Our First Annual Whisky and Bourbon/Rye Gift List
This is TD’s First Annual Whisky Gift List for all of you out there that…
Monthly Archives: November, 2013
“Blackbird singing in the dead of night…”
We know the year was 1968 when we first heard “Blackbird,” this hypnotic simple song…
“The Fuzzy Bird Sonata for Saxophone,” Part 2, “Sing”
When I think of the saxophone, I think jazz. I think Coleman Hawkins, an early-on…
The Start of a New Thanksgiving Dinner Tradition
I know Thanksgiving dinner is a matter of tradition. I learned the hard way when…
Sun, Sea, Sand and you got it!…Whisky
I just came back from a trip to Barbados, the home of the most important…
Remember the Maine…The Cocktail
There is no Waterloo whisky, no Bulge bourbon, no Yorktown cocktail, no Titanic tonic, but…
Edward Hopper’s “Nighthawks”
Edward Hopper’s iconic 1942 painting of a diner at night in Greenwich Village, New York…
In Wine as in Music, the Three Bs Suffice
This is more BarTalk, our pages on TD for the miscellaneous whisky, wine, beer stuff.…
The Story of How the First Two Cans of Schlitz Beer Landed in Normandy on D-Day
Sam Gibbons was my Congressman when I was in college. What I remember about him…
“The Cat and the Saxophone (2 A.M.)”… A Langston Hughes Jazz Poem
EVERYBODY Half-pint,— Gin? No, make it LOVES MY BABY Corn. You like Liquor, don’t you,…
The Ways of Whisky and Water
Rene Magritte got this one wrong if you are out and about dramming and it…
How to Spot a Democrat and a Republican
This one is fun, worth a laugh or two. God knows there is not much…
Hunting Antique Buffalo?
At around this time every year, one of big questions whisky drinkers, especially bourbon drinkers,…