a good idea.
Wait, so a 50 year old sitcom is not a good source of medical advice?
I may have to rethink a couple things...
Give RFK JR til the end of the year and 50 year old sitcoms will be the only allowable source of medical advice.
If we're lucky.
I'm on full blown proton pump inhibiters (omezaprole, woo) so I'm not actually making too much stomach acid at the moment.
H2O
Milk of magnesia martini, of course
This looks spectacular - so pretty
" It’s not an “orange” drink; the Ocean Spray cranberry and Absolut Citron keep the drink from being completely dominated by orange flavor."
This is a nice tasting note, too ... if you were ever wondering, these are very much appreciated by those of us less adept at mixing cocktail-y things
😊
If I go to an NYC bar, are they going to know how to mix one of these for me
?
NYC bar? You're classy like that.
I'm not even material for the New Paltz bar scene any longer.
Probably the acid-correct OJ would be a problem.
Big time.
Thank you!
Sorry I missed this. Hooper, I adore you.
Guys, the new Reading Rainbow episode is now on youtube. I haven't had a chance to watch it yet, but I'm sharing the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHAIjSkmnYI I believe it's going to be every Saturday for 4 weeks.
Thank you! this looks beautiful.
“[The NFL] suck[s] and we’ll win and God will bless us and we’ll stand and be proud of ourselves at the end of the day and they won’t be able to sleep at night.” –drunken ICE Barbie
So the MAGAs are going to make the Super Bowl a shit show, with ICE Barbie deploying Trump's Camoshirts all over the area to harass attendees. el TACO will start threatening the NFL just as soon as he is done threatening the universities, starting a war with Venezuela and hustling some Gaze 'peace plan' in order to win the Nobel prize.
Will the NFL fold and cancel Bad Bunny? Will they instead do some "equal time" thing and get Kanye or some other Nazi to perform to represent the MAGA? Will they do some bullshit 'Charlie Kirk Memorial' bullshit?
Meanwhile people in Portland are being beaten by Trump's Camoshirts.
I woke up angry this morning. I don't know why. 😡
He’s always been mad at them. They wouldn’t let him buy a team remember.
How - in God's name - does Kristi Noem manage to sleep at night?
Just another day. and night, for a sociopath, or perhaps psychopath.
She's extremely dim. I imagine that helps.
Hanging upside down, no doubt.
Next to Miller, no doubt.
I like that for them.
The NFL should move the Super Bowl to London
Vikings / Browns tomorrow morning from London! 🇬🇧
Mexico City.
NO. What's Mexico City ever done to deserve that shit?
Ooo
Now we know why the EPA tossed all concerns about the deadly endocrine disruptors, PFAs. AI datacenters guzzle and pollute them. They are also in firefighting foam, which we seem to need more and more of with the climate increasing wildfires. News facts I read in today’s Guardian.
At least there's not a fertility crisis or anything.
Now there will be. It would help if people were more fuckable.
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
When economic times are bad people forego adoptions and fosterings of shelter dogs resulting in overcrowding and eventual euthanasia. Thursday night, dozens of dogs were scheduled for euthanasia at shelters in Fulton and DeKalb counties in Georgia. It seems that the cost of Trump's economy isn't just being paid by the human population. There will be more of this to come.
:( :( :(
This happened also during his first term. I would just cry uncontrollably at the posts our local animal shelter would do and how they would make the doggos and kitties look attractive to potential adopters.
It's just so fucking sad.
They usually end up being sheltered because of abuse, neglect or the tragic loss of their human friend. They know nothing of economics and only seek care and security. They usually give back more than they take. It is sad.
Had he become too woke?
The Guardian:
Pete Hegseth fires US navy chief of staff
https://bsky.app/profile/theguardian.com/post/3m2ep4uqlvo2y
Oh, great, I woke up in this reality again.
Could be worse. Could wake up as Gregor Samsa, stuck on your back and kicking your giant insect legs in futility.
What do you think Kafka was trying to indicate by that?
True, but I understand how he felt.
You do.
I mean, that would be better than this. He could at least go to the White House and cause havoc and terror as a giant cockroach.
According to one of Vladimir Nabokov's loveliest literary observations, in his lecture notes on "The Metamorphosis," Gregor is a beetle, not a cockroach:
“[Gregor] approaches a cockroach in only one respect: his coloration is brown. That is all. Apart from this he has a tremendous convex belly divided into segments and a hard rounded back suggestive of wing cases. In beetles these cases conceal flimsy little wings that can be expanded and then may carry the beetle for miles and miles in a blundering flight. Curiously enough, Gregor the beetle never found out that he had wings under the hard covering of his back. (This is a very nice observation on my part to be treasured all your lives. Some Gregors, some Joes and Janes, do not know that they have wings.)”
He and Stephen Miller could have a bug-off.
LOL!!!!!!!!
50 Cent mocks longtime rival Sean 'Diddy' Combs after sentencing: ‘I’ll take his gigs’
"50 Cent wasted no time mocking Sean "Diddy" Combs after the music mogul was sentenced Friday to 50 months in prison on federal prostitution charges.
The rapper, whose real name is Curtis Jackson, posted on X not long after Diddy's sentence was revealed, offering to take his spot at an upcoming speaking engagement.
"Hey to whoever was booking Diddy for speaking engagement. I heard he won’t be able to make it, 🤷 I’m available! 😆" 50 Cent wrote, including a link to his website, G-Unit Brands."
