Cool links for 2/28

Oh boy. My head hurts. No one told me vodka and wine and bourbon don't mix well. Still, duty calls.

Today's very quiet post includes:
Mr SKU no longer updates this very comprehensive list but I'm sharing it anyway because it is very comprehensive:
The Complete List of American Whiskey Distilleries & Brands

Here's a 100,000 year old tequila:

I'm not kidding

I like to laugh. This guy made me laugh for decades, and The Larry Sanders Show is still the standard by which I judge all others. Now, Judd Apatow has finished his labor of love. We'll all be able to enjoy it on March 27:

The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling

I lived in Florida twice, California once and surfed one time. I also wore OP shirts in high school constantly. I had checkerboard Vans! I now live in Wisconsin and I like this:

This is my next binge watch:

Ugh. Tired. Bye.

Cool links for today

OK, yesterday's email seemed to go OK. Hundreds of you read it - thanks! And, hey, I don't mind at all if you pass this along to anyone else interested in random bite-sized bits of information. Don't be afraid to share via email or social. I like doing this kind of stuff, and if people are reading it, I'll keep doing it.

So, for the foreseeable future, I'll pass on some more stuff that's worth checking out...

Drinking in the street - who doesn't love it (and don't you feel like you're getting away with something you shouldn't be doing?)

Anyway, here's a good list for anyone in the 50 states looking to make their drinking-in-the-street plans ahead of time:
The Drinking Festival in Every State You Don’t Want to Miss

Gotta eat, right? Use this excellent BBQ sauce from Wisconsin:

This is NOT a paid endorsement - it's just tasty.


Speaking of booze, if you're looking for a good gin that won't break the bank, try this one:

While enjoying some Beehive & tonic. plant yourself on the couch for the next few days/weeks/months and get set to watch all eleventy jillion hours of the shows on this list:

ALL THE BIG TV PREMIERES YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT IN 2018

I'm excited for Silicon Valley, myself. But geez...so much TV.

Here's a randomly chosen pulp magazine cover! It's awesome.

Bye for now!

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This week's cool stuff

This week's bloggy thing will be a bunch of things I think are worthy of mention. So, to start off, here's chance to try some nifty cask ales in Chicago...

Beer fest of the week:

Beer of the week:

Ommegang has been a leader of the craft beer world for quite a while now. I consider the Abbey Ale to be their finest offering.

What to read this weekend:

The Nebula Award nominees have been announced!

Cheese of the day:

The gang at Agropur make some awesome, award-winning cheddar:

Rum is starting come out of the shadows and steal some attention away from bourbon and vodka. Especially this one - Diplomatico Reserva Exclusiva:

Damn fine hooch for $40

Videogame you can buy for me now:

I've been a fan of Supercross for many years. It's fast, exciting, unpredictable and it doesn't overstay its welcome, like some other racing series I could mention (Hi, NASCAR!). The new Supercross release for PS4 is available now!

That's all for today. Enjoy the week and we'll talk soon

A new era for ZCB. Also, goat carcass games

The new ZCB newsletter is now available via Tiny Letter: 
https://tinyletter.com/ZombieCatBacon

ZCB Facebook is still a thing, as is ZCB Twitter. Just Google it.

How about this for a T-shirt of the Day?
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/471892867189778067

What's Buzkashi, you ask? Let Seanbaby tell you: http://www.seanbaby.com/news/buzkashi.htm

Oh, and there's a World Championship, too: http://www.expo2017culture.kz/en/event/view?id=356

Also known as Kokpar, it is one of the most popular Kazakh games.

I prefer the name Fight for Goat Carcass.

That is all.

Stuff, and the acquisition of it

Great post from Robin Brooks over at GeekDad. This question of the acquisition (and dispersal) of stuff was kinda the original theme of ol'ZCB.

read now: On The Acquisition of Stuff

Oh yeah, Zombie Cat Bacon is sharing awesome content from all over the Interwebs here:

Twitter - Twitter also posts the various newsletters from the ZCB Universe: United States of Whiskey (focusing on craft bourbon and whiskey trends), WOMMAN (women's MMA news), Rock Is Alive (real rock'n'roll from the 70's to now), and The Escape Goat (comics news).

Facebook - Follow ZCB on Facebook and always be up to date

Pinterest - Pretty pictures and nifty article links

Tapiture - Pinterest for guys (not so SFW all the time)

Gentlemint - Other Pinteresty kinda thing (always SFW)

I'm running for Parliament!

He's got my vote.

Does collecting still matter?

Why Collecting Matters: 

Citizen Archivists and the Battle for Future Pasts

At a time when markets for used LPs like eBay and Discogs have snuffed the mystery from record shopping, Bob Abrahamian and Patrick Lundborg were the kind of collectors who actively sought out unexplored territory. Over decades of discovery, their lives’ work accumulated meaning that exceeded the value of the vinyl on their shelves — even if those recordswere breathtakingly rare. Their sudden deaths (Abrahamian took his own life at age 35; Lundborg passed away of unspecified causes at 47) this past summer left the record collecting world in mourning. They were important voices, snuffed out too young.

Read here now at Wondering Sound