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Wayne Curtis @wcurtis.bsky.social · 3h

In the Maine woods I established a curated, artisanal bottle dump with my favorite empty craft liquor bottles. I invite everyone to come back in 150 years and marvel at what once was.

Read and learn:
thelongbar.substack.com/p/a-second-g...

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Wayne Curtis @wcurtis.bsky.social · 2d

Well if I ain't a snail's turd! It's an email from old uncle Foghorn Leghorn, and he's gone all cattywampus and set down my voter info somewhere and it's gone and walked off! No amount of shaking the overalls upside down and looking in the sock drawer will turn it up!

Oh, wait, here it is: 🖕

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Wayne Curtis @wcurtis.bsky.social · 5d

Good advice.

Wayne Curtis @wcurtis.bsky.social · 5d

Now bring back the House Un-American Activities Committee to investigate the Trump administration.

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Wayne Curtis @wcurtis.bsky.social · 5d

Apple really needs to think about streamlining their emails if they don't want to end up in my spam folder:

Apple Services [email protected]

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Brett Martin @brettmartin.bsky.social · 10d

All the advancements and achievements of Europe are wiped out by the practice of deplaning onto a bus.

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Wayne Curtis @wcurtis.bsky.social · 10d

It's happening. Everyone should prepare an escape plan.

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Wayne Curtis @wcurtis.bsky.social · 14d

Love coffee cocktails but hate laying awake at night? For the upcoming National Coffee Day, I offer you a three ingredient solution

Why I'm Making My Own Coffee Liqueur This National Coffee Day

A simple 4-ingredient recipe for homemade decaf coffee liqueur

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Sean Howe @seanhowe.bsky.social · 21d

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Wayne Curtis @wcurtis.bsky.social · 22d

“Talking with Patrick McGovern about liquor was like talking to an astronomer about the Big Bang.” A tribute to the man who saw ancient history in every sip.

The Man Who Drank History

How biomolecular archaeologist Patrick McGovern traced the tangled roots of humanity’s first drinks

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Wayne Curtis @wcurtis.bsky.social · 22d

This might explain a lot.

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Wayne Curtis @wcurtis.bsky.social · 22d

Unlike in the movie, my career as a bandit and highwayman came to a premature end when a neighbor informed my parents.

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Wayne Curtis @wcurtis.bsky.social · 22d

Also, my infatuation with Katherine Ross fatally skewed my expectations for a girlfriend for at least a decade.

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Wayne Curtis @wcurtis.bsky.social · 22d

I was twelve when Butch Cassidy came out and I saw it at least four times and then I got a cowboy hat and on my stingray bike with a friend I swooped out of the woods on the dirt road near our house when cars went by with the idea of holding up the passengers. Why am I not dead?

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Wayne Curtis @wcurtis.bsky.social · 23d

Un. Fucking. Believable.

National park to remove photo of enslaved man’s scars — The Washington Post

The Trump administration is ordering the removal of information on slavery at multiple national parks in an effort to scrub them of “corrosive ideology.”

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Brett Martin @brettmartin.bsky.social · 24d

Went to a science fair under the I-610 today.

Three punks under a highway overpass with a trifold science presentation on mold.

Two women with a trifold science project on "Telepathic Poetry"

A man sitting under an overpass with his science presentation on "Lumer"

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Wayne Curtis @wcurtis.bsky.social · 25d

Why it takes so long to compose a simple email.

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John Hodgman @hodgman.bsky.social · 27d

I took this photo of @grahamformaine.bsky.social on the day I met him in 2023. He’s the smartest and fiercest and he’s going to vanquish Susan Collins finally. His oysters are terrific too. Anyway going to a meetup with him tonight at 6 at Lucky Jack’s on Orchard if you feel like meeting him

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Wayne Curtis @wcurtis.bsky.social · 26d

Feeling gaslit? Read this.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 26d

The Nation pulls NO punches, from @espiers.bsky.social

"There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”

Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning

The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn’t a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division

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Wayne Curtis @wcurtis.bsky.social · 28d

Find the bar! Sound easy? Have you met Tokyo?

Highballs and Hidden Doors

Exploring Tokyo’s bars is an IRL video game

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Wayne Curtis @wcurtis.bsky.social · Sep 7

For the love of Christ, just let them. I for one would welcome our iguana overlords.

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Wayne Curtis @wcurtis.bsky.social · Sep 7

Found: Lair of the Dark Lord of Dark Rum., in Tokyo

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Michael J Armstrong @profmjarmstrong.bsky.social · Aug 30

Brown‑Forman's "net sales in developed international markets dropped eight per cent" due to "geopolitical uncertainty".

Sales fell 62% in Canada, 16% in the UK, & 10% in Germany. 🍷

#EconSky

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Company behind Jack Daniel's says Canadian boycott is 'significant' as sales drop 62% | CBC News

The parent company of American alcohol producers such as Jack Daniel's whisky and Woodford Reserve bourbon says sales to Canada dropped 62 per cent during the latest fiscal quarter compared to a year ...

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Wayne Curtis @wcurtis.bsky.social · Aug 27

Bourbon or B**rbon? Canadians are aiming to give American whiskey a run for it's money. A blind tasting suggests that the gap might be closing.

The Great Northern Bourbon Bluff

Can Canada match Kentucky? A blind tasting suggests it just might

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Wayne Curtis @wcurtis.bsky.social · Aug 20

Cocktails are fleeting. So are fog-filled bubbles. Both can still last in memory. At Houston’s Museum of Fine Arts, I found an art show that doubles as a metaphor for every perfect bar.

Drinking the Ephemeral

What an immersive art installation taught me about the ideal cocktail bar

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