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no skin in the game this year, first time in 10 years but can't complain. gotta root for sharks and caps, as always. boston/tampa seems like a toss-up, i won't be surprised if boston makes it to ECF despite the toughest path there. and lastly, completely loving the nashville/winnipeg series. nashville is very lucky to be heading out of town with the series split. i am totally on jets bandwagon, how can you not love watching Big Buff drag those bitch preds around...

learn the art of the bottle lip. no glasses nor shirts required.

happy birthday BRO-TU!

definitely not ready for work this week. morning metal it is. Impetuous Ritual - Blight Upon Martyred Sentience

happy birthday naaman!

Happy birthday gingery bro!

Happy birthday Steve!

gardot is really good, i'll have to check that live cd out. -- morning metal (very) Portal - Swarth

time to upgrade the padding, colin sir. go get some of those biscuits and gravy as part of your recovery plan.

yeah the only Stagg Jr I’ve personally bought was batch 1 and it was straight jet fuel. i’ve tried later batches and it’s much better now. Reddit bourbon (/r/bourbon) has a google doc archive of thousands of user reviews - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1X1HTxkI6SqsdpNSkSSivMzpxNT-oeTbjFFDdEkXD30o/edit#gid=695409533&fvid=484110565

morning metal Altarage - Nihl

happy belated birthday, Jeff!

morning metal Old Man Gloom - NO

name a date and time

yep, another Small opened in Lincoln Park very recently. the menu is much more limited, mostly just the burger and booze but what else do you need? i'll have to go to one soon and experience it without waiting an entire evening...

unfortunately no . maybe 30 minutes?

morning metal (sort of) maudlin of the Well - Bath

one huge advantage of the move to schaumburg - there's a kuma's corner (not the original but food is the same) 6 minutes from the hotel https://goo.gl/maps/7W3uFXWAPfr

can we sneak a flask into this? if i go, i'm looking forward to talking shit about 6-figure rooms that sound truly terrible. i would want to listen to whatever rooms have daedalus set up, always liked them.

morning metal Full of Hell - Trumpeting Ecstasy

important things people - don't that tonight is Burns Supper. one of these years i'm gonna find a way to have proper haggis... but instead i'll just be doing some combination of ledaig, ardbeg, and bowmore sans Scottish food fare. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/burns-night-haggis-address-poem-2018-robert-burns-scotland-poet-a8175671.html

don't know anything about wigle. barrell has made a decent name for itself as an independent, non-distilling producer - similar to the willetts and smooth amblers of the world. yes, they are expensive and you will never know the exact source. but everything is cask strength, non chill-filtered, and most seem to have a decent age (7-10 years even where they do a blend). i personally have passed on them at retail because they're not quite a good enough value compared to four roses private selections, elijah craig barrel proof, even newer stagg jr. batches. one other cool thing about barrell is they've done a few different tennessee whiskeys for single barrel bottlings (most likely sourced from george dickel) which is highly unique for an independent bottler and they've have started to bottle rye and rum, both of which i heard were decent.

Happy birthday our brother!

morning metal Deafheaven - New Bermuda

Willie Watson - Folk Singer Vol. 1