Cocktailians

Category: Seen Elsewhere

  • “I am roughly 21, depending on the evening.”

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    For what it’s worth, which may not be much, the idea that being an avid Cockatilian is somehow incompatible with being body-conscious is a canard that’s quickly losing steam. We’re not all slovenly slobs & soused sots in search of some sweet slack. (Not, in case it needs be said, that there’s anything wrong with…

  • “I am roughly 21, depending on the evening.”

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    vidiot
    in

    For what it’s worth, which may not be much, the idea that being an avid Cockatilian is somehow incompatible with being body-conscious is a canard that’s quickly losing steam. We’re not all slovenly slobs & soused sots in search of some sweet slack. (Not, in case it needs be said, that there’s anything wrong with…

  • Big In Calcutta

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    Just wanted to engage in a bit of shameless ego-boo; yours truly, along with a big bunch of illustrious cocktail bloggers, got quoted in this nice article about the drinkblogointerwebscape in the Telegraph of India. Thanks, Anindita! (pic taken from Alcademics.)

  • Big In Calcutta

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    vidiot
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    Just wanted to engage in a bit of shameless ego-boo; yours truly, along with a big bunch of illustrious cocktail bloggers, got quoted in this nice article about the drinkblogointerwebscape in the Telegraph of India. Thanks, Anindita! (pic taken from Alcademics.)

  • Drinky Linky: It’s Been Too Long edition

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    Some stuff that caught my eye on the Interdrinkerwebs: Playboy names the ten best bartenders in the country. (SFW link.) Congratulations to all of them, but especially fellow bloggers Jamie Boudreau and Jeffrey Morgenthaler; This is an odd concept for a bar — I associate hotel minibars with crushing loneliness and unreasonable expense, not conviviality…

  • Drinky Linky: It’s Been Too Long edition

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    vidiot
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    Some stuff that caught my eye on the Interdrinkerwebs: Playboy names the ten best bartenders in the country. (SFW link.) Congratulations to all of them, but especially fellow bloggers Jamie Boudreau and Jeffrey Morgenthaler; This is an odd concept for a bar — I associate hotel minibars with crushing loneliness and unreasonable expense, not conviviality…

  • Drinky Linky

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    A few things I've run across lately: Joel Johnson kills a bottle of 30-year-old Canadian Club (and thanks for the shoutout, Joel!); which is certainly a better idea than painting with perfectly good bourbon; the Times urges us not to drink green crap on St. Patrick's Day, and features some top bartenders' ideas for other…

  • Drinky Linky

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    vidiot
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    A few things I've run across lately: Joel Johnson kills a bottle of 30-year-old Canadian Club (and thanks for the shoutout, Joel!); which is certainly a better idea than painting with perfectly good bourbon; the Times urges us not to drink green crap on St. Patrick's Day, and features some top bartenders' ideas for other…

  • Drinky Linky

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    Some interesting things I've run across lately: Hand Signals at the Stork Club. Manager Sherman Billingsley demonstrates the various hand signals he used in running the famous boite to LIFE magazine. Utterly fascinating, and makes me wish I could've taken a gander at the place. (Thanks to Czeltic Girl for the link); We're getting close…

  • Drinky Linky: Au Revoir, LeNell

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    The above photo is of LeNell's, looking a little empty, about half an hour before the store (or, rather, the current incarnation of the store) closed down.  It's really more of an au revoir than a goodbye, because after a sojourn in Yurp and elsewhere, LeNell will be back in Brooklyn (despite my entreaties for…