Radical Liberals Attack the Kickwrassling Show!! KENNETH!

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Note: This post is meant to mock the amygdala-based lifeforms among us. Details of the plot and the plotters may emerge that obviate any true facts I might have used at this time. We regret the [future] error.

As soon as Ka$h Patel, unfortunate director of the FBI, announced that they had ThWaRtEd A pLoT KENNETH to obliterate the bouncy-house kickwrassling shindig on the lawn of the White House with drones, the rightwing Wurlitzer[1]  cranked up and immediately began feeding the amygdala-based lifeforms their daily ration of fear and anger: Only the evil liberals in our nation would want to murder the thousands of people at the bouncy-house kickwrassling shindig on the lawn of the White House KENNETH.

Only not.

It soon emerged that the actual terrorists were five (so far) of the saddest MAGAts you have ever heard of. They lived in widely distanced states, communicated online, and in general gave the sense that they were middle school boys playing some war-based RPG. In fact, the FBI “caught” them when the youngest dweeb’s mother overheard him talking to his fellow conspirators and called the feds.

Their first problem was that they had no drones and apparently had no plans to obtain any. They seemed oblivious that drones are banned from the airspace over D.C. or that entire systems are in place to destroy any drone that strays.

It gets better. Their plan included a daring Jack Reacher escape along the Potomac, but it lacked some crucial details. What details, you ask?

Details like how to a) hang around and shoot important people as they fled the drone massacre; b) what to do about the entire Secret Service, DC police, etc, who probably would be loitering about; c) how to get to the river undetected more than three miles away; and d) how to escape to the abandoned church they designated as their safe house. (We will omit the problem of how they thought they were going to get close enough to carry out a) in the first place.)

It was magnificent. It rivals the best efforts of the Current Administration.[2]

So, I hear you ask, why would such diehard MAGAts want to snuff out the Current Administration?

As it says in the image, it was pretty simple, at least in MAGAt terms: They believed [[[Turmp]]] when he said he would root out all those baby-eating Demonrats™ and expose them as the Epsteiniest of the Epsteiners. They voted for him so he could finally, finally expose these demonic libtards for who they really were. (There was also some pretty virulent antisemitism.)

Oops, as pundits are increasingly saying. Once these boys realized that [[[Turmp]]] never intended any such thing for the very basic reason that he is all over those Epstein files, their sense of betrayal led them to each other and to come up with a plan to eradicate the evil from our nation once and for all.

Oops.

It depends on Shonda Rhimes‘s writers room, of course, but I can see their indictment and trial being a bit of a PR problem for more than one Individual. It will be delectable.

Or, in an unsurprising plot twist, they’re offered jobs in the Current Administration.

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[1] See here.

[2]See the Reflecting Pool, Iran “war,” flu outbreaks, ad infinitum

Fun in spam comments

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My website is hosted out in California by prxy.com, owned by an old AOL friend (and actual Apple designer back in the day). His spam filter is excellent, sending a daily report of what it’s trapped. I scan it to make sure there’s nothing I should have received, and then hit the “Delete All” button.

However, there are times when the spam header is so gonzo that I have to go look to see what the actual email says. (The filter allows you to peek at the email contents without actually opening a dangerous email.)

Mostly, though, I just laugh at the preposterousness of the scams they’re trying to pull. Almost all of them are some variety of Costco is giving you a $100 gift card, stuff like that, and there is nothing legitimate looking about them.

However, as a public service, let me give you a pro tip. If you get an email that looks legitimate, say from your bank or Social Security or Costco, the first thing you do is check under the hood:

  1. Click and hold on the From: field and see if the domain it’s coming from is actually your bank, etc.
    1. This info is sometimes right there in the Reply-To: field.
  2. If it’s not, then shift-ctrl-J (or your email/computer’s shortcut for Send to Junk is, is your friend.

As an example, allow me to share today’s haul.

