Second Gen (2003-2016, 2016- )
Adjectives from another time. How irritating. I mentioned this the other day somewhere folk were discussing steam beer. One theory of the meaning is it’s a reference to the vapor from opening the bottle. Another says something else. Me, I think it’s the trendy word of the year of some point in the latter half … Continue reading “Cream Ale: I Hate Records Revisited…”
I hate records. Well, I really like them. But I hate them. See, we are subject to their limitations… or at least two of them. Or three. The last one first. Finding them. For a while I have been grabbing images of maps including … Continue reading “One Brewery And The Problem With Records”
The trial decision in the case Cheskes v. Ontario (Attorney General) of Ontario’s recently struck down access to adoption records case is now available on the internet. You can find a copy here. For present purposes, even though I’ve yapped about it before, have an interest in adoption and have, and in the past represented … Continue reading “More On Privacy As Exemplified By Adoption Records”
My order came from murderecords today: Closed by jale (1995, ep cd) Smart Bomb by Thrush Hermit (1994, ep cd) Peppermint by Sloan (1992, ep cd) Mock Up, Scale Down by The Super Friendz (1995, cd) Peter by Eric’s Trip (1993, cd) Three months but who cares. Five disks of Halifax scene. I used a … Continue reading “Murderecords”
Let’s be clear. By “empty feeling” I mean not bloated from either last weekend‘s turkey dinners and pumpkin pie or those mini Crispie Crunch bars yet to come. October is a bit of feed fest around these parts. It’s the cold turn, I suppose. Took me a while after we moved to this border city … Continue reading “The Beery News Notes For That Empty Feeling Between Thanksgiving and Halloween”
I was thinking about these weekly things I write and whether there are themes are not. Mainly because I thought last week’s was pretty theme-y. Thematic perhaps. All about ones relationship with the ancillaries surrounding beer. Sorta. I tell myself that by writing these summaries I am tracing, following patterns. But I rarely go back … Continue reading “These Be The Reflective Yet Exhuberant And Cardigan Considering First Beery News Notes For Q424”
Remember a month ago? Before “the” debate? Before France went right then went left faster than Gretzky ever could? Before Britain finally ditched the Tories? Before some dumb kid decided to murder Trump and just murdered someone’s Dad? Remember before everything went sideways? Well, except for England losing in fitba… again. Thank God somethings never … Continue reading “The “Remember Before We Went Through The Looking Glass?” Edition Of Your Beery News Notes”
We are hitting the ground running this week. The image of the week up there is from Liam who posted a few shots on #BeerSky of his latest find, a “grubby 1920s silver-plated pint tankard” from Clery’s Restaurant in Dublin. I think it is all very charming. Careful readers will recall my own foray into … Continue reading “The Ever Uplifting Beery News Notes For The Beginning Of That First False Canadian Summer”
Can we call these the dog days of winter? The evil cousin of August’s dullest days? Storms and snows came this week with a keen intent this week putting the end of a rather warm and grey winter. Six weeks to March. Just about. Just six. I can do that. I hope I can. But … Continue reading “The 43 Days To March Edition Of The Beery News Notes”
It is instructional to live next to a bigger neighbour. As long as they don’t attack you… any more. And by bigger I mean the most influential state in the most powerful nation in the history of the western world. Which is to say I can see a slice of New York state from my … Continue reading “The Beery News Notes For That Week The USA Does All That Weird Thanksgiving Stuff”