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~ THE WHITE NEGRONI ~ 50ml gin 15ml Lillet Blanc 15ml Suze Lemon twist Freeze a cocktail coupe. Now stir all of the ingredient patiently over ice until you hear a slight give. Strain into the frozen glass and garnish with a lemon zest twist - taking care to express the oils over the drink first. Some White Negroni notes: 1) The recipe also featured in my recent post on Suze, the classic French gentian-based aperitif, a favourite of both Inspector Maigret and Pablo Picasso.

~ THE REVERSE MANHATTAN ~ 50ml Italian vermouth 25ml bourbon or rye Dash Angostura bitters Freeze your glassware. Fill a mixing vessel with ice. Add the liquids and stir patiently. Strain into the cold cocktail glass and garnish with a length of orange peel or a maraschino cherry if you happen to have one. Some Reverse Manhattan Notes: 1) Reverse because, ordinarily, the proportions would be 50ml bourbon, 25ml Italian vermouth, dash of bitters.

ENJOYING THE SPIRITS? Please consider becoming a subscriber so I can maintain some standards around here… Give a gift subscription ~ THE CORPSE REVIVER No.2 ~ Dash of absinthe 20ml gin 20ml Lillet Blanc (see note…) 20ml orange liqueur 20ml lemon juice Rinse a cocktail glass with absinthe - I mean, pour in a few dashes of the stuff and roll it around so the glass is coated. Now place that glass in the freezer while you prepare a few snacks, etc.

~ THE BRANDY DAISY ~ 50ml brandy 15ml lemon juice 15ml grenadine ~15ml fizzy water Shove it all in the shaker. Not the fizzy water though! Add ice. Shake. Strain into a cocktail glass. Top with fizzy water and stir. Garnish with lemon/mint/cherry. Some Brandy Daisy Notes: 1) All I’d say is, this isn’t necessarily one for your very best XO cognac - your basic bitch pantry stuff is going to be fine here.

~ GIN & DUBONNET ~ 50ml Dubonnet 25ml gin Lemon Make this one in a dainty wine glass. You will want copious ice, preferably one large cube. Add the eponymous ingredients and a slice of lemon. Stir. That’s it. Some Gin & Dubonnet notes: 1) This is a break from the advertised programming, but I expect British audiences are used to that by now. But it’s a wonderful cocktail: restrained, refined and one for the ages, a little like a certain late Queen.

it’s hard for me to find the opening to talk seriously about blue lock because it is, technically, a well and truly unhinged piece of work that for the last year, prior to the anime airing, i’ve mostly just consumed to file under my interesting subversions of genre tradition folder. that’s not a derogatory subcategory, either. far from it. i’ve been called out for showing favouritism to the point of bias towards narratives that are actively subversive — or at least ones that acknowledge, critique, oppose and/or embrace its forebears in the genre all at once.

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"The Stalking Moon" is a largely forgotten Western, owing mostly I think to arriving around the time the genre was being reexplored with a more critical eye -- "The Wild Bunch," "Little Big Man," "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid." But it contains some of those same questioning elements, including a subtle (maybe too subtle) examination of the relationship between an expanding America and the native peoples who were often trampled along the way.

It’s 5:48 p.m. on Wednesday and I can hear the faint sound of Enrique Iglesias’ “Bailando” over the sound system at a Mexican restaurant on the second level of Terminal B at the Denver airport. Minutes ago, I purchased a mediterranean bowl on the main concourse. But I couldn’t find any seats near an outlet and I needed to charge my phone for the fourth time in as many hours.