McLean Deluxe 2017.

In the closed system of colleagues who knew my boss well, singular "they" was reasonably functional, despite the singular/plural ambiguities. Talking about my boss to people outside of this circle was a shitshow, and often put me in a position of explaining my boss' idiosyncratic gender identity, a subject that I was…

A simple binary transition should be relatively easy.

Hazel's Nuts was one of my favorite not-impossible-to-acquire beers of last year.

Great Lakes might be the unsexiest craft brewery in America. They do boring old lagers really well, and it seems like they haven't changed their core lineup since 1988.

Pick up a couple bottles of the Doom bourbon-barrel aged IPA that Founders just released the second batch of last month, and sit on it for a couple of years. Yum.

There are natural brand extensions, and then there are corporate-synergy Frankensites.

I wasn't exactly clamoring for the AV Club to write about beer, either. It's more like, I'm already here, and I like beer, so sure, I'll read this.

I might be heading up tomorrow for the Double Barrel Dark App release. It's a great place.

Many people would be happy with that selection. Trillium makes some of the best hoppy beers in the world. They're always a hit when somebody pulls one at at a beer share here in the Midwest.

I think the true crime is super-hopped American barleywine. (Fresh, anyway; some of them mellow out nicely)

Also, "Pitchfork's foray into beer writing?" Jesus Christ, talk about things the world didn't need.

Jackie O's Pockets of Sunlight. A tart saison brewed with honey, lemon verbena and coriander that fully lives up to the name.

Yep, Cicierega is effin great. Some of his chop jobs are clever enough to function as music criticism you can dance to.

All the proof I need is right there in the "five years later." (2016). This is the world we live in, and my faith in institutions is exhausted.

I bemoaned many of Fargo S3's narrative and stylistic choices, but it eventually worked for me as an emotional and intellectual representation of Trump-era despair, perhaps the first one in a scripted TV series.

I second the recommendation. He really gives everyone a fair shake.

"Something About You" oddly reminds me of the Backstreet Boys, but in a good way.

Naked Eyes' "Promises, Promises" was a top 20 hit, and the better song.

Murray Head hit the top 20 way back in 1971 with a song from the Jesus Christ Superstar soundtrack— concurrently with two others. Early 70s charts were weird! This one was just played on the syndicated Casey Kasem 70s show: