Jesse Casey

A firework is a kind of bird. Go birds.

Our school didn't have much in the way of facilities, but we walked everywhere: to the Walters, the historical society, the Peabody, the main branch of the library. Plus we had a super cool art teacher. Made up for all the boring churchy parts.

Kindergarten through 5th grade (87-93). She taught us collage and kiln-fired sculpting and the color wheel via Marc Chagall.

Susan Lowe was my elementary school art teacher. She was super cool. We had no idea what she was up to in the 70s, though.

Two brown cocktails in lowball glasses

The bottles of ingredients for the cocktail

Toby, a grey cat, watching me work from his barstool

Fallback 🍸
Hate the clock change, but at least it's an excuse to make this Sasha Petraske cocktail (under Toby's supervision, of course)

1 oz apple brandy
1 oz rye
½ oz sweet vermouth
½ oz Nonino
2 ds Peychaud's
orange twist

Toby sleeping against the hound pillow

Flashing beans

Missing his sister Lemon the hound?

Watchin' pork chops and gravy

A stripey grey cat struggles to keep his eyes open, with a paw gently resting on top of a human hand

Watchin' baseball

Different back tattoos, though

I believe in bird inclusivity (I was raised on different birds, after all)

There are many varieties of bird

Go birds, I guess

A reddish brown cocktail in a coupe on a wooden bar. The world series is on the TV in the background.

The bottles of ingredients for the cocktail

Cinnamon Up-to-date 🍸
An experiment swapping some cinnamon in for the orange liqueur. Not bad!
2 oz rye
2 oz amontillado sherry
2 bsp 1:1 cinnamon syrup
2 ds Angostura
orange twist

It sounds like I should probably quit working so I can devote all my time to this

I haven't tried this yet so I don't know the rules. How much do you need to take into account existing street infrastructure? Would a crosstown line need to be like, under Washington/Grays Ferry for easy digging, or could you go nuts and make a Passyunk connector up to Old City through Headhouse?

She's thinking about Tony, wondering where he could be, who he is with, what is he thinking, is he thinking of her, and whether he'll ever return someday

YouTube video by The Isley Brothers - Topic Ohio / Machine Gun

Ohio by the Isley Brothers, and honestly this whole album of covers they did as a form of reparations youtu.be/XC6qOvfgDJI

(I am also preparing my XPN top 10)

More likely than Ranger, sadly (which might actually be the right move for all parties involved)

I feel like they learned their lesson on recent-vintage Phillies bullpen arms after Kimbrel and Soto and Dominguez, but hey, they almost signed Hoffman last offseason, so you never know

Baltimore Orioles sign some pitchers

Det Frank Pembelton is about to convince you to waive your civil rights

The menu for the night

Last night we spent the evening like I spent many Fridays in the mid-90s, watching Homicide: Life on the Street. We got a pretty good turn out (10 people!), and I made at least one of each drink on the impromptu cocktail 🍸menu I threw together. All are riffs or lifts of other cocktail recipes.

I only just found out about this game, and I also need to have it

Oh I totally get the logic. I had just remembered (wrongly, I guess?) that a previous puzzle had a clue structured like that, and to solve it I had to make a leap and assume if and only if. I'm glad that's not the case, and I love this puzzle!

Everyone in my office got that same pattern today. We all could have sworn that the puzzle so far hadn't been differentiating between "if" and "if and only if"?

Mientkiewicz Pierzynski

Two brown cocktails in Nick & Nora coupes

The bottles of ingredients for the cocktail

Pedro's Martinez 🍸
feeling nostalgic for living near Clover Club, so I tracked down a something we loved ordering there ~10 years ago. (Recipe by Bryan Schneider, I think)

1½ oz aged rum (should be Dominican)
¾ oz sweet vermouth
¼ oz PX sherry
1 ds Angostura bitters
1 ds mole bitters
lime twist

Two brown cocktails in coupes garnished with 3 cherries each

The bottles of ingredients for the cocktail (except for the bitters)

Manhattanesque 🍸
1½ oz rye
1½ oz sweet vermouth
1 oz apple brandy
2 ds Bitter Truth aromatic bitters (not pictured)
3 brandied cherries
lemon twist

A brown cocktail in a Nick & Nora coupe

The bottles of ingredients for the cocktail

Armagnac Stinger 🍸
2 oz armagnac
½ oz Giffard Menthe-Pastille
½ oz Branca Menta

I'm going to echo the other people on ASUS ProArts. I have a PA27JCV on my mac and it's pretty great. It's supported well by macOS, so the 5K resolution lets me work on 4K animation at 100%, but also the UI is scaled so it's not microscopic and unusable.