Week one The game: Patriots at Titans The beer: Berkshire Saint of Circumstance Sour Mash Whiskey Barrel-Aged India Pale Ale The result: Win, 34–13 The commentary: “What are you, a pretty boy?” Nice to see Steve Burton’s lack of self-awareness already in mid-season form. No one in the room laughed at his “joke,” asked of […]
Your local classic rock radio station is playing one of their songs right now, has just finished playing it or will do so once “Hotel California” is over. The hard rock station up the dial is in the middle of a three-fer (“Rock and Roll,” “Traveling Riverside Blues” and “The Ocean”) and those sweaty old […]
The beer: Anchor Porter The commentary: Are you ready for some third-stringers? Then you’re ready for preseason game three. Feel the heat! I didn’t pay much attention to the action. A. went out with some friends and G. was down for the night, so it was just me, some substandard Chinese food and the Anchor […]
“Since the football season ended I’ve needed an excuse to run off at the mouth, and forcing myself to comment on forty-eight songs seemed like a solution. Maybe next year, if I’m able to actually enjoy any music and/or write complete sentences with a son or daughter to worry about, I can try to control […]
It was written! Wait until you’re off the bridge. Wait until you’re off the bridge. The writing warned you! Wait until you’re off the bridge. Wait until you’re off the bridge. The writing killed your phone’s camera! Wait until you’re off the bridge. Wait until you’re off the bridge. The broken camera was a warning! […]
The beer: Blatant Session Ale The commentary: It’s become blatantly (ha!) obvious that I’m incapable of writing much outside of the comfort and weekly deadlines afforded by professional football, so I’ll kick off what I’m calling the 2012 season (in place of a clumsy “2012/2013”) with an attempt at live-blogging ESPN’s coverage of the first […]
The game: Patriots vs. Giants The beer: Bear Republic Big Bear Black Stout The result: Fuuuuuuck The commentary: Time is a funny thing. With time, wounds heal. With time, losses seem unimportant. With time, you’d think you could stock a secondary with personnel at all capable of stopping one stinking drive at the end of […]
I’m not yet ready to discuss beer and catastrophe. Instead, let’s mourn the imminent death of my smartphone’s camera by celebrating some of its best narrative photographs. We’ll start with the preciousness. I love this picture, from the same “session” as week five. G. was all about funny faces that day—it looks like she’s about […]
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The beer: Boulder Mojo India Pale Ale The commentary: Twenty-one beers with one more to go. Let’s recap by relating each week’s selection to a player on this year’s Patriots. Smell the contrivance! 1. Berkshire Saint of Circumstance India Pale Ale – Tom Brady Most valuable. I’d start the season with no other. 2. Rogue […]
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