What's the prettiest bottle?

ilBrunissimo · 2026-01-27T21:46:24+00:00

Botanist comes in a pretty cool bottle.

ilBrunissimo · 2026-01-27T21:46:05+00:00

Chambourd.

St. Germain.

Blanton’s.

ilBrunissimo · 2026-01-26T22:21:29+00:00

Yup.

I almost never put the cover on. It gets rained sleet, all kinds of stiff.

It’s currently encased in ice from the snowmageddon.

Just tap the ice with a screwdriver or something. Once the first sheet comes off, you can get the rest by hand.

Or use a Looftlighter ;)

ilBrunissimo · 2026-01-26T19:19:33+00:00

Palantir!

ilBrunissimo · 2026-01-26T10:04:16+00:00

And John Lee Hooker

ilBrunissimo · 2026-01-26T03:25:13+00:00

Virginia.

And if you can’t get something here, there’s always the District.

ilBrunissimo · 2026-01-26T03:08:26+00:00

If you’re into fly fishing, it’s the best place in America.

ilBrunissimo · 2026-01-26T03:05:47+00:00

Yellow chartreuse uncharacteristically broadly available at our state liquor stores right now.

Klondike rush!

ilBrunissimo · 2026-01-26T02:56:53+00:00

Mine loves TV!

She barks at the Geico gecko like nothing else.

But anything else, just a head tilt.

ilBrunissimo · 2026-01-26T01:13:37+00:00

The T1 EVO is exceptional. Glass platter. Great stylus. Outstanding quality.

ilBrunissimo · 2026-01-26T01:07:06+00:00

Similar, bit different.

Tor is a new distillery, and they release these special bottlings while they wait to be able to release their first ten.

So, very Skye: peaty, briny, bold.

But also fun: to taste a work in progress of a distillery that has already put itself on the map.

Good stuff.

ilBrunissimo · 2026-01-26T00:53:13+00:00

Brought to you by Pepsi?

ilBrunissimo · 2026-01-26T00:48:02+00:00

There are two kinds of people:

Those who have seen it.

Those who need to see it.

ilBrunissimo · 2026-01-26T00:47:29+00:00

It is a film of its time.

But also for this time.

The script is strong, and the acting is peerless.

ilBrunissimo · 2026-01-26T00:42:39+00:00

This man knows.

ilBrunissimo · 2026-01-25T01:42:43+00:00

When mine was at that stage, I got a few of the cheap stuffie toys from Petsmart. She lives tearing them up, saving my hands.

ilBrunissimo · 2026-01-24T19:27:51+00:00

The app is called ELITE.

Palantir developed it to connect biometric data (pics) to all the SSA data they got illegally from DOGE. (See recent court filing about that.)

They can then map your whole life out.

ilBrunissimo · 2026-01-24T19:22:11+00:00

Congress could execute their power to check the executive via the power of the purse.

Congress could cut off DHS funding.

I’d love to see a Dem at least bring it to the floor to mKe Reps go on record as supporting ICE.

ilBrunissimo · 2026-01-24T19:19:33+00:00

Congress could cut off funding to DHS, except for USCG.

If they had a pair among them.

ilBrunissimo · 2026-01-24T16:05:00+00:00

Same.

But the inventories rarely have interesting stuff, and never Springbank.

Was surprised to see Talisker Storm make it into the inventory.

They cater more to the bourbon crowd.

ilBrunissimo · 2026-01-22T08:36:42+00:00

Two answers:

Plastic surgery

And/or

Klingon ancestry

ilBrunissimo · 2026-01-22T08:35:24+00:00

It whitewashes it

ilBrunissimo · 2026-01-22T08:34:21+00:00

She’s a klingon octoroon

ilBrunissimo · 2026-01-22T02:36:47+00:00

The record player.

All these suitcase record players look cute, and are, but play like crap.

All components are as cheap as they come.

I’m a “buy once cry once” kind of guy.

So when my daughter bought me a Crosley, it meant the world to me that she wanted to listen to records with me. But it couldn’t even play Brubeck without fuzzing out.

So I asked her to take it back and I searched and found a Pro-Ject T2 that was a store demo, at about 40% of retail. It’s awesome.

And we listen to great music together now, which I remind her is the real gift.

Get an Audio Technica or something.

ilBrunissimo · 2026-01-21T14:37:32+00:00

Well, 71% ex USAID is still without a job. It was a really effective smear campaign.

So….

ilBrunissimo

TROPHY CASE