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Apparently “Van Life” is a thing, that thing being living in your van. I thought that was just an initial stage in the career of every country and western singer, but some people actually live in their van by choice. I did a bit of research and as you can imagine, van...
Way back in the day us Cranky Old Men frequented a few of the finer K-town establishments. The PG, like the rest of the downtown, went uptown, but before it did it had concrete floors with a beer and blood drain and was a no go except for the lowest of the low, which...
While Brother Kramer shredded his axe, Brother Tyner shredded his vocal chords while imploring the crowd to “kick out the jams, motherfuckers”. * In a classic and necessary radio edit, the intro to that MC5 song that ended up on the airwaves was “kick out the jams,...
For some reason beyond reason I thought that this Beyond the Pale ale, Pink Fuzz, sounded like a good fit for a Mother’s Day beer sampling. And even though the old man used to say “Mother’s day is every day but Father’s Day is only once a year”, it’s not every day...
Winter Storm Warning in Effect: For residents of Intense City. There’s a Sou’easter coming in from the Northwest that’s bringing with it more snow than a Studio 54 party. * We suggest you hunker down and drink up and before you try to dig out stay in with a nice Ice...
I’m not what one would call an opera aficionado, don’t know much about the genre at all, although I’m sure our egghead Editor will have an opinion on the subject. As far as I know Carmen and Madame Butterfly met the Barber of Seville at Figaro's wedding. What I do...
A cool night cozy up by the cottage fire with a buxom Belgian blonde sounds like a cranky old alliteration addict’s dream come true. So here I am, taking on another Tripel, I guess I’m old enough to know but not to know better. Still hope springs eternal, or is that...
Let me tell you about road trips. There was that one to the Kiss concert in TO. Then what about a spur of the moment trip to Kitchener Waterloo Oktoberfest. And all those A-Bay happy hours just South of the border. Or a motorcycle ride from BC to Ontario and then on...
On my multiyear Vancouver brew tour I got gassed in Gastown, and had a brew or two by Brewery Creek. Not last or least I quaffed a Yeast Van and had a Stanley Park cup to toast my beleaguered Buds (in a rebuilding decade). I even made a trip to the island, no not that...
Live from Vancouver, back by popular demand, hailed by some as the highlight of the whole event, it’s another edition of the unofficial butt sanctioned CIM conference wrap & tap review. * Each of us held our Destiny in our hands as we settled into some serious...