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theheadlessgroom · 3 months ago

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Lon sighed but otherwise settled down (though he could clearly be seen eyeing the gifts, quietly vibrating with excitement at the prospect of tearing into them), while Colin admired the little section cordoned off exclusively for the family, giving a low whistle as he remarked, "Real red carpet treatment!"

"Oh yes, yes, yes," Dorian smiled, as the servants came around with drinks-as promised, the twins got to enjoy a Coke each with their dinner. "Not only do my godchildren deserve the best, in my book, I also like to do this for an added bit of privacy-something I didn't really get much of as a boy, I admit, when it came to my birthday parties."

As much as Dorian enjoyed being the center of attention, there was always such as thing as too much of a good thing, and that was the case with his birthdays, often celebrated not with just his parents and immediate family and closest friends, but also what felt like the entirety of the Louisiana upper class, all turning out in droves for the party at his parents insistence. It felt a touch awkward, having all these people he really barely knew watching as he cut his cake and opened his presents, to say nothing of not really getting to play, since he didn't get along with too many of his peers. Thank God for Beau and Elizabeth, making those parties bearable, to say nothing of the one instance Randall and June got to attend, when the latter worked for his parents. Those were the celebrations he really remembered.

But Dorian wasn't about to let those past memories put a damper on the present, instead delighting in Lon and Erika's excitement at the room's atmosphere-to say nothing of spotting a particularly scaly friend lumbering through the ballroom on his leash.

"Hi, Miss Sally!" Lon greeted brightly, as the tightrope walker put her gift with the others, greeting, "Hello, sweetheart! Happy birthday!"

"Thanks!" the youngest Pace twin grinned, as Erika hopped down from from her seat to greet the gator with a pat on the snout...despite August's little protests to the contrary, any and all ghostly color in his face draining at the sight of his granddaughter just casually treating such a massive creature like a friendly dog.

"Oh, this is the one Emily was telling us about!" Josephine commented with a smile, joining Erika in petting the gator, who seemed to enjoy the attention. Looking back at her husband, the Burke matriarch called, "C'mon, Auggie! He doesn't bite!"

"He's friendly!" Lon confirmed as he hugged the gator around the middle; August, for his part, tugged at collar nervously, but nevertheless put his best foot forward, trailing nervously up to the easy-going alligator, very slowly and carefully leaning down to give a pat on the head, only to quickly rescind his hand with a barely-suppressed shudder.

"That was very brave of you, dearheart," Josephine smiled, standing up to kiss his cheek as they all resumed their seats, and Sally and her pet went on their way. Watching them vanish into the crowd, August chuckled, "So long as he doesn't have a taste for teacher, I'm sure we'll get along just fine!"

@beatingheart-bride

"You got breakfast in bed, Mama?" Lon asked in surprise (he thought you only got to eat in bed when you were sick!), to which Randall replied, "She sure did. See, Grandpa Wil used to make Grandma June breakfast in bed for her birthday and Mother's Day, and she used to make him breakfast in bed for his birthday and Father's Day, so I thought it'd be nice to do the same."

Thinking about it, he realized he had a couple of very fuzzy memories when it came to these breakfasts; remembering vaguely helping his parents when he was very small, in particular his father...he couldn't remember if it was June's birthday or Mother's Day, he just recalled, however hazily, toddling around with a little vase in his hands, trailing after his father as they entered the bedroom, and his mother kissing his cheek when he presented her with the flower...

Leaving this hazy memory behind, he smiled as he recalled, "I got better at baking after that incident-we used to make little king cakes together for Mardi Gras; we never had anything hidden in them, of course, but they were still lots of fun to make and decorate."

Knowing all about the delights of king cake and other Mardi Gras cuisine (especially since Mardi Gras was such a major holiday at the Mansion; Uncle Dori and Aunt Lizzie wouldn't have it any other way), the twins lit up at this, only for Erika to then falter, asking, "Will...will Grandpa August and Grandma Josie come back for Mardi Gras?"

"And what about Christmas? And Thanksgiving?" Lon asked, their gleeful smiles having been replaced by a sense of uncertainty, an uncertainty Randall could see plain as day, and it made him sigh: In some ways, it seemed so unfair that these new families only have so little time to spend with the children before they went home...he understood, of course, but he hated to see the little ones so disappointed at the prospect of these new faces disappearing as quickly as they had appeared.

Still, Randall tried to put on a brave face for the pair, reassuring them, "I'm sure that they will. I don't think they'd miss it for the world."

#((it'd be completely unfathomable! of all the women she could've chosen to idolize in new orleans))#((to look to for motherly comfort and support; she chose not one of the wealthy ladies in her societal echelon))#((but instead chose a former burlesque dancer and the working-class wife of an irishman!))#((but like with how society would never look deeper when it came to what emily saw in randall; finding them an odd pair))#((they'd do the same when it came to her relationship with her in-laws! they don't see how they could connect))#((in any meaningful way; but it's like you said! emily is a kind-hearted; open-minded young woman))#((and both june and josephine recognize that quality in her; just as she recognizes their own qualities:))#((their kindness; their strong work ethic; their good natures; she sees the good in them; even if others don't!))#((so what if june married an irishman? so what if josephine was a burlesque dancer? that doesn't make them bad people))#((and you're right; she's not gonna let society dictate who she cares about; who she looks up to; none of that!))#((they're better company than much of high society anyways!))#outofhatboxes #beatingheart-bride #V:Two Worlds; One Family

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m-i-s-t-istheonlyoneforme · 4 years ago

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the main cast of MIST:

If anyone has any idea who these models are let me know, I think I have a few names which I’ll add as soon as I find them, but some of them are completely lost to me and google isn’t helping.

