Nutemptress
“Oh, this beer here is cold, cold and hop-bitter, no point coming up for air, gulp, till it’s all–hahhhh.”― Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow nutemptress beer, from Lakewood Brewing I’ve written about...
View ArticleSol y Luna
“Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born: – you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.”― E.E. Cummings One of the cool murals at the Community Beer Brewery
View Article98 Bottles of Beer on the Wall
“Isn’t beer the holy libation of sincerity? The potion that dispels all hypocrisy, any charade of fine manners? The drink that does nothing worse than incite its fans to urinate in all innocence, to...
View ArticleCherry Bomb!
Hey, street boy, what some style?Your dead end dreams don’t make you smileI’ll give you something to live forHave you and grab you until you’re sore—-Cherry Bomb, The Runaways Bottle cap from the...
View ArticleShort Story Of the Day (flash fiction) – Sherman’s March by Bill Chance
“If I owned Texas and Hell, I would rent out Texas and live in Hell” ― General Philip Henry Sheridan Deep Ellum Brewing Company’s Lineup I have been feeling in a deep hopeless rut lately, and I’m...
View ArticleShort Story Of the Day – Empty Bottles (flash fiction) by Bill Chance
“Work is the curse of the drinking classes.” ― Oscar Wilde The end of a game of giant Jenga – Community Beer Company, Dallas, Texas I have been feeling in a deep hopeless rut lately, and I’m sure a...
View ArticleSunday Snippet – Alphasmart by Bill Chance
“She’s not my wife,” the man said, “She’s my aunt, and she likes you.” —–Bill Chance, random file from my Alphasmart Neo My Not-A-Purse. What is strange is that I found this image floating around on...
View ArticleKi Yippee Yi
The cowboys cry, “Ki yippee yi!” Deep in the heart of Texas The dogies bawl and bawl and bawl Deep in the heart of Texas —-June Hershey, Deep in the Heart of Texas Heart of Texas Red, Craft Beer Logo,...
View ArticleAfternoon at the Brewery
“Never underestimate how much assistance, how much satisfaction, how much comfort, how much soul and transcendence there might be in a well-made taco and a cold bottle of beer.” ― Tom Robbins,...
View ArticleHave a Party
“I believe when life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade…and try to find someone whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.” ― Ron White Four Corners Brewery, Dallas, Texas
View ArticleThe Dude Abides
“Careful man, there’s a beverage here!” — The Dude Artwork in the Braindead Brewing Company, Deep Ellum, Dallas, Texas
View ArticleA Pink Floyd Reference
Lime and limpid green, a second scene A fight between the blue you once knew Floating down, the sound resounds Around the icy waters underground Jupiter and Saturn, Oberon, Miranda and Titania Neptune,...
View ArticleCold, Cold And Hop-Bitter
“Oh, this beer here is cold, cold and hop-bitter, no point coming up for air, gulp, till it’s all–hahhhh.” ― Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow Taps on the wall, and a bear. Braindead Brewing Company,...
View ArticleBike Porn – Tribe
“A tribe is a group of people connected to one another, connected to a leader, and connected to an idea. For millions of years, human beings have been part of one tribe or another. A group needs only...
View ArticleYou’re Not In Tejas By Accident
“And here …” Now the orange became Tejas: “In the middle of this mess, Tejas, Spanish to the core, God’s bastion, just as in Europe.” He patted the orange, reveling in its security, and said: “God...
View ArticleOpen Your Veins, and Bleed
“You simply sit down at the typewriter, open your veins, and bleed.” —-Walter Wellesley “Red” Smith (and many others) Our kitchen cabinets are filled with pint beer glasses emblazoned with local...
View ArticleEat it Off
“The minute you land in New Orleans, something wet and dark leaps on you and starts humping you like a swamp dog in heat, and the only way to get that aspect of New Orleans off you is to eat it off....
View ArticleCeaseless Play Of Light
Dot’s Hop House, Deep Ellum, Dallas, Texas “The crystal trees among them were hung with glass-like trellises of moss. The air was markedly cooler, as if everything was sheathed in ice, but a ceaseless...
View ArticleBeer and Batuman
“I found myself remembering the day in kindergarten when the teachers showed us Dumbo, and I realized for the first time that all the kids in the class, even the bullies, rooted for Dumbo, against...
View ArticleOld Fashions
“Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.” —- Henry David Thoreau, Walden Four Corners BreweryThe CedarsDallas, Texas Oblique Strategy: Remove specifics and convert...
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