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Plan Your Costumes Now, Kiddos!

It’s probably already too late to get the supplies for your Halloween costume.  Someone else with superior planning skills and costume-planning moxie already snatched up the good stuff.  Just take a look at the wigs we found at Goodwill this

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The Last of Us – Emotional Gameplay

Let’s talk gaming for a minute.  Video games have come a long way from Donkey Kong and Bard’s Tale.  The game studio Naughty Dog, made famous and wealthy by the wildly successful and acclaimed Uncharted trilogy which is as much

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Vroom Vroom!

Following up on vintage Tonka trucks, I finally released the last hidden truck to Number Two.  He got three for Christmas and the fourth, a huge fire truck, would’ve been lost in the excitement.  But this weekend, as I cursed

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Making Beer, Part Two

Once you’ve made beer, what do you do with the grains?  If you run your own CAFO (concentrated animal feeding operation) you can use tanker trucks to deliver thousands of tons of spent grain mash to your metropolis of pigs

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Making Beer, Part One

It was bound to happen: making bread and drinking beer leads to making beer.  They aren’t that different, bread and beer.  One’s liquid and both are delicious.  My wife got me a beer-making kit from Brooklyn Brew Shop.  The flavor:

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Vintage Tonka Trucks

Let’s clear the air about my use of the word “vintage” before we begin.  I am not curating a collection of retro toys, I’m not a compulsive hoarder with a sweat-slicked forehead making sure all my old toys are in their ORIGINAL

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Do a Barrel Roll!

I’ve been chastised by my brother for featuring “girly” beers on my blog recently.  Well, excuse me for wanting to drink my beer from a miniature porcelain teacup featuring images of dancing Pomeranians wearing hats and booties!  Excuse me for

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Almanac Beer: Honey Saison

This is a great time to be drinking beer.  I don’t mean right now, in the morning, I mean this year.  The United States is in the midst of a beer boom, with more micro-breweries popping up every day.  And

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Hangar 24 Gourdgeous – A Review

They’re everywhere now, clogging the endcaps at your grocery store, pushing regular beers out of the way with gaudy orange and black signage:  pumpkin beers.  Most are regular beers with some fake pumpkin flavoring added.  And let’s really dig into

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FIRETRUCK!!

Ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod!  It’s huge!  Much bigger than I thought.  Bigger than the one at preschool.  I think it’s bigger than a table, even. Can I open this panel?  I really really really want to open it.  With that handle

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