I had a Hong Kong Phooey lunchbox.

Happy birthday, @maureenogle.bsky.social! 🎂🍻🥳

I found the atmosphere a bit tough when I visited. My own hometown is a bit tougher, though.

Austin folk, please put this on your calendar, and RSVP if you can. As you know, this is a *great* indie bookstore and the event should be a blast. We’ll talk about crime! Murder! Bootleggers! Fraud! Secret caches of pre-ban bottles! The modern absinthe revival! See you at BookPeople on Oct. 20!

SSscottsemegran.bsky.socialOct 1, 2024 8:51pm

I will be hosting Evan Rail at BookPeople in Austin, Texas on October 20th at 4:00pm to celebrate The Absinthe Forger: A True Story of Deception, Betrayal, and the World’s Most Dangerous Spirit! This event is free and open to the public. Please RSVP for your FREE ticket(s): @evanrail.bsky.social 🙌

BookPeople Presents: Evan Rail - The Absinthe Forger

BookPeople welcomes Evan Rail in conversation with Scott Semegran to celebrate the release of The Absinthe Forger.

For the sake of comparison, I saw a car covered with snow here this morning.

I’m fascinated by drinking cultures and how they evolve. For VinePair, I wrote about the trend of “Splitting the G” when drinking Guinness. It’s not from Ireland, it doesn’t have a clear origin, and it seems to be everywhere lately. vinepair.com/articles/spl...

Can You ‘Split the G’? How Gulping Guinness Became an Online Phenomenon

To split the G, drinkers must swallow enough Guinness on their first drink to land the liquid line halfway through the G on a branded glass.

I’m teaching a course on food, culture & globalization at NYU Prague. To avoid chatGPT essays, I asked students to record audio clips where they verbally describe the various scents in a specific place or neighborhood. The first one just hit my inbox. Reader, it’s like I got a personal podcast.

My dad took a few Greek language classes after he married my mom. One time when we were in Greece some guy came up to him and asked him a question, and my dad said, “Oh, I’m sorry, I don’t speak Greek” in such perfect Greek that the guy cursed him out on the spot.

Quote skeet with your favorite Onion video. The greatest of all time. youtu.be/9U4Ha9HQvMo?...

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