Recently, I was reminded of the Veneto Negroni with Aperol and Sfumato as the bitter liqueur element and was inspired to tinker. Originally, I tried a 3:1 mix of rye whiskey to mezcal, but it was a bit thin. Instead, I went with an equal split of Cognac and mezcal that worked well in the 1910 Cocktail. For a name, I dubbed it after a song from Oingo Boingo, the Dead Man's Party, that I had on a mix I made to play at Drink (the now shuttered bar in Boston) which I had just listened to.

A riff on the Roquette, fed by a favorite NY Times recipe for "Green and White Pizza."

This is widely cited from 1930 Savoy, but it actually appears in the 1923 Harry of Ciro's ABC of mixing cocktails.

This highball was popularized by a 1969/1970 poster campaign featuring the recipe with a cartoon surfer named Harvey Wallbanger. The ad campaign was courtesy of George Bednar and Bill Young was the artist. Donato Antone claims to have created the cocktail at his Sunset Boulevard bar in 1952--but there is no record of the establishment, and his biographical information indicates he was running a bartending school in Hartford, CT from 1949 on. It has been suggested that Antone/Bednar/Young all had parts in creating the cocktail and/or the backstory.