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These older Grados are cool, and they come with a hat:

Damn, I hope this cake tastes better than it looks! Have a good one listening to some Bill Evans 45s. Cheers!

Been listening all night with the Ayre C-5xeMP > Ayre M-XR > BHse w/ xf2 Blackburn EL34 > SR-009 and I have not heard anything I did not like. Fleet Foxes CD, Dave Alvin SACD, Eugene Raffalo SACD, Bill Evans SACD, Joe Satriani SACD. Beautiful, simply beautiful.

So, you're liking the vinyl effect, then? I know you love you some Pavement and have the digital realm covered and recovered, so it's good to see you comparing analog.

Thanks for reminding me!

The 3-way made the cover of Stereophile! You're so cutting edge out there on the bottom of the world.

Those Scarjo pics have really sexed up the Slower Forum. NTTAWWT

Satan's Whiskers (enroulée) Makes 1 drink 1 1/2 ounces gin 1/2 ounce dry vermouth 1/2 ounce sweet vermouth 1/2 ounce Mandarine Napoléon 1/4 ounce fresh orange juice 2 dashes Angostura bitters Instructions: Place all ingredients in a mixing glass. Add ice, shake and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Yep, that is a 375ml bottle and it is almost gone. I need to stop by Cask and get some vermouth and chinato and whatever else jumps out.

"A Fudgesicle is a frozen, ice cream-like snack." Necessary, or just hilarious?

Satan's Whiskers (marcelled) Adapted from a recipe by William Eichinger, Finnegan's Wake, San Francisco. 1 1/2 ounces gin 3/4 ounce sweet vermouth 1 1/4 ounces fresh orange juice 1 teaspoon falernum syrup 2 dashes Fee Brothers Old-Fashioned bitters Instructions: Place all ingredients in a mixing glass. Add ice, shake and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Read the article: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/09/09/FDHH1KL8RM.DTL#ixzz1XzF7M8yy Lacking any sweet vermouth I used Chinato to good effect. I will try some of the other variations too, but this one with Falernum seemed the most interesting. My favorite Regan quote: "I found that, if I simply called for more gin, rather than pedestrian, Satan's Whiskers can be rather intriguing. More gin tends to have that effect on many drinks, I think."

I hope that cheeses are wrapped up.

Is Prague coming up still, Colin? You should hit the Americky Bar (http://www.americkybar.cz/ http://prague-stay.c...1-americky-bar/) and the Strahov Monastery brew pub (http://www.klasterni-pivovar.cz/en/) and go on the Segway movie locations tour (http://www.praguetou...Date=09/30/2011) with Rene ( Brazilian dude).

^Lucky!

Mine arrived in my office and I was going to try to plug it into my HeadRoom Desktop Amp. Is that going to be a problem?

Sounds good Young BrewMattster!

Cheerio Grahame! Oops, sorry to lag your system...

There are actually two of them, remarkably enough. This is the trumpet playing one, but there is also a bass playing one.

Those are all great picks Mikey. The Hoffman Sweet Baby James I got on vinyl awhile back sounds awesome and both Skynyrd and Heart are guilty pleasures. I saw Heart from the third row or so while they were still young and hot. That was fun.

Upping the ante is the right thing to do Jim! My Monte Carlo was even better because it called for 2.25oz of rye! I made another with Lot B bourbon and it was even better than the High West Rye version. Hmm, I wonder if a better rye would make an been better version. To the lab! EDIT: now I can say the Rittenhouse 25 version is super good! Wow.

Congrat on christening the bar, and a most excellent choice of cocktail. Bravo! I am having a Monte Carlo, but I did not find it in Esquire--online mag or old timey cocktail book. I found a rye whiskey version and went with that, although a bourbon one will follow shortly.

Avishai Cohen -- Introducing Triveni

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Awesome bar Jim! So jealous!!!

Have a good one youngster! Hope you got to DIY something for your birthday. Cheers!

Margaritas in anticipation of fish tacos for dinner.