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Belgian Night: Stoovflees, Westmalle, and C’est arrivé près de chez vous (Man...
The Food and the Ale Standing in BevMo in front of the Belgians, I pick up a Westmalle and say to my husband, “Have you tried this before?” He shakes his head no, and suddenly I realize that I am a...
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Evil Dead Trailer Released Today
Oh-em-gee, you guys. This is intense and tree-rapey and all. I’m skeptical of course, but everyone seems to be really excited. Aw what the hell, me too! Why not?
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Women’s Halloween costume addendum!
I just happened to get this haircut and then realized that it made me look just like Casey in Scream. Score! We also went to a screening of Night of the Living Dead at one of the...
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Happy Halloween–zombocalypse style!
Hanging with my mom watching The Walking Dead for the first time (I know–finally)! It’s probably going to be a marathon day, and I am pretty happy about that. Not much else to say. Got some watching to...
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AVAST, November!
So as many of you may know (particularly if you are the nerdly blogger that I am), November greets a little thing called “NaNoWriMo”. This is a project in which, for 30 days, writers take to their...
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The Last Broadcast—Spoiler Edition
You may have heard that there was a Blair Witch Project found footage movie before the Blair Witch Project came out. That movie is called The Last Broadcast. I’ll preface this entry by saying I do not...
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Your Election Day Special-Dystopian Review: Battle Royale/Wrangler Wheat
It’s election day kiddos (at least in the US)! And we are all glued to our devices watching the fluxing of blue and red. Whether you think the republicans are out to harvest your ovaries or the...
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Novel Teaser: The Legend of La Pantano
Here’s the intro to the novel I’m working on this month (and for the past two years). Hope you enjoy it! …………………… Introduction by the author It all began, as do many a public fracas, with an uploaded...
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Juan of the Dead–Minimalist Review and Preview
For months, I have been waiting to see Cuba’s first horror film: Juan of the Dead. Written and directed by Alejandro Brugués, the film is a co-production between Brugués’s Cuban indie film company...
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November is long over and the watch/drink list continues….
Consolation prize–yummeh! Tonight the consolation prize is for my missing out on a Punch Brothers show. So that link I included isn’t actually a Punch Brother’s track, but it’s the lead...
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American Horror Story Season One?
SPOILER WARNING for American Horror Story Season One With thanks and apologies to Pete Wells. Why did I spend my week watching a show about a “murder house” when I was packing to move into house where...
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And now: A Christmas (Beer) Carol
I have decided that the only way to express my true devotion to Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale is to write a song about it. So here goes…(sing to the tune of “It Came Upon a Midnight Clear”). from...
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In Which Lars Von Trier trades his Fox for a Cow and Charlotte Gainsboug for...
You know those utter groat-fests that you really want to like? But just can’t? Two strikes today. First a film about hallucinogenic mushrooms, the second, a mediocre beer from a place where drugs are...
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Dahmer-ama
I turned on the biopic “Dahmer” directed by David Jacobson with the full knowledge that serial killer biopics are typically horrible, the last few I’ve tried getting switched off in the first 10-15...
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Cambria Beer Company: Mudhoney
My parents like to go a-jaunting up the coast to Cambria from time to time–former stomping grounds of William Randolph Hearst and current stomping grounds of some zebra, antelope, and German tourists....
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You Must Decide
Writing prompt from Writer’s Digest. It seemed particularly horror-oriented, so I thought I’d post. “A mad scientist approaches you with an offer—he will heighten one of your senses, but it will make...
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Where to find Britain's Viking brewhouses
Reblogged from Zythophile: Merryn and Graham Dineley, she an archaeologist specialising in exploring ancient ale-making, he a craft brewer specialising in actually making ancient ales, have produced a...
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Barrel-works Opening: Lip-puckering Fun
It’s been exactly a week since the Firestone taproom in Buellton opened their “Barrel-works” program and tasting room. The program is headed up by a hospitable fellow named Jeffers Richardson (whose...
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Who Doesn’t want to try the “Friendship Beer”?
Look at those two fluffy heads, mama!!! A name like Biere de L’amitie, conveys a dank cellar full of adorable albeit sloshed old men. And I mean that in the best way possible. The beer itself was...
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