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Monthly Archives: January 2020
Billy Strings – “Home”
A tweet from Joe Pernice hipped me to Billy Strings, a bluegrass guitar player. His 2019 album “Home” is excellent. I’ve been spending time with country and bluegrass music the last couple of years and this is something contemporary that respects the traditions but isn’t aping them.
For me, it does to bluegrass what “Metamodern Sounds In Country Music” did for country music.
Last night’s recording beer
After keeping 2019 recording drinks nearly 100% cocktails, it was fun to crack a beer for last night’s show.
Tröegs Nugget Nectar is a dry-hopped amber ale. This seasonal treat is a longtime favorite at our house.
My desk is a mess.
Safe As Milk Podcast #125
Things to watch! Something to buy! Something to listen to! Drinks!:
- (13:22) The Expanse
- (17:45) Hobonichi Weeks 2020 Planner
- (24:08) Threedom
- (27:00) Dolemite Is My Name
Drinks!
- Mike – Man O’ War Cocktail
- Adam – Straight Bars from Short Throw Brewing
Followup and Footnotes
2020 RVA Open 1/19/2020
The Solid Sundays keep on rolling.
Last weekend I competed in the 2020 RVA Open, a weightlifting meet here in town. I was trying to get a competition total of 179kg, which would qualify me for competition at the 2020 American Open Series, which starts in March at The Arnold. I went a couple of years ago and it was a good time.
Here’s my last lift of the RVA Open:
This 105kg clean and jerk was a PR for me and secured a meet total of 183kg, more than enough to qualify for the Arnold.
As always, I have to give tremendous credit to my coaches, Chris and Maddie from The Weight Room (the best gym in RVA).
I copped this sweet medal:
Got a photo with these class gentlemen from my session:
And then rolled over to Banditos for food and cold ones with my family:
Like I said, solid.
not okay
It shouldn’t be colder here in Virginia than it is in Chicago. It just shouldn’t.
Eli Manning is retiring.
Here’s what I wrote back in 2004(?!?!) when the Giants drafted him:
(sweet screencap from the Wayback Machine’s cache of my blog back then)
(I also 100% have that jersey hanging in my closet. I wore it when I watched the Giants play.)
(man, I really need to get those old Movable Type posts integrated here)
In his years as the New York Giants quarterback, he brought me a lot of good times. Also some bad times, but the good times were so damn good I forgive them.
Specifically:
and,
I watched these games with my family and they were stressful and exciting in the way that rooting for sports teams can be. Goddamn they were exciting.
Thanks for the memories.
no hobo no mo’
I still like getting haircuts, even though they’re on the other side of my head nowadays.