side car

bitter water

Bitterwater Valley was once the primary habitat of the giant California Condor. Around 1946, DDT poison was introduced throughout that area to kill coyotes, prairie dogs, mountain lions, and any animal that ate crops or posed a threat to ranch or farm animals. Condors are of vultures and therefore only eat animals that are already dead. As the Condors ate the dead killed by DDT, they too vanished, and the once paradise teeming with abundant life became lifeless except for few a species of birds and insects.

I don't know enough about Sake....

My favorite sake bottle names:
Divine Droplets
Hawk in the Heavens
Otter Festival
Beautiful Boy
Demon Killer
Spring Deer
Only One Daughter
Princess Food
A Flower in the Wind
Summer Snow
Misty Bay
Cold Bamboo
Gorgeous Plum
10,000 apricot blossoms
Mirror of Truth
Root of Innocence
Champion of the West
Man's Mountain
I'm sad to say I have only tried a few of these sakes.

past pleausres

Scotch Scotch Scotch

1. With the possible exception of Bud there is no other booze more tied up in masculine ideology than scotch. The list is long; scotch on the golf course, your daddy's glass after work, cigars and scotch, Ron Burgundy, etc. etc. etc.

2. I first got into scotch with a keen 22 year old sense of irony. Men drink scotch! This performative act of imbibing struck me as hilarious, offensive and well, intriguing. I drink, therefore I am(a man).

3. As my irony faded shade by shade into jade(edness) my collection of single malt seemed to reciprocally grow and grow. What was first one bottle of cask strength Laphroaig turned into an arsenal that represented most of the unique distilling regions of the great north.

4. Today I would like share my favorite scotch pairings. These (as far as I can tell) are not your usual hard liquor and food ideas but more what I have found to be fun things to try while drinking your dram.

5. a. Aged gouda, especially 3 year Sankanteer, is one of the only cheeses strong enough to stand up to the hard smoke and heather characteristics of Highland single malt. This cheese is so sharp/sweet and waxy that it actually makes a Macallen 12 yr neat an appetizing spirit. b. Seaweed ,miso, wasabi, I discovered that the salt and brine flavors of many ingredients that I used in preparing soba dishes over the years make a wonderful foil for Islay peat monsters like Ardberg. The sea air bumps up with the salt of these foods and they kinda cancel each other out. I always drink a glass of Islay when making a miso, or soba dish, hi ho! c. Pipe, while this is the most cliché of matches I have to stand by the fact that drinking scotch while smoking a English tobacco truly makes both easier and more enjoyable. After hurting myself on the slopes last weekend I spent no short amount time walking the snow caked hills of Vermont with a handy flask of Scotch and a puff of the old corn cob.

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afternoon delight

A print monthly adult magazine published in the United States that features semi-nude or fully nude men. The magazine was founded in 1973 during the height of the feminist movement as a response to erotic men's magazines such as Playboy and Penthouse that featured similar photos of women. For the period March 2009 until February 2010, it appeared only online. The magazine reverted to print with its March 2010 issue - wikipedia

Jelly

"The gelatinous seaborne creatures are blamed for decimating fishing industries in the Bering and Black seas, forcing the shutdown of seaside power and desalination plants in Japan, the Middle East and Africa, and terrorizing beachgoers worldwide, the U.S. National Science Foundation says. "

Sittin on the dock of the bayyy

21st century design

Here, as in other American cities, municipal policy has taken its lead from the security offensive and the middle-class demand for increased spatial and social insulation. Taxes previously targeted for traditional public spaces and recreational facilities have been redirected to support corporate redevelopment projects - mike davis

soft focus, dead tree,

the end of Manhattan