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Food, beer, and travel writer. Connecticut Magazine, CTBites, Fodor's Travel, and anywhere else they'll let me. Connecticut-based, but I eat it all. What's on tap?

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My man went over like a majestic redwood there

14.03.2026 16:08 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

LL Bean is usually the answer

14.03.2026 16:07 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The rare bit of truly good news

14.03.2026 16:04 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Where are our brave patriots with their Gadsden Flags, Punisher stickers and MUH 2A assault weapons to protect us from the armed agents of THE GUBMIMT when we need them, I ask

13.03.2026 19:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

*directly

13.03.2026 14:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

bsky.app/profile/dart...

13.03.2026 14:03 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is what you need to know.

Hold this in your mind.

13.03.2026 14:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I’ll have to check that out.

And may Asia Argento’s karma be exquisite.

13.03.2026 14:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Getting called up for a job and being asked to cater the VIP for Bourdain must be stressful.

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Opinion | Environmentalists make good movie villains because they want to make your real life worse They're well-intended enough to often seem somewhat reasonable, but meddlesome busybodies trying to effect some utopian scheme or another to return the world to an unsullied Eden.

Via @sonnybunch.bsky.social

web.archive.org/web/20200215...

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Always makes me laugh a little when they really lean into it

13.03.2026 13:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Just Tony solo and he was fantastic. He was clearly enjoying himself and went long on the q&a afterwards.

13.03.2026 13:13 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
LED balloon!

LED balloon!

Tremendous work by the CBS Sports editor who did this

13.03.2026 04:44 πŸ‘ 562 πŸ” 77 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 11

bsky.app/profile/grib...

13.03.2026 02:37 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I am once again urging abolition of home plate umps bsky.app/profile/talk...

13.03.2026 02:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Taproom and Covered Bridge room at The Griswold Inn - then Saybrook, current Essex, CT - opened that January to serve the tradesmen on hand to build the Cromwell.
It’s been open for 250 years.

12.03.2026 22:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The answer to that makes a lot of people on this site big mad.

12.03.2026 17:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Whereas we think it would be better if instead of a β€œhowling and unfillable shatter-toothed void” he had β€œa soul.”

12.03.2026 16:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Didn’t ask him to sign anything but went to see him live at the Palace in Stamford on the tour he did between No Reservations and Parts Unknown c. 2012.

12.03.2026 16:53 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

[stares gas prices-ly]

12.03.2026 15:47 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks for keeping this visible, @solarshea.bsky.social ! Dismantling NCAR would be yet another terrible blow to the science infrastructure that made this nation great. πŸ§ͺβ˜€οΈ

12.03.2026 15:15 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Happy birthday, Sven!

12.03.2026 15:31 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

between the adrenaline rushing through his veins and the shot of espresso he’s doing in the dugout after each home run this man’s heart rate might be approaching 220

12.03.2026 01:37 πŸ‘ 68 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

You know, this is helpful.

12.03.2026 01:08 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Canadian baseball fans absolutely crushing canned beers at the Canada-Cuba WBC game

Canadian baseball fans absolutely crushing canned beers at the Canada-Cuba WBC game

Hell yeah

11.03.2026 21:39 πŸ‘ 210 πŸ” 47 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 28

Death Of Stalin shit, right here.

11.03.2026 19:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I would mess his ass right out of the sport of baseball with my first wish from a genie.

11.03.2026 19:43 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œAll eyes on the Asharshylyk!”
I hear on the Yale campus, daily, mm hmm.

11.03.2026 19:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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From NASA

Our Eye on Mars πŸ”΄

As it marks 20 years at the Red Planet, here are five ways
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is mapping the future of exploration. πŸ›° ➠ πŸ‘©β€πŸš€

🧡

10.03.2026 20:20 πŸ‘ 30 πŸ” 14 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I started watching Joe Bob during Monstervision replays on I *think* Mojo TV in the early aughts but I may be having some sort of Mandella Effect moment, because I can’t find any evidence it was on there.

ANYWAY!

The Drive-In is undead, for now!

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