The game: Patriots at Bengals The beer: Martha’s Exchange Olde London Stout The result: Loss, 13–6 The commentary: Bob Socci must be stopped. The new radio voice of the Patriots lied to me four times in an hour during a rainy second-half drive to Nashua: an interception (not an interception), two receptions (two drops) and […]
Week two The game: Jets at Patriots The beer: Maine Peeper Ale The result: Win, 13–10 The commentary: What’s the sound of grown men crying for a solid week? All I remember from this game is four hours of Mike Mayock talking about Geno Smith’s lousy “internal clock” and how the Patriot rookie receivers “can’t […]
Six minutes. At three hours and nine minutes I was six minutes short this year until, before noticing, I swapped out a two-minute pop song for some krautrock. German breadth escorted us to the cherished three-and-one-quarter-hour length we’ve all become accustomed to here. Once again, internet, I apologize… for nothing! Lots of things take longer […]
The beer: Battle Road 1775 Tavern Ale The commentary: Michelle, who early on seemed overly confident for no good reason (certainly not from a talent perspective) only to turn things around when it counted, won season XI of Project Runway. She deserved it, I suppose, after Stanley went all “What do you mean it’s tomorrow? […]
Good taste for sale! ▲ Updated: November 1, 2025 CDs | LPs, EPs, 45s | Cassettes | Videos | Books Do you like music? Used music? Do you like paying for it? Here is a list of stuff you can buy from me. All fair offers considered—everything must go! Longtime readers (!) will recall I started this… process… back in 2010. I acknowledged, a […]
The game: Texans at Patriots The beer: Notch Valley Malt BSA (Brewer Supported Agriculture) Farmhouse Ale The result: Win, 41–28; Anthony Ryan, 5–0 The commentary: I am out of beer. After last weekend’s yummy porter and Sunday evening’s so-so Notch (saisons and farmhouse ales are pretty hit-or-miss for me, which is strange in this case […]
The game: Texans at Patriots The beer: Smuttynose Scotch Ale The result: Win, 42–14 The commentary: I had it all figured out. Thursday, December 6 featured Smuttynose Shoals Pale Ale in my 365 Bottles of Beer for the Year calendar (it’s leap year: plus one, suckers!). When I saw it last week I said “Snap! […]
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 […]
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