Archive for April, 2008

The Jean Shepherd Radio Show

 A couple of years ago I didn’t know a thing about Jean Shepherd. I’d seen his name associated with A Christmas Story, one of my favorite holiday movies, and had assumed he was a woman. I mean, Jean, spelled with a J, is a woman’s name, isn’t it?
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But, of course, he was a man. In [...]

Our Trip to England Told Only in Beer

 Following is our recent trip to London, boiled down to the important part only: the beer. Quantities have been omitted, to protect the guilty, and because I can’t really remember the details. But it should give you a general idea of our travels, and our major accomplishments, within (and without) the UK…
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Samuel Adams Boston Ale (at [...]

Rethinking the Whole Bootleg Thing

 I was doing Google searches a few days ago, trying to find a place where I could download a well-known Replacements bootleg, called “Shit, Shower, and Shave.”  I never got there, but during my travels I stumbled upon a great little website that caused my inner-music geek to become fully engorged.
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It’s called That Truncheon Thing, and [...]