CocktailMD @cocktailmd.bsky.social · 13h5) i forgot how scary that stoppage time head to head collision with Lavelle was fucking yikes, and yet another reminder that i'm unaware of any professional league/tournament with valid concussion protocols 020
CocktailMD @cocktailmd.bsky.social · 13hadditional thoughts: 1) can't wait for Brasil! 2) was offered a lady to keep me company and that's a whole conversation about a country i love deeply but not one for social media 3) the spatter kits remain my all time faves and i hope next year doesn't disappoint 4) REALLY can't wait for Brasil! 120
CocktailMD @cocktailmd.bsky.social · 13hwithin the glowing range of Bangkok's (many) red lights your boy managed to find a bar with a respectable pint of Guinness, a hot live band, and ... a replay of the 2023 of USWNT v NED group stage match and just in time to catch Horan's spectacular equalizing header #EveryoneWatchesWomensSports 140
CocktailMD @cocktailmd.bsky.social · 14hoof y'all the sheer number of life experiences that are represented in this photo, so many impossible encounters & introductions i can't even begin to list them my brain swims when i try to wrap around it, and i'm a pretty strong swimmer both literally and figuratively, but this is something else 010
CocktailMD @cocktailmd.bsky.social · 14hthis this this, a thousand times this bars are magic, but only because of the miriad excuses to be together (the real reason anyone actually goes out) that they can create ... and then superimpose upon each other - with conviviality and panache - in a goddam social Pousse-Café 020
CocktailMD @cocktailmd.bsky.social · 14hit's why i will diatribe at the drop of a hat about the parallels between doctoring and bartending. there's a fundamental skill set, and then there's the art. the recipe is prescription, the real bartending is the bedside manner i'm a better doctor for my repeated exposure to exceptional bartenders 1113
CocktailMD @cocktailmd.bsky.social · 14hwho has two thumbs and also his pic/name on a bottle of one of his favorite shochus at the izakaya around the corner of his condo rental in Bangkok's Japantown so that when he stops in he drinks *his* bottle? this guy 150
CocktailMD @cocktailmd.bsky.social · 14hvery fair question! dear friends were stationed there, so when i was driving from one AF base to my next one I "conveniently" detoured to hang out with them and had an absolute blast because they're the kind of people who make anywhere incredible 010
CocktailMD @cocktailmd.bsky.social · 14hteachable moment: the thai word for 5 is "ha" so when they write 555 it's hahaha acceptable options are more 5s, never just 1 or 2. don't be rude 030
CocktailMD @cocktailmd.bsky.social · 15h555 is how people in thailand write laughter i say bring on the laughter 121
CocktailMD @cocktailmd.bsky.social · 15hif i ever have an actual reason to go then i'll go, but if not i'm enjoying snubbing them and increasing whatever the travel equivalent of a goal differential is 120
CocktailMD @cocktailmd.bsky.social · 15hSaddle ... nope! Sable ... ugh! Settle ... goddam it! Salty ... fuck it Satle 010
CocktailMD @cocktailmd.bsky.social · 15hwithout context, the sentence "Genesis was abandoned after it struck rocks close to the Old Man Of Hoy on 1 October." is rather opaque (shout out to the rescue folks from Orkney - when i visited i was blown away by the stuff they pull off in the wildest conditions) 020
CocktailMD @cocktailmd.bsky.social · 15hironically TDO prebatches its menu cocktails specifically so the bartender *can* spend more time conversing, building that custom flight/cocktail, adding the magic to that date, commiserating with the guy having a shitty day, etc etc (aka actually bartending) as @andrewbohrer.bsky.social can attest 460
CocktailMD @cocktailmd.bsky.social · 15hevery time you post one of these i initially think you've (inexplicably) misspelled "Seattle" 100
CocktailMD @cocktailmd.bsky.social · 15hi've had the great privilege of traveling to more countries than states. in fact, there's only one state i haven't visited: 130
CocktailMD @cocktailmd.bsky.social · 11/10/2026I personally prefer my spin, the "Valerol" (equal parts Fernet Vallet amd Aperol) to the ... wait, this *isn't* a post about a 50/50 shot of Fernet and Campari? 000
CocktailMD @cocktailmd.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Granted I wrote this when we had more injuries and we kinda just needed bodies on the pitch, but I concur. bsky.app/profile/cock... 040
CocktailMD @cocktailmd.bsky.social · 10/10/2026when we were young we did bastardized versions of the SNL sketc: "I've got the Bears [da Bears!] over the Lions 24 to -7" "Negative seven?" "Ditka'll find a way." 050
