Bottle #4: When a Beer’s Like a Great Book

October 14, 2010 Beery Scribblings

This week, Scribblskiff is like CNN, except sudsier. In other words, we’re all beer, all the time. Why? Well, as mentioned previously here, we are celebrating “Baltimore Beer Week” and decided that a single post’s worth of palaver wouldn’t do justice to the scale of this second-annual event. As a result, we’ve been offering one brief [...]

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Bottle #3: You From Jersey? What Exit?

October 13, 2010 Beery Scribblings

Sometimes less is not enough and only more is more. That seems to be the case with “Baltimore Beer Week” — and our coverage of it here at Scribbleskiff. There are so beery many things to do (and to discuss) during this celebration that the organizers thought the “week,” which runs from October 7-17, needed [...]

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Bottle #2: This Stillwater Runs Deep

October 12, 2010 Beery Scribblings

This week at Scribbleskiff represents a variation on the theme of a cherished childhood bus-ride boredom-killing song. There aren’t actually 99 bottles of beer lined up on the wall — it’s more like seven. But we are taking down what we have, one bottle at a time, and sharing the contents, virtually, of course, with [...]

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Enjoying Beer ‘Week,’ One Bottle at a Time

October 11, 2010 Beery Scribblings

If it’s true what Benjamin Franklin once purportedly observed, that “beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy,” then the heavens are certainly smiling down on my neck of the woods right now. For one thing, the city where I live and work is in the throes of the second-annual “Baltimore [...]

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How to Host Your Own ‘Mencktoberfest’

September 13, 2010 Beery Scribblings

It’s mid September, and for every self-respecting, semi-literate Germanophilic Baltimoron — like myself — that can only mean one thing: It’s time to celebrate not one but two holidays: Der Tag and Oktoberfest. The latter, of course, is a wildly popular, mammoth festival held in Germany to promote Bavarian culture and its greatest contributions to [...]

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Remembering My New Orleans, Again

August 27, 2010 Beery Scribblings

As I’m sure you have heard by now, this week marks the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. And, as I’m sure you remember, August 29, 2005, was an awfully stormy Monday, a supernatural event that has given rise to more than a few superlatives over the years. From the sounds of things, there will be [...]

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Fathers and Daughters, by the Book

August 10, 2010 Bookish Babble

Recently, I overheard my girls singing the words to “Daughters” by John Mayer. This pleased me, but perhaps not for the reason you’d think. Although I like it when my kids sing, I generally don’t like them singing songs like that written by a guy like this. Nonetheless, I am a big fan of any art [...]

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A Mix-Pack of New Music to Make Your Summer Crackle and Pop a Little Longer

July 28, 2010 Musical Musings

It’s the same thing every year. Not long before the last pop and fizzle of fireworks has begun to echo over the waterway on the 4th of July, I suddenly realize: summer is coming to an end. Yes, I know that’s melodramatic. Technically speaking, the season is barely two weeks old at that point, with [...]

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More for Less: Six Beers for One Season

July 1, 2010 Beery Scribblings

As a contemporary once noted, Sir Thomas More always stayed true to his beliefs, under any and all circumstances, despite what others thought or how they wanted him to behave. He was, in a word, “A man for all seasons.” And although these are the traits I prefer for our men of principle (presidents, philosophers, [...]

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Lifting My ‘Rule of Two’ to Buy Elvish, Bordello Music That’s Out of This World

June 18, 2010 Musical Musings

Rarely do I purchase full-lengths anymore. It’s become necessary (and, well, funner) to simply cherry-pluck a few songs from amid the muckle of platters on the market. Being on a limited budget is, of course, the main contributing factor to this behavior. I download as many (legitimately) free mp3s as I can; most record labels these [...]

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