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Always found it weird how mainstream the word "pimp" got. Restaurants offering to "pimp" a meal, for example.

I started getting a lot of NZ Patriot style pages today, out of nowhere.

Printers. What's the deal there?

They ever going to work or have we just given up on them?

Peak male form

Is Time Out more "vibes" than data can't be a serious question.

Do I wear my shoes off inside...?

I'm ok. I wasn't there for me. I'm just sore. And now wrecked.

A lady rinsed me. Calling me out for hobbling slowly past her.

Got me good

"slow down hahaha" she called out.

Anyway, we were in a hospital.

Going Rogue, going… gone This weekend, the earlthy remains of Rogue Ales (1988-2025) will be auctioned off, having been divvied up into nearly a thousand occasionally baffling lots. Like a few other breweries, my experienc…

New post up on Beer Diary — a look through the occasionally grim and sometimes baffling catalogue of the upcoming Rogue Ales liquidation auction inspired some thoughts on the precarious cultural history of "craft beer" in volatile times.

I should clarify: I'm not usually annoyed by others in huts. It's nice to have company but I'd spent two days solo, it was drizzly, and I was nestled in my sleeping bag reading. It was about four hours since I stopped expecting any chance of a new person.

It's jarring when it happens like that.

Buckland's Peak Hut fwiw.

View between two mountains to Westport, the river snaking through the centre of the picture and the horizon in the distance.

Gas cooker on a picnic table. Previous view in the background

Mountains, sky, grass, sunshine

A small but. The sun gleaming. A mountain in the background.

Visited a great backcountry hut this weekend. Spent half a day hiking, half the next exploring the peaks and the rest nestled in the clouds reading and writing.

At 6pm, night two, two people arrived, initially to my annoyance... But it was my friend and her daughter. Which was a lovely result.

Very cool how (in this case literally) crushing fascism is emerging in Australia largely through supermarket companies

Adrian Brennan is being described as a "local hero" after chasing down a roast chicken thief in Bowral, NSW (Twitter)

We should've seen it coming

Went and had a good perv at the eclipse. Mocked the sun a bit, threatened the moon some.

Anyway, I'm sure my crops will be fine this year.

Just looked this up... They had a $200m 10y contract?! For radio? That's silly.

Front page of AdNews, but it's all a big pink ad for Boomtown Hub. The sides, the top, the middle. It's a lot. One tiny headline at the bottom saying "where did all the good beer ads go"

Adnews really living up to its name here.

Three hot sauce bottles with clear liquid and vibrant orange and red chilli

I've been making fermented hot sauce for years. Love to ferment.

But honestly some of the best results are from basic Pique (Puerto Rican style sauce).

Just add chile (this is habanero) to white vinegar (plus some salt, garlic, and whatever), and keep topping up when it runs out.

Would.

Maybe the flipside should be meat and dairy needs to be more literal too.

Porterhouse is now Loin Muscle Steak. Yoghurt can be Bacteria Fermented Milk. Blue cheese is Bacteria Fermented Milk Fat Injected with Mold. Sweet breads... Etc etc.

We are At War now, according to President Bush, and I take him at his word. He also says this War might last for "a very long time." Generals and military scholars will tell you that eight or 10 years is actually not such a long time in the span of human history - which is no doubt true - but history also tells us that 10 years of martial law and a wartime economy are going to feel like a Lifetime to people who are in their twenties today. The poor bastards of what will forever be known as Generation Z are doomed to be the first generation of Americans who will grow up with a lower standard of living than their parents enjoyed. That is extremely heavy news, and it will take a while for it to sink in. The 22 babies born in New York City while the World Trade Center burned will never know what they missed. The last half of the 20th century will seem like a wild party for rich kids, compared to what's coming now. The party's over, folks.

From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.

when it da freakin weeken

John Mullaney and Nick Kroll dressed like elderly Jewish men and a giant tuna sandwich.

This guy spent a large chunk of his career pretending to be an expert on waterways, while giving himself mercury poisoning from eating too much tuna.

Once again we are the jewel of the south.

Nothing but sunshine here in Kawatiri Westport.

I know it's not original thought but...

It's literally the Blackhole Sun clip

yes thank you. Finally some recognition in this damn place.

We had 8 hour layover so taxied there for that, then to Chinatown to eat lots of dumplings. Was the best way to wait for a flight.

jewel of the south (Kawatiri Westport) shines once again. Many say it's the "place to be".

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