Category: beer
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If You Offer Free Grilled Cheese

Perched on the uncomfortable stool at the corner pub, with several IPAs in my belly, I broke from tradition and ordered a grilled cheese. I had passed up many of their creative (and, at times, difficult to pronounce) weekly gourmet recipes. But “fresh” Vermont White Ceddar and mushroom on sour dough was irresistible to my…
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Triggered (& Inspired) Reformed Mullet-wearer

I recently came into possession of an Alesis HR16 drum machine. By all measures, almost nobody cared about that model. “Mr. Wendal” features it, and possibly some other songs. It is a glorious button-laden gray box, with a flip top that actually houses, in microscopic print, the entire user manual. My mission was to simply…
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Song: Grass and Wine (2014-04-20)
Happy 420. Here is an attempt at being anthemic. An old song’s 2nd version.
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The Idiom: A Politically Neutral Proposal for Social Media

With infantile ego-centrism, we trot out cliche after cliche, meming our way around a track of destructive divisiveness toward the finish line of a race to the gutter.
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story: John Prine, one of my heroes

Just on the border of honesty and political correctness, John Prine is a legendary songwriter who is sweet, respected, and downright badass. If he were to fight Bob Dylan, he would jab him to the ground in 7 seconds, then write a song about it… the next day.
