Boston Strong… youtu.be/ZTXD4kpbATI?...

Just wrapped a June-August trip to Europe. Attached map shows how useful the Eurail pass was. The many additional bus and walking journeys aren’t shown.

In London and had already seen everything that interested me at the theatre, so after a 10-year gap I saw Les Mis, because of course I did. Coming off three weeks in France, I was secretly cheering for the Monarchy to endure. Alas, not to be.

“Tart fruit ISO feisty Lambic partner with whom to make lovely Kriek children.” (Marché du Midi, Brussels)

MAHA. Making America healthy again.

Finally back in Europe for the next two months. Dutch fishing village…

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I wonder if, in the United States, on my shelf, this is the only bottle of Geuze Devillé from Den Herberg in Halle, Belgium. I'll soon be back in the Low Countries and drinking gueuze of all kinds.

Our next 'Think While You Drink' (24 June, 6.30pm, Greenbank, Easton) features Bristol-based writers, @boakandbailey.bsky.social on 20th C pubs in 21st C Bristol & Dafydd Wiliam, Principal Curator, St Fagans on re-building The Vulcan Hotel. goodchemistrybrewing.co.uk/pages/think-while-you-drink

#GFGF is in Brussels to deliver the 'European Recipes for Change' cookbook, with grassroots demands from 15 countries for a just food system to the @ec.europa.eu and @europarl.europa.eu. You must listen to our call for a fair, agroecological #CAP! ✊ Share this post and help us make some noise!

Oh come on! I am absolutely pro union/organized labor. But, I am also anti innocent bystander collateral destruction. Airline passengers have little elasticity to say "Well, out of worker respect I'll just stay home today, or I'll take another form of transportation."

Mad respect. I buy radishes weekly.

Eleventh, 12th and 13th Canadian provinces?

Maybe a bi-monthly or quarterly schedule is more sustainable and easier to assign hosts in advance?

Guest worker policies make so much sense. Ask farmers, they’ll tell you.

See the moral parallels between the rationale of the President in 1965 to ensure civil rights and of President Trump in 2025 to quash civil rights? Yeah, I don’t either. I see antithesis. apnews.com/article/immi...

Watch the slow motion: it appears to me that the officers discuss the photographer and reporter before the one on the end fires on them (it looks to me like he's aiming at the camera, not the reporter, but you decide)

Interesting interview— “All the lefties fled to Bluesky following Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover. But CEO Jay Graber says the app is for everyone—and could revolutionize how people communicate online.” www.wired.com/story/big-in...

For those who care deeply about these things, just a reminder that today, 5 June, is Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Danke Shane.

I love this view of growers tending their hops.

If you don't know Martyn Cornell's beer scholarship, this video interview is a good overview to his keen mind. "Mild Ale History with Martyn Cornell - BeerSmith Podcast #233" youtu.be/zvjjSbF7GTM?...

Of course they did. A metaplay about the play.

Grants to $1.5k-$12k supporting publication of nonfiction books in arts, history, natural & built environments for informed general audience. For writing, research, editing, indexing, design, illustration, photography, and printing and binding. philanthropynewsdigest.org/rfps/rfp1789...

Nurse Ratched vibe.

I’m watching the film Conclave and I’ve just realized that, no matter what your station, life really renders as a never-ending struggle to sit with the cool kids on every bus, metaphorical or literal.

Was I the only one watching Union St. Gilloise while Eurovision burned down the world?

“And oh, my dreams It’s never quite as it seems Never quite as it seems” youtu.be/rnQ-slv_xHc?...

JD strikes again. He told Poppie, "Here, hold my water."

D’accord.

Still trying to figure out why the new guy went for the name Pope Leo XIV. Personally, I would have gone for Popeil II.

I’ve been Team McLaren for a number of years but with mad respect I can say that Lewis Hamilton looked very sharp at the Met Gala last night

Kent State, 55 years ago. Anyone feel that higher ed campuses are safer now?

🗣️ DO YOU WANT TO BE NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR??!?

I'm a member of organized labor, so am sympathetic to striking workers and willing to endure disruptions in support of bargained-for employees. However, regularly cancelling flights at Brussels airport is not something that one just pivots to a "Plan B" to navigate...

Dear Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Europe will always stand by Ukraine in the pursuit of peace.
 You can count on our support at the negotiating table to achieve a just and lasting peace. 
Today, we also discussed the steps Ukraine is taking to earn its place in our family of nations.

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📍In London to prepare the EU-UK Summit with Keir Starmer. We are friends. And we are Europeans. It means that we share interests and democratic values. And that we are ready to face global challenges as like-minded partners.

US: 'Young women now binge drink more than young men' | ABC abcnews.go.com/GMA/Wellness...

Get behind @jonnygarrett.bsky.social @craftbeerchannel.bsky.social powerful campaign to give #CaskAle the UNESCO Cultural Heritage Status it deserves! Gathering steam with the support of indie brewers, @camraofficial.bsky.social & national media. Sign the petition #KeepCaskAlive

It’s Sunday night and I’m bracing myself for another week of political chaos. “… every time I read the papers That old feeling comes on; We're waist deep in the Big Muddy And the big fool says to push on.” youtu.be/4EtpIsEK6aw?...

Underfunded Schools Forced To Cut Past Tense From Language Programs theonion.com/underfu...

Happy Good Friday, wherever you are on the spectrum. Meanwhile, I can’t believe JC Superstar only received a 50% on Rotten Tomatoes. Get thee behind me, Satan Reviewers!

Happy Good Friday, wherever you are on the spectrum. Meanwhile, I can’t believe JC Superstar only received a 50% on Rotten Tomatoes. Get thee behind me, Satan Reviewers!

Reopened! www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

In the macro view of a globe with 8 billion people, I know that professional golf doesn’t matter one bit. Having said that, good for Rory McIlroy - a genuinely good person.

Cold, rainy Sunday in New England so I knocked out a bit of Focaccia bread for comfort.

Is Verstappen’s radio broken? It’s been 30 minutes and I haven’t heard him complain about his equipment or other drivers.