Samuel Smith’s Nut Brown Ale Review

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Nuts + Ale = A fine drinking experience

Until recently, I only took a slight interest in what I call artisan beers. My boyfriend is a former homebrewer of beer and a real fan of your more independent and smaller beers. To me, beer had always been a beverage that I drank with meals or quickly in order to get properly fucked to the curb. And while it tasted good, I was more interested in getting it down my gullet and into my tummy efficiently as opposed to pleasurably. That being said, I’ve had a change of heart! I now truly enjoy drinking beer for its taste and the atmosphere that I enjoy in its presence.

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Kittens and Ducks

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From Top to Bottom: Kitten-Duck #1, Kitten-Duck #2, Kitten-Duck #3

Of course we all know little gray kittens and tiny yellow ducks are amazingly cute together. Pick out your favorite picture, email us, and we will tabulate your votes for our famous President’s Day blow-out!

A Hundred Years Ago in Music: The 1906 Scene by Jonathan Shipley

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1906 was amazing. The Victor Victrola was blasting out the hits! For instance, who can forget “Captain Baby Bunting of the Rocking Horse Brigade”? You can’t? What, are you crazy?! It was a brigade, see, of rocking horses. Ha! And who was leading the charge? Captain Baby Bunting. Oh, that Baby Bunting, he always cracks me up. And the tune is magic! I whistle the tune a lot to keep my spirits up when I’m in the hospital with another bout of scarlet fever.

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