First, a few examples of the clickbait headers, followed by the actual email each is from:

  • A $100,000 credit is now on your Netflix account, netflix [netflix@streamingeurope.homes]
  • Strange Black Elixir increases d*ck [sic] size by 3.6 inches, Men’s Health [support@livlfe.shop] (This one seemed oddly specific…)
  • That gaunt, haggard look…, Appearance Warning [help@garagewarrior.com]

You get the idea. Now here are the actual email addresses for the rest of today’s haul:

  • representativesbattery.lat
  • centurysteam.garden
  • understandprison.living
  • publicationsdangerous.living
  • everywherebid.living
  • holylegacy.blog
  • meatfamoous.garden
  • fbicard.garden
  • grore-images.com
  • gamercum. com
  • angular-engenharia. com.br
  • manuallift.living
  • whomnick.homes
  • chinesemusic.skin
  • surpriseltd.homes
  • emmaopinions.garden
  • jontglide.shop
  • underrapidly.property
  • startedlandscape.property
  • cabinetdevice.living
  • votedburied.homes
  • frauenvernaschen. com
  • shoppingtreated.garden
  • penwin.property
  • franckprovot. com
  • alonginvestements.property
  • cableplan.fit
  • alexanderrealized.garden
  • findingcares.lat

I mean to say, wot? I’m aware that the domains have multiplied beyond .com/.edu/.org/.gov, but most of those seem not credible in the least, not to mention the account names. In a quick check of two or three of them, none connected to a website, so you might wonder how they expect to scam you.

The answer is that each email gives you a simple way to claim your $100,000 credit from Netflix (??) — they give you a button to click.

And if you uncover the link in that button: http://www.claimxngoing.living/me/dl3nyxovwzn. There is no telling what that links to, but I suspect it installs malware on your computer.  (I have modified the text so that it’s not a link to anything.)

Anyway, I hope this entertained you as much as it did me, and I hope it was at least a little informative. Protect yourself!

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I recently tried a link to a domain that just seemed odd, but with a great name: look.feel.be — there was nothing there, so I suppose it’s available for your business or personal use. What would you put there? Feel free to speculate in comments.

Courage!

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I’m the coach of the Backstreet Writers Group at Backstreet Community Arts here in Newnan, GA, and as it happened, this morning the writers were late showing up. This is not a problem, except I didn’t really have anything of my own to work on.

When this happens, I require myself to draw a card from a deck called Empowering Questions that sits on our table and write an answer to said question. Today, that question was:

What is the most courageous thing I’ve ever done? How did it make me feel?

Oh dear.

I’ve been racking my brain and I really cannot think of anything I’ve ever done as courageous. I’ve taken risks, certainly, but nothing that would require what I think of as courage.

Except… it occurs to me that deciding to go for my first kiss with Ginny Henninger at the University of Georgia fifty years ago was like jumping off a cliff — and fortunately, she kissed me back.

So I assume I don’t have to tell you how that made me feel.

Pity the poor rich.

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Pity the poor rich.

The MAGAt crowd wants you to be as outraged as they are about taxing rich people’s New York pied-à-terres or private jets, so let’s take a look at their outrage.

If you ask them why the very very rich shouldn’t contribute to the well-being of the entire society by being taxed on their excess — and yes, dears, it is excess wealth — then their argument goes something like:

Rich people earned that wealth.

Ergo, they deserve that wealth. (And deserve to keep every penny of it.)

And then the trap:

Conversely, poor people haven’t earned that private jet.

Ergo, they do not deserve it.

Whatever they don’t have, they do not deserve it because they have not earned it.

Without meaning to, the MAGAts have admitted that they view their fellow humans as sorted into deserving and undeserving of… whatever it is that money can provide.

Food.

Shelter.

Clothing.

Family.

Education.

Healthcare.

Simple pleasures.

Life.

The same people who buy the store-brand mac-n-cheese and watch the checkout lady like a hawk do not think that people who are worse off than they are deserve anything they haven’t earned.

The same people who are, by chance, conservative Christianists, will gladly ring your doorbell and bore you to tears with how none of us deserve divine grace. But you — you over there on food stamps? Sucks to be you.

This mindset is poisonous. It guarantees that whoever believes this has agreed that some human life is not worth as much as others. They believe at some level that some people — other people — are tainted, are contaminated, are less than… than whom, MAGAts?

Less.

Than.

Them.

The disgusting irony of their position is that they are currently whining that aMeRiCa iS tOo A ChRiStiAn NaTiOn KENNETH, and yet they will tear the house down if anyone suggests that the government of a Christian Nation might want to think about feeding the hungry, comforting the oppressed, etc., etc., as someone once said. You would think they’d care.

But they don’t.

