A friend gave me a bottle of her favorite aguardiente — Amarillo de Manzanares — and it was much drier than other brands I had tried. Had to make a riff on a Last Word with it. The Dame — Monkey 47 Gin, Amarillo de Manzanares, Ancho Reyes, acid-adjusted pineapple juice and a squeeze of lime.

Today’s two-scoops-of-ice-cream-cold cold take: Hearing music from the first time growing up when you were hanging out on your own with your friends is like a time machine.

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I wish this could be my cold take today but it is clearly a hot one given the increased efforts of government censorship with nary a peep from the don't tread on me/free speech brigade.

🚨NEW: "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" just dropped its first response to ABC, FCC chair, and Disney firing Jimmy Kimmel. Trump ain't sleeping tonight. 🤣 This is a must-watch. 🔥

What do you think about the Orlando Magic's top 5 list?

HOW DID NOBODY TELL ME ABOUT THIS!!!???!!! www.sweetpicklebooks.com

Just a pristine day out today. Perfect for walking from meeting to meeting to meet up. Excited to spend time with friends away from the desk all day today.

Today’s apolitically icy cold take. Pizza is the fucking best.

Let’s engage in literal cancel culture — I am canceling my subscription to Disney Plus today.

btw this is why people are freaking out, it’s not that Jimmy Kimmel is everyone’s favorite comedian

reminder: Jimmy Kimmel is enough of a mensch that he devised a segment on which actors who are just short of having enough work to qualify for union healthcare come on his show and deliver a single line of dialogue deadline.com/2024/07/jimm...

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

Don't buy the canard that this is about Charlie Kirk. Abusing state power to lean on corporate leaders and get Jimmy Kimmel off the air because he told jokes about the president and made him feel bad was always the plan.

Summary of today’s congressional hearing: Senator Fuck Your Feelings from the great state of Snowflake thinks that scientists should bend the knee to political figures who have feelings but no evidence about how things work instead of relying on their counsel to implement policy.

Today's shiveringly ice cold take: Raiders of the Lost Ark is still a great movie with Harrison Ford and Steven Spielberg both at the height of their powers. Hey @michaelyichao.com I will be posting one every day. Hope you have a sweater handy.

I think I hate the mechanic "Heist" more than I hate Bajuka Bog.

This has been the wildest season of WHITE LOTUS so far!

I am bewildered by the concept of “toasted pizza sandwiches” are they just a parmigiana hero or are they an attempt to deliver a pizza experience in a handheld format? I have … feelings about both answers.

If you are interested in helping to raise money to eradicate type 1 diabetes in our lifetimes and are going to be streaming a fair amount of Vintage Cube please reach out!!

Vintage vs. Type 1 with @bdm.bsky.social returns in early October Then MTGO.com will host a 2-day stream Oct 4-5 featuring some super-secret guest stars, and you’ll be able to turn donations into free Vintage Cube Drafts, exclusive avatars, or All-Access for a week! MTGO Extra Life stream Nov 8

He was way too handsome and charismatic to play him but I loved him as Dortmender anyway. “Afghanistan, banana stand!” RIP

I would much rather see long, heartfelt acceptance speeches than the long, unfunny bits of shtick around each award.

The cat’s disdain that I am staying inside and flipping between Giants and Mets games is palpable.

I have scalded the roof of my mouth. This is the way.

Here's my full pool for Beleaguered Boxer @bdm.bsky.social The last two pack pulls of Ojer Taq and All Will Be One have me leaning to a token or +1/+1 counter strategy. Or both? Got a few neat cards in there to play with too. First step is to remove doubles. moxfield.com/decks/QpcrnM...

I am definitely NOT a morning person. One of the first times I would willingly get up extra early was during JHS when one of the UHF channels was showing STARBLAZERS at 530 am. Up early today for work and found myself humming this in the shower. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMcr...

Purty Martini — Empress Gin, Kummel liqueur, and butterfly peaflower pickled fennel brine stirred with lots of ice and served shiveringly cold on the #dogsearmenu

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Today I'm launching something new. Coming to you from my basement: just me, the camera, and some of my Commander decks. #CMDR youtu.be/Bkv7z1XcF9g?...

Missing my friend Sheldon two years on and toasting his memory with an Elder Dragon and some prog rock. Wishing there was an active Magic Hall of Fame to enshrine him in. Cin cin, friend!

“Tepid legality” is one of the most terrifying things I have ever heard from an administration in my lifetime. It should be alarming for everyone who claims to love the founding fathers, the constitution, and the rule of law.

Kind of insane that every TV ad for online casinos features characters who are desperately in need of an intervention and possibly even a conservatorship.

RIP Davey Johnson. One of the very best to ever wear a Mets jersey on the top step of the dugout. When I was a kid I didn’t always understand what he was doing but later came to realize it was Brooklyn analytics (aka before it was cool). sny.tv/articles/dav...

I… want to try this?

Who else is insulating this weekend? 👋

Dak shot first!

Hey NBC just show the first episode of THE PAPER during the delay instead of showing ads to watch it later. Might actually sell some subs to Peacock in the process.

Twitter is owned by a neo-Nazi, the LA Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal are owned by pro-Trump billionaires, and CBS News will soon be run by a far-right Likud extremist. American media still has a liberal bias problem.

And if you think you are safe -- well, shame on you for not caring about other people -- you probably are not unless you fit a very narrow definition of American. One that is decidedly not American. They are going to keep taking the rope given and use it to keep adding groups to their dark agenda.

#IfYouHaventGot a little fantasy…

Not much of the season left but I am working outside, drinking watermelon-hibiscus coolers, and listening to some summer songs. #dogsearmenu

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The universe is taunting me that I still have a couple of non-gold jokers to go in Balatro before I can cross off all the achievements.

A drink to celebrate Magic getting bitten by a radioactive spider. Costumed and Famous — Mezcal, Campari, Sangre Morlocco (aka radioactive blood) and lemon juice over crushed ice. Sure to be on your friendly neighborhood #dogsearmenu

End of summer date night!

If neither of us post anything for the next couple days please forward this image to the proper authorities. Mainly Keith Morrison at Dateline.

Our stories are often more than our stories. #MTGxSpiderMan #WotCstaff