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/50-cent-mocks-longtime-rival-sean-diddy-combs-after-sentencing-ill-take-his-gigs
Sorry? Not Curtis Jackson, Whose Dis Is Real
Finally, a mad scientist who uses his powers for cocktails instead of coups.
This is the kind of experimentation we need in America—less “Project 2025,” more “acid-corrected orange juice.”
Some folks are rewriting democracy. Hooper’s just rewriting the Cosmo, and honestly, that’s the better gospel.
Blessed be the bartenders who transmute chaos into citrus.
Today is the Feast for St. Francis of Assisi, which calls for blessings of our animals. Or in this case, a Caturday blessing from my animal, Miriam.
https://substack.com/profile/155980809-pliny-the-younger/note/c-162875693
My parents - who were Southern Methodists - had for some reason stuck in the backyard a concrete bird bath held up by a statue of St. Francis. I remember at about 6 years old asking who he was.
For many months all I wanted was to be St. Francis. I'd spend a lot of my free time in the backyard trying to be as serene and quiet as possible in an effort to get birds and animals to come to me.
Later in life, I moved to San Francisco.
I attended St Francis of Assisi Elementary school. On his feast day parishoners would bring their pets to church for the priests to bless.
Some of the critters were more cooperative than others.
Do only cat pictures come out of that printer?
𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐬 𝐌𝐈𝐓 𝐚𝐧 𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫, 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐨𝐧 𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐮𝐬 𝐡𝐨𝐩𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐥 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐮𝐬𝐞
𝑂𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑟 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑡𝑖𝑒 𝑓𝑒𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑐ℎ 𝑓𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑏𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑓𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑎 𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑑𝑒𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑠.
The new conditions for federal funding the Trump administration offered to MIT put the school in a no-win situation, people on the Cambridge campus and throughout academia said Friday: Agree to the federal government’s terms and surrender some academic freedom, or refuse and risk further punishment.
The White House’s proposed “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” — sent to MIT and eight other top-tier universities this week — ties access to federal money to a string of conditions that, if agreed to, would effectuate the most substantial changes MIT has seen to date and fundamentally transform an economic powerhouse of Greater Boston.
The 10-point document asks the list of schools — which also includes Brown and Dartmouth — to cap international student enrollment, freeze domestic tuition rates for five years, and commit to strict definitions of gender. Some of those requests, such as reducing tuition and the number of international students, are popular with many Americans. But others, including one to limit the speech of university employees, strike at the heart of freedom and independence that universities have long prized.
The offer amounts to “a loyalty oath to the federal government,” said Catherine D’Ignazio, an MIT professor of urban studies and planning.
Boston Globe: https://archive.ph/5tAfb
They need to tell him to get fucked.
I can report that while yes, the area around the wonkey tower in Piza is very busy, the rest of the city is not too busy. Its also beautiful.
Food is great too.
Looks like it's going to rain this afternoon though.
Highly recommend.
Weather's beautiful in Rome.
I don't think I'll be going into the city, but I'll be nearby in a couple of days.
What the hell, man. Yesterday it almost hit 90F. On October fucking third. This morning it was 70F and humid as fuck at 5:30 a.m. On October fucking fourth. Dusted off the ol' reel mower to put a final cut (or what I hope will be a final cut) on the backyard and got swarmed by mosquitos as if it were prime time mosquito season. Average temps for this time of year are 72 and 41.
It's supposed to get better tomorrow. WE'LL SEE.
Damn chemtrails!
I wonder if there's a vaccine that safeguards against chemtrail injuries.
Ivermectin cures everything!
Way to make conspiracy nuts' heads explode.
Q-Anon Shaman's suing Donald Trump and the U.S. government for $40 trillion. His complaint also claims he, Jacob Chansley, is the rightful President of the U.S. He is, of course, representing himself in the lawsuit (https://boingboing.net/2025/10/03/qanon-shaman-sues-trump-for-40-trillion-and-declares-himself-the-rightful-president-of-the-united-states.html). I think this will last about a hot minute in court.
I'm willing to hear him out.
I hope they remind the court that Jakey's mommy wrote a frantic letter to the jail telling them that liddle' shaman boy would have a tummy owie if they refused to serve him his organic, vegan diet.
Over at the jail, hilarity ensued.
ETA: Note that the alleged "vegan" frequently wears animal horns and fur. HAR.
They're fake. He's said that before.
I didn't pay attention to him long enough to hear that part.
So what you're telling me is that he's a BETA CUCK SOY BOI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Buttery shaman.
And like a sovcit with the whole "rightful president" folderol.
Emperor Norton I would like a word.
https://i.imgflip.com/4u2s9x.jpg
Perfect!
He’d be better than the current occupant.
Reaffirming once again my bitter disdain for Ronald Reagan and his devastation of America's mental health programs.
I will NEVER forgive that sonofabitch for the damage he did to this nation's already inadequate public health agencies.
I blame that asshole for EVERYTHING.
I predict Trump is going to be placed in the Republican pantheon alongside Reagan.
No, he's already above reagan. Nobody is his equal!
He killed industrial jobs. Good paying jobs where a family could own a home send kids to college... the American dream. It's gone. Thanks to Reagun.
I agree with you completely.
He initiated everything that led up to THIS.
Exactly!
That boy ain't right.
I suspect that buffalo headdress he wears is a couple of sizes too small.
LOL!
Does he know much about bird law?
BIRDS DON'T EXIST
Well with this Supreme Court you never know.
That guy's own defense lawyer in his criminal case referred to all the J6 defendants, his client included, as "fucking short bus people."
he seems nice
If you can't trust Q-Anon Shaman, who can you trust.
Sounds legit!
(shakes his head)