Starting to Get Feedback – in which I let anyone else in the world read a word of what I’ve been writing for four years, and live to tell the tale (pun very much intended)
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Brouwerij Van Steenberge’s Gulden Draak Imperial Stout (2018) ?
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if you’re unhappy about the damage Senate Republicans are doing to our democracy, please consider doing something besides tweeting or blogging about it. sign up, pitch in $10, $25, or whatever you can. these nine deserve to pay the price in November.
Julia Ioffe says what I’ve wondered:
At any point during this process, Bolton could have just come forward and said what he knew. In front of the House, on TV, in an Op-Ed, anywhere. Instead, he’s doing what so many retiring Republicans do: the barest, coyest minimum to preserve a patina of credibility but without alienating the vast system of GOP money they rely on in retirement.
also I finished my most recent editing pass of my novel (and have had a few drinks) so I’ve put an invitation to read an early draft on my site, ok bye ?
Boulevard Brewing’s Tasting Room: Whiskey & Cabernet Cask Imperial Stout
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#saturdaybeer ?
been writing on another blog, ⚽️ news in & around Austin. it was kinda micro.blogged for a while, but not really working that way, so I think I’ll post them here, too:
Austin Bold schedule, Austin FC ticket speculation, and USWNT coming to Texas – it’s 2020, and it’s Stoppage Time
First Third Thursday in the Writers’ League – in which I leave the safe confines of home, daring to venture out there and meet other real, live writer people
Manhattan Project Beer Co’s Wise Monkey
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even tigers need belly rubs
Great Divide Brewing’s Barrel Aged Yeti
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a new year, a new media log page (and a spot for the 2019 log)
Blue Mountain Brewery’s Dark Hollow
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Goose Island Brewing’s Bourbon County Stout Mon Chéri (2019)
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“Pass on the jigsawing thanks”
“I wanna jigsaw too”
Center of the Universe Brewing’s El Duderino
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#ChristmasEveEveBeer ?
Great Divide Brewing’s Mexican Chocolate Yeti
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Big Sky Brewing’s Oak Bourbon Barrel Aged Ivan the Terrible (2015)
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This insight on Social Media’s Shift Toward Misery explains a lot:
Modern social media, which largely displaced the individual feed model with the algorithmically-generated timeline, instead emphasizes passive content consumption, as the amount of times you can check on your friends in a given week is relatively small, while the time you can dedicate to content consumption is boundless.
Komes Baltic Porter
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I’ll be posting more soon, but this is a milestone bottle. It’s a style favored by the main character in the novel I’ve been working on. I bought it a little over a year ago, to drink when I’d “finished”. Well, guess what? ??
Lagunitas Brewing’s Willetized Coffee Stout (2019)
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found a place giving out Nutter Butters and Sprite
Goose Island’s Bourbon County Brand Midnight Orange Stout (2018)
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Deschutes Brewery’s Black Butte XXXI
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…and if you wanted random wikiHow articles, as mentioned in that story, you wouldn’t need a browser plugin. you could just set their randomizer wiki link as your homepage: https://www.wikihow.com/Special:Randomizer
have never been a wikiHow user, but this story on the founder, the company, & their outlook defrosted my cynicism a little bit. “We’ve chosen… to spend all of our time in four big web properties. We didn’t have to do that, and we still don’t have to do that.”
Goose Island Bourbon County Stout (2018)
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In memory of John Michael Hammack, who helped me drink a bottle of this almost a year ago, and who we lost this week in a car crash. Rest in peace.
if I may: nansplaining (v) – explaining legal terms like “exculpatory” to the President, ideally at a televised press briefing
finished Fleabag season 2 tonight; what a masterpiece this show is. the sharp, quirky humor grabbed us from the start, but in the end it has everything. the drama, the characters, the originality, the continued humor, even the style (and how it evolves). just: wow. ?
Except for not doing about 80 of my favorites, what a great show
Sleater-Kinney @ Moody Theater ?
this AirBnb scam happened to us this summer. contacted a few days before, told the unit we’d reserved was “condemned”(!), somehow they’d missed notifying us, but “luckily” he had another property. turned out to be in a bad part of town & not walkable to downtown