"Fortunately, however, tonight is Make Your Own Goddam Dinner Night, a recently instituted family ritual I shared with you in last week's column." Easy Cocktails from the Cursing Mommy, by Ian Frazier.

Just a couple of guys, having a drink at a bar in Italy, 50 years ago. Lovely.

An important resource. "The following is a listing of "Bewitched" episodes in which the consumption of alcoholic beverages was shown, and by whom."

It was at Tony Soma's, reportedly, that a bartender asked Dorothy, "What are you having?" and she replied, "Not much fun." Where Dorothy Parker drank.

FDL Relink. "Ordinary yuppies, those who frequented the bars on Rush Street and Old Town, did not blend in. For one thing, they were unimpressed by the booths and tables, knocked together from plywood, shellacked, caked by years of smoke and sweat; for years the bar had no more air conditioning than central heating. O'Rourke's was the ultimate singles bar, it was said: You went there with a date, and came home alone." A Bar on North Avenue by Roger Ebert.

Another classic FDL. "I quickly met my second wife, a brilliant graduate student who liked to brag that she had never met a man who could drink her under the table. Then she met me." Liquor and Lit, by Charles Deemer.

Watermelon Lime Sangria. Yum.

The fine folk at American Drink make me wish every day was a Friday night, and that this one was wrapping itself up at Jimmy's Corner.

Composition tutorial using matryoshka dolls. Rule #1: No kissing! Via The Fluent Self.

I don't even know what the hell Mark from 37s is talking about most of the time, but I love his Nuts & Bolts posts anyhow.

It's the 39th Anniversary of George Harrison's Concert for Bangladesh. Here's Dylan's Blowin' in the Wind and piece about the event by Bill McKibben.

German movie posters from the 50's and 60's. Via The Cartoonist.

"I installed an ant colony inside my scanner five years ago. I scanned the nest each week."

Gorgeous artist workshop in Boeotia, Greece.

"How can you not represent your home state with the Field Notes Brand County Fair edition. Already in my back pocket." Thanks for that.

"...items detained or seized from passengers or express mail entering the United States from abroad at the New York airport." Photographs by Taryn Simon.

"I'm a geek, and I might be a nerd, but I'm not a dork." Thump. Michael Lopp's excellent new Being Geek just landed on my desk and looks great. Available now, from O'Reilly.

We heard this story from KG at Conference Room B the other evening and we're glad to see he wrote it up. I'll Be Hoping For the Big One Out of the Blue, a tale about an old book, Christy Mathewson, the '29 Series at Wrigley, and how you never really know what you'll find if you're not looking.

A new trailer for the Coast Modern doc is up. Looks good. Thanks Marshall.