Matt Robold (rumdood)
@rumdood.com
Decrepit Cocktail Blogger (https://rumdood.com)
One-Time Bartender
Sometimes I make drinks. Often I make ill-advised statements. I also write code and often fail at parenting good. I also make noise with ukuleles.
One-Time Bartender
Sometimes I make drinks. Often I make ill-advised statements. I also write code and often fail at parenting good. I also make noise with ukuleles.
Introduce yourself with five concepts you've seen multiple times
No Doubt
Rage Against The Machine
Primus
Postmodern Jukebox
Wait...is that it? Having a moment here because I feel like that can't be right.
No Doubt
Rage Against The Machine
Primus
Postmodern Jukebox
Wait...is that it? Having a moment here because I feel like that can't be right.
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen multiple times
Fat Freddy’s Drop
Coheed & Cambria
Against Me!
Foals
311
Fat Freddy’s Drop
Coheed & Cambria
Against Me!
Foals
311
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen multiple times
The Replacements
Tori Amos
Tegan and Sara
Sleater-Kinney
The Hold Steady
The Replacements
Tori Amos
Tegan and Sara
Sleater-Kinney
The Hold Steady
November 28, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Introduce yourself with five concepts you've seen multiple times
No Doubt
Rage Against The Machine
Primus
Postmodern Jukebox
Wait...is that it? Having a moment here because I feel like that can't be right.
No Doubt
Rage Against The Machine
Primus
Postmodern Jukebox
Wait...is that it? Having a moment here because I feel like that can't be right.
My kids are watching an episode of some Pokemon show where there's a team of Squirtles wearing uniforms and fighting fires and now everyone is mad at me for asking if those are the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Squirtles"
November 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
My kids are watching an episode of some Pokemon show where there's a team of Squirtles wearing uniforms and fighting fires and now everyone is mad at me for asking if those are the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Squirtles"
"Testify", Race Against The Machine, The Battle of Los Angeles
"People of the Sun", Rage Against The Machine, Evil Empire
"Bombtrack", Rage Against The Machine, Rage Against The Machine
Those dudes knew how to grab you on beat one
"People of the Sun", Rage Against The Machine, Evil Empire
"Bombtrack", Rage Against The Machine, Rage Against The Machine
Those dudes knew how to grab you on beat one
November 27, 2025 at 2:57 AM
"Testify", Race Against The Machine, The Battle of Los Angeles
"People of the Sun", Rage Against The Machine, Evil Empire
"Bombtrack", Rage Against The Machine, Rage Against The Machine
Those dudes knew how to grab you on beat one
"People of the Sun", Rage Against The Machine, Evil Empire
"Bombtrack", Rage Against The Machine, Rage Against The Machine
Those dudes knew how to grab you on beat one
According to scripture, we are allowed to stone this person.
The dirty secret of pies is that they have the lowest ceiling potential of all sweets. Your best pie is merely fine. Your median pie is bad.
November 25, 2025 at 9:11 PM
According to scripture, we are allowed to stone this person.
So many people on here proudly being wrong about turkey being anything but delicious and then they're going to go and eat fucking pumpkin pie, the worst and only bad pie.
November 24, 2025 at 7:57 AM
So many people on here proudly being wrong about turkey being anything but delicious and then they're going to go and eat fucking pumpkin pie, the worst and only bad pie.
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Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
One of the bragging rights that the US ed system had in the 20th century is that we didn't have education tracks. Essentially, any kid could go to a CC or state school & major in whatever they wanted to (obviously an oversimplification). I fear this aspect of the American dream is dying.
November 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
"What's it like being married to an English Professor?"
This week my wife had to define two different words she had used in anger in front of our six year old (at different times, not in one sentence).
1. Sartorial
2. Asshole
This week my wife had to define two different words she had used in anger in front of our six year old (at different times, not in one sentence).
1. Sartorial
2. Asshole
November 22, 2025 at 6:39 AM
"What's it like being married to an English Professor?"
This week my wife had to define two different words she had used in anger in front of our six year old (at different times, not in one sentence).
1. Sartorial
2. Asshole
This week my wife had to define two different words she had used in anger in front of our six year old (at different times, not in one sentence).
1. Sartorial
2. Asshole
Buying this should strip you of your right to buy alcohol ever again.
A court should have to appoint a conservator over every decision you ever have to make ever.
You should have to get permission to us anything sharper than a champagne cork
A court should have to appoint a conservator over every decision you ever have to make ever.
You should have to get permission to us anything sharper than a champagne cork
November 21, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Buying this should strip you of your right to buy alcohol ever again.
A court should have to appoint a conservator over every decision you ever have to make ever.
You should have to get permission to us anything sharper than a champagne cork
A court should have to appoint a conservator over every decision you ever have to make ever.
You should have to get permission to us anything sharper than a champagne cork
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“If you’re quiet now, you would’ve been quiet in 1940.”
November 20, 2025 at 4:44 AM
“If you’re quiet now, you would’ve been quiet in 1940.”
My favorite time of day is bedtime for my kids, because without it, when would I ever ask "Can you please brush your teeth" more than a dozen times?
November 15, 2025 at 3:49 AM
My favorite time of day is bedtime for my kids, because without it, when would I ever ask "Can you please brush your teeth" more than a dozen times?
Evergreen
What a terrible day to be literate.
November 14, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Evergreen
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Standing up to authoritarianism. Representing OC Rapid Response Network and our immigrant community at the Orange Home Depot.
November 12, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Standing up to authoritarianism. Representing OC Rapid Response Network and our immigrant community at the Orange Home Depot.
