I can’t help but think that the three generations of people who thought cities should look like this…

Hear hear!

The 'scope or the 'light? According to F. E. Herbert's "The Periscope" column in the New Orleans States (August 5, 1935, p. 4), Victor Bergeron's classic Vieux Carré Cocktail was half vermouth, a quarter each whiskey and cognac, a teaspoon of Bénédictine and dashes of Peychaud's and orange bitters.

The original Harry’s Bar (Venezia) Martini: stir 4 parts gin (45% Abv or above) and 1 part Friulano wine (Tocai Friulano, until the Hungarians complained) with ice. Strain into a bottle & put it in the freezer for at least 30 mins. Pour into chilled glass & twist lemon peel over the top. Sublime—

In 1872, the Chicago Evening Post published an absolutely brutal editorial mocking people who objected to sharing public spaces with Black people. Still some dated language but a remarkable piece. “Hire a carriage and you can sit all alone by your own sweet self for $2 an hour.”

And if you’re drinking good tequila, it’s best to have a real lot of it (thanks, Julio!)

Babe, wake up. New man-made horrors beyond comprehension dropped.

Drinking Fish House Punch requires the proper garb.

Very pleased to see @deankotz.bsky.social and my Comic Book History of the Cocktail make it into Tales of the Cocktail's top ten list for books on cocktail history and such, in some very good company indeed!

Rahway

Forget novels--the real question is the Top Ten Epic Poems Available in English. As any fule kno, the list looks like this: Iliad, Homer Inferno, Dante Odyssey, Homer Metamorphoses, Ovid Paradise Lost, Milton De Rerum Natura, Lucretius Orlando Furioso, Ariosto Aeneid, Vergil ....

Cobbler, Cocktail, Fizz, Julep, Punch, Stinger

The Ice Crusades

I’ve long been a fan of the ol’ Irish Day Spa. A quiet drink or three in the afternoon with a friend, or a clutch of ‘em, is the best kind of drinking. It’s all the sweeter because everyone else is at work. Cheers, Wayne! thelongbar.substack.com/p/a-field-gu...

If you're looking for a song to listen to while walking down the street that makes you feel like the coolest dude walking down the street may I recommend Last Train by Allen Toussaint, you ain't gonna do any better than that www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FkE...

Classy Donald, making a national monument look like a suburban toilet.

How it’s going How it’s going to go

I was just thinking about the story that ends this old interview (it was a day much like today in NYC: a nice spring day, sunny, not too warm). A good day for gunplay. twoforthebar.ca/the-bartende...

SHAFT

I hold this truth to be self-evident.

Who the hell would lose such a film?

Jazz OTD: From S. Neil Fujita's artwork to the vivid compositions and performances, Charles Mingus's "Mingus Ah Um" is one for the ages. Five tracks, including the opener here, recorded May 5, 1959 with John Handy, Shafi Hadi, Jimmy Knepper, Booker Ervin, Horace Parlan, and Dannie Richmond. #jazzsky

Music in miniature, and (to me, anyway) strangely affecting because of it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsU_...

What’s that you say? One wasn’t enough? m.youtube.com/watch?v=AE1c...

‘Cause we could all use a flat-out banger at this point. m.youtube.com/watch?v=ilDD...

Manhasset, Port Washington, Great Neck

“Isn't there a war dragging on? Imagine if FDR had taken to the airwaves during the Battle of the Bulge to complain about a Little Orphan Annie comic strip he didn't like." — @jimmykimmel.com Pictured: Orphan Annie in the New Orleans Item, January 1, 1945 (during the Battle of the Bulge)

A great find from Barry Popik on the history of the Tequila Sunrise.

trying to play peekaboo with my child but he's a European diplomat: me: where'd daddy go? baby: we must articulate a post-daddy vision of strategic autonomy me: peekaboo! baby: my historic relationship with my father is stable despite recent troubles

Today in Old English: New copy of Caedmon's Hymn found. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a...

Man looks like he just smothered his granny with a throw pillow.

Those are perfect oleo-saccharum lemons, BTW. Peely-peely. Chef’s kiss.

And not a moment too soon!

This photo should be on the front page of every single newspaper in America today.

money to be made with an app that lets you point your phone at any worksite (building rehab, street dig, new construction) and it immediately gets you all the info: what's it gonna be, what's it replacing, whose got the contracts, what's the budget, timeline, etc.

So now boid ain’t a woid? What is dis woild comin ta?

Well, you can't accuse him of being woke.

She gets mocked for being a bartender, but it feels like a superpower

This epitaph goes hard.

Anyone on here see Soft Machine in concert 1970 - 1974? I'm currently writing a piece and I'm interested in getting eyewitness accounts of the team in action. If yes, please PM me or send an email (address in my bio)

Good morning and remember that Lee Marvin is in Heaven judging you. All that stupid shit you do? Knock it off or do it bigger, louder, and weirder.

Now playing in Hell’s waiting room:

Lost in the reporting about Pete Hesgeth mistaking a Pulp Fiction quote for Bible verse is that Tarantino lifted it from a Japanese movie: Karate Kiba (The Bodyguard), starring Sonny Chiba. youtu.be/8LYT4JC2dd4?...

Yes, yes, yes to all of this. Mix some really old music in with the new; some rough with the smooth, so on and so forth. Mixology.

You meet only five types of people at craft cocktail bars. Prove me wrong. thelongbar.substack.com/p/the-5-drin...

For my Francophone friends, due out in June (and translated by the great François Monti): www.dunod.com/vie-pratique...

Seen in Philadelphia

A commenter notes that "Trump managed to be both Hitler and Chamberlain in the same negotiation. An unprecedented feat." 😭

I must not make the forbidden pousse-café