Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*

I read this as “smarter cocktail loser” which is def the case for me. www.foodandwine.com/award-winnin...

The Spanish Civil War began 90 years ago today. ¡No pasarán!”

the worst little toadies you ever went to school with are the folks populating "elite" American media, & they're even more pathetic than you remember

This. So much this.

“Heeeeeere, yakity yak yak yak! … Come, come, yakity yak yak yak!”

It's Ronald Belford "Bon" Scott Day! You remember him! You remember him well! #Bon #ACDC #Rock youtu.be/LJakepFG-Mw?...

not an original thought but it's wild to read so much excellent historical scholarship that relies on newspaper archives and realize historians of the future will be stuck with, uh, whatever this current news landscape is

“Do you always drink Stingers, Mr. Stroud?” (The Big Clock, 1948.)

Lewis and Clark meet Sylvia and Rhonda.

Fonts! (1892)

Would that this were the case!

Fix bayonets. The slavers and strict constitutional originalists shall not pass.

This is absolutely true, but the alternative—keeping up with all of the flea-jumps of popular culture, world without end—is worse.

They promoted the carnies to management, rather than customer interface.

Game on!

Men’s room, Grand Central Oyster Bar Saloon.

Delicious post-lunch drinks were had at Loos American Bar, which was a serene space to escape the heat on a Saturday afternoon! Very impressive room, designed in 1908 by the famous and influential architect Adolf Loos. Beautiful space, with mirrors that make it look bigger than it is.

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller June 27,1947

Cursed Space No. 754 Unexplainable seating area, Charles de Gaulle.

Cruise ship birthing ground, Monfalcone, Italy.

This undeniably Lovecraftian device—“il Turbo,” they call it—is actually damned effective. Coffee in 2 or 3 minutes. Caffè fhtagn!

The wreck of the cruise ship MS World Discoverer, slowly being taken over by nature. She struck an uncharted reef in the Solomon Islands in 2000 and has remained there ever since. #Cruiseships #Shipwrecks #Pacific

All of France is scorching hot today. Except for one village in the northwest...

General Grant is simply not having any of this bullshit.

June 22 is one of those dates burned into the memory: In 1940, France surrendered; and in 1941, Hitler double-crossed his ally, Stalin, and invaded the USSR.

How many bands or venues got off the ground with posters like this? Fuck anyone who says they need to use AI cos they have no money or can't draw.

Poor Tom, that eats the swimming frog, the toad, the tadpole, the wall-newt, and the water; that in the fury of his heart, when the foul fiend rages, eats cow-dung for sallets; swallows the old rat and the ditch-dog; drinks the green mantle of the standing pool

I should have been a pair of ragged claws. Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.

I don't know if this is accurate, but somebody owes me money. intheweights.com

📷 Ottoman pilot Ahmed Ali Effendi, born in Izmir (Western Anatolia) in 1883, is considered the world’s first Black pilot. He flew for the Ottoman Empire in 1916 and is regarded as the first Black military pilot in history. His grandmother was from Bornu (present-day Nigeria). #blackhistory

This dates to 1879, and is far as I know is the first published "walks into a bar" joke. (The Sumerian "joke" that's often cited as the proto-joke is a stretch.) Will it endure another century-and-a-half? I have thoughts in this week's post on The Long Bar. thelongbar.substack.com/p/why-the-lo...

Damn. The Cheese and the Worms goes so hard. Rest easy, king. 🗃️

What??? No! That’s so crazy! As a former tech worker I can’t even imagine a situation in which I, a woman, would experience this exact situation! Certainly not every single goddamn day or anything.

How soon we have forgotten Andrew Jackson's Inauguration, where they put out barrels of Punch for the crowd, who rushed in, fought for them, knocked some over, drained the rest and brawled away the evening. Utterly Jacksonian, if Jackson had had bone spurs.

Just imagine if, in 1973, Cosmic Slop-era Funkadelic and Space Ritual-era Hakwind (with Lemmy, of course) had got together to make an album--a glorious, sloppy, intense, mind-bending double album. That was a missed Turning. (Funkadelic here, Hawkwind below.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsIq...

Knickerbocker (basically an 1840s Nutcracker) Shake well with cracked ice: 2 oz aged Barbados rum 1/2 oz orange curaçao 1/4 oz raspberry syrup 1/2 oz lime juice Place squeezed-out shell of half a lime in a bucket glass. Pour the drink in, ice and all, and garnish with a couple of raspberries.

The great Cathy Berberian. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dNL...

"I’m looking to be shot any time I step out of my car. If I die, it will be in a good cause. I’ve been fighting for America just as much as the soldiers in Vietnam." Medgar Evers, WWII veteran and civil rights activist, assassinated on this day in 1963 outside his home in Jackson, Mississippi

The Antico Caffè San Marco in Trieste is the embodiment of a European café. One of my favourite places.

Allegedly the banned-for-life list from the soon to shutter Parkview Tavern.

these periodic emails from folks i’ve never spoken to and have zero connection to the industry really are a highlight of my day when they come

A truly titanic player. While watching him play your head grew two sizes. Sit tibi terra levis, magister!

I'll be signing the Comic Book history at BCB tomorrow (June 9th) from 3:30 to 4:15 (at 7-BE-702, on the first floor of bldg 7), so come on down! AND, even better, I'll be mixing Hayman's Old Tom Gin cocktails at the Haus Alpenz booth (8A-601) from 4:30 to around 6:30. Do stop by and say wotcher.

“You ever get that urge, Frank? It begins with looking down from 50 stories up, thinking about the meaninglessness of life, listening to dark voices deep inside you, and you think, ‘Should I? … Should I?  … Should I push someone off?’”

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—