The game: Patriots at Seahawks The beer: Night Shift Whirlpool Pale Ale The result: Loss, 35–30 The knockout: Titans win, 33–30 The commentary: Undefeated season? I won’t rule it out! Meet the new boss, folks, because this is the team’s most impressive season-opening win-streak in years, as Cam Newton distributes regret evenly across half the […]
Week one The game: Dolphins at Patriots The beer: Oak & Iron Acorn Brown Ale The result: Win, 21–11 The knockout: Bills win, 27–17 The commentary: Where were we? Phase 1A Malaise. Phase 1B Transition. Phase 1C “Vega$!” Now that we’re caught up… Phase 2 “Jarrett Stidham is the heir apparent to Tom Brady! Truly, […]
Look at that! I jumped to WordPress because Blogger’s days have got to be numbered, right? Google can’t have put five bucks into a product that has barely evolved since I started writing in 2005—fear not, though, for Biff! Bang! Pow! isn’t going anywhere, at least not by my hand, since I refuse to deal […]
Dear sirs, I am found! As, indeed, are we! Your keen detective skills are to be commended, for my “blogging” partner, Jarrod P. Halfenhalf (née Biffington), and I have fled the fickle Alphabet Incorporated and its doomed idea-space for a more populist–and costly–publishing house. We feared for our lives should corporate fat-trimming have severed Biff! […]
The beer: True North Garuda Coffee Milk Stout The commentary: Item! Abandon hope all ye who enter here. So this is football, everyday football, for almost every other fanbase. Uncertainty, denial, malaise, a looming and socially distant draft in which the idea of selecting a quarterback is not relegated to later rounds for novelty backup […]
Week sixteen The game: Bills at Patriots The beer: Maine Fall Coffee Stout The result: Win, 24–17 Week seventeen The game: Dolphins at Patriots The beer: Newburyport Overboard India Pale Ale The result: Loss, 27–24 Playoffs, week one The game: Titans at Patriots The beer: Great Marsh London Brown Porter The result: Fuuuuuuck The commentary: […]
Updated: January 2, 2021 Continuing, for some reason, to chronicle every book and short story I’ve read since The Lord of the Rings in the spring of 2017. Volume 1 (2017) | Volume 2 (2018) | Volume 3 (2019) | “Selected readings from the Old Lady Book Club” Critical remarks are avoided while ratings are reserved for “Library Book Club” selections and other significant […]
Week seven The game: Patriots at Jets The beer: Avery Ellie’s Brown Ale The result: Win, 33–0 Week eight The game: Browns at Patriots The beer: Lord Hobo Dark Lager The result: Win, 27–13 Week nine The game: Patriots at Ravens The beer: Ipswich Chucktoberfest Lager The result: Loss, 37–20 Week ten (bye) The beer: […]
Week one The game: Steelers at Patriots The beer: Four Quarters Blackboard Jungle Imperial Tropical Stout The result: Win, 33–3; Cowboys win, 35–17 Week two The game: Patriots at Dolphins The beer: Rapscallion Red Ale The result: Win, 43–0; Ravens win, 23 –17 Week three The game: Jets at Patriots The beer: Cisco 182.5 India […]
Get out there, old man The game: Patriots vs. Rams The beer: Epic Big Bad Baptist Imperial Stout The result: Win, 13–3 The commentary: Is this Super Bowl LIII recap, seven months after the fact, to be of the XLIX variety and feature a handful of Peter King-esque you-say-there-was-a-game observations? Or will it get the […]
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