While my writing hasn’t kept pace with my drinking, I am closing in on the end of my 365 Iowa Beers challenge. I started this all at the end of April last year, and if I really push myself, I should be able to finish this all up by then. The things I do for… Read More 365 Iowa Beers 260-270: SingleSpeed, Madhouse and the Jimmy Carter Happy Hour
Sometimes this is still a music blog, so I’ll take this opportunity to post the lineup for the 10th annual 80/35 Music Festival, being held July 7-8 in Western Gateway Park. I helped with the hints video this year, pretend you didn’t see the headline of this blog and see if you can guess who is… Read More 80/35 announces The Shins, MGMT, Action Bronson & more
Two hundred and fifty beers. Is that an accomplishment? It’s kind of tough to tell. I’ve still got 106 more beers to write about. To give you some perspective, that’s 105 more beers than I drank in the first 22 years of my life (more on that in a later post). So let’s jump into… Read More 365 Iowa Beers 250-259: Leveling up with Firetrucker, Peace Tree
Tonight Rifftrax successfully funded its fifth Kickstarter. The former Mystery Science Theater 3000 team was seeking $250,000 to riff Samurai Cop, a selection of shorts featuring Paul F Tompkins, Trace Beaulieu and Frank Conniff, Mary Jo Pehl and Bridget Nelson and a super secret mystery movie that they can’t reveal the name of until the… Read More Kevin Murphy on Rifftrax writing, Weird Al and This Island Earth
I’m closing in on another milestone number, though 265 is the beer I’m really counting down to. That puts me within the final 100 of this challenge. I’ve consumed beer 265 at this point, so I’m in the home stretch. The real challenge is the fact that there aren’t many more beers I can find… Read More 365 Iowa Beers 236-249: Solid stouts and an awesome Exile
I’m bad at keeping up with writing about these beers. Sorry about that. I’m still drinking, I swear! I had a few freelancing assignments that kept my otherwise occupied. So here we are, back to beering. Beer 226: Toppling Goliath Twisted Galaxy ABV: 8.2% Notes: A very strong imperial IPA (surprise!) from Toppling Goliath. It… Read More 365 Iowa Beers 226-235: Deep space & caffeinated beers
Oh hey, I’m still a music writer, aren’t I? So let’s take a break from beer/Ava posts for the lineup announcement for the Aug. 4-5 festival at the Avenue of the Saints Amphitheater in St. Charles. England’s alt-J and Ryan “Not Bryan” Adams will headline the festival, with a deep lineup of supporting acts: Gary… Read More Hinterland announces alt-J, Ryan Adams, Dwight Yokam and more
For a few months, Ava has been asking about watching “Star Wars.” Ever since her fourth birthday, I’ve been thinking about showing her the movie. That’s the age that I started to really get into “Star Wars,” so it seemed like a good time to introduce it to her. For me, “Star Wars” is always… Read More Ava reviews daddy things: ‘Star Wars’
Two beer posts in a week! Maybe I can get some steam going with this thing. Only 140 more to try, so I need some suggestions. I feel like the last third of this challenge might be the toughest. There’s a Firkin Fest coming up at Flix on Feb. 4, but I’ll have to work.… Read More 365 Iowa Beers 216-225: A very homebrew holiday
It’s been a bit since my last update in this. The holidays happened, plus my new job got busy, so blogging fell by the wayside. Some drinking has still been happening, I just need to catch up with the writing. I’m going to handle this post a bit like the beer festival posts from last… Read More 365 Iowa Beers 201-215: The Return
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