May 2010
35 posts
My liquor inventory
Yes, this really is all of it. The list is divided into base spirits, liqueurs and aperitifs, and bitters.
Famous Grouse blended scotch whisky
Aberlour single malt scotch whisky
Old Overholt rye whiskey
Michter’s US 1 rye whiskey
Bulleit bourbon
Maker’s Mark bourbon
Plymouth gin
Hayman’s Old Tom gin
Tanqueray gin
Hennessy VS cognac
Laird’s Old Apple Brandy...
immlass:
tardisadventures:
Love Don’t...
BBC Breakfast - Arthur Darvill interview →
Lovely little interview. Here, as in the Doctor Who Confidentials, Darvill comes across as a funny, low-key, very pleasant fellow. And I’m really enjoying his performance as Rory.
(Now why is he not getting the above-the-title credit listing, anyway?)
“I don’t know about you, but my eyes are already trained only to read the top...”
– Stephen Fry, “No Comment”
As Scroobius Pip says, “Thou shalt not question Stephen Fry.”
“I’ve always been fascinated by the Middle East—desert moons, Scheherazade,...”
– Carrie Bradshaw in Sex and the City 2, via “Burkas and Birkins” by Lindy West. (The fifteen or twenty minutes you will spend reading West’s review are probably infinitely more worthwhile, entertaining, and thought-provoking than the film’s entire 146-minute runtime.)
Now I...
hypem:
likeanaddict:
Metric - It’s A Sin (Pet...
“PARKING LOT 37, 2200 Red River
Suspicious Activity: A concerned student report...”
– UT Campus Watch newsletter, 5/18/2010
Cecilia Bartoli singing "In braccio a mille furie"... →
“In braccio a mille furie” is on Bartoli’s album Sacrificium, a collection of mostly Baroque-era arias originally written for the great castrati singers of Italy. This one was written for one of the super-greats, Farinelli.
The video (embedding prohibited) is a little goofy, but listening to this aria gives me chills. The vocal pyrotechnics are nearly inhuman; Bartoli’s...
“The most obvious feature was that absolutely nobody won. Depending when you were...”
– Armando Iannucci, writing in the Independent.
“12.22pm: Boris Johnson told Jeremy Paxman earlier that politicians have to make...”
– From the Guardian’s liveblog of the British general election
