February’s Beer Advocate magazine clip is finally online – just in time for March. It’s an interview with Josh Davies, brewmaster at Battle Creek, Michigan’s Arcadia Brewing Company.
Michigan’s beer scene is currently, uh, ridiculous. Bell’s, the Livery, Short’s, Dark Horse, Jolly Pumpkin, Kuhnhenn, New Holland, Founders – it’s a lineup to make California or Colorado [...]
Entries from February 27th, 2009
The Beast of the Yeast
February 27th, 2009 · No Comments · Beer
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That is a Two-by-Four Getting Split by a Hammer!
February 27th, 2009 · No Comments · Media
A Word for the Kids’ Table
February 24th, 2009 · No Comments · Politics
CNN got Governor Deval Patrick to pimp his gas tax proposal yesterday. He said, basically, that roads cost money, lots of it, and it’s OK to say as much, to be “candid about our choices and none of them are pleasant.”
“Grownups know that you can’t have something for nothing,” he said.
Michael Graham flogs Patrick in [...]
Tags:Deval Patrick·Legislature
Atlantic City, In Cell Phone Pictures
February 23rd, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Here are two three-megapixel photos featuring some majestic sights from this past weekend’s trip to the Jersey Shore.
It’s a miniature Chinese food container and a used pregnancy test – on the beach!
Not pictured: Some condoms littering the seawall, several abandoned 40’s of Olde English, poo everywhere, a fishing pier rotting into the ocean, Sonsie, the [...]
Tags:self-referentialism
BREAKING: Banks Can Make Money If They Aren’t Morons
February 23rd, 2009 · 1 Comment · Business, Media
Today’s Journal has a fascinating bit of breaking news: It turns out that bankers can make money, if they just borrow money on the cheap, lend it out for a modest profit, and resist the urge to do anything else, like inflating your worthless stock just so you can use it to buy ten houses, or RUINING AMERICA. [...]
Trouble Bussing in From Out of State
February 20th, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized
That would be us. This weekend. Ten hours of taffic notwithstanding.
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Illustration Proves Useful
February 20th, 2009 · No Comments · Media
Today’s Journal features a trend-tastic piece on the hottest new hot new trend to sweep the nation’s college campuses: Smoking tobacco. From a pipe!
The article has all the hallmarks of a great trend story – a shocking lede (“Dan Nemets, a sophomore at Central Michigan University, likes the TV show Family Guy, heavy-metal musician Ozzy [...]
Tags:Hello There Old Trend·Internets·The Youth of Today·Wall Street Journal
Next Week: Sully the Pilot – In Body Paint!
February 19th, 2009 · No Comments · Media
Q: Magazines are sad because nobody reads them and nobody wants to buy ads from them anymore. Any ideas?
A: Boobs! Again.
That was easy, wasn’t it? You’re up next, banking. Let’s just see what Ken Lewis has under that jacket…
[via BWE]
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Good Answer! Good Answer!
February 17th, 2009 · No Comments · Media
ICYMI – Dirtiest Family Feud Category of All Time @ Yahoo! Video
Evil Technology, Meet Dumb Business
February 16th, 2009 · No Comments · Business
Last month, I ventured to say that DRM was dying, and dying quickly. It seemed like a decent call at the time – Apple was getting its teeth kicked in by Amazon’s DRM-free downloads, so it threw in the towel and decided to follow Amazon’s lead. Collectively, the two own the vast majority of online [...]
