Archive for December, 2006
Happy New Year: The Secret Filth of Champagne Bubbles
4 Comments Published by Joel December 31st, 2006 in Booze. Share ThisPersonally, I find champagne to be the giver of unwanted morning trauma and limit myself to a single glass. If you’re serving up the bubs this New Year’s Eve, however, take this bit of seasonal advice from the Associated Press and wipe those glasses with a natty towel:
In the latest dispatch from the frontiers of [...]
Adventurer’s Club: Surprising Fun at Disney’s Pleasure Island
7 Comments Published by Joel December 27th, 2006 in Beer, Booze, Destinations. Share ThisDespite continued admonishment about the power of imagination, Walt Disney World is mostly an assembly line of identical experiences. Not so the Adventurer’s Club, a faux association of early 19th-century explorers, aviators, vaudevillians, and their treasures from a thousand exploits.
The Adventurer’s Club is on Pleasure Island, Disney World’s “adult” section of the park complex, filled [...]
…but only sort of. I’ve returned with Susie from the land of synthetic joy: Walt Disney World.
It was actually sort of awesome—I’ve got a neat find that I want to share with you guys tomorrow, once I’m actually firing on all cylinders again—but for now I just wanted to raise my hand and wave it [...]
The Actually Not That Bad Old Days: Frigidaire Turns You On
1 Comment Published by Joel December 21st, 2006 in Tonic. Share ThisAs far as misogynist black-and-white advertisements go, this one isn’t all that bad (if you ignore the intimation that your wife—when not done taking care of the kids, cleaning the house, and greasing your Eames-era office chair—has a duty to providing you carnal pleasure).
But hey, at least they acknowledge that women, according to trained refrigeration [...]
New to Dethroner? Pleased to Meet You
0 Comments Published by Joel December 21st, 2006 in Announcements. Share ThisSample these posts—some personal favorites of ours—and tell us if they need more salt.
• The Truth of Diner Coffee
• Nalewka Babuni 2.0: Super Anti-Oxidant Health Booze
• We We Pipe: An Introduction
• The Hat, and Why It’s Mine
• Dapper or Crapper? Harness Boots
• Sex Advice from a Dungeons and Dragons Player
• Choose Your Own Adventure: The [...]
A somewhat dated, but still useful listing of beer-friendly bars in the New York area. I’ve found most bars in Brooklyn are dog friendly, as long as it’s not a crowded weekend night. [HBD.org] (Thanks, Ian!)
Vintage Men’s Mag Cover Scans
3 Comments Published by Joel December 21st, 2006 in Tonic, Women. Share ThisFlickr user “bittercinema” has scanned an inspiring collection of men’s magazine covers from the ’50s and ’60s, the sort of proto-porn that our fathers and grandfathers used to spank it before Playboy made it okay to own pictures of actual breasts. While I can’t say I’ve ever really read any girly mags from this era [...]
Efficient Bastard of the Day: Plan Came Together Edition
5 Comments Published by Joel December 21st, 2006 in Cars, Tonic. Share ThisCombining two of the dominant trends of the ’80s—the A-Team and Shrinky Dinks—into the vehicular sensation of lower Dutchistan.
Bing Crosby: The King of Christmas (and More)
2 Comments Published by Joel December 20th, 2006 in Great Men, Movies. Share ThisXeni points us to this wonderful article discussing the backstory to David Bowie and Bing Crosby’s 1977 duet, “Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy.” [Linked via youtube above.]
While Bowie is someone we’ve never given ample attention on Dethroner, it’s Crosby I am most taken by today. The duet with Bowie, recorded as part of a Christmas [...]
Planning Commission: Potential Themes
0 Comments Published by Joel December 20th, 2006 in Announcements. Share ThisSeveral of you have popped into the wiki to punch in potential themes—we have several dozen really strong topics, enough to take us well into next year. If you’d like to add you suggestions, it’s as easy as editing the page (the edit password is “hairclumps”). Feel free.
The next step would be to flesh out [...]
Morning Tonic: Fistulated Season’s Greetings
8 Comments Published by Joel December 20th, 2006 in Meat, Tonic. Share ThisA fistulated cow is a cow with an intentional hole in it for scientific research. In 1822, a Canadian suffered a wound that refused to heal, but the man otherwise was in fine health. His doctor discovered that the digestive process could be observed directly through the hole. The discovery spread, and for over 150 [...]
Pardon me while I nerd out for a second. The second Transformers movie trailer is online and despite everything inside me that knows it’s a movie about toys directed by one of Hollywood’s worst, I can’t help but think this looks pretty awesome. It’s dark, but a Transformers movie should (or at least could) be; the franchise is no stranger to dark moments. [Yahoo]


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