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Goose Island Brewing’s Bourbon County Coffee Stout (2017)
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#memorialdaybeer 🇺🇸🍺
BookSpring, a wonderful charity I volunteer for, needs to raise money to send books by mail to needy kids who would have gotten them this Spring through schools, clinics, & daycare centers. so they’re holding a charity raffle. pitch in, and maybe win! 📚
that copy of The City We Became that I ordered the other day from Austin’s beloved BookPeople came today. flipping through, I discovered that it’s a signed copy! there’s something that will never happen when you shop from Amazon 📚
good Jenny Odell interview:
Q. …these days, we’re all almost on the hook to have something to say about everything as soon as it happens.
A. Yeah. I find there to be something a little bit profane about that, given what’s happening right now.
Tuesday, time for new tunes! you may have had this recommended by a hundred people lately, but they’re all right: Fiona Apple’s Fetch the Bolt Cutters. standout track: Shameika. 🎵
just ordered the first book for this summer’s Camp TOB: The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin. I haven’t done a group book club like this before; little worried that time pressure will make it less fun. but going to give it a shot & read some books I otherwise wouldn’t! 📚
Novel Progress, 5/17/20 – in which writing resumes and critiques continue
that FT Times article you should read:
Trump will continue to dangle the prospect of miracle cures. Every week since the start of the outbreak, he has said a vaccine is just around the corner… The previous fastest development was four years for mumps in the 1960s.
4th Tap Brewing’s Supernaut
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#saturdaybeer ?
A video suggestion for New Tunes Tuesday this week: a live performance from the hallowed KEXP studio: Wussy, from July 2014. this way you can see the gang in action, including pedal steel guitarist John Erhardt (RIP). standout track: the first one, Teenage Wasteland ?
no commencement for our daughter’s college graduation (not that she was very excited to attend anyway). this pic from her Animal Crossing self-celebration, complete with correct UNT colors, will do ?
Goose Island Brewing’s Bourbon County Stout (2016)
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#saturdaybeer ?
this bottle, given by chance to me by her uncle last year, has been waiting to be opened since our daughter started college. today she’s a graduate, and we couldn’t be more proud
McSweeney’s: Sure, the Velociraptors Are Still On the Loose, But That’s No Reason Not to Reopen Jurassic Park
And keeping things just below widespread public outrage levels is our gold standard for all of the decisions we make here at Jurassic Park.
New Tunes Tuesday: Signal by Automatic. a debut with as solid of post-punk jams as I’ve heard in a while. standout track: I Love You, Fine ?
New Tunes Tuesday: Space Cadet by beabadoobee. music as fun & cool as the artist’s name. standout track: Sun More Often ?
a really niche thing but I couldn’t figure it out for ages, until today! Smart Playlist rules are interpreted differently in the Mac and iOS Music apps. “genre is not classical”, for example, includes tracks with no genre specified on MacOS, but omits them on iOS!
Celis Brewery’s Violet Crown Quad
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#saturdaybeer ?
(They were out of labels so the bottles were signed by the owner, Christine Celis.)
Adelbert’s Brewery’s Tripel Treat
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#saturdaybeer ?
Austin Beerworks’ Blonde Joke Golden Stout
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4th Tap Brewing’s Bat Country Stout w/Wild Gift Cold Brew
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(shown: pandemic-era crowler without the real label; this was a little more smoky/porter than I’d like)
#wednesdaybeer ?
Austin Beerworks‘ Gold Fist
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#saturdaybeer ?
local breweries are still open for beer-to-go, so I decided to do my part by supporting five of them (Adelbert’s, Austin Beerworks, Celis, 4th Tap, & Circle). Prost! ?
backyard
Deschutes Brewing’s The Abyss (2019)
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Rogue Ales’ Dead ‘N’ Dead
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#fridaybeer ?
After waiting in line like shopping at HEB is an amusement park ride, I just couldn’t resist this name ?♂️?
Bandcamp Supporting Artists Affected by Pandemic – in which you’re encouraged to buy some great new music for yourself, and directly support musicians who can’t tour for a while ?
these free nightly opera streams from the Met are really good. bonus points for their app on Apple, Amazon, and Roku (no account or login needed, just select “free preview” to watch the day’s freebie in its entirety) ?
awakened before the alarm clock by our smoke detectors blaring for a few seconds. better at 6:00 than at 3:00 or 4:00, but being jolted from deep sleep like that is never how I want to start the day. it stopped as suddenly as it started. dust? a tiny spider, now deaf?
Martin House Brewing’s The Morrigan
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#saturdaybeer ?
Lakewood Brewing’s Bourbon Barrel Temptress
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#saturdaybeer ?
unsurprisingly blistering reaction to yesterday’s impeachment outcome from press around the world:
Trump, his followers and the majority of the Republicans are, together and wilfully, breaking down the foundations of democracy.