Real Ale Brewing’s 19th Anniversary Baltic Porter
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#fridaybeer ?
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We went to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston this weekend, and it was great. I felt like we barely scratched the surface of the truly beautiful artworks on display there.
Yet I also often saw people sitting on benches in the galleries, staring at their phones. Not that it should be a phone-free place, at all. I took pictures of some pieces for myself, as well as sharing them via text with others. Maybe that made me less present, but I feel like that was okay, that it broadened the experience without pulling me all the way out of it.
But some of the folks I saw were doing the time-killing thing, staring blankly at their screens, thumbing idly through some feed or other. Which I won’t pretend that I don’t do sometimes, let alone claim it’s some horrible thing that nobody should ever do.
But.
But maybe when you’re in the middle of one of the largest museums in the United States, with a permanent collection spanning more than 6,000 years of history, with some 64,000 works from six continents [citation provided], just maybe those Insta stories or tweets or even “breaking” news can wait for a little while. Maybe (certainly) I’m writing this to remind myself of this, for the next time, and the time after that, and not just when I’m in a world-class museum.
Leave your phone put away, and look around.
The Corn Poppy, by Kees van Dongen
Saint Arnold Brewing’s Cascara Coffee Stout
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#saturdaybeer ?
Saint Arnold Brewing’s Comeback Wit (@ St Arnold’s beer garden)
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#saturdaybeer
Brooklyn Brewery’s Brooklyn Local 1
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#saturdaybeer ?
wow. I knew it was bad but didn’t know it was that inarguably bad
This is literally textbook racism. The [EEOC] offers “Go back to where you came from” as its example of potentially unlawful harassment on the basis of national origin.
Huxley
Los Campesinos! @ Mohawk Austin ?
guess this t-shirt I’ve been wearing out this last month needs replacing: NOT ENOUGH STARS ON THIS ONE, BABY! ??⚽️? (cf. this 2015 tweet ?)
Urban Family Brewing’s Death to Cereal
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#saturdaybeer
agree 100%, it’s a slap in the women’s faces to have not one but two men’s confederation tournament finals the very same day as a World Cup final. the way Rapinoe says “which is like, the problem” in this video clip could not capture the sentiment more perfectly
Goose Island Bourbon County Stout (2018)
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Happy Independence Day ?? ?
#holidaybeer
what a show
(Charly Bliss @ Stubb’s)
Straffe Hendrik Bruges Tripel Ale
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#saturdaybeer
Justice Elena Kagan on today’s tragic ruling: Is this how American democracy is supposed to work?
Indeed, the majority concedes (really, how could it not?) that gerrymandering is “incompatible with democratic principles.”
@ Pictograph Cave State Park, MT
Thirsty Street Brewing’s Good Times Belgian Blonde
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#sundaybeer #worldcupbeer #airbnbdrinkware
Saint Arnold’s 25th Anniversary Grand Cru
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#worldcupbeer
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Reading this FiveThirtyEight article on the advancement (or lack thereof) of the women’s game (written prior to last night’s US-Thailand match), this caught my eye:
For Thailand, South Africa or Argentina, a win in the group stage — or even a goal or two — can help raise the profile of women’s soccer back home.
People rightly celebrated Argentina getting their first-ever World Cup point from their 0-0 draw with Japan. Hopefully that does raise the profile of the Argentine side back home.
But it also occurs to me that Thailand getting absolutely, completely, record-breakingly demolished by the US could serve to raise their profile, too, if in a different way. I don’t mean to claim the US purposefully hammered them for this reason; it’s certainly a silver-lining point of view. But just imagine what the heads of the Thai football association must be saying to each other today. Or even the heads of FIFA itself, as they prop up their feet on stacks of money and sip cocktails garnished with hundred-euro notes.
Maybe it’s something like: Ouch. What can we do to help keep that from happening again?
laughing out loud at this new podcast: Two Girls World Cup, “an alternative take on the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup” indeed ? (the Total Soccer Show is another good one, as always, with their obsessively complete coverage) ⚽️
what an opener for the USA. I did want them to dominate Thailand, and boy did that wish come true. ? when the names of the goal scorers scrolled by at the end of the game, it looked like movie credits ??⚽️
The Bruery’s Or Xata
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#WorldCupBeer #USA ⚽️
watched Phantom Menace tonight, planning to marathon them all before ep 9 comes out. and it is so bad. like, wow bad. bad writing, bad acting, bad… everything, actually. even having read this sympathetic account: nope. it is bad & I regret wasting 2 hours, 16 minutes on it
Full Sail Imperial Stout (2015)
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#saturdaybeer
catloaf
wow. long but devastating: Uber’s Path of Destruction
Despite massive funding from… institutional investors, Uber depicted itself as the innocent victim—intrepid programmers facing overwhelming disadvantages in their battle with the “evil taxi cartel” & corrupt regulators
coffee made, first full day of international soccer at the World Cup ahead, what more could I want? ⚽️ first up: GER ?? v CHN ??
loved the opening sentence of this As a black teenager, I loved Morrissey. But heaven knows I’m miserable now:
Dear Morrissey, I’m writing this to say, in a gentle way, thank you but no.
also liked this pragmatic assessment: “I’ve no time for him but still a fan of the Smiths.”
equal parts psyched to have gotten a ticket for Sleater-Kinney in November, and to have done so by guessing the “fan pre-sale” code (it’s the name of the new single, all caps, all one word. I think it’s always that, ha ha)
waiting…
this is it, Tribe’s got it:
The point would not be to take old-school House impeachment leading to possible Senate removal off the table at the outset. Instead, the idea would be to build into the very design of this particular inquiry an offramp that would make bypassing the Senate an option while also nourishing the hope that a public fully educated about what this president did would make even a Senate beholden to this president and manifestly lacking in political courage willing to bite the bullet and remove him.