by Old Man With Candy | Oct 20, 2024 | Daily Links
Yes, another one. This time, I’m being smarter about it- we’re meeting up at a brewery, so if/when we hate each other, at least I can have some beer. Birthdays today include a guy who might have been your uncle; a guy who made major contributions toward...
by Spudalicious | Oct 19, 2024 | Daily Links
Spuds not feelin’ it. Spuds a little tired today. When I asked for my check yesterday, the bartender heard “why yes, I would love to have another Old Fashioned”. On top of that, I’ve been busily wrapping up vegetable processing from the garden,...
by mexican sharpshooter | Oct 19, 2024 | Beer, Food & Drink, Fun, Halloween, Libertarianism, Pastimes
This may be the seventh (!) installment of this annual feature, but the first in the new WordPress editor. May God have mercy on us all. This is my review of Enegren The Lightest One (Helles Lager): As always, we find the most creative, most thought provoking...
by Old Man With Candy | Oct 19, 2024 | Daily Links
I have not been doing well recently, having made the transition from “I haven’t gotten a flu in 30 years!” to “Did anyone get the license number of the truck that hit me?” It got bad enough for long enough that I ended up in our local ER,...
by Mojeaux | Oct 18, 2024 | Fiction, Prohibition
Prologue | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20A | 20B | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25-26 | 27 | 28-29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35-36 | 37 | 38A | 38B | 38C | 38D | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42-43 | 44-45 | 46 | 47 | 48-49A | 49B | 50...
by Nephilium | Oct 18, 2024 | Cocktails, Daily Links
What a baseball game last night. Big Christmas getting a two run homer in the bottom of the 9th with two outs to tie it up. Fry coming up in the bottom of the 10th, runner on third, two outs, one ball, two strikes, to hit a walk off two run home run himself. Just a...
by ron73440 | Oct 18, 2024 | Advice, LifeSkills, Musings
Last Week Meditations How to Be a Stoic How to Think Like a Roman Emperor Seneca’s Letters from a Stoic If you have anger issues, this one is a great tool (h/t mindyourbusiness) This week’s book: Discourses and Selected Writings Disclaimer: I’m not...
by Banjos | Oct 18, 2024 | Daily Links
Good morning one and all to another wonderous day! The Mastermind of the October 7 Massacre Has Been Eliminated Trump Gets Big Laughs at Al Smith Dinner, Roasting Harris, Biden, Media Elite Biden Admin Hit With Major Lawsuit Over Alleged Refusal to Help Purge...
by R.J. | Oct 17, 2024 | Film, Fun, GlibFlick
Blackenstein I shall open with a quote from Movies and Mania, which doesn’t see fit to identify their authors: An uneasy mix of styles – 1930s Frankenstein lab action one minute, H.G. Lewis-style gore close-ups and gratuitous naughtiness the next...
by Tonio | Oct 17, 2024 | Daily Links
BREAKING: Yahya Sinwar: Hamas leader and mastermind of October 7 attack killed in Gaza, Israel says. LESSONS FROM MILEI: The American Conservative minces no words in well-deserved praise for the unashamedly libertarian president of Argentina, and well-earned...
