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Beer of the Moment

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It’s been far too long since I blogged about beer. Not that I’ve taken a break from drinking the stuff, I’ve just stopped talking about it. Today’s Beer of the Moment (BoM) is Fat Weasel which is, as far as I know, an exclusive for Trader Joe’s. Fat Weasel is a malty ale with a […]

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The Scene

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Missive conversations are intriguing. Take today as an example. One of my colleagues mentioned a previous job writing for a music magazine in a quasi-large Midwestern, identity crisis laden Midwestern city. Ok, fine, it was Grand Rapids. But, during his recounting of his experiences writing for this magazine, he mentioned places I used to tread. […]

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Enough

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Silence is Violence. “We pledge to you that we will get better and we’re going to start today,” he said, adding that the city would not recover until residents felt safe. (source) Hope you meant that, Nagin. There’s a lot of pissed off people who are going to hold you to it. By the way, […]

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WoW expansion pack sold out at the publisher

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Next week should be fun for Blizzard. Pre-orders for the expansion of the insanely popular MMO World of Warcraft, Burning Crusade, began a couple weeks ago. On Friday, Blizzard posted links to their online store where players could pre-order that expansion pack directly from Blizzard. Well, it’s gone. That’s right, Blizzard, the company releasing the […]

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Great Googly Moogly!

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Holy bloody huge! Check out this “colossal” squid. Calamari jokes aside, the article mentions they think this thing is only two-thirds is full size. Yowza. Suddenly some those sea monster stories start to make sense. BBC [via Neatorama]

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Pimp My (Ice Cream) Bowl

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Terrible pop-culture reference, check. Informational follow-up post, you bet. Back in May, I wrote about Mount Desert Island Ice Cream, the best ice cream I’ve ever had. I incorrectly said in that post that they did not have a website. Linda Parker, owner of MDIIC posted a comment pointing out that, in fact, there is […]

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WP: New Orleans repeats mistakes – washingtonpost.com Highlights – MSNBC.com

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The WaPo weighs in. “It’s terrifying: We’re doing the same things we have in the past but expecting different results,” said Robert G. Bea, a professor of civil engineering at the University of California at Berkeley and a former New Orleans resident who served as a member of the National Science Foundation panel that studied […]

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