Man, Audrey Totter’s line delivery here.

#AI is awful part eleventy million. I wanted to confirm that I remembered hearing that Ian Tattersall had a rule about being able to tell whether fossil skulls were different species at fifty paces. Searches for "ian tattersall" and "fifty paces" wasn't turning anything up...

Many thanks to @davidwondrich.bsky.social and The Oxford Companion To Spirits & Cocktails for pointing me in the direction of these sources. An indispensable reference. #cheers 🍸 global.oup.com/academic/pro...

And so does 2025 begins its own pilgrimage to the shadows of the dark, dank ossuary of yesteryears

Merry Christmas, everyone. Especially you, Mr. Wilson, wherever you are.

Best of 2025 list up on the homepage. pintocomics.com/sir-jons-bes... @ahoycomicmags.bsky.social @oni-press.bsky.social @boom-studios.com @matthewdowsmith.bsky.social @mooncalfe1.bsky.social @mrdavehill.bsky.social @davidwondrich.bsky.social @christophcondon.bsky.social @timebombcomics.bsky.social

Just once I’d like to see an NYC developer tear down a lower Manhattan block of 19th century commercial buildings and replace them with grubby little 17th-century style Dutch cottages. #NewAmsrerdam #Mindfuck #whimsy

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

Precisely that--and nobody says "you must only drink this punch." Even in the 18th century there was always wine on the table, too. But the punch was delicious and sneakily potent and served as a kind of secular communion which all could share. If that doesn't appeal to you, more for the rest of us.

I wrote my dissertation, back in the day, about Latin poetry, and every once in a while I'll translate a bit to keep my hand in. Here's Tibullus, the great late-Republic elegy writer, about whom we know very little (Latin text also in alt; translation below). Elegies, Book I, X, 1-14.

Happy holidays to all!

I love this unreservedly: the opening stanza of Ludovico Ariosto’s Renaissance masterpiece, the Orlando Furioso, written in lights above the main shopping street of Ferrara, his home town.

Grinching in the Rain

I’m going to be the third wheel on a date unless some of you people sign up for my tour this weekend. Save me from entering a throuple! www.airbnb.com/experiences/...

this is the worst thing a member of the Durst family has ever done

Paging J. M. W. Turner. Sunset over the Golfo di Trieste, with the Dolomites looming in the far distance.

Jazz OTD: The second major jazz statement with a December 9 origin is, of course, Sonny Rollins's performance of Dolly Parton's "Here You Come Again," from "No Problem," recorded December 9-15, 1981, with Bobby Hutcherson (vb), Bobby Broom (b), Bob Cranshaw (b), and Tony Williams (d). #jazzsky

Gang Starrbucks The Crazy World of Arthur Treacher’s Pink’s Floyd

Thanking you now.

Joe Santini’s grave, New Orleans Cemetery No. 3

Aeneadum genetrix, hominum divomque voluptas, alma Venus, caeli subter labentia signa quae mare navigerum, quae terras frugiferentis concelebras, per te quoniam genus omne animantum concipitur visitque exortum lumina solis: te, dea, te fugiunt venti, te nubila caeli

political science

Trattoria da Giovanni, Trieste. “At Trattoria di Giovanni, Two glasses of wine Will make you feel fine”

Thinking of the student Mary Young who 106 years ago today 'said "shan't" under [her] breath when told to repeat poor work'.

Pour mes chers amis francophones… barmag.fr/the-comic-bo...

1943. "Gobs of Shoestring Potatoes." I'm in.

Art of the Cocktail with @catoctincreek.bsky.social is back in January! This year, we will go deep on @davidwondrich.bsky.social 's new Comic Book History. Such a cool book to explore with a drink or three. catoctincreekdistilling.com/events?view=...

The role of Turkey in today’s matinee was played by Pork Saltimbocca.

Last minute, I know, but I'm heading over to A Capella Books, Atlanta, to sign books from 3 to 5; if y'all are in ATL and want my John Hancock on the CBHotC, c'mon down!

Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays: Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink. If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business. Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.

This is the most important document to emerge from Queens in a generation. I will never recover from Queens Village being known as Shadyville or gangsters known by nicknames such as “Gotti Sleeze” and also… “Eli”

Preach it!

Excellent event last night for a terrific book. LA friends, don't miss out.

Brilliant.

For the almost 100 people on Bluesky in Seattle, I’m moderating a talk at Vinnie’s tonight for @davidwondrich.bsky.social new book illustrated by @deankotz.bsky.social Learning a lot in the research

This Wednesday I'll be in LA, talking cocktail history & comics with the wonderful @bitbyafox.bsky.social at Now Serving books. 7:00. Hope to see yinz there! And, of course, I'll be at Vinnie's Wine Shop, Seattle tonight at 6:30, now with the Aquavitosaurus, @andrewbohrer.bsky.social

This cold, wet day has me in a mood for comfort. It’s early in the season for a pot of Boilo, but not egregiously so. My dad’s family settled in Pennsylvania coal country; this hot whiskey comes from there. If you can read them, my handwritten notes on Boilo follows. First up: Four Queens whiskey.

This coming Monday I'll be at Vinnie's Wine Shop, Seattle, talking cocktail history and comics with the great Anu Apte and signing books. (6:30-8:30). Hope to see yinz there! And, of course, @mixography.bsky.social and I are at Up Up Books, Portland, tonight at 7, doing the same thing.

I like how full text search of every book and human thought ever was a SOLVED PROBLEM in 2001, and now dicks at search engines and my own phone – a piece of silicon faster to respond than God was ever imagined in scripture – prevent it from working, _as a retroactive infantilizing design choice_.

Last night at Omnivore Books with @davidwondrich.bsky.social

California drinking at its very finest. Sherry Cobbler, Pacific Cocktail Haven, San Francisco.

California cuisine at its very finest, Pinecrest Diner, San Francisco.

This Friday I'll be chatting about cocktails, comics and cocktail books with my old pal Jim Meehan at Up Up Books, Portland. Hope to see yinz there! And, of course, I'm at Omnivore Books in San Francisco tonight (6:30, with @alcademics.bsky.social).

Thread: part of an ongoing project to erase people of color from military history:

This Wednesday I'll be chatting about cocktails, comics and God knows what else with the ever-amusing @alcademics.bsky.social at the wonderful @omnivorebooks.bsky.social, San Francisco. Hope to see yinz there!

If you're within striking distance of Mystic, Connecticut this Saturday I'll be signing books at the Mystic & Noank Library from 10:00 AM until 1:00 PM. You can pre-buy The Comic Book History of the Cocktail and Imbibe here (proceeds go to the library): banksquarebooks.com/list/mystic-...

This is excellent.

Let's take it to the stage! I'll be out west for the next couple of weeks, talking about the Comic Book History of the Cocktail. Here's the list, but note I'll also be in Mystic, Connecticut signing books this Saturday (Nov.8), & at Ticonderoga Club in Atlanta Nov. 24th. Come on down and say howdy!

And to think of all the genuinely brilliant headlines the Post has come up with...and then to do this. The stench of that burning exododus is going to be legendary.