Hip Hops: Beer to go with your Thanksgiving meal … in 2005
Revisiting one's past scribblings can be enlightening or embarrassing. Puzzlement can ensue: what was I trying (and succeeding, or failing) to say?
This act of willful rereading can cross cosmic boundaries and produce the hangover-like...
Hip Hops: A chronicle of what I can remember after 40 years in beer
I try to keep the self-aggrandizement to a bare minimum here at Hip Hops.
(brief pause for a round of beers, a bathroom break, and sustained hilarity)
This being said, and honored only in the breach,...
Hip Hops: With practice, beer knowledge is put into practice
A pedestrian on 57th Street sees a musician getting out of a cab and asks, “How do you get to Carnegie Hall?” Without pause, the artist replies wearily, “Practice.”
In his book Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell...
Hip Hops: Remembering a May Day in glorious Vienna, 1987
Today is May 1, or May Day. In Europe it's a traditional festival marking the beginning of summer, in addition to being known in a great many locales worldwide as International Workers’ Day.
Saturday, May...
