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When A Happy Thing Falls
“But suppose the endlessly dead were to wake in us some emblem: they might point to the catkins hanging from the empty hazel trees, or direct us to the rain descending on black earth in early spring. —...
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Don’t Shoot Me, I’m Only the Bass Player
“People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to...
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Without Thought On Anything But the Ride You Are Taking
“When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on...
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Taps
“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,...
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Bowls & Tacos
“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,...
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Balance
“There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.” ― Alain de Botton Deep Ellum Brewing Company, Dallas, Texas
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What Does a Mirror Look At?
“What does a mirror look at?” ― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune Deep Ellum Brewing CompanyDallas, Texas
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I Lift My Gaze
All of a sudden, as if a surgical hand of destiny had operated on a long-standing blindness with immediate and sensational results, I lift my gaze from my anonymous life to the clear recognition of how...
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Old 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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Beer 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...
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Ceaseless 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...
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Eat 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....
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Open 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...
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You’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...
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Bike 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...
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Cold, 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,...
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A 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,...
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The Dude Abides
“Careful man, there’s a beverage here!” — The Dude Artwork in the Braindead Brewing Company, Deep Ellum, Dallas, Texas
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Have 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
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Afternoon 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,...
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