Day 114: CandyShock

originally published April 23, 2012 Sometimes controversy is a good idea. A racy ad gets people talking, a scandalous drunken escapade can bring a ton of publicity. Sometimes you can beat up your girlfriend and people will still buy your music and treat you like something other than the piece of human garbage everyone knows […]

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Day 113: The Rogue Ale Experiment

originally published April 22, 2012 Today’s article is brought to you by the good people at the Rogue brewery. Today, as I write this, I am sampling their “Voodoo Doughnut” product, a bacon maple ale. That’s right, I like a little bacon flavor in my beer. Those of you who read my love letter to […]

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Day 102: A Love Letter To Bacon

originally published April 11, 2012 I have written about a lot of subjects this year. 101, though if you count the hundred topics from two days ago and the dozens I scraped up for my haiku experiment, the number is closer to 300. Some subjects (the 1715 Jacobite Uprising, the Subservient Chicken) I have been […]

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Day 76: Miller Lite – Everything You’ve Always Wanted In An Article… And Less

originally published March 16, 2012 I have not yet written an article on one of my favorite topics: great beer. Today I will unfortunately not be breaking that streak. My topic du jour is Miller Lite. I’ve only had one Miller Lite in my thirty-seven years, and I vaguely remember it being only marginally different […]

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Day 43: Say, Cheese!

originally published February 12, 2012 There are 309 varieties of cheese listed on Wikipedia. I could list them here, and along with this sentence I’d be a third of the way through today’s article. But where’s the fun in that? Actually, more than 500 kinds of cheese are recognized by the International Dairy Federation, a […]

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