Dropping Like Flies

StoneTheCrow wrote:
I've been looking to get Jack Rudy's tonic syrup.  i take it it's quite good? I've only bought their grenadine before.

not here to comment on it's quality, but did notice this on their site
Our Classic Tonic Syrup (formerly known as our Small Batch Tonic) is essentially a quinine concentrate. It’s designed to pair with your favorite Gin or Vodka, and is then stretched with soda water to make a bright, light, refreshing highball.

StoneTheCrow wrote:
I've been looking to get Jack Rudy's tonic syrup.  i take it it's quite good? I've only bought their grenadine before.

Yes if you like gin and tonics, get it at some point. I reviewed it glowingly back in the Julian’s America days.

G&Ts are a nice summer drink but tonic water has a ton of sugar.  This might help with that?  Or might not.

StoneTheCrow wrote:
G&Ts are a nice summer drink but tonic water has a ton of sugar.  This might help with that?  Or might not.

This will definitely help with that. It's not zero sugar but you can definitely blend to taste with soda water and get it real dry if you prefer (which I do).

Good to hear. I’ll pick some up then.

Julian, wrote: I reviewed it glowingly back in the Julian’s America days.

You knew this was coming….

Everytime Jules references the JA days of yore, I am reminded that I once purchased a coffee table book memorializing the JA days of yore that never arrived.  I doubt The Brand would let it replace her Humans of New York on the coffee table, but it stood a pretty good chance of replacing my Girls of Bond coffee table book.

As you were…

vansmack wrote:but it stood a pretty good chance of replacing my Girls of Bond coffee table book.

dude you could likely be canceled by stating this ….watch your back

vansmack wrote:

Julian, wrote: I reviewed it glowingly back in the Julian’s America days.

You knew this was coming….

Everytime Jules references the JA days of yore, I am reminded that I once purchased a coffee table book memorializing the JA days of yore that never arrived.  I doubt The Brand would let it replace her Humans of New York on the coffee table, but it stood a pretty good chance of replacing my Girls of Bond coffee table book.

As you were…

It was a handmade art piece based around a single JA review (in your case The Hills), not a coffee table book. And I found it! And then saw you a few months later but forget to bring it! Then lost it again in a move!

probably going to need to do a bespoke recreation of said piece

Beverly Cleary

She was my 6th grade everything.  Peace to you, creator of awesomeness.

104. Quite the accomplishment, I suppose*






*I have no intention of lasting that long but hats off to her

Larry Mcmurty

Did not know he married Ken Kesey's widow

He spoke at my high school in Buenos Aires around 1988

I have read a little of his work

hutch wrote:
He spoke at my high school in Buenos Aires around 1988

I have read a little of his work

Wild to me that a major American author was just traveling around Argentina talking to high schools. How did this happen??

Yeah me too


It was the American Community School… maybe he did a tour of the ACS in South America or maybe he was visiting Buenos Aires and knew someone who worked at the school


No idea why he showed up..

All I remember is we were ushered in to the auditorium and he spoke for an hour or something..it was unusual and random

G Gordon Liddy

A real man

hutch wrote:
A real man

A smart guy, even if some of his views were skewed. 

Yawl gonna make me lose my life . . . up in here, up in here.