Devojka

  • Get Weird With the Age of Aquarius Cocktail

    Get Weird With the Age of Aquarius Cocktail

    Any person flipping through a dossier on my life would find that from childhood until now, littered across papers like report cards, teacher’s notes, transcripts, correspondences, psychologist’s notes, recorded schoolyard snickering, employee reviews, and greeting cards are words like the following: Unusual. Different. Peculiar. Quirky. Unconventional. Strange. “Unique.” Bizarre. Odd. Freakish. Eccentric. Offbeat. You know,…


  • Pretend You Actually Care It’s Christmas With ‘The Flip’

    Pretend You Actually Care It’s Christmas With ‘The Flip’

    I don’t mean to brag, but one of the best things about being estranged from most of my family (aside from self-preservation) is that I don’t have to give a shit about the holidays if I don’t want to. And most years, I don’t. Most years, I coast and shimmy in my snow globe of…


  • This Classic Margarita Is My Ride or Die Cocktail

    This Classic Margarita Is My Ride or Die Cocktail

    Nine years ago today, my partner and I went on our first date. Of course, I didn’t know it was a date at the time, and neither did he — we were acquainted through music and had played shows together, so when he was passing through the Bay Area (where I was then living) on…


  • You Should Spike Your Shirley Temple

    You Should Spike Your Shirley Temple

    When I was a kid, my dad owned a sports bar that opened every day at 6 a.m. I have no idea how he came to own this bar, it just was. When I asked him, some years later, about the obscenely early hours, he said matter-of-factly, “It’s when a lot of truckers finish their…