Odd, that.

see also: Bes

In the new Good Omens season 3, Heaven is gearing up for the Second Coming, the End of All Things, and they’ve engineered the reincarnation of Jesus. This beautiful boy is completely guileless and after two millennia away from reality is guided by his innate goodness. The scene where he begins feeding people from a pizza box — that we can clearly see has only one piece of pizza when he starts — brought me to tears. Yet MAGAts will say, “Nope, nope, none of that. When does he start smiting the unbelievers and throwing them into Hell for eternal torment? That’s what they deserve.”

Also, script team, I have a thrillingly better idea for the climactic event scene in the bookshop. Call me. (Why are you panicking? It only requires a reshoot of about three minutes of script. It will be totally worth it.) (Interested parties may email me if they’d like to hear about it. It’s a major spoiler, though not really if you see how things are going.)

Obama does the SNL cold open

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SCENE: THE OVAL OFFICE, OCTOBER 2015

[OBAMA sits behind the desk. It is squeaky clean. He is wearing a tan suit, obviously. Various members of his administration — THE GANG — stand/sit around the room.]

[There is a very long silence. Very long. THE GANG fidgets slightly. OBAMA looks around, clearly bored. Finally, he sighs…]

OBAMA:

Guys, this is boring.

[THE GANG mumbles in agreement.]

Shouldn’t we be doing something?

XXX:

Sir, the election is in a couple of weeks. There’s not really any time to do anything. I mean, what did you have in mind?

OBAMA:

Well, I’m kind of worried about my legacy. I’ve had some pretty big stumbles in the last eight years.

XXX:

Yes sir, but look at all you did accomplish — the Affordable Care Act…

THE GANG:

[air quotes, gang signs, etc]

O-BA-MA-CAAAARE!

XXX:

<more accomplishments, shared by various members of THE GANG, ending with…>

XXX:

… and no one will ever forget the Iran Deal!

[THE GANG agrees, maybe a couple of high-fives.]

OBAMA:

Still… [gestures…]

[THE GANG mulls it over, a bit uncomfortably. Then:]

XXX:

Sure, sir, there have been some blunders, but at least you didn’t botch the swine flu pandemic!

XXX:

<more catastrophic blunders/scandals/etc, shared by various members of THE GANG, ending with…>

XXX:

…or start a war with Iran and end up with the Strait of Hormuz blocked!

[EVERYONE laughs uproariously.]

OBAMA:

Man, that really would have been stupid.

[THE GANG agrees.]

OBAMA:

I guess there’s only one thing left to say. [turns to camera] America…

ALL:

LIVE FROM NEW YORK, IT’S SATURDAY NIGHT!

SNL Writers Room, I leave it to you to fill in the gaps. Have fun!

UDPATE: ANOTHER GENIUS IDEA: When Obama hosts SNL, other guest artists should be all the late night hosts targeted by [[[Turmp]]], with at least one faux-Fox interview.

Take Me Back to Manhattan — this time with SHARKNADOES!

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A while back, I blogged about the wonderfully terrible movie Sharknado and how I actually admired the craftsmanship that went into making a movie that absolutely farted in the general direction of what a movie is supposed to be.

Shortly after that, as we watched Sharknado 2: The Second One, I made more notes about how deliberately wrong the whole thing was, and that word processing document has remained open and unsaved on my laptop for over five years. Until now.

After saving Los Angeles in the first movie, our heroes Fin (yes really) and April have to save New York City. That’s all you need to know.

Like the first movie, this one simply ignores physics:

  • Standing atop some vehicle, Fin (Ian Ziering) slices through a one-ton shark as it flies overhead; he registers not even the trace of an impact.
  • Skye (Vivica Fox) slices through a giant shark (they’re all giant sharks) with a sword, again with little to no effort.
  • the Statue of Liberty’s head is struck by lightning and somehow gets from Ellis Island to … somewhere in Manhattan, where it rolls unimpeded and without apparent friction or damage on and on down the street (up the hill!).
  • How these sharknadoes, awesome as they may be, are able to (selectively) flood Manhattan is never examined.

