If there was a corporate death penalty, Meta might be a superb candidate. Pry Whatsapp from their grubby mitts and there’s absolutely nothing left in the public interest.

New recipe for May now LIVE for Total Tiki Online and Total Tiki (app) customers!

Something new coming up: worldginweek.com

They gave him an award and called him an environmental activist lmaooo

Props to The Guardian for the headline “Flogging a wooden horse” in reference to Nolan‘s looming bombastic adaptation of The Odyssey.

“Good energy” seems to have become an established euphemism for a deliberately loud bar or restaurant. There is nothing good about it.

Capsule review of Cocktail Omakase (NYC): civilized, makes sense for exactly two people for date or catch-up with set time window (1 hour); we had the low alcohol option, drinks were flavorful, restrained and very Japanese; “bites” pairings all tasty (not a meal, but a nice start). Decent value.

Drinker’s Court, c. 1765

We tried to grab a drink at the lobby bar at the Waldorf-Astoria last night and were informed there is now a two drink minimum. Anti-hospitality.

✔️ ate at Rao’s

The problem with Cocchi Dopo Teatro is that it comes in 500ml bottles, instead 1.75 liter handles.

Please God, send the sweet asteroid of death, reason 14,374,329: We treat the casual opinions about ballet of an irritating young movie star as international news.

So I fired up Total Mixology by @doudoroff.com for some inspiration. I looked at a few versions of this, one from the '30s, one from the '50s, and then rolled my own version.

New recipe for April now live for Total Tiki Online and Total Tiki customers!

✔️ Peed at Bergdorf

They removed the mirrors in the entrance hall to my building, preventing me from flipping myself off as I enter/leave. I hope this situation is soon addressed.

I must not make the forbidden pousse-café

This is an article about the opposite of hospitality. Anti-hospitality, I suppose. A closely-related topic that also needs to be addressed is music volume and ambient sound pressure levels.

If you liked “One Battle After Another”, you should watch “The Secret Agent”. If you hated “One Battle After Another”, you should watch “The Secret Agent”.

There is so much idiocy in the world, but an electric car that emits gasoline engine sounds from a loudspeaker is in a special category.

Also, Clear should not exist.

This morning at LGA Terminal C, touchless PreCheck absolutely smoked Clear. Despite comically long line stretching back to the parking garage, got through in 24 minutes.

New recipe for March for Total Tiki Online and Total Tiki (app) customers! An exclusive, never-before-published 1937 recipe from Don the Beachcomber, Hollywood!

Two anti-hospitality trends that need a complete rethink: - not seating incomplete parties, even with a reservation - “time limits” I am encountering both under circumstances that seem utterly inappropriate, thoughtless and, frankly, insulting.

It’s an enduring tragedy more Spaniards don’t drink sherry. It’s as if few Americans drank bourbon and we just exported what we made to Japan.

We are getting a new emoji that is a depressingly good fit for our times.

Well, I guess we can finally write off NOMA and René Redzepi.

Jeff Bridges and is wife Susan are putting the Wideluxx mechanical panoramic camera back into production. As DPReview’s Abby Ferguson puts it, the video of them unboxing and trying the first specimens is “pure joy”. wideluxx.com#reveal-video

ㅤ bloody brilliant. maybe it's my Norwegian dna but I haven't seen a better video of this issue. just perfect. that's our sense of humour too (why a lot of people don't get my humour hehe) made by the Norwegian Consumer Council ㅤ youtu.be/T4Upf_B9RLQ

I have never subscribed to a music streaming service (Spotify, Apple Music, etc.) and probably never will. I value my favorite artists more than that. I buy records—direct when possible—which still isn’t very profitable for most musicians, but it’s something.

Our neighbors out back are experiencing a close encounter of the first kind in their great room. #oligarchy #nouveauriche #badtaste

Grateful for the occasional nice surprise.

Silence is underrated.

Enshittification for the sake of shareholder value proceeds apace. www.jezebel.com/fake-milk-ch...

New recipe for February now live for Total Tiki Online and Total Tiki (app) customers!

I have farted around all day and I’m feeling ok with that.

Atole morning

About a year into my switch from gas to induction, and I would not voluntarily go back. I might, however, upgrade my cooktop within a few years.

It should be obvious to anyone now that Zuckerberg had one “good idea”, and it made him very rich, but he has no more such ideas, and he and his company are no longer in the public interest, if they ever were.

There’s not much cool about the Miami airport, but they do have Cuban food and surprisingly tasteful terrazzo floors.

All of this, including at least sixty (60) surveillance cameras, just to avoid employing a few attendants.

Do we really have to endure three more years of this?

I highly recommend Cory Doctorow’s new piece in The Guardian. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Splendid image from Carl Seutter’s 1909 book “der Mixologist”. In addition to illustrating some drinks per the era, note the delightful pousse-café layering annotation at right (sadly cropped in the scan)

Surely, there must be a better alternative for Iran than bringing back the Pahlavis?!

New recipe for January live for Total Tiki Online and Total Tiki (app) customers! (Also, a little update for The Martin Cocktail app customers is live.)

I was a paying, multi-platform, heavy-duty @evernote.bsky.social customer for many years. In recent years, my problem with Evernote has been frequent “improvements” that were changes but not improvements. Most of these “improvements” were new features that just got in the way and distracted…

I am by no means “pro-AI”, but this reminds me a bit of the 1970s, when artists like Queen would print “no synthesizers” on their record sleeves.