Hi, long-time haver of severe back problems here and just wanted to say that JD Vance can get all the way fucked.
JD Vance calls ibuprofen "useless medication" and implies it's not "necessary, safe and effective."
November 12, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Hi, long-time haver of severe back problems here and just wanted to say that JD Vance can get all the way fucked.
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This Friday I'll be chatting about cocktails, comics and cocktail books with my old pal Jim Meehan at Up Up Books, Portland. Hope to see yinz there!
And, of course, I'm at Omnivore Books in San Francisco tonight (6:30, with @alcademics.bsky.social).
And, of course, I'm at Omnivore Books in San Francisco tonight (6:30, with @alcademics.bsky.social).
November 12, 2025 at 4:45 PM
This Friday I'll be chatting about cocktails, comics and cocktail books with my old pal Jim Meehan at Up Up Books, Portland. Hope to see yinz there!
And, of course, I'm at Omnivore Books in San Francisco tonight (6:30, with @alcademics.bsky.social).
And, of course, I'm at Omnivore Books in San Francisco tonight (6:30, with @alcademics.bsky.social).
These CEOs are so incredibly thin-skinned that the idea of them being able to work an actual service job for five minutes during a real rush. The noise and the frustrated customers would reduce them to screaming at everyone.
I boycott Starbucks on general principle, but as for this motherfucker… I bet he couldn’t make a decent coffee drink if his life depended on it (“BuT i TrAiNeD aS a BaRiStA tO uNdErStAnD mY pEePs!”), and doesn’t have 1/10,000th the skills of any of his actual baristas.
Please boycott Starbucks until this strike is over.
www.investopedia.com/starbucks-fa...
www.investopedia.com/starbucks-fa...
November 12, 2025 at 2:57 PM
These CEOs are so incredibly thin-skinned that the idea of them being able to work an actual service job for five minutes during a real rush. The noise and the frustrated customers would reduce them to screaming at everyone.
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Saying “reading books in public is performative” is a very quick and simple way to communicate to me that you are a stupid little pig I do not need to listen to and in that sense I appreciate it
November 10, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Saying “reading books in public is performative” is a very quick and simple way to communicate to me that you are a stupid little pig I do not need to listen to and in that sense I appreciate it
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You ever call a senator's office and ask the staffer who picks up what it's like to work for someone without a spine?
10/10 recommend.
10/10 recommend.
November 11, 2025 at 4:31 AM
You ever call a senator's office and ask the staffer who picks up what it's like to work for someone without a spine?
10/10 recommend.
10/10 recommend.
Every statement by a Senator that says that they're furious over this capitulation in exchange for being untouchable by law enforcement is lying because if they weren't they wouldn't have allowed unanimous consent on the measure.
They all caved and are trying to let 6 of their ilk cover for them.
They all caved and are trying to let 6 of their ilk cover for them.
His statement is pretty blunt for a Senator, calling out the Minority Leader of your own party ahead of the Majority Leader is...well suffice to say I think Marty is now off Chuck's Christmas card list lol
November 11, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Every statement by a Senator that says that they're furious over this capitulation in exchange for being untouchable by law enforcement is lying because if they weren't they wouldn't have allowed unanimous consent on the measure.
They all caved and are trying to let 6 of their ilk cover for them.
They all caved and are trying to let 6 of their ilk cover for them.
Jesus Christ @padilla.senate.gov what in the everloving fuck is wrong with you?
More than 15 Senate Democrats join GOP to advance nationwide ban on hemp products, including CBD gummies,
oh the paul amendment is going down 78-22
November 11, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Jesus Christ @padilla.senate.gov what in the everloving fuck is wrong with you?
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pathetic abcnews.go.com/Politics/dem...
Democrats' playbook to beat Republicans in 2 years: work with them now
Democrats have a plan to take back power in Washington back from Republicans in two years: work with them now.
abcnews.go.com
December 18, 2024 at 12:52 PM
pathetic abcnews.go.com/Politics/dem...
The most annoying thing about this saga of Democratic Party flaccidity is that you know that a year or so after Schumer is finally dumped as leader there will be a billion pieces talking about how he took the blame to protect his caucus members who were vulnerable blah blah blah.
After his pathetic surrender to Republicans on the government shutdown, it's time for Chuck Schumer to go, writes @jeetheer.bsky.social.
After This Shutdown Surrender, Chuck Schumer Needs to Go
The Democratic leader’s cave-in makes it all too clear: It’s time to clean house in the Senate.
www.thenation.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:42 PM
The most annoying thing about this saga of Democratic Party flaccidity is that you know that a year or so after Schumer is finally dumped as leader there will be a billion pieces talking about how he took the blame to protect his caucus members who were vulnerable blah blah blah.
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i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
If the Dems blink after all of this, for a deal that all but ensures no ACA subsidies in 2026 anyway, then what was the purpose of letting the shutdown go for 40 days in the first place?
November 10, 2025 at 12:56 AM
i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
I don't want to alarm anyone but apparently Nathan Fillion and Alan Tudyk have started a podcast called "Once We Were Spacemen"
November 8, 2025 at 5:50 AM
I don't want to alarm anyone but apparently Nathan Fillion and Alan Tudyk have started a podcast called "Once We Were Spacemen"
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Let this sink in. The President of the United States is now appealing a court order forcing him to feed starving children.
November 7, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Let this sink in. The President of the United States is now appealing a court order forcing him to feed starving children.
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November 6, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Now you can watch all of AMY'S DEAD-END DREAMHOUSE... for FREE, BABY!!!
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