If we're playing a part, then we all must be auditioning
I am eating knishes for Boxing Day. Autolycus just did his best to precipitate himself bodily through the glass of my office window in order to get at the delicious-looking sparrow in the yew tree outside. Yesterday ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
spatch stayed home with him so that I could spend a slice of Christmas itself with my parents and rushthatspeaks and nineweaving and our traditional roast beef and brandy-burning plum pudding. I had gotten out briefly the previous evening to put the molded amber glass Star of David first of all on the tree. My parents seem to have leaned very supportively into the idea of noir as a comfort genre, as I now find myself in possession of the Criterion DVD of Robert Aldrich's Kiss Me Deadly (1955) with fantastically pulp design by F. Ron Miller and recent reprints of Murray Forbes' Hollow Triumph (1946) and Marty Holland's The Glass Heart (1946) and The Sleeping City (1952). From my husbands I got Warsan Shire's Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head (2022) and Eddie Muller's Noir Bar: Cocktails Inspired by the World of Film Noir (2023), which has so far made me happiest by appropriately pairing Decoy (1946) with the Corpse Reviver #2 and informing me that Joan Blondell had a cocktail invented in her honor in the early '30's. Today I have done very little that was not in one way or the other focused around the cat, but he remains so very worth it. My niece will be dropping by to see us later on.
spatch stayed home with him so that I could spend a slice of Christmas itself with my parents and rushthatspeaks and nineweaving and our traditional roast beef and brandy-burning plum pudding. I had gotten out briefly the previous evening to put the molded amber glass Star of David first of all on the tree. My parents seem to have leaned very supportively into the idea of noir as a comfort genre, as I now find myself in possession of the Criterion DVD of Robert Aldrich's Kiss Me Deadly (1955) with fantastically pulp design by F. Ron Miller and recent reprints of Murray Forbes' Hollow Triumph (1946) and Marty Holland's The Glass Heart (1946) and The Sleeping City (1952). From my husbands I got Warsan Shire's Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head (2022) and Eddie Muller's Noir Bar: Cocktails Inspired by the World of Film Noir (2023), which has so far made me happiest by appropriately pairing Decoy (1946) with the Corpse Reviver #2 and informing me that Joan Blondell had a cocktail invented in her honor in the early '30's. Today I have done very little that was not in one way or the other focused around the cat, but he remains so very worth it. My niece will be dropping by to see us later on.
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Thank you! The cocktail that Eddie Muller presents to accompany Nightmare Alley (1947) is called the Zeena, after Blondell's character:
2 oz. rye whiskey
¾ oz. sweet vermouth
¾ oz. Bénédictine
dashes to taste of angostura bitters
absinthe rinse
garnish of orange peel twist
The original Joan Blondell cocktail used gin instead of rye; Muller credits the current variation to Jim Morton and the name to Vince Keenan and feels the drink was too sweet in its original form, although I would absolutely have tried it had I seen it on a menu. Apparently it was "created in the early 1930s at Sloppy Joe's bar in Havana." I am delighted.
(for you and the kitty!)
*hugs*
Very much appreciated.
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Same here! Thanks for sharing this, it really is delightful!