Recent content by Dr Doran

Oban, naturally.

Wonderful, Olskool!

Wow. First Fedora Lounge event I EVER went to, in 2007 I think, my wife and I met Cacklewack/Matt along with MK, Brooksie, and one other person at the McMenamin's St. John in Portland! Cacklewack was a really nice person.

Lucian Freud, the last Habsburg, and Amy Winehouse. I just finished listening to "Back to Black" in honor of the last; I may reread "The Fall of the Dynasties" in honor of the second, and look at the colossal ugly (but amazing) nudes of Freud in honor of him.

Basil Hayden bourbon. My son was born yesterday and I wanted to celebrate.

Douglas, incredible photo.

Moderately repulsive thing on Roman sewer full of human excrement and some moderately interesting other things. I recently saw an entire highly scientific book on coprolites and the archaeological usage of human excrement to understand things about the past; I cannot say that I would wish to...

Nice to see the summer straws out. I bought a Panama yesterday, but I think I'll buy another straw today, something along the lines of what Javier has. Very handsome.

Thanks amateis! Well, let's see if I can get a job.

Thanks, doll!

Two manhattans. Bulleitt rye, red Lillet, angostura bitters, Peychaud orange bitters.

The HBO tv series "Rome" was great. I enjoyed Gladiator. I hated "Troy." Hated "Alexander." I'd love to be a consultant to a series about the Spartan Empire under Lysander.

Yep, I have a kid too -- very hard to raise a small child while dealing with paper deadlines and all that!

Thanks Tango. But to be fair, a lot of people who get PhDs are partially doing it because they are not married and do not have children and do not have much ambition to make money and are content staying in graduate school for many, many years. Grad school can be a slacker haven if a person can...

I know many Margarets.