My new series of interviews with writers about punk rock for Razorcake series kicks off with this chat with Elizabeth Hand: http://razorcake.org/elizabeth-hand-interview-by-michael-t-fournier/
Batch #42. Crystal clear, light straw, effervescent, generous head. Flat aroma and malt profile. Clean hop bite.
Batch #46. Clear. Reddish brown. Fine head. A bit of hop aroma. Malty with good hop bite.
I wrote about the Sisterhood for March Vladness and the Sex Pistols for the RS 500.
Batch #45. A touch cloudy. Thin head. Golden brown. Bitter but not much else.
Batch #43. Poured clear and golden. Little aroma. Fine head. Malty with neat bitterness. Did not notice the fruitiness of the previous bottle.
Batch #42
Dense head, golden yellow. Malt nose. Super bitter, piney.
On grad school and Boy Scout camp and playing drums for The RS 500.
My eighteenth podcast for Razorcake is available now, featuring music by Collate, FCC, sister, brother and more!
The long-awaited sliver of Black Flag and baseball fandom intersection at You Don’t Know Mojack. Thanks to Ryan and Brant.
Cabildo Quarterly #12, summer 2018 is available now! With new writing from Kaylee Duff, Timothy Berrigan, Kelli Stevens Kane, William Repass, Kurt Morris, Paula Coomer, Daryl Gussin, Margaret Emma Brandl and Howie Good. Click here or get at us for hard copies.
My seventeenth podcast for Razorcake is available now! Featruing new music by Lithics,
Here are the dates for this summer’s tour with Mike Faloon. We’re still looking for help in Michigan and/or Wisconsin – hit me up if you can help!
My review of Stephen King’s new one is up on Chicago Review of Books today.
My sixteenth podcast for Razorcake is available here, featuring new stuff by Spirits Having Fun, Protomartyr, Radon and more.
I review Mike Faloon’s new free jazz book here for Vol. 1 Brooklyn.
My review of Meg Wolitzer’s new novel is up on The Collapsar.
Primed with 3oz brown sugare
FG 1.013 (7.48% ABV)
17 22oz bottles
3 12oz bottles
Racked to secondary
1oz Simcoe pellet
1oz Centennial pellet
1oz Cascade pellet
New England Style
11lb 10oz Rahr 2-row
1lb CaraAroma
1lb Flaked Wheat
5gal strike @ 165*F
60min sac. rest @ 150*F
1.5gal sparge @ 170*F
10min mashout
Collected all
Boil
60min 10mL Hopshot
10min ~1oz Amarillo whole flower
10min ~1oz Cascade whole flower
0min - 1oz Simcoe pellet
0min - 1oz Centennial pellet
0min - 1oz Cascade pellet
Chill to 90*F
1oz Simcoe pellet
1oz Centennial pellet
1oz Cascade pellet
Pitched 1pkg Safale US-05
OG 1.070
Dead Trend’s third release is available now.
With new stuff by Messthetics, Screaming Females, ExMaid, Secretary Legs and more! Click here.
I talk to those hosers at You Don’t Know Mojack about “Double Nickles” here. Dig it!
New flash fiction up today on Gimmick Press. Dig it!
I wrote on their debut album for The RS 500.
I wrote about Weird Al’s ‘Polkas on 45’ for Memoir Mixtapes.
Also, my eleventh podcast for Razorcake is up now.
17 lb packers cut
Trimmed and cut in half (lengthwise)
<¼ cup salt
¼ cup ground black pepper
Used ¾ of rub
Cooked 6 hours at 275*F
Spritzed with cider/red wine vinegar/water (25/25/50)
Internal temp 165*F
Wrapped in paper and held in oven overnight
Cooked 5 hours at 265*F
Internal temp 200*F
12lb turkey
Added ¼ cup ground pepper to remains
Cooked 2 ½ hrs at 265*F
Wrapped in foil with 1 stick butter
Cooked 1 hr at 265*F
Internal temp 165*F
Seasoning was just right. Sat for 3 hrs before eating. Cut brisket too thick.Turkey should have come out sooner.
To commemorate the first anniversary of you-know-what, Dead Trend has recorded a cover of New Order’s “Age of Consent.” Check it out here: https://deadtrend.bandcamp.com/track/age-of-consent-2017
Bent Water’s Sluice Juice
Drank on Oct 21st. Pours hazy with thick head. Smells of citrus, floral. Oaty and hoppy, it finishes clean. A New England-style IPA. Would be fun to compare with Heady, Julius, Sip o’ Sunshine; it’s of that caliber.
