I’m clearing out my last few beers in this post, before I come back with the list of beers consumed during Des Moines Beer Week. I will say that Beer Week has opened my eyes to some breweries outside Des Moines that I need to visit. Beer 51: Peace Tree Blonde Fatale ABV: 8.5% Purchased… Read More 365 Iowa Beers: 51-57
Recently, I watched the documentary Cropsey, about the urban legend of a serial killer living under a mental hospital that turned out to be true. It made me think about urban legends that spread among the kids in my own neighborhood. I’m sure local happenings like the 1982 disappearance of Johnny Gosch, and children being… Read More Urban legends from my walk to school
In the last month, two potential dream jobs have presented themselves to me. One is a bacon critic for Extra Crispy, a Time website. I don’t expect to get it, because an insane number of people will be applying. The opending got a lot of press, so they’ll probably get 50,000 applicants. I do appreciate the… Read More My worst bacon memory
My last beer post was kind of super-sized. I’ve been messing around with how many beers I want to include in each write up. For this one, I’m going slightly smaller, since beer 40 goes with beers 41 and 42. Beers 40-45 will be posted sometime later this week. Beer 36: Mayday Mayday Maibock ABV:… Read More 365 Iowa Beers 36-39, Confluence, Deal’s & Exile
When I was doing my mall walking, I never hit Southridge. In part that’s because the southside mall isn’t very close to my northside home. It’s also because I wasn’t really sure Southridge even had an inside anymore. The mall has put most of its focus on the shops with their own entrances, leaving the interior of… Read More Mall walking addendum: Southridge
UPDATE: Now I’m seeing that there’s some confusion on if reports of Darwyn’s death were accurate. I hope I posted this about 30 years too soon. Holy crap, 2016 has been a rough year. I just woke up with a nasty stomach bug and was flipping through my phone to see on Twitter that cartoonist… Read More RIP Darwyn Cooke, 1962-2016
When I was laid off last month, I decided I should try to get in shape. I felt like I was at my desk a lot while working at the Register, but looking back, I was going out on interviews regularly and walking around downtown quite a bit. But then I got a real desk… Read More How I learned to stop worrying and walk the mall
In my time with the The Register I would regularly post bands that might be possibilities to play the 80/35 Music Festival. I didn’t do that this year, mostly because I was helping to write the hints video, so I had too much inside info to make guesses. My son shows up early in the… Read More The Decemberists, Nas headlining 80/35
Wow, only one post in March. Sorry, I promise I’ll get a few more up in April. The March reading list was Marvel-themed. I didn’t read a ton, partly because I don’t have a lot of unread Marvel books in my collection and partly because I took some time to read The Martian last month.… Read More My March Comics Reading List
When I was covering Hinterland last year, I asked organizer Sam Summers who he wanted for year two. He mentioned a few possibilities for a second headliner, but only one for the main headliner: Willie Nelson. He got his wish. The red-headed stranger will co-headline the Aug. 5-6 with Ray LaMontagne at the Avenue… Read More Willie Nelson, Ray LaMontagne to headline Hinterland
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