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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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
Great Divide Brewing’s 25th Anniversary Big Yeti
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journal – reading update, in which I change my serial reading, and put down Wolf Hall for the last time ?
I praised the Serial Reader app last month, thinking at the time it would be a fun & significant boost to my reading time. But following Dorian Gray, I started and abandoned several others that just weren’t for me. As I dug deeper into the titles, I felt like I was grasping for something good, instead of picking from the (long) list of books on my existing “to-read” list. I tried a couple that were on my list, like Little Women, and Middlemarch, but didn’t enjoy either of them. So, although it’s clever, I decided Serial Reader isn’t for me, after all.
But the strict daily reading time still seemed good, so I’ve been trying simply sticking to that habit, with the help of the iOS app Streaks. It’s a simple daily reminder app that’s meant to keep you from “breaking the chain”, maintaining regular daily habits. I’ve tried it before, but eventually rebelled against what came to feel like tyrannical nagging. So far this time, however, for reminding me to stay on something I enjoy, it’s been going great. That’s 17 days in a row, since I’m counting. The books I’ve read this way have admittedly been quick and light: the first two omnibus editions of an anime my daughter recommended: Vinland Saga. I may continue graphic novels for this daily habit for a while; I have Watchmen sitting over there on the shelf.
On another front, I admit defeat, for the third and final time, at trying to get through Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall. I want to love this book, and the second (Bring Up the Bodies) which is also on my shelf, and the third which is due out next year, but it’s just not happening. I pride myself on being undaunted by tougher prose: The Odyssey, Don Quixote, some of the deeper Tolkien, including his Beowulf, but I find Mantel’s style a slog too far. The setting is too foreign, the characters too numerous, and the pronouns too ambiguous. I’m pretty bummed by this concession, but also looking forward to starting a book I’ll look forward to each night.
Zero Hux given
Pegasus City Brewery’s Nine Volt
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Pegasus City Brewery’s Dutchover
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Metric @ ACL Festival, Zilker Park
October 12, another anniversary for the weirdest Unix command-line tips site you’ve never seen. a happy 6th to ye, Unicks Bestiary
“a corner of cognitive real estate occupied by this ongoing transaction” – this Cal Newport post, though about email, also explains why some Slack users are so frustrating to me. e.g., the ol’ ask-a-question-in-a-channel-and-then-disappear-for-an-hour trick
beautiful story of a successful author investing in his local community: Diary of a small town sensation: how the Wimpy Kid author built his dream bookshop
the masterminds of Thievery Corporation returned to Jamaican influences (and artists) on 2017’s The Temple of I & I, and it’s so good. recommended track: Letter to the Editor, featuring Racquel Jones (good video, too) ?
Upland Brewing’s Bourbon Barrel Teddy Bear Kisses
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#saturdaybeer #cheaphoteldrinkware ?
McSweeney’s: Dear Leaders of the World: Get Your Shit Together
It’s a hot mess & your policies are only making it hotter, so if you could stop burning the house down long enough for us to graduate into a world that isn’t a complete hellhole, that would be great.