December 2011
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Bourbon’s All-American Roar →
Sales of bourbon are rising, helped by premium small-batch and single-barrel products and flavor infusions like honey, cherry and spice. Now distillers are looking to extend their overseas reach.
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Tastr's Top Ten of 2011
This year wasn’t fantastic, and towards the end of my top ten I began to suspect I had missed out on a great deal of good music. There was a lot of good but not great music this year. I’m sure if you ask me in six months it would be drastically different. But I feel good enough about this. Here goes:
Little Dragon - Ritual Union
tUnE-YarDs - W H O K I L L
Holy Ghost! - Holy Ghost!
YACHT -...
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Top Bay Area Eats, according to DaVinci
Weed Girl Scout cookies: Best weed in the world. I’ve already told you too much.
“It’s it” ice cream sandwich: Some real Bay shit; these are made in the Bay, and for the longest time you could only find them in the Bay, only in the corner stores out here. They’re individually wrapped chocolate-covered oatmeal cookie ice cream sandwiches, and there are only three...
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the soundtrack to a not so distant dystopia,... →
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great new idea
given the fucked up brutal rapes in the mission lately:
mace cell phone holder.
it holds your iphone, and it has mace!
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a funny thing happened yesterday
i was at the corner bar, watching my national football league team absolutely destroy a local national football league team, when the manager of the bar comes over and congratulates me on my great success. while he’s there, i suggest the tap beers aren’t good enough. he takes offense and asks me if i’d like to get behind the bar and pick out the taps. then he says, actually,...
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fuck
who delivers goddamn brunch?
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A November to Dismember
No actually I had a pretty good month of music. It wasn’t a fruitful as October but rarely do music festivals happen in your own city, so November was just a good month. Here were the highlights of my month in music:
Thursday, November 10th: Holy Ghost! at Slim’s.
The night prior was a particularly rough one. The boys invited us over for an epic dinner party where approximately 1.75...
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Mister mom
Is probably what I’m gonna call Dear Mom after going there tonight, cuz that’s what Dano accidentally called it. I would say it has a chance of becoming either the Hemlock of the Mission or the Bloodhound of the Mission. I’m hoping for the former.