Rants and Ravings of a Misguided Dreamer and Observer
Salutations™!! City Beverage, the Official Beer Sponsor of The Less Desirables, presents Grass Monkey Pale Wheat Ale from Sweetwater Brewing, The Less Desirables Beer of the Week. Sweetwater Brewing, out of the ATL, does beer right. I don’t think they can mess one up if they tried to. It’s not that I love all their…
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Salutations™!! Today on The Man Who Ate the Town, Kelly and I talk about Joymongers (briefly), Finnigan’s Wake’s St. Patty’s Day and I talk a little about Krispy Kreme. There’s a lot about Finnigan’s Wake, for sure and some about Krispy Kreme. Good conversations. You can hear the episode HERE. Until tomorrow, same…
Salutations™!! Yeah, I usually piggyback on Tuesdays with The Man Who Ate the Town Podcast. But, I’m going to do one a day early, too. This time it’s a video. I’ve been eating this protein meal replacement shake powder about two days a week for a few weeks, now. I get bored with routine after…
Salutations™!! Yesterday was St. Patrick’s Day so of course we had to get our Irish on and went to Finnigan’s Wake instead of Mary’s Gourmet Diner (we did that this morning) but we did get to Underdog Records on time. Here’s what we got: Yo La Tengo – There’s A Riot Going On – The BCPF really…
Salutations™!! I’m sure we’ll play this today on vinyl, but we’re celebrating the 1986 release of Depeche Mode’s Black Celebration album and this is probably my favorite song on it, so here ya go. Enjoy! Until tomorrow, same blog channel… Scorp out! — “Come with me into the trees. We’ll lay on the grass and let the…
Salutations™!! If you happen to find yourself in Greensboro tonight or feel like a leisurely drive to Greensboro, then consider stopping by the Carolina Theatre and coming up to the Crown to see Abigail Dowd, new band Gasket Hawkins and The Silver Alerts. The festivities start at 7pm and shouldn’t run too awfully late, that…
Salutations™!! Forty-two years ago today, March 15, 1976, the fourth KISS studio album, Destroyer was released. Destroyer was the immediate follow-up to Alive which, thanks to “Rock and Roll All Nite,” really broke KISS into popularity. Their first three studio albums did absolutely nothing and were released within 13 months. They tried one after the other and…
Salutations™!! City Beverage, the Official Beer Sponsor of The Less Desirables, presents the Milk Stout from The Duck-Rabbit Brewing Company, The Less Desirables Beer of the Week. The old stand-by. The standard milk stout in the world of milk stouts. Duck-Rabbit does these things right. They are dark beer specialists. They make great dark brews,…
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Salutations™!! So, today on The Man Who Ate the Town Podcast, Kelly Bone and I got into a discussion about Peters Creek Parkway and its woes and possible whys after the news broke that Hero House was shutting down its Peters Creek location. We also talked about food trucks and the debacle that the health…
Salutations™!! Today is the birthday of one of my two favorite people in the world. She is the reason I’m alive. Not the reason I was born. That was Ma Mère. She is the reason I’m still here. She is my life. The BCPF was born on this day, a few years back. She’s still young….