Southern Tier’s Pumking
Sweet and spicy, gotta have one this time of year. One is enough.
ala Franklin
50/50 salt/pepper
12 lb packers cut
275* F
6 hours naked
5 hours wrapped (paper)
30min rest
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Great beef from New Gloucester, ME.
Wrapped at start of stall. Not done at end of 11 hours. Increase set temp? Nice smoke ring. Good seasoning. Decrease salt.
Wherein I interview Constance Squires about her new novel “Live From Medicine Park”
2nd Cook
Beef Ribs ala Franklin
Hot sauce, 50/50 black pepper and salt. 285F target. Cider vinegar spritz.
Started Friday at 10pm, finished at 10am Saturday. Unattended from 1am to 6am. Fire out.
Too salty!
FG 1.005
Primed with 2/3 cup of brown sugar
24 22oz
3 12oz
Looks clear, orangey. Fruity nose. Resin pine taste and sticky finish.
LIC Brewing’s Higher Ground
Big juicy Mosiac and El Dorado pale ale.
Racked to secondary
1oz Chinnook pellets 13.4%
1oz Centennial pellets 10.4%
1oz Simcoe pellets 12.6%
Ivanka Trump, who has kept a low profile since moving her family to Washington, is beginning a quiet push on the same women’s economic empowerment agenda she advocated on the campaign trail last year.
On Thursday night, President Donald Trump’s eldest daughter hosted a dinner party with a group of CEOs at her new Kalorama home—the stated purpose, according to two attendees, was for Ivanka Trump to solicit ideas on how to promote women in the workforce and fight for issues like paid maternity leave.
The working dinner party marked Ivanka Trump’s first step toward trying to influence policy in her father’s administration. Trump’s most high-profile first daughter stepped down from her executive position at the Trump Organization, and separated from her eponymous fashion line last month, to serve as an outside support system for her father and her husband, White House senior adviser Jared Kushner. But Thursday night’s dinner marked Ivanka Trump’s foray into politics on her own, since moving to the nation’s capital.
Attending the Thursday night dinner was Walmart CEO Doug McMillon; General Motors CEO Mary Barra; Ernst & Young CEO Mark Weinberger; Johnson & Johnson CEO Alex Gorsky; investment banker Adebayo Ogunlesi; JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon; Trump’s head of the National Economic Council, Gary Cohn; and Dina Powell, the former Goldman Sachs partner who recently joined the administration to advise Ivanka Trump and Kushner.
Read more here
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1. Waiting On My Horrible Warning
A guttural garbled mess. Better not admit you like it.
2. The Bar Is Low
Is any song more fitting of these times? It’s a pop song.
3. Ignorecam
Like the Bataan Death March, then nirvana.
4. Cold Whip Cream
Let it fly! Throttle wide open.
5. Love Without Emotion
A loping beat with crooning lyrics and guitar.
6. I’m a Man
Agreed.
7. (Won’t Tell You) My Sign
This one is totally fine.
8. It’s Your Knees
If Black Sabbath had covered Metallica.
9. Worldwide Marine Asset Financial Analyst
As a worker, this one speaks to me.
10. Have You Ever Been Furniture
Feeling the angst on this one.
11. ActiviaSludgy.
Crepuscular.
12. Not Even Married
It’s an angry sound, but catchy.
Drunk dialing, 1950s style? Paul Child’s thank you letter on receipt of Bernard De Voto’s The Hour, with De Voto’s reply.
My review of Aaron Gilbreath’s book of essays is up on Chicago Review of Books.
*Don’t
Check out the article I wrote about my Spam key for McSweeny’s Internet Tendency.
150g poolish
340g KA AP
45g rye flour
225g water
30min autolayse
8g salt
¼ tsp instant yeast
2 hour fermentation
Formed baguette
2 hour fermentation
49min at 425*F (first 15min steam)
200g poolish
400g KA AP
200g HM Rye
200g Water
30min autolayse
15g salt Knead by flap and fold. 2hr riseAdapted from http://www.breadcetera.com/?p=71
300g poolish
200g KA Rye
550g KAAP
450g Water
15g Salt
2 tsp instant yeast
Autolayse
Add salt and yeast, knead by flap-and-fold
Let rise
Split into two
Let rise
Make boulets
Let rise
Bake @ 425*F 40min (15min steam)
