bourbon

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There’s even a tiny pop/rock subgenre of songs based on Anne Rice’s vampire novels: Sting’s “Moon Over Bourbon Street,” Annie Lennox’s “Love Song for a Vampire,” and Concrete Blonde’s “Bloodletting.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 12, 2026

Even more remarkably, Will’s thought processes have resembled the French statesman Talleyrand’s description of the Bourbon kings: “They forgot nothing and they learned nothing.”

From Salon • Dec. 20, 2025

Which is how Gaffigan ended up riffing on “unicorns” and “the decidedly divorced-dad energy” of liquor stores for 45 minutes on YouTube, where he recently self-released “The Bourbon Set” for free.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 1, 2025

Last year, he sold out three headlining gigs at L.A.’s biannual Netflix Is a Joke Festival — two shows at the Belasco Theater and one at the Bourbon Room.

From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2025

He billowed off down St. Peter toward Bourbon.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole