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Ad of the week: Bonded Belmont 23 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
LIFE: August 22, 1938. [BIGGETY BIGGETY BIG!]
Smuggler’s Blues 20 Aug 2013 | 01:25 am
Border guards in Kyrgyzstan have discovered an underwater pipeline used for a major alcohol smuggling operation from neighbouring Kazakhstan.
Ad of the week: ‘Aggis! 16 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
From LIFE: August 15, 1938:
Ad of the week: A midsummer’s dream 9 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
From the August 8, 1938, issue of LIFE magazine, this ode to the mint julep: LICKETY SPLICKETY ZOOMBAH [Still not large enough for you? Click!!]
Campari 2014 8 Aug 2013 | 11:03 pm
I don’t normally post about this sort of thing, but Campari just announced that Uma Thurman is its calendar star this year. I know it’s not a universal opinion, but I think Uma’s great in nearly every...
Scientific amateurs! 6 Aug 2013 | 01:05 am
Found while researching an upcoming project:
Ad of the Week: Pabst’s Racial Problem 31 Jul 2013 | 01:06 am
Look at this. Just … look at this. From the July 25, 1938, issue of LIFE: From the very same issue, a letter to the editor: And the context? They ran right next to each other. The disparity betwee...
Ad of the Week: That’s Some Party 28 Jun 2013 | 03:00 pm
A couple of years ago, I talked to Robert Klara, a writer for Adweek.com, about old bourbon advertising, and the shifting perceptions of bourbon over the generations. I enjoyed our telephone conversat...
All the Boys Think She’s a Spy 27 Jun 2013 | 01:30 am
Whatever you might think of Edward Snowden, you can keep to yourself; this is a booze blog, after all. But in reading a recent New York Times story about his flight from Hong Kong, I found a funny tid...
Death to Google Reader 24 Jun 2013 | 10:11 pm
Y‘know, for a couple of years now, I’ve been increasingly dissatisfied with Google Reader. It seemed clunky, visually unappealing, and in sore need of a redesign and an upgrade. I kept wondering why G...