Reposted by CocktailMDGeorge Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Real talk? The wockaflockas banning 12,000 books and broadcasting executions are rarely the good guys and whatnot. 7767116
CocktailMD @cocktailmd.bsky.social · 10/10/2026found my spindle of burned mp3 discs while mov. unsettling amounts of Ska and cringy jesus song, occasionally overlapping 000
CocktailMD @cocktailmd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026just before i left i has a run of drain/fruit flies that cropped up at home. i always try to snatch them out of mid-air as a test of speed. i rarely win, but they've prepared me well for the larger, slower Cambodian mosquitoes i am singlehandedly decimating (wordplay acknowledged) at this moment 040
CocktailMD @cocktailmd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026it would be difficult to overstate how much i wish i had room in my suitcase for this 8 LP boxed set 000
CocktailMD @cocktailmd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026static.klipy.comJerry Springer Crowd CheeringALT: Jerry Springer Crowd Cheering 000
CocktailMD @cocktailmd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026should knock on their door, give them a pie, and just as you're leaving hit 'em with the ol' "one more thing" and give them some cookies too 020
CocktailMD @cocktailmd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026i was in a fraternity for a year (like my attempt at marriage, it didn't take) and they regularly mentioned Dave as one of their alums. Him, John Goodman, Ted Geisel. 010
CocktailMD @cocktailmd.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The Queen of Thailand just soloed in an actual fighter jet that can go Mach 2. Your move, Mel. 050
CocktailMD @cocktailmd.bsky.social · 08/10/2026the list is actually longer, but the pithiness is too hard to pass up: "there are two things I don't allow in my bar: racists, and Malort 020
CocktailMD @cocktailmd.bsky.social · 08/10/2026the darkest corners of flavor? Malört already exists y'all 180
CocktailMD @cocktailmd.bsky.social · 08/10/2026just before lockdown, over the Best Grasshopper Ever™️ at Pépé Le Moko, when some guy named Jeff-something-or-other overheard me say I had never had one I liked, and he piped in with "that's because you've never had mine" dear reader, he was correct 020
CocktailMD @cocktailmd.bsky.social · 08/10/2026posting a picture of a thing that looks similar in every picture of it which some people have seen before can lead to the most unhinged comments, so i'll confess: i'm not in Cambodia, i didn't take this picture, i stole it from wikipedia for my deranged definition of clout. i apologize to everyone 030
CocktailMD @cocktailmd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026to be clear, the soup pictured above? the one which cost $2? not once have i had a soup in Seattle that warrants mention in the same sentence. no soup of any type. walk through open gates, wander down paths, get a little lost, sit on the plastic stool on the sidewalk ... and feast #EnivrezVous 040
CocktailMD @cocktailmd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026no sight can so reliably make this traveler's oxidized heart syncopate with anticipation than to behold the graceful arc of food carts reaching into the indeterminable distance; for, dear reader, should providence smile upon you with equal blessing, know that herein lies what thou seekest 050
CocktailMD @cocktailmd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026i drive a 2006 F150 and once when it was in the shop i got a loaner truck and the difference is truly ridiculous. i want an even smaller truck next, not a bigger one, and they're low key next to impossible to find 000
CocktailMD @cocktailmd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026i can't help that in my mind i so often hear temple names with the "Wat" portion in his voice and smile imagining him as a tourist in Thailand 100
CocktailMD @cocktailmd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026imagine explaining an internet cafe to a youngster now (if you want to, of course. please use your imagination however you prefer, as the life of your mind is the only life you've got) 000
CocktailMD @cocktailmd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026"Hey, Lil Jon, what'd you go see in Thailand?" "Wat!" "You know, did you visit any temples or whatever they call them?" "Wat!" "Surely you didn't just party but also delved into the connected spiritual threads of Buddhism, lay monks, and the ubiquitous religious buildings" "Wat!" "Exactly" 130
CocktailMD @cocktailmd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Phnom Penh lightning at sunset from a rooftop bar that doesn't suck 041
CocktailMD @cocktailmd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026One guess which @kathleenmadigan.bsky.social bit I'm listening to ... 000
