David Wondrich

Bar & Cocktail History Tour with Top Drink Writer · ★4.98 Learn the history of San Francisco's bars and most popular cocktails on this walking tour of the City’s former waterline, business district, and Barbary Coast, and share a drink at a restored saloon.

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!

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On the wall at T V’s Emeryville flagship, as of 2019:

Fuckin' clankers!

Times Square May Lose Its Beloved 50-Year-Old Boxing Bar Jimmy’s Corner boxing bar in Times Square is being evicted

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

P.S. impounded Russian oligarch sailing yacht bobbing at anchor to the far left. Very high tech. Hasn’t left the harbor since 2022.

A hazy Orange sunset over the water with a distant line of mountains backstopping the view against the horizon.

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

YouTube video by Sonny Rollins Sonny Rollins - Here You Come Again (Official Audio)

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

Really nice how he respects the feel of the original and doesn't turn it into a sheets-of-sax blowout, but without in any way dumbing down his playing. That kind of humility is all too rare.

I like to think so!

Hej!

And you all remember the Crazy World of Arthur Treacher's big hit, "Fish," right?

"I am the god of deep-fry and I bring you-FISH!
FISH--I want you to eat;
FISH--I'll make you replete
I'll see you eat.
You worked hard and now you're rich
But all of it is going to fish!"

Oh, and ho could I forget…
Softeee Machine

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

Thanking you now.

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

efficis ut cupide generatim saecla propagent.
Quae quoniam rerum naturam sola gubernas
nec sine te quicquam dias in luminis oras
exoritur neque fit laetum neque amabile quicquam,
te sociam studeo scribendis versibus esse
quos ego de rerum natura pangere conor

Inde ferae pecudes persultant pabula laeta
et rapidos tranant amnis: ita capta lepore
te sequitur cupide quo quamque inducere pergis.
Denique per maria ac montis fluviosque rapaces
frondiferasque domos avium camposque virentis
omnibus incutiens blandum per pectora amorem

adventumque tuum, tibi suavis daedala tellus
summittit flores, tibi rident aequora ponti
placatumque nitet diffuso lumine caelum.
Nam simul ac species patefactast verna diei
et reserata viget genitabilis aura favoni
aeriae primum volucres te diva tuumque
significant initum perculsae corda tua vi.

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”

Blowing and plucking for mine!

Mine is 122 (JK—I’ve never tried Spotify
or anything like it).

A page from the Dorney School punishment book showing various students, their offences, and their punishments

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

I blame the art director.

“THE COMIC BOOK HISTORY OF THE COCKTAIL” : LE NOUVEAU LIVRE DE DAVID WONDRICH | BARMAG David Wondrich signe ici un projet inédit. entre récits illustrés, anecdotes et autres recettes emblématiques, notre historien incontournable du cocktail retrace plusieurs siècles d’histoire des mixed...

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I’m pretty sure I ate at one of these when I was a kid, back in the late 1960s-early 1970s. That would have been in the upper Midwest. And I must say, the franchisee whose version is pictured at the beginning of the article interprets “gobs” in a way that I cannot countenance. That’s barely A gob.

… from the late ‘30s and ‘40s make no mention of it.

The Million Dollar was credited to the famous long bar at the Shanghai Club (ca. 1900) and I’ve found no reason to doubt that. The Park Avenue? The earliest I’ve found an actual recipe for it is Embury (1948). I don’t have the Astor menu where Ted found it and the ones I do have …

(Of course, like every drink popular in East Asia at the time--e.g., the Singapore Gin Sling--the Million Dollar shows an extraordinary amount of variation, which makes it hard to trace its blood lines.)