My dad thinks Beck is a rap artist, which means I should have had kids by now.

Chameleons — Stranger Things (OK… not sure I'm 100% on board)
Demen — Nektyr (excellent new stuff, Cocteauish.)
Kanye — Life of Pablo (I like it the more I hear it)

Negra Modelo is real nice. Around me, Modelo Especial seems to be the beer of choice amongst the Hispanic community, though.

Bingo.

Yeah, they'd already made up their minds based on his solid record of suing people for legally fishing on public lands near his house.

Republicans would do better to carry around the Articles of Confederation.

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My personal favorite distillery tour question is "What's the difference between corn whiskey and moonshine?" People love asking that one.

I really enjoyed Alex calling one of the Ninja Turtles "Da Vinci".

There was something of a conflict between Hebrew and Yiddish at one point. When Israel was founded, there was a pretty strong contingent of people that wanted to make the national language Yiddish, not Hebrew — more religious Jews felt Hebrew was a holy language and should be reserved for prayer.

"Otherwise, more crazy non-Muslim extremists should step up and even things out?"

To be fair, the Fyre Festival site was already a foreign country to all but about 400,000 people worldwide.

Excellent Hum track there.

Come to Maryland. Bulleit is rarely over $20 at my liquor store.

Sunday night throwdown? Local theater? Who knows.

I like how it rhymes "dance floor" with "dance whore".

Made another visit to New Columbia distillery in D.C. last weekend. Still don't care for their original recipe gin, but some of their varietals and vermouths are pretty good.

In pretty short order I finished the fifth Harry Potter book as part of my ongoing effort to catch up with the rest of the world. Hadn't seen the movie, so I knew nothing of the plot going in. I was impressed by how dislikeable Harry was throughout.

Reggie And The Full Effect — Megan 2K2 (Even Though It's 2K3 Now)
Mindless Self Indulgence — Tight
The Band — The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
Stevie Ray Vaughn/Double Trouble — Cold Shot
Broken Social Scene — Stars and Sons
Stereolab — Cybele's Reverie
Ladytron — Light & Magic
Coheed and Cambria — The Hound (Of Blood And…

The only thing I could come up with was Don't Stop Belevin', but I was convinced it was wrong because of the exact point made at the end there. Nobody, to my knowledge, went directly from struggling musician to Journey.