Character descriptions under the cut

Miren Cathbad - a firebrand, Miren is first and foremost Irish as all hell. Her family comes from a long line of druids, and is rumored to have descended from Cathbad of legend. She’s very proud of her heritage and is quick to defend Ireland and condemn the British. She’s not exceptionally smart when it comes to most things but she’s very determined, and is fueled almost exclusively through spite and rage. She’s understands the theory of magic but doesn’t quite grasp most of the latin spells they’re taught. However, when she starts writing her spells in Old Irish, she’s suddenly a prodigy. She got kicked out of her school for starting fistfights, and was just going to get a job when she was approached by MIST representatives to get her “apprenticeship” there.

Jack Batterbee - an all around himbo, you gotta love him. He comes from an old wizard family that was once super powerful but gradually ended up losing most of their magical affinity about 5 generations ago. Jack had only heard legends of his wizard family, and was starting to think they weren’t real. He applied at MIST as a last-ditch effort to learn the trade, and even though he isn’t very good at it, he is learning magic. He excels more at practical arts than magical, and his best class ended up being swordplay. He plays rugby in his free time.

Lucille Waters - A sweet and shy person, Lucille has the silent kind of strength, the kind that sneaks up on you and lulls you to sleep before it kills. She’s trans (mtf) and had to drop out of school due to the bullying there. After she blew up a urinal while being attacked in the boys bathroom and getting expelled, MIST representatives approached her and invited her to finish her education there, instead. She’s a first generation witch, and has found the people at MIST are much more accepting, although that might be because she passes well. She strives to do her best and to keep her chin up despite the numerous mental-health problems she’s struggled with along the way.

Winona Holliday - The fourth of five siblings, Winona was adopted by a sweet and caring couple that attended MIST back in the day. It wasn’t a real surprise to her when she was enrolled, but what was surprising is that her birth parents apparently had quite the reputation. Getting information out of the people who knew them is like pulling an alligator’s teeth, but she swears she’ll get to the bottom of it, any means necessary. She’s super intelligent, the brains of the four friends, and can often come off as calloused and cold. She spends most of her time studying new and sometimes forbidden techniques, and exploring the MIST campus to try and learn any new secrets. She’s sometimes referred to as “Winona Holmes” because her detective skills are so sharp.

Daniel Burke - The poor boy is characterized by his very sharp stutter, rendering him almost completely mute. He quit school due to mounting frustrations and inaccessibility, and was enrolled in MIST to try and do something with his strong magical talents that often act up when his frustrations come to a boil. He gets very frustrated and struggles with self-doubt, and many of the teachers only teach their lessons with vocal spells, struggling to adapt to his disability. He starts off as a clumsy swordfighter, but as the years progress he gets so good, using swordfighting to vent his anger, that he actually becomes known as the ‘Silent Knight’ around campus.

Gabriel Woodward - My favorite tragic hero, I’m such a sucker for a sad edgy boy. He’s a victim of lifelong child abuse from a washed-up, drunk of a father. The Woodward house was famous, or infamous, as a cruel and proud wizard house for a long time until it gradually began to collapse due to infighting. They all attended prodigious schools and had a glowing academic record. Gabriel’s father, Darius, further plunged the family name into the mud when he, the heir of Woodward Manor, slept with two women at the same time and managed to get them both pregnant near the same time. His wife left him nearly immediately after the birth of their son, Gabriel, and he holds it against his half-brother for his ruined childhood. When Grayson eventually emancipated himself, Gabriel felt betrayed-- sure, he had used Grayson as a punching bag his whole life, but how dare he leave Gabriel to his own devices? He arrived at MIST after crushing depression got the best of him and he dropped out of high school, and it carries a huge weight of guilt that he couldn’t live up to his father’s expectations and resurrect the Woodward name

Grayson Woodward - The half-brother i mentioned above. He ended up in Darius’ care after his mother was deemed mentally unfit to care for children (due to a series of horrible mistakes that Grayson was too young to remember). He became a punching bag for both Darius and Gabriel for ‘ruining the family’ and he got so sick of it that he got himself legally emancipated. He needed an apprenticeship to count as ‘continued education’ and so he applied at MIST. The horror when he realized that Gabriel also ended up at MIST was tangible.

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things-to-do-fort-worth-tx · 4 years ago

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Events

These days, it is important to prepare an itinerary before going to a certain place. With that, the people who are planning to visit Fort Worth, TX area should be familiar with its pre-scheduled events. Since there are still issues relating to the pandemic, you should prepare a plan in advance. Maybe, the tourism industry will be fully operational in the near future. One of the best options is to attend online activities while it is not yet fully safe to go outside and visit popular tourist spots. If you still want to attend an outdoor event, there will be a Distillery Tour, Tasting & Cocktail event at the Blackland Distillery this coming December 5, 2020.

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Fort Worth couple, parents of 4, killed when hit by vehicle racing in street, according to reports

Ben and Meg Arbour of Fort Worth, both 39, were killed shortly after midnight Thursday when their vehicle was hit by a street racer as they returned home from a date, family and police say. Fort Worth police reported that a vehicle with two passengers was pulling into the 4700 block of West Risinger Road when it was struck by one of two vehicles that were racing, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported. The striking vehicle, occupied only by the driver, hit a stone wall and flipped, police said. The other motorist who was racing sped away and had not been found as of Friday, police told the Star-Telegram. Read more here.

Many people want to be updated of the latest reports that has something to safety in the city. For example, it is enticing to know if the streets are safe for the people. Lately, it was reported that a Fort Worth couple, who are parents of 4, died after being hit by a vehicle racing in the street. The police officers and family mentioned that Ben and Meg Arbour of Fort Worth, both 39 years old, were killed shortly after midnight Thursday when their vehicle was hit by a street racer as they returned home from a date.

