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.

Trump having a Great Gatsby party while the country has a Grapes of Wrath party

roman burrito thread

On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.

Learn about these bartenders on my SF Bar and Cocktail History Tour. www.airbnb.com/experiences/...

Well this--and I say it using dashes so you'll like it better--is f***ing depressing. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... #writing #publishing #editing #copyright #AI

Boy, NYT screwing the pooch on cocktail history today, two times over.

One of the first myths we demolished about North Carolina's ABC system when we set out to rank stores statewide is that each store is the same as the next. Many thanks to @davidwondrich.bsky.social for weighing in on a cocktail guide only found in Scotland County: thefoodsection.com/the-best-rea...

And they call themselves the *New York* Times…

As true now as ever.

Jimmy knows bartending as well as he knows comics, so we really got to talk!

Updating my LEGO White House

In Italy even the wedding rice is Arborio.

ok who did this? ☹️

Maybe its not really theft because they needed them to train their AI

Mash up bands: Ziggy Starship and the Spiders from Marin

So THAT’S where it is.

every one of these names sounds like a very drunk person very earnestly trying to tell you which stop to get off at

the weirdest thing in the world to me is that the NYT thinks I want to watch videos of its reporters talking when I could just read their articles

Czech railways really have train food nailed.

Cheerful little ladder guy, Bode Museum, Berlin.

Lufthansa has relaunched its in-flight cocktail at least 3 times since 2005. The original dates to the 1950s, or maybe earlier. That version has also been relaunched, though under a different name. Also: David Bowie. The story, with help from @davidwondrich.bsky.social: vinepair.com/articles/luf...

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Hamburg. Who knew?

Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.

Check out the full review here: handlebarsnyc.com/home-bar-hop...

Here for @modaviau.bsky.social's NYC launch of her great new novel Epic and Lovely, at Lofty Pigeon Books in Kensington. Also bought @davidwondrich.bsky.social's new Comic History while here. Support local bookstores!

Reading this post from a recently opened coffeeshop enclosed by surprisingly transparent plywood.

A good editor, who won’t let you get away with publishing a draft in place of an actual article, book, whatever, and a fact-checking department are the greatest luxuries a writer can have. (Besides pot and pots of money, obvs.)

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

Quality Virginia rye, as was, 1858 (from the Alexandria Gazette, October 25th). Note the hops, an old Dutch ingredient that still sneaks into some bourbons through their yeast culture, where it's used as a preservative. (A little goes a long way) Attn @scohar70.bsky.social, @ryewhisky.bsky.social

microsoft product (begging, pleading): save this document to my documents? me: save to desktop microsoft (twitching, shaking) this jpeg. save to pictures? me: save to desktop microsoft (weeping, throwing up): this email attachment... downloads? me: desktop

Thanks to this article by @davidwondrich.bsky.social, I made a 50-50 Martini with Plymouth Navy Strength gin (and Noilly Prat dry vermouth if you want to know), and it might be my new favorite thing.

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

I am home in Chicago now but I would like to share this excellent flier I found in Yerevan.

A bold proposal, but even though I’d miss my G&Ts I’d welcome it.

1954. "Henri--you begin to comprehend the train of British life." Right ho, what what!

I didn't think there could be that much more to be uncovered about the history of cocktails. Once again, I was wrong. #Cheers

If you're in New York this evening, come join @deankotz.bsky.social and me as we discuss graphic history and our new Comic Book History of the Cocktail with the great Michael Ruhlman at P & T Knitwear bookstore/café, 80 Orchard St, NYC. 6:30-8:00 www.eventbrite.com/e/david-wond...