This may be my shortest playlist essay yet (“more probable than not”). I poured everything into those goddamn Super-Biffys after we lost Chloe. Considering the starts and stops since that post’s infancy in 2014—I’d originally planned it as a literal January 10 anniversary piece to 2010’s wasted clickbait opportunity—I’m pleased with the results. It was […]
The beer: Sierra Nevada Pale Ale The commentary: G. and I relived last year’s agenda and visited Foxborough the first Saturday of training camp, bringing along my father this time. It was more of the same: minimal football viewing, excessive scampering, one diaper change and a lot of fun. She even wore the same dress—sign […]
2013 and 2014 have seen progress with the purge. The purge! As part of this… process… I’ve become reacquainted with much of my music collection, listening to the likes of Helmet and Gang Starr for the first time in years. Some of this history will pop up below, to the point where an unheralded decade […]
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? […]
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! […]
“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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Patriots are my non-daughter-based obsession lately, and although they’re only really relevant for three hours a week there are so many blogs to read and so much media to listen to and watch that it’s almost a full-time job. Add in how long it takes to drink a giant beer and write another “our […]
We put up the Christmas tree on December 22. Weekends came and went and weeknights were dark, cold and white-washed enough that it was too much bother. I enjoy the holidays but could muster neither the enthusiasm to carry an unwieldy box (fake tree alert!) up the basement stairs nor the patience to arrange the […]
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