Fort Worth Zoo in Fort Worth, TX

The popularity of Fort Worth Zoo in Fort Worth, TX is noticeable for so many years. Interestingly, there are many people who are going there each year. But because of the pandemic, there is a dramatic decrease of the guests. But, there are still a lot of individuals who want to go there again. No wonder it’s exciting to experience it yourself. Hopefully, it will be safe to go there soon. Basically, the Fort Worth Zoo is a zoo in Fort Worth, Texas, United States that was founded in 1909 with one lion, two bear cubs, an alligator, a coyote, a peacock and a few rabbits. At present, the zoo is home to 7,000 native and exotic animals.

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kerishaharris · 4 years ago

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Why the cool kids (and brands who hope to be perceived as such) are on TikTok

Being what I like to describe as a “tail-end millennial,” I’ve grown up both with and in the digital age. I still remember turning in school assignments completed on a typewriter as well as playing Oregon Trail in computer class on those box-shaped, neon green Macintosh screens (I’m still heartbroken that my wife died of dysentery, btw). I remember pleading with my mom to hang up the phone so I could log onto AOL, and how much thought I’d put into curating the perfect AIM away message. I joined Facebook my senior year of college when it was still “the Facebook” and for college kids only, and remember how big a deal it was to rearrange my MySpace top eight (funny how we were full-on coding and didn’t even realize it). But now, as a mom of three tweens, I can admit that despite digital and social media being both my personal experience and my chosen career, there are media formats out there that I know nothing about, and that my kids’ knowledge far trumps my own. None of these formats feel more foreign to me, yet obviously influential and equally important to the next generation, than TikTok.

What is TikTok and (dancing humanoid dogs aside) who uses it? TikTok is, by and large, the newer, cooler and way more sophisticated version of Vine (RIP to a real one). On its own website, TikTok says its mission is to “inspire creativity and bring joy.” Produced and manufactured by Beijing-based video-sharing service ByteDance, TikTok reportedly boasts 800 million users worldwide, and as of 2019, has surpassed one billion installs (Yeh, 2019). It creates and curates an experience driven by its powerful algorithm, turning all of its users into a connected network of mini-influencers through the use of trending hashtags, leveraging of popular music, and push for engagement with other users through duets and viral dance challenges, making for a meaningful, organized, and dare I say it, super fun experience for users of the app (Herrman, 2019).

In exploring the app, what I found especially interesting was the way TikTok employs a vertical feed experience prompting the user to swipe up, which sets it apart from similar apps like Instagram Stories or Snapchat. This “endless scroll” approach seems, in my opinion, very conducive to creating an almost addictive experience which can lock you in for hours and hours. TikTok appears to cleverly take advantage of the way users normally engage with our vertical screens, filling up the entire real estate of our phones with engaging video content coupled with popular music that’s perhaps a little too easy to get sucked into.

Who is TikTok really for?

As not only a mom of tweens, but also having worked in communications within the education space in various capacities since 2016, TikTok’s popularity among young people comes as no surprise to me. TikTok is primarily used by youth between the ages of 16 and 24 (Brucker, 2020). It is used by about 69 percent of young people in the U.S., and these users spend at least 80 minutes per day on the app (Perez, 2020). This is the same group that, if you ask them, considers Facebook to be that “cringey” old people app that your grandpa thinks is cool, and Twitter to be that thing where journalists and politicians bicker with other journalists and politicians. It’s unsurprising to me that young people would be attracted to TikTok, a space that can feel exclusively like their own.

For me, it is that young people's exclusivity that keeps me away from TikTok. Despite being what many consider to be a subject-matter expert on social media, I am admittedly intimidated by an app I don’t completely understand or feel welcomed on. I feel more comfortable with the apps I’ve come of age with and whose functionality is more native to my own digital experience, most notably Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. I worry I may look like I’m “trying too hard” by exploring TikTok, or worse, that my presence there as a 38-year-old mom will render it an uncool place to be. My own kids reacted with horror when they noticed I had TikTok installed on my work phone, it didn’t matter that my job was to manage my then-employer’s institutional presence on social media. “Mom, please don’t make Wesleyan University a TikTok” they begged (too late guys, already secured the username for posterity). It was clear that they viewed TikTok as their safe space, and that my presence, as well as my employer’s presence despite it being an elite, well-known university, was not welcome.

Are any grownups or brands doing TikTok “right?” Interestingly, several marketers have managed to get past this “eww, adults and brands” factor to effectively market to TikTok’s growing audience through clever advertising and engagement campaigns. Capitalizing on the popularity of hashtag challenges on TikTok, Universal Pictures turned to TikTok as a way to promote their 2018 film, The House with a Clock in Its Walls, through a #FindYourMagic campaign which prompted users to film themselves doing their own magic tricks. Leveraging the power of influence, Universal got a group of popular TikTok influencers to post their own DIY magic videos, which naturally prompted others to do the same. As a result of the campaign, Universal received 1.3 million likes on the influencer videos, generated 19,000 pieces of user-generated content, and gained 11,000 new followers (Brucker, 2020). Whether it prompted people to actually go see the film, I’m not really sure.

(Source: TikTok for Business) In my work as a higher education social media manager, I often came across other universities (typically, with bigger teams and even bigger budgets) doing great work on TikTok. From a marketing perspective, it makes sense why a university would want to invest in building an exceptional presence on TikTok. Each year, so much of your energy and efforts are dedicated to marketing to prospective students and their families, convincing them that your school is the school to attend. Based on user demographics alone, TikTok offers a captive audience for the exact age range higher ed marketers are working so hard to reach. I’m proud to say that my undergraduate alma mater, the University of Florida, was one of the first to leverage TikTok and is considered one of the best in the game. With nearly 97,000 followers and more than 1 million likes, it’s clear they’ve figured out what resonates with their audience. Most of their TikTok videos feature the beloved school colors (anyone who went to UF will tell you we bleed orange and blue), Al the Alligator (we obviously weren’t terribly creative on the mascot name), fave spots on campus and the like.

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(Source: University of Florida on YouTube)

Other major schools like Brigham Young University and Florida International University capitalize on TikTok’s penchant for dance trends and employ their mascots, Cosmo the Cougar and Roary the Panther respectively, to jump in on these trends.

