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My wife Sabrina’s side of the family lives in Switzerland, so she and I have made quite a few visits to the beautiful country to see them over the years. Not a bad place to spend time with the in-laws, if you ask me. Sab and I were just out there for a couple weeks
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The tenth entry in the series where my wife Sabrina and I journey through the wide wonderful world of classic cocktails by crafting and drinking recipes together at our home bar. Today let’s take a peek at the pinnacle of elegant simplicity, the Martini. Recipe: Freeze the glassware ahead of time. Add the gin and
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Quick disclaimer: My record reviews are not genuine “reviews” in the sense that I don’t have an arbitrary scoring system and I don’t even try to come across as objective. Or even cohesive. I only write about things that I’m stoked on here, so you can expect that all my reviews will be just me
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It’s the end of the year and all the music rags are putting out their “Best Albums of 2025” lists, and I want to participate like I’m a cool music rag too and not just some dork on his computer awkwardly struggling to be hip by saying “music rag.” This is not a definitive list
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Quick disclaimer: You can consider this a review of the Petey USA album The Yips or The Yips (A Case Of), as the latter is The Yips plus some extra tracks. It really doesn’t matter which one is the subject of my review, though, since my reviews always end up being self-indulgent rambles about myself
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The ninth entry in the series where my wife Sabrina and I journey through the wide wonderful world of classic cocktails by crafting and drinking recipes together at our home bar. Today let’s break out the rye and explore the long-running boozy beauty, the Manhattan. Recipe: Add the ingredients to a mixing glass half-filled with
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The eighth entry in the series where my wife Sabrina and I journey through the wide wonderful world of classic cocktails by crafting and drinking recipes together at our home bar. Today let’s visit the godfather of whiskey-based cocktails, the legendary Old Fashioned. Recipe: Muddle the sugar and bitters in an Old Fashioned glass. Add
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The internet is a pretty dark place, isn’t it? I don’t recall it always being such a bastion of negativity, but ever since its primary function became to dole out steaming piles of stinky social media to every poor bastard it can reach, it feels like our IT emperors all went and invested their vast amounts
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The seventh entry in the series where my wife Sabrina and I journey through the wide wonderful world of classic cocktails by crafting and drinking recipes together at our home bar. Today let’s go back to fundamentals with one of the original sours, the Gimlet! Recipe: Add all ingredients to a shaker with ice. Shake
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When I first read that the beloved folk/Americana luminaries, the Avett Brothers, were working on a collaboration with Mike Patton, I wondered who is this other folk/Americana musician who shares a name with the maniac genius frontman of legendary bands Faith No More and Mr. Bungle among numerous other projects over the past 3 decades?