WDYLL 2023

In parking lot tailgating for CONCACAF Champions League

https://i.ibb.co/L8mD4DL/IMG-20230315-192516.jpg

Neanderthal we have the same tattoo!

O word which?

https://i.imgur.com/CfsvSCN.jpg

i played a song in public for the first time since 2006! my floor tom playing is so lightning fast that conventional cameras can only capture it as a blur

is this the blurriest wdyll? i can go blurrier

coolin' it at the newspaper office

https://i.imgur.com/ysYs6k6.jpg

looking great you guys

why ARE there random overlapped newspaper pages pinned on a wall though?

Issues that students were proud of.

Covering an escape hole in the wall, more like.

yeah, I'd check. Haphazard overlapping placement yet otherwise empty wall? There's at least some contraband back there.

Alfred Soto - who crawled through a river of shit and came out clean on the other side with a negroni

I actually ordered a negroni the other day because of you. I had never had one before and figured "hey if the guy from ILX likes them..."

and what did you think?

(and i know "you" is alfred here. i'm just wondering what you thought)

Taste's very strange!

it's all about that Campari. it's one of the most essential ingredients in a well made negroni

The world went and got itself in a big Campari.

Lemme mix some Negronis

Congrats on the performance! z_"The Flash"_nbd

I actually ordered a negroni the other day because of you. I had never had one before and figured "hey if the guy from ILX likes them..."

― frogbs, Friday, March 17, 2023 5:38 PM bookmarkflaglink

Lmao I did the same a few months ago. Was quite good!

cynar > campari

I make Cynar Negronis a couple times a week.

Taste's very strange!

Nice deep cut there!

there are many Amaro liqueurs in addition to Campari

is it the most bitter? (the bitterness being an essential component of a Negroni). maybe it is

the others include Cynar, Nonino, Fernet-Branca, Gran Classico, Jägermeister (if you grew up in the 70s that's a big lol) and many more

Averna + bourbon/rye makes for a good Manhattan.

sounds good!

Campari has a distinct flavor of orange which I guess is definitive of a Negroni

I still want to see what a Bloody Mary tastes like with Aquavit, a spirit I've never tried

There is a subfamily of amari called fernet (not French, so it's "fer-NET") that blows Campari out of the water, bitterness-wise. Fernet Branca is the easiest to find. It can be tough going -- usually shows up in cocktails in 1/4 ounce as a spine-stiffener.

It's hugely popular in Argentina with Coke. I bought a bottle two years ago and haven't finished it.

i used to go to a place where fernet would often show up as an aperitif. for some reason i would always say "mmmhm - that's the stuff" after tasting it

Fernet is one of those licorice/medicinal/anise-esque herbal spirits that I just slot along with absinthe adjacent stuff like pernod, pastis, herbsaint, et al., imo basically a more complex, refined Jägermeister. I don't find anything particularly pleasant about it as a sipper, save that it almost compels you to take your time if you don't want to barf. (See also: straight chartreuse and the like).

how i miss those bygone nights of wild driving in the backroads, mixtape at full blast and the windows down, gently nibbling at a fernet

Karl, baking Fernet brownies.

In which I hang suspended above the Thames and outline my plans to un-develop the Greenwich peninsula (photo by the 16yo):

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52758493869_5bebaeda6a_b.jpg

If you swap my usual plain black t-shirt for the one I got during bike week in daytona beach and my nerd glasses for the sunglasses my 8 year old thought were cool at the same trashy souvenir store I look pretty much ready to call covid a hoax and storm the capitol:

https://i.imgur.com/x6vZk6x.jpg

These WDYLL threads are mildly disturbing, like when you see pictures of radio DJs. You all just shouldn't have faces.

So I'm going to willfully mistranslate WDYLL and say...

A rug

A sieve

Happy belated Stone Cold Steve Austin day joygoat

I don't have a face, I wear faces

alfred, how do you feel about this

https://i.imgur.com/lMKjrIU.jpg

I feel like I want to die.

only $6.24999 per negroni!

Karl, if you buy that swill I will call the FBI

I got a negroni in a can the other week, it was good

Had one last night!

i was attacked by giant flowers

https://i.imgur.com/KEkLhHJ.jpg

I'm astounded.

https://i.imgur.com/yESGHbe.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/Jh4Yhtsv/me.jpg

First night back open after the tornado so I dressed up a bit.

Hell yes

nice

definitely!

great pic scott! is that the new Unnameable?

(as in, the bookstore)

no, that's my spot in the picture. unnameable is very cool though. had to stop myself from buying books about russian prison tattoos. so many great art/design/music/poetry books.

plus, dude was cranking penderecki. #brooklynstyle

i think that’s my pal Adam! sounds like him.

Unnameable is great— haven’t been to the location near you

Caught in the act of ogling a cute new guest a couple nights ago.

https://i.imgur.com/8KUkagD.jpg

"i think that’s my pal Adam! sounds like him."

that's him. he lives here now. he's very nice.

scott, I love that photo! How old is your oldest?

Rufus turned 21 this month. Long-hair Cyrus is 18. Rufus is still at McGill in Montreal. Cyrus is at MassArt in Boston. It has been so much fun having them here. They are awesome.

omg my boss' daughter went to McGill and just graduated -- i wonder if they know each other?!?!

did rufus, in his first year, live in molson or mcconnell or . . . the other one?

in his first year he was home on a computer due to the pandemic. he tried to go there and live in temporary housing in a hotel that they had set up for students but there was no point because he could never leave his room or see anybody so he came back home. it was sad. when he went back he lived in an apartment with other people. so he never lived in a dorm. he has a sweet scholarship and McGill pays for his housing. i think he's moving into his 4th different apartment with other people in january.

awesome