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Dean

A Votre Santé!

About Me

dancin' machine, gadfly, bon vivant, snappy dresser, gentleman, epicurean, polite,
well-groomed, adventurous, good-time charlie, procrastinator, lush, hedonist, imprudent

jablog

What Will You Have? Stork Club 1 1/2 ounces gin
juice of 1/2 orange
1 dash lime juice
1 dash Cointreau
1 dash Angostura bitters
Shake w/cracked ice and strain into chilled cocktail glass; garnish with orange peel.

My Interests

classic cocktails, girls, cooking, girls, vintage clothing, girls, Polynesiana, girls, googie, girls, hamburgers, girls, bowling, girls, modern architecture and design, girls, road trips, girls, steakhouses, girls, Hudson Hornets, girls, streamlined trains, girls, cocktail lounges, girls, steak, girls, gabardine, girls, flaming food and drinks

I'd like to meet:

adventurous time travelers, drinking buddies, gourmands, people who like to get dressed up
and paint the town, anyone with a sense of adventure



Eddie Cleary - I Don't Care

Music:

WFMU

Movies:

Electra Glide in Blue, Pretty Maids All In A Row, The Sicilian Gang, gritty film noir, 60s private eye / spy films, "pre-code" films, Jerry Lewis, Jacques Tati, Marx Bros., trucker films, 50s JD films, American Graffitti, Hairspray, 2001, Dazed and Confused, Quadrophenia, The Girl Can't Help It, Jarmusch, Waters, Coen Bros., 70s porn on 8mm, The Ipcress File, Matt Helm movies, Tony Rome movies, 8 1/2, Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, A Thousand Clowns, Georgy Girl, Double Indemnity, Cocteau's Orpheus, Diner

Television:

The Saint, The Daily Show, Bill Maher, old game shows, Sopranos, MASH, Johnny Staccatto, Dragnet, Homefront, Barney Miller, Twilight Zone, The Simpsons, Hawaii 5-O, I Love Lucy, The Honeymooners

Books:

Faulkner, John Irving, Vonnegut, Steinbeck, Kerouac, Wolfe, Bradbury, Heinlein, 1950s/60s British youth novels (Look Back in Anger, etc.), hard-boiled mysteries/crime novels (Goodis, Thompson, Hammett, etc.), old cookbooks and cocktail guides, travel, architecture, classic literature, pop culture, girlie magazines 1940s-60s

Heroes:

Henry David Thoreau, Aldo Leopold, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Aldous Huxley. Keith Moon, Ray Charles, Orson Welles, Vincent Price, Barbara Stanwyck, Lucille Ball, Jack Kerouac, Humphrey Bogart, Dean Martin, Groucho and Harpo Marx, John Muir, Buddy Holly, Jackie Gleason, Michael Moore