Unemployed Reporter Porter
Via CT.com
Jon Campbell, who briefly made Hartford a more interesting place with his presence and reporting for the Advocate, has entered the homebrew game with his signature Unemployed Reporter Porter (pictured).
“Porter style beers were first popularized in the nineteenth century by merchant sailors and manual dock laborers,” the label reads. “Unemployed Reporter is crafted in the same tradition, honoring a profession likewise doomed to decline and irrelevance.”
For this new class of “expendables,” the label goes on, “we’ve included chocolate and roasted barley malts that are as dark and bitter as the future of American journalism, and a high alcohol content designed to numb the pain of a slow, inexorable march toward obsolescence. While Unemployed Reporter is especially delicious as a breakfast beer, it’s still smooth enough to be enjoyed all day, every day. And let’s be honest: what else do you have going on?”
FJP: Give it up for Jon. Brewing up the best out of a difficult situation. Here he is on Twitter.
Image: Brewing it dark and bitter. Select to embiggen.
7th February 2013
Reblogged From teachingliteracy
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Title: The Minutes Went By On Tip Toe... (2010) by Ben Newman
Ben’s Favourite Raymond Chandler Simile
Person 2: RAWR! DON’T CALL ME THAT!
(Source: thisdelicatereprieve)
cormac mccarthy’s first television interview ever, with Oprah, June 2008. among other things he explains the 2 moments that lead to him writing the road.
clever
This is my third tattoo and the first one in pure words. It’s a poem by Margaret Atwood. After reading the poem for the first time back in college, I knew I would have it tattooed on me someday. (photo by keith dador)
- Camera: Nikon D90
- Aperture: f/2.8
- Exposure: 1/100th
- Focal Length: 50mm
there are 3 writers that I have book crushes on even though I haven’t read them: Charles Bukowski, Sheila Heti, & Jorges Luis Borges. I’ve read around them. I know bits about them. But I’m somewhere between saving them and a little afraid to read them in case they’re not all I’ve hoped. But they will be. So I’m slowly working my way through the list. 1 down, 2 to go.
Watch this movie about JLB. he’s super. In fact, imma go to BMV today. Target titles: the Labyrinth & Imaginary Beings.
Similarly, there’s an excellent Bukowski movie called Born Into This. It’s on netflix if you’ve got it.
A friend of mine recently illustrated and published a children’s book with her dad. This is her lovely book trailer for the book, Beto’s Burrito.
by a book
I am in the gutter
at the end of the street
in little pieces
like the alphabet"
“…Don’t let anyone tell you what a story is, what it needs to include. As an experiment, write a non-story. It will have a chance of being different….
…The point is: it’s very important that what you do is specific to the medium in which you’re doing it, and that you utilise what is specific about that medium to do the work. And if you can’t think about why it should be done this way, then it doesn’t need to be done.”
- edited extract from a lecture given by Charlie Kaufman for Bafta and the BFI. Full series at bafta.org/screenwriters.
via the guardian
awesome. enjoyed every moment of that.
Drew Christie is without a doubt my favorite contemporary animator
nice.
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