Shitty camera work (deliberate, of course):

  • Our cast flees on CitiBikes, and the  camera keeps giving us shots of the tires, not of the actual (unflooded and dry) streets they’re fleeing through.
  • There’s a scene where our intrepid gang is fleeing up a flooded street, in which
    • Fin flings the rope, but there is no shot of it being secured
    • There are closeups of characters swinging over, and then low-angle, waist-up shots of them landed and reaching out for the next swinger, but no establishing shot to show where they’re swinging to — and the aerial of the cab in the water indicates that directly ahead of the cab is… the rest of the flooded street…

Situational danger:

  • Our heroes are in a flooding staircase (with sharks), but once they break into THE FIRE ESCAPE KENNETH (because a fireproof stairwell in a 65-story hotel is… what exactly?) and get to street level, it’s dry.
  • The location, direction, and speed of the various sharknadoes changes constantly.
  • Fin and his gang have their own personal cab that can do a Bullitt through the streets of Manhattan, but April and her crew have to hoof it from Battery Park to somewhere around 26th Street/5th Ave. This is after we’ve been shown scenes of a tidal bore (?) sweeping up the island.
  • Hurry, Fin, you only have eight minutes—who then takes another five minutes to have heartfelt discussions with his gang and make a St. Crispin’s Day speech atop a fire engine before somehow making it another dozen blocks to the Empire State Building and all the way up to the observation deck.

Again, no official governmental response:

  • We finally see a canopy tent some first responders have set up, and the Mayor OF NEW YORK CITY delivers a heartfelt statement of support for Fin, the ONLY PERSON who can jury rig the “freon tanks” on top of the ESB to explode and “freeze” the sharknadoes. Which of course he does.

This is merely a drop in the bucket ocean of hysterically wrong moments in this movie. I wholeheartedly urge you to start with the first one and then watch the entire series with guilty, oh-so-guilty pleasure. I may have to have a rewatch myself. I could use the laughs.

They’re doing it again

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And by “they” I mean [[[Republicans]]].

In January, the National Park Service announced that they were doing away with timed entry at those parks that have successfully used it to control traffic during peak times.  The [[[Republicans]]] in Congress all humphed and snorted that the lifting of the rule was so that Amerkins’ personal liberties KENNETH would not be infringed when they pulled up at Arches NP with a carload of kids after driving for days and be turned away because they didn’t plan. Quelle horreur!

So now Bubba and Sissy and their whiny kids are going to sit in a line of cars for hours just to get in, and then they’re going to sit in a line of traffic for the rest of the day since there will be no parking and there is no place to turn around.

How do I know? Because in 2023, we planned ahead and got our timed entry to Arches NP that fit our plans. We still sat in line for quite a while before we got in, but at least we didn’t crawl through the park with 10,000 Bubbas.

Without timed entry, places like Arches — and the nearby communities — suffer from the flood of humans. But [[[Republicans]]] keep framing it as freedom KENNETH despite objections from nearly everyone. (In fact, the administration has backed off the plan for most parks, creating the usual [[[Republican]]] chaos and even more economic stress for locals.)

So what’s going on? Easy. It’s the go-to strategy for [[[Republicans]]]: screw around with a public good, wreck it, then tell us that it needs to be privatized for efficiency, i.e., profit! (They are in this regard one step above the Underpants Gnomes.)

Exhibit A: The United States Post Office, established in the Constitution as a public service, was ordered by Congress to prefund pensions for 70 years into the future, something required of no private company in the country, thus ensuring its current struggles. [[[Republican]]] response? Privatize it.  The free market always does it better and cheaper, right?

Exhibit B: Public schools, or as [[[Republicans]]] call them, failing public schools. How do they know our schools are failing? They did it on purpose. Privatize: Take our tax dollars and give them to private/religious schools instead.

Exhibit C: The entire federal government since Turmp’s election. See: DOGE, et al. Have government support systems become more efficient KENNETH since?

In every case, [[[Republicans]]] take a public good, impose restrictions deliberately designed to cripple the public good, then bray about how gOvErNmEnT dOeSn’T wOrK KENNETH. Next step: Sell it off to their rich friends.

Don’t believe me? Here’s Turmp’s nominee to lead the NPS: Scott Socha, “a president for parks and resorts at Delaware North, which describes itself as one of the world’s largest privately owned hospitality and entertainment companies, with more than $4 billion in revenue in 2022.” At least his company has experience with national parks, but here’s the tell from the White House: “Scott looks forward to implementing America First initiatives, such as increasing park access for American families, reducing permitting burdens, and raising money for conservation projects.”

In case your [[[Republican]]] translation device can’t handle the load, here:

  • ‘America First’ = whitewashing any history that offends [[[Republicans]]]
  • ‘increasing park access’ = letting the public run wild and degrading the parks to the point where it only makes sense to sell them off KENNETH
  • ‘reducing permitting burdens’ = mining
  • ‘raising money for conservation projects’ = because we cut the NPS’s $2.9 billion operating budget by more than $900 million.

Not convinced? The [[[Republican]]] onslaught against public lands is a) not new; and b) ongoing.

And how does Fox News feel about this?

3 national parks slash red tape for Americans by boldly transforming visitor entry

Good luck, Bubba. Hope y’all brought snacks and a pee bottle.

Megyn Kelly is lying. Again.

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Fox News and its minions are absolute masters of propaganda. Here’s a tweet from Megyn Kelly doing her part to protect the murderous [[[SS]]].

 

Okay, class, let’s learn some propaganda.

  1. …itching for another confrontation: Assumes facts not in evidence. Megyn just made this up. If anything, it might be more accurate to wonder if it were not the ICE agents who were itching for another confrontation. Apparently, breaking Pretti’s ribs in this encounter was not enough for them.
  2. …stalking, harassing, and terrorizing: Or, you know, observing and recording, all that legal, 1st Amendment stuff. Remember, Megyn is trying to exonerate the men who executed Pretti a week or so later.
  3. HE had been victimizing THEM: This is DARVO: Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim & Offender. It’s what narcissists and sociopaths do when accused of wrongdoing, and the [[[current administration]]] has perfected the technique to the point that it’s just second nature to them. Yes, Megyn, the poor ICE were victims of that mean mean Alex Pretti. They were right to kill him.
  4. Felonies?? Over here on the real Earth, words have meanings, and “spitting at federal law enforcement” is not a felony. Nor is crossing our border, now that Megyn brings up that distinction — it’s a misdemeanor, and a civil one at that. Like a parking ticket. Hold that thought.
  5. …reckless, and it cost him his life: No shit, Megyn. How was he to know that ICE agents were apt to pump him full of bullets and joke about “Call of Duty” as they tallied up their bullet holes, just because he annoyed them? However, Megyn, if that is even your real name, nothing Pretti did, neither in this BBC clip nor in the footage of his death, nothing, Megyn, was punishable by being shot to death by an extra-judicial vigilante, despite your sneering attempt to pin the blame on him.
  6. …illegal-loving: Oooh, scary illegals, aren’t you scared of the scary illegals, it’s right there in the name: ILLEGALS.  ::sigh:: As we mentioned above, the vast majority of what’s “illegal” about most undocumented immigrants is the fact that they slipped into this country the “not right” way, and that’s at most a misdemeanor. A parking ticket ≠ murder. You know what murder is, Megyn, don’t you? You wouldn’t confuse the two, right? Like labeling a parking ticket illegal so that your viewers assume it’s as bad as murder?

I would love to know why Fox News viewers think it’s more important to be scared of innocent people than of out-of-control [[[Stormtroopers]]] who think they can throw you to the ground and shoot you just because you made them feel harassed and terrorized KENNETH.

Just kidding. I know why they’re afraid of innocent people and not the [[[Stormtroopers]]]. Bless their hearts.

 

Panic! At the Ballroom

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For the past four years or so, I have exterminated with prejudice political email from either party for the simple reason that they’re never giving me useful information — they’re merely trying to panic me into giving them money. Therefore, a lot of what is going on in that world escapes my notice, and I’m okay with that.

Recently, though, after its last update, my phone has started alerting me to those emails going into the trash/spam folder in my Google accounts. I don’t know why, and it’s super annoying. After the holiday weekend, I’ll see if I can convince it to cease and desist. (There are a couple of other issues, but that’s between me and Apple.)

Normally I see that the alert is one of those emails and I just ignore it and never see it in my mail app. This morning, however, I decided to click through, and this is what greeted me.

Let’s do a little propaganda lesson, shall we?

1. “We are not safe”: Got to get those amygdalas[1] warmed up right off the bat — OOGA BOOGA! Notice, too, the tribalism of “we.” They never mean all of us, just them.

2. “A confidential internal memorandum”/”TOP SECRET”:  Because you — yes you — are a special member of the tribe, privileged even.

3. “horrifying”: Panic word

4. “Deep State is winning the sabotage war”: Winning the what now? What the hell is a “sabotage war”? Is this a new buzzphrase for the amygdala-based lifeforms? A quick search yielded:

And remember that the only thing stopping our tribe from winning is some nameless, all-powerful cabal. It could not possibly be that our policies suck or that the Republican Party represents corporations, not people!

5. “actively undermining”: Because they’re nefarious, evil underminers.

6. “facing a TOTAL WIPE OUT in the next elections”: Okay, I have to give this one to them. They are indeed facing a wipe out. Because of all the Deep State underminers, of course. What other reason could there be? As the great Nate Bergatze is wont to say, “Nobody knows.”

7. “DEVASTATING,” “losing everything”: Panic words

8. “The America you know will be GONE”: You know, that America that we all know and love from 1950s TV shows. Not the one with voting rights, marriage rights, healthcare rights, social safety nets, legal rights, all those things that used to be reserved for the tribe and somehow are now expected by everyone in the country.[2]

9. “too dangerous for the public”: Panic words, but you — yes you — are special enough, cool enough, to take a peek at this full report. With data, KENNETH.

10. “immediately confirm your loyalty to the MAGA movement”: And there it is. If you want to stay in the tribe, if you want to maintain your specialness that somehow the rest of the world fails to see,[3] then you need to confirm your loyalty KENNETH.  Which means, of course, give us your money.  What, you thought you were just going to check a box that says, “Yes, I am loyal to the MAGA movement”? (Not to be unkind, but yes, that’s probably exactly what the little MAGAt thinks.) (To be fair, I’ve received an equal number of emails from the Democrats with the exact same ploy: “Show your support for [Dem of the Day]!”)

11. “SHOCKING MEMO”: One more panic word, then you need to CONFIRM YOUR STATUS (!) NOW.

Bless their hearts.

Here’s the thing, though: In the past week as these alerts have been jamming my phone (I just got two more as I’ve typed this), it’s been clear that the elections of Nov. 2 have set the MAGA crowd back on their heels. They lost elections all over the place, even in places where they haven’t lost elections in decades. They are, to put it mildly, concerned. The level of panic words in these emails has risen till it’s a flood of fear and anger.

And never, ever, ever do these emails outline policies or programs that they want the amygdala-based lifeforms to vote for. They only dial up the fear and anger to 11, secure in the knowledge that the little MAGAts will vote for them in a panic and never realize that the actual policies that they’re voting for will harm them. (See: Soy bean farmers, hemp farmers, etc.]

What is to be done?

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[1] For those just joining us, I use the phrase “amygdala-based lifeforms” to describe those among us whose brains respond most to fear and anger and sometimes become addicted to those emotions to the extent that they will manufacture things to be angry about/afraid of. See above.

[2] See Wilhoit’s Law: Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

[3] If you haven’t already, go watch Death by Lightning on Netflix. It’s a four-episode series on the assassination of James Garfield by Charles Guiteau, and Matthew Macfadyen’s performance as Guiteau is as frightening a portrayal of this specialness as you have ever seen.

The Savoy Variations: the Pinky Cocktail, et al.

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I’m bored, so I’m taking random cocktail recipes from The Savoy Cocktail Book (1930), giving them a try, and modifying/improving them if I think it’s necessary, and reporting my findings here.

Pinky Cocktail

[p. 125]

Easy enough: equal parts of gin and grenadine, frothed up with egg white. I hesitate to use egg whites per se; they’re messy, and what do you do with the yolks? Aquafaba is one substitute, and I’ve settled on Fee Bros. Fee Foam as easy, clean, and not as susceptible to making me sick with one microorganism or another.

Another pro tip: Do a “dry shake” of the ingredients to get the foam started, then add ice and shake before pouring.

It is a tasty, if sweet, concoction. I added a dash of hibiscus bitters, and that added a nice layer.

  •  1 ½ oz dry gin
  • 1 ½ oz grenadine
  • 4–5 dashes Fee Bros. Fee Foam
  • 1 dash hibiscus bitters

Ping-Pong Special

[p. 124]

I didn’t think this one would be good, and I was not wrong. Naturally, I did not make a batch for six people, but the recipe is easy enough: equal parts sloe gin and sweet vermouth, and then guess at the Angostura and curaçao.

It was gross. I didn’t even consider improving it. The sink wins this one.

SAVOY VARIATIONS SCORECARD:

  • Savoy: 8
  • Dale: 3
  • Sink: 5