Fearful Symmetries

    My own view is that a dislike of smoke beer is a character flaw, an indication of a lack of virtue. Not lack of virtue as in smoke beer ...

(Photo by John Vinson .) Although I had heard and enjoyed Rush 's classic rock radio staples such as "Tom Sawyer" and "Sp...

(Sail on over to entry #60 .)

Earlier this month Twitter reminded me of the 41st anniversary of Abacab by Genesis. (Wikipedia says it was released on 18 September.)  Whi...

Back in the summer Sprecher Brewery released Festbier, a…um…festbier, I guess. To the best of my knowledge, this is the first time Milwauke...

  I remember the moment I found out that Marillion had lost their singer, Fish , very well. It was, I think, the spring of 1988 and the sad...

My initial encounter with the lagers of Jack's Abby was a bust but it was my own fault. I should have known better than to drink an In...

( Read more about "The Waiting Room".)

(late June 2022) Most artists attend the opening of their shows and not the closing. (I assume they generally don't attend the closing, ...

Back in the spring/summer of 1987 a friend of my older brother caught wind that I was a Genesis fan of epic proportions and, as good elders ...

 

This post is sponsored by Old Thompson Blended Whiskey. An excellent value. It is sometimes hard for me to separate the legend that is Bob D...

(Read entry #58 .)

(late June 2022) (listen to this entry's prelude ) One thing the Frau and I have done a lot this month is eat well. Don't get me wro...

(Head to 48:30...) (Read entry #57 .)

I suppose that, for my summer entries, we should just take it as read that I took a bike ride down to Acewood Park. On my most recent one I ...