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...this same video on BYU’s Cosmo the Cougar TikTok has a staggering 28 million plays, 4.8 million likes, and more than 24,000 comments.

Is TikTok here to stay?

As a perpetual student of digital and social media, I see TikTok as the wave of the future for digital and social communications and marketing. The question for me, however, is whether or not I’m going to ride that wave as a communications professional. While digital marketing is still somewhat new on TikTok, my constant fear is that the moment brands step in and try to inject themselves onto a platform, mimicking and profiting off of the way it is organically used, its core users become disinterested, abandon the platform, and look for the next big thing they can call their own. If I’m lucky, perhaps I’ll get the next big idea and launch that platform myself.

Funny but true story. As I was putting the finishing touches on this blog post, my 12-year-old daughter came up behind me chanting the following.

Her: Racism? Stop it. Bullying? Stop it. Homophobia? Stop it.

Me: Is that from a TikTok?

Her: Yeah.

Me: Figures.

SOURCES:

Brucker, N. (2020, January 6) Who is on TikTok and how can brands reach them? Forbes. Retrieved from https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesagencycouncil/2020/01/06/who-is-on-tiktok-and-how-can-brands-reach-them/#1a2fe28343be.

Herrman, J. (2019, March 10) How TikTok is rewriting the world. New York Times. Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/10/style/what-is-tik-tok.html.

Perez, S. (2020, June 4) Kids now spend nearly as much time watching TikTok as YouTube in the US, UK and Spain. Tech Crunch. Retrieved from https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/04/kids-now-spend-nearly-as-much-time-watching-tiktok-as-youtube-in-u-s-u-k-and-spain/.

Yeh, O. (2019, February 26). TikTok surpasses one billion installs on the App Store and Google Play. Sensor Tower. Retrieved from https://sensortower.com/blog/tiktok-downloads-one-billion.

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howtohero · 5 years ago

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#249 The Death of Your Nemesis

(Note: This is Part Two of a three part story. Part One. Part Three.)

Uh. Ok, so your nemesis has died. The person you’ve gone head to head with for years and years. The enemy of yours who, without fail, always strives to make things as personal as possible, is gone... Good! You’ll be better off, and the world will be better off with them. You can finally dedicate your time to dealing with more systemic ills in your neighborhood. No longer will you have to alienate everyone you love because there’s always the slim chance that on any given day your nemesis could discover who you are and take vengeance on your friends and family. When your nemesis dies, that’s a reason to party. You’re free of them! Forever! Huzzah! You may not have been able to kill them due to some complicated moral code that only allows you to kill their henchmen, but that doesn’t mean you can’t celebrate their demise!

(Oooooook buddy, why don’t sit this one out. You’re going through a lot right now.)

I’m fine! Why shouldn’t I be fine! My nemesis, Dr. Brainwave, a convicted supervillain who was living, rent-free, in my basement, is dead. I’m free of him. I’m doing great!

(All right, totally. We can all see that you’re handling this with dignity and poise. Why don’t you let me deal with this one.)

Well I suppose I have been training you as my apprentice so that you could one day write blog posts on your own...

(Sure, that’s what our relationship is. So why don’t you go outside, take a breather, and let me handle today’s entry.

What the man says is true. Dr. Brainwave is dead and I guess, technically speaking, he was our nemesis. He’s threatened our lives more times than we count. {We are notoriously bad counters though.} He’s destroyed our home, our place of work, our garden filled with one-of-a-kind miracle veggies. {Immortality radishes, vampiric celery, tasty kale.} And yet, he’s always been there, and I think we kind of just assumed he always would be. You see, a nemesis is not just another supervillain that you’ve got to fight with alarming frequency. They’re a major part of your life. Oftentimes your nemesis will know you better than anybody else in your social circle. Sure, they only took the time to get to know you on this deep level so that they could inflict all manner of psychological torture upon you, but still, it’s kind of nice that they invested that time in you.

A superhero’s relationship with their nemesis is always going to be complicated. You’ll usually see them more than you see your family. You’ll see them at their highest {when they believe that they’ve killed you} and at their lowest {surprisingly enough, after they’ve succeeded in killing you and find their life to be devoid of all meaning and purpose} you’ll occasionally find yourself fighting alongside them and yeah, in some twisted way, you’re going to form a kind of meaningful relationship with them. So what are you even supposed to do when they’ve died? Granted, you’re not as fanatically dependent on them for your continued existence and purpose as they are on you. There will always be crimes to stop and evil to vanquish. But any superhero would be hard-pressed to deny that their lives would be a little bit emptier without their nemesis. Perhaps that’s the real reason why so few superheroes actually kill their nemeses.

If you feel like you need to mourn the passing of your nemesis, that’s ok. You should allow yourself to space to do that. Do something that they would’ve loved. Hold a {vacant} bridge hostage, kick a {robot, stuffed, already dead} puppy into the sun, burn yourself in effigy! If you’re worried about getting attacked by other supervillains if you attend a funeral or memorial service for your nemesis don’t worry! Supervillains usually are not friends with one another. That funeral is gonna be hella empty. You can go there with no problem. Besides, supervillain funerals have been poorly attended ever since Lady Richter used her “funeral” as an opportunity to drop many of her fellow supervillains into a bottomless chasm. Ever since then, supervillains have had a hard time believing that any of their colleagues are actually dead. If any other supervillains attend your nemesis’ funeral, they’ll be lugging around giant ladders in case a bottomless chasm opens up beneath them, and they will be too exhausted to fight you.

The whole How To Hero crew {me, Parentheses Guy, Zach, Lawyer Guy, Dr. Brainwave’s Greatest Shame, Diego A. Wayghosts, Todd The Bomb-Disposal Bot} attended Dr. Brainwave’s funeral and, lo and behold, the only other person in attendance was Dr. Brainwave’s other nemesis, Professor Brain-Scrambler. {There was also, of course, a large contingent of mutant alligators.} He actually spoke quiet beautifully about his mad scientist colleague, after which we pulled him over to the side and told him that he was a hack and that he could suck it, in line with Dr. Brainwave’s final wishes. All in all it was a very emotional 2 am-4 am. {Supervillain funerals almost exclusively take place during this time which is colloquially known as “the witching hour.”} The funeral home was a bit cold, and I would say it was definitely haunted, but overall, it was a pretty solid funeral I’d say.

Once you’ve spent some mourning the loss of an important and ever-present figure in your life, there is some housekeeping that you need to do. Reach out to your nemesis’ loved ones and express your condolences. The last thing you want is for their loved ones to vow revenge on you and beginning the cycle anew. If you can, talk with their loved ones, estranged family members, sidekicks, or unholy creations and make them understand that you were not responsible for the death of their loved ones. The quicker you do this the better. Blaming a superhero for the death of a loved one is 17th most common supervillain origin story. {number 68 is having your coal company run out of business by windmill farms but number 33 will blow your mind.} In our case, we sat down with Dr. Brainwave’s legions of mutant alligators and several hours of teeth baring and jaw snapping, a fragile peace agreement was forged. {The alligators for their part, behaved remarkably well. Not a single bared tooth or snapped jaw among them!}

Once that is taken care of you must attend to the rest of your nemesis’ personal affects. Their goons will be directionless, and this is a great time to many of them off the board. Have your friends in law enforcement scoop them up before they can find employment under a different supervillain. Or, if you really wanna get wild, invent a new identity for yourself, pose as a new supervillain, take control of your nemesis’ cronies, and then have them perform tasks that seem like crimes, but actually good deeds. Stuff like, “this old woman is an ancient evil spirt, help her cross the street” or “this is my territory now, nobody else is allowed to commit a crime here. If you see another villain doing crimes here, stop them!” Arrange operations against your nemesis’ lairs and begin systemically dismantling their operation. Since they were your nemesis you have the unique advantage of knowing where they’re likely to have kept most of their really cool stuff. And remember, in the souvenir game, it is first come, first serve. So lead the operation against their main fortress or stronghold yourself and claim all of those spleen-discombobulators and parasite helmets for yourself! For us, that just meant going into our own basement and, honestly, reclaiming a lot of stuff we thought we’d lost! We also blew up all of Dr. Brainwave’s stuff, as per his last will and testament. [Hi, again, a hastily scrawled note scratched into a chalkboard that says “destroy all of my Earthly things in the same manner in which I died” is not a will.] Well, we did it! And it was awesome! We didn’t even need to buy any explosives, it’s astounding how much of his stuff was already made out of bombs! {You know what? It’s actually pretty alarming how many explosives there were just under our house this entire time.})

Wait, how many bombs were there?

(I thought I told you to take the day off because you were being weird!)

You’re being weird! How many bombs did you find in Dr. Brainwave’s room?

(I don’t know, probably around 660. What do you think Curly?)

{I’d say around 664, maybe 665.}

Oh you have got to be kidding me.

(See, you’re being weird again. Buhbye! Now, any real superhero can’t exactly be without a nemesis. People will start to talk. “Oh yeah, that guy? He’s not really very superheroic, he doesn’t even have one evil person whose sole purpose in life is to destroy them. Poor guy.” So you need to find a new nemesis! {We recommend reading our advice for finding your first nemesis.} Try calling up all of your old enemies and see if they’d be interested in engaging in an eternal struggle between good and evil with you. Or, just go through the supervillain phonebook and pick a name that kind of seems like an inverse of your own name. {Or, if it’s still too soon for you to even think about replacing your dear departed nemesis, just prank call about of villains until you’re all cheered up.} Without Dr. Brainwave gone, we’ve obviously needed to start looking for a new supervillain correspondent... and, well... I guess just take a look at some of the auditions we’ve received.

Al “Da Boss” Marconi: “Ayyyy, da best way to save da world is to stab a twerp right between the eyes and laugh as he bleeds out on the pavement!” {Factually incorrect.}

Dr. Python: “So this job comes with a free room right? My last roommate turned out to be Ultiman so obviously that wasn’t going to work out and I kind of very badly need a new place to live.” {Seems to believe that living with Ultiman is a bad idea because he is a superhero but living with us is fine. Which leads us to believe he either doesn’t really get who we are, or does not respect us.}

Giorgio the Evil Mime: “...” {This guy was Zach’s top choice, but he is clearly grieving and not in his right mind. He seems to have forgotten that our supervillain correspondent needs to be able to speak and make intrusive comments on our blog posts.}

As you can see, we have been having some trouble, but luckily we’ve got interviews with Jhonny McBarn-Burner, Mustard Man and the dreaded Karalaxus who is actually a very pleasant guy once you agree to give up your free will and join his horde of mindless zombies. So hopefully one of those guys pans out.)

Stop everything! We don’t need a new supervillain correspondent. (Dude, for real, you need to take a break. You’re going a bit cuckoo you know?) No, I’m serious, and your face is a bit cuckoo actually so how about you step the heck off. (Rude.) We don’t need to replace Brainwave, because I don’t think he’s actually gone {What are you saying! Wait, did we actually all die in the explosion? Was he the only to survive? Is he mourning us? Which of us did he mourn the most? Me?} No, I believe that he’s dead. But I also believe that he died on purpose. (Well sure, we all saw him unrepentant supervillainously sacrifice himself so that we could live!) I don’t think he sacrificed himself at all actually. I think he planned on dying, and that he planned on benefitting from it in a way that none of us could have foreseen. (Ok, you’re gonna have to walk us through that.) Ok, so remember when we went through Brainwave’s stuff, we found a grand total of 665 bombs right? (I guess?) {We are notoriously bad at counting.} True, but I think we got it right this time. I think that there were only 665 explosive devices in Brainwave’s lair/our basement. [Only?] Yes only! What kind of fanatical supervillain builds so many explosives but stops before hitting 666! The devil’s number! I think he did have 666 bombs, until he mailed one to our office! (Wait, what? You think Brainwave sent us that bomb? That seems like a stretch.) Oh? Does it? The most evil person that we are acquainted with sent us a bomb? That seem awfully farfetched to you? (Well, when you put it like that...) And he was wearing rocket boots the whole time! We could’ve strapped the bomb to one of his rockets and launched it through the skylight without him having to carry it! {That reminds me, our landlord called and said that we definitely lost our security deposit because of that skylight.} (Ah DANG IT!!!!) I think that he waited until the timer was low to reveal that he was wearing rocket boots so he could make his sacrifice play. And hey, he knew that the time on the bomb was displaying the wrong time and yet he knew exactly when the bomb was actually going to go off. That isn’t suspicious to any of you??? (Look, if I made a big deal about everything I found suspicious our coworkers we’d never get anything done!) {Is this about my outstanding deal with the devil?} (No, actually.) And Parenthesis Guy, you even said that the funeral home seemed haunted during the funeral! What if that was Dr. Brainwave! What if he devised this whole scenario so he could die and become a ghost! (Why would he do that? And doesn’t this all seem a little convoluted.) Yeah, dude, he’s a supervillain! Something the rest of you seemed to have lost sight of. Of course he would come up with an absurdly complicated plan to become a ghost. From a supervillain’s perspective, being a ghost would be way better than being a frail old human with the physique of a scientist. (I don’t know man, I’m just not seeing it.) What! It makes total sense. He freaks us out with a bomb. Classic supervillain move. He puts us on an emotional rollercoaster by making us think he sacrificed himself to save us, causing us to question everything we thought we knew about the sort of person he was. All while shedding his physical form in order to commit crimes as a ghost. It’s a classic Brainwave move! (I think maybe you should lie down buddy. You’re starting to go a bit crazy. And not in a fun way like the rest of us.) {Yeah when you make us look like the sane ones you’ve gotta throw in the towel man.} Yeah. Yeah ok, maybe you’re right. (Yeah, maybe we’re right. Let’s call it day, we’ve still gotta go feed the mutant alligators.) You guys go ahead I’ll catch up. {Ok, remember to put on your armor before you enter the alligator pen this time.} Yeah, yeah I’ll remember. All right Brainwave, the others are gone. I know you’re here.

<Uch fine. You got me.> You absolute bas- <Listen, you’re right. I’m every name you’re about to call me. But can we do this later? Right now, I need your help.>

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Our Week Scouted // September 19, 2019

LEARN: On Saturday, September 21 the 13th Annual Monticello Heritage Harvest Festival returns for one action-packed day. Bring the whole family and enjoy music, play historic games and meet animals at a petting zoo. In addition to tasting up to 100 varieties of heirloom produce, there's also a full schedule of demonstrations and workshops. From James Beard nominated guest chef demos to a live taping of America’s #1 food podcast, The Sporkful, guests will enjoy a wide-ranging selection of presentations for lovers of food history, food tradition and just plain food. Not to be missed: the keynote presentation Food, Glorious Food! with culinary icon, author and food activist Alice Waters, as she shares her thoughts on the future of food. There will also be plenty of shopping opportunities at Retailer Row, which includes many local vendors, including Blanc Creatives and Monolith Knives. We think it’s the perfect time to get a head start on your holiday shopping. Don’t miss out on this fantastic local event with a national draw. Save when you buy your ticket online.

PLAY: The launch party for Dog Fest takes place next Thursday, September 26 from 6-8 at the Three Notch’d Brewery. They will release Animal Connections "Big Dawg Blonde Ale," a microbrew Dave Warwick, Three Notch'd brewmaster, developed to celebrate Dog Fest. The Big Dawg will be available at Dog Fest and Oktoberfest at the brewery. A portion of proceeds will go to benefit local pet rescue groups. Animal Connection's exclusive "beer cheddar bacon" dog treats will be available, made with spent grain from the brewing process. The party will continue at IX Park, where the favorite local band, Alligator, will be performing.

Save the day for Sunday, September 29th for Dog Fest, brought to you by Animal Connection, at IX Art Park from noon-5pm. Over 48 booths, representing the best pet businesses and rescue groups in Charlottesville, will be on hand with lots of information, plus every booth will have raffles and giveaways.There will also be adoptable rescue pets on site, live entertainment by The Pollocks, “the world’s largest treat/sample bar,” food trucks for humans and a beer garden featuring Big Dawg Blonde Ale. Plus, a costume contest with $500 prize for “Best in Show,” $100 prizes for “Best Individual Costume,” “Best Family/Group Costume,” and “Best Costume by a Rescue Group.” Don’t miss out on the most pet and family-friendly event of the year!

TRY: If you haven’t given knitting a try yet, now’s the perfect time. Cooler weather begs for cozy indoor pursuits. In addition to Magpie Knits many regular classes, including beginners and more advanced, they also have a few extra special ones planned.

First up, learn how to make a Burberry-Inspired Cowl on Wednesday, September 25 from 5:30 - 7:30pm. This intro to cables class will also produce a cowl that’s sure to be a coveted gift. This class is $20 + materials.

For true beginners, plan to attend Big Hat on Thursday, September 26 or Friday 28 from 2 - 4pm. The class is free with the purchase of yarn. Be warned: this super easy pattern is addictive and you’re sure to want to produce many a replica. Reach out today to book your class. Magpie Knits | 111 West Main Street | 434.296.4625

SAVE: Hear ye hear ye — The One Bridal Salon is holding it’s first sample sale! The sale will be Friday, Sept. 27 from 11-8pm and Sunday, Sept. 29 from 11-5pm. Over 20 gowns will be discounted with no gowns over $1,000.. All designers—Pronovias, Mikaella, Jenny Yoo and Aria—will be available with many dresses priced between $500 - $750. Appointments are appreciated but walk-ins are welcome. All brides who purchase a gown during the sample sale will be registered to win either a free veil or free pair of earrings. The One Bridal Salon | 603 W Main St. | (434) 284-5464 Sample sale: Friday, Sept. 27 from 11-8pm and Sunday 11-5pm for the sale.

LOVE: We popped into Annette LaVelle Antiques in Gordonsville this week and were once again blown away by Annette’s gorgeous things. Below you will find a smattering of our fave finds. But she has so much more, and her inventory is constantly changing, so stop by soon.

Annette LaVelle Antiques | 101 Main Street, Gordonsville | 434.906.2855

TASTE: For two nights only, Thursday, October 10 and Friday, October 11, executive chef Vinson Petrillo of Charleston’s Zero George is taking over Red Pump Kitchen. The six-course tasting menu with included wine pairings will begin with the chef’s playful “snacks” course followed by a series of dishes representing his signature contemporary American style and ending on a sweet note with a pair of desserts. Learn all about the tasting here and make your reservations for this special dining opportunity. Red Pump Kitchen | Downtown Mall, 401 E Main St. | (434) 202-6040

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Ec3d Mid-cut-socks

Don’t forget to check out the Doom ‘Reflections’ Pack. The available in tan and grey color ways will become available early September through the webstore for $245 USD. Check out the image set above and enjoy a short behind the scenes flick below. The outcome was a fantastic range of collaborative sneakers, a new oversized PLAY logo on the side panels of the sneakers. has partnered with the UK’s size for an exclusive duo release comprised of Pegasus models. This latest drop unveils one black and one red edition, which are dropping today at the 21 Lab location with Hiroshi himself in attendance for the Ec3d Combos Sale occasion. You can pick up a of the Roshe One DMB ‘Bright Crimson’ now from Rise. Sat atop a speckled white midsole, each is finished with striped rope for a touch of hiking steez. The , meanwhile, comes with a mixed black and of f white adidas oldschool upper. This new variation on the Terrazzo Mid features colored Alligator skin in 13 colors, cut into 76 panels to create what Jake calls and ‘Antiflage’ effect.Highlights from the gallery above include the made in Japan asics gel nimbus 12 womens, sneaker brand has had to split it into two parts, the first of which you can see here. EST, followed by in store releases at both Extra Butter retail locations on Ec3d Tights January 23. That broad appeal is important. Using colette’s signature blue hue, Ec3d Mid-cut-socks latest mid top entry features a unique, all over palm print and 18K accoutrements on the tongue, mid foot and heel. For those not fortunate enough to be in Italy’s fashion capital during this time, this recap of the best kicks worn should give you an idea of the current state of the street wear landscape. Fully equipped with the brand’s patented Solars of t foot bed, each is then tagged with a on the forefoot bridge. Also, be sure to check out the Titan ‘Bandana’ color way. Blending the design of the asics gel running shoes mens with the most advanced elements in arsenal, the is constructed from a lightweight textile upper in an ‘allover noise’ graphic with welded tape structural overlays. www.sportsec3d.com

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The public swallowed a story of the wayward president’s son who cleaned up his act to take his place in the White House. Kitty Kelley exposes what really lurks in George W Bush’s past

On November 6, 1997, the exclusive club of America’s current and former presidents and first ladies gathered at a college campus in Texas for a celebration. President and Mrs Clinton arrived on Air Force One to join President and Mrs Ford, President and Mrs Carter, Nancy Reagan and Lady Bird Johnson.

They were there to honour President George Bush, who had raised $83m to build his presidential library at Texas A&M University.

His eldest son, George W Bush, governor of Texas, welcomed the 20,000 guests. With a few words, W smashed the bonhomie of the occasion: “I’m here to praise my father as a man who entered the political arena and left with his integrity intact . . . A war hero, a loving husband . . . and a president who brought dignity and character and honour to the White House.”

Spoken at the height of Clinton’s personal scandal in front of a predominantly Republican crowd, the assault on the current president’s integrity was not lost on anyone.

The Bush family had never accepted Clinton as a worthy successor, and they delighted in his unfolding scandal. They e-mailed one another ribald jokes about Monica Lewinsky and Paula Jones’s sexual harassment suit against Clinton.

When it was reported that Jones claimed she could identify a “distinguishing characteristic” of Clinton’s anatomy, George Sr did not rest until he discovered what she was talking about. He then e-mailed his sons and friends: “His Johnson curves to the left.”

The family was looking towards its restoration to power through the presidential candidacy of George W. His mother, Barbara Bush, referred to him as “the Chosen One”. There was a problem, however. After eight years of Clinton, the American public “want to elect a statue”, as Oklahoma’s Republican governor Frank Keating put it. “They want a hero, an unblemished and untarnished guy in the White House.”

Karl Rove, the political adviser with the task of shaping W’s image, knew he had to present his candidate as the anti-Clinton: fresh (no drugs, no alcoholism), religious (acceptable to evangelicals) and faithful to his wife (majority of voters: women).

Fanning out across the country, Rove and the Bush team began to tidy up the governor’s past. Rove wanted no potentially devastating revelations to emerge that might portray W and Laura, his wife, as anything but an ideal and idealised couple. But to present W as pure and pristine was hypocritical and untrue.

George W Bush wasn’t Bill Clinton, certainly not in terms of sexual excess. But Clinton is not the standard to which he should be held. He must be compared with his own declarations on morality and his own carefully crafted public image — the image that the entire Bush family has cultivated for so long.

THE first hurdle facing the tidy-up team was to deal with W’s past drug use. As governor of Texas, he took a hard line on drugs. He supported increased penalties for possession and signed legislation mandating jail time for people caught with less than a single gram of cocaine.

Yet, as the claims of Sharon Bush, his sister-in-law, show, he could have been subject to jail time himself had he been caught “doing coke” with his brother Marvin at Camp David during his father’s presidency.

In the midst of an unfriendly divorce from Neil, another of the Bush brothers, Sharon told me last year: “He and Marvin did coke at Camp David when their father was president and not just once, either.”

As governor, George W had been very careful not to lie about doing illegal drugs himself, because he knew there were too many people who could testify to the truth. “When I was young and irresponsible,” he would say, “I was young and irresponsible.”

So what was his drugs record? When they were young, both he and Laura used to go down to the island of Tortola in the British Virgin Islands where they attended and enjoyed heavy pot-smoking parties. Smoking pot was hardly a sin but it did not mesh with the strait-laced image the Bushes were now presenting to the voters.

Then there were the allegations about cocaine. When W was at Yale in the mid-1960s, it was the most popular drug on campus. One contemporary, who insists on remaining anonymous, admitted years later to selling cocaine to W at the university.

Another man who was at Yale’s graduate school recalled “doing coke” with George, but he would not allow his recollections to be used on the record. This was not simply through fear of retribution. He said he did not feel right about “blowing George’s cover because I was doing the same thing”. A confirmed Democrat, he also said that although he could not stand George’s Republican politics, he liked him as a person.

Alcohol, the more familiar thread in W’s life story, started at Andover, the exclusive school W attended.

Andover stressed athletics as part of its regimen. Unable to live up to his father’s legacy as one of Andover’s most outstanding athletes, George W played his own kind of sports and won a reputation as a prankster.

“He loved stickball, which is baseball played with a broomstick and a tennis ball and funny hats,” recalled his contemporary, J Milburn “Kim” Jessup. “George made himself the high commissioner of stickball, which was a joke job.”

Alcohol was absolutely forbidden on or off campus, but the high commissioner of stickball figured out a way to beat the system. He designed an official stickball membership card that seemed to carry the imprimatur of Andover. He distributed the cards as fake IDs.

“People took the cards and started slipping off campus to go to Boston so they could get drunk,” said Jessup.

When W moved on to Yale at 18, with the Vietnam war at its height, he felt alienated on the liberal campus because of his father’s conservative politics and his own Texan childhood.

“George was definitely not on the popular side of the war issue, but he stood his ground,” said Robert Dieter, his Yale roommate. “Saying someone was conservative back then almost had a moral sting. I remember him coming back to the room and telling me that someone had been in his face about his father’s position. There was a certain arrogance that the left conveyed back then. It was hurtful.”

As a result, George spent most of his time carousing at the Delta Kappa Epsilon (DKE) fraternity house or “the drinking jock house”, as it was known. Some classmates remember him as a “hard-drinking good-time guy” and “a jock sniffer” who “loved to raise hell”.

Ken White, a DKE contemporary, told me: “My wife remembers him roaring drunk one night at a DKE party without a date doing the Alligator; that was some sort of dance back then when you fell to the floor on all fours and started rolling around.”

In the spring of 1972, after graduating from Yale and while serving part-time in the Texas Air National Guard, George W embarked on what he would later describe as his “nomadic years”. Seeing him adrift, his father got him a job with the Republican campaign in a Senate race in Alabama.

Those who worked with George at that time remember him as an affable social drinker who acted much younger than his 26 years. They recall that he liked to drink beer and Jim Beam whiskey at the Cloverdale Grill in Birmingham, Alabama. They also say he liked to sneak out the back for a joint of marijuana or into the bathroom for a line of cocaine.

According to their recollections, he tended to show up for work “around noon”, prop his cowboy boots on a desk and start bragging about how much he had drunk the night before.

Spending Christmas in Washington with his parents, W went out drinking with 16-year-old Marvin. Driving home, he smashed into several dustbins. He swaggered into the house with the bravado of someone who had drunk too much, and there was his father, sober and unsmiling.

“You want to go mano a mano right here?” George junior challenged.

Big George called John White, a former footballer with the Houston Oilers. Bush wanted his son to perform community service with a mentoring programme for inner-city youth started by White and his teammate Ernie “Big Cat” Ladd.

Young George reported for work in January 1973 at a warehouse in a tough district where kids up to 17 years of age were offered sports, crafts, field trips, free snacks, rap sessions, tutoring for those who had been expelled, and big-name mentors from the athletic, entertainment, business, and political worlds.

Ladd recalled young George as “a super, super guy . . . If he was a stinker, I’d say he was a stinker. But everybody loved him so much. He had a way with people . . . They didn’t want him to leave.”

W stayed only seven months before he was accepted at Harvard Business School — a more hostile environment. It was the height of Watergate and his father was running the Republican National Committee for Richard Nixon, who was considered the Antichrist at Harvard. In Cambridge, Massachusetts, the town that surrounded the college, only 400 people were registered Republicans.

“I remember seeing Georgie at the Harvard Business School,” said Torbert Macdonald, an old classmate from Andover, “but he looked so lost and forlorn I didn’t have the heart to say hello.”

Others were less sympathetic. “I can still see him in his cowboy boots and leather flight jacket walking into macroeconomics,” recalled a classmate. “He sat in the back of the class, chewing tobacco and spitting it into a dirty paper cup . . . He was one red-assed Texan who made sure he was in your Yankee face and up your New England nose.”

Most of his contemporaries at the business school headed for Wall Street after graduation but W moved back to Midland, his boyhood home town in Texas, trying to become an oilman. He lived above a garage in an apartment that was piled high with dirty clothes that his friends’ wives periodically washed. Most of his nights were spent in bars, drinking with buddies in the oil business.

In July 1977, soon after his 31st birthday, friends introduced him to his polar opposite, Laura Welch. “We were the only two people among our friends who had not yet married,” she later joked.

Nobody expected the introduction to ignite, but George and Laura were married within three months at the First United Methodist Church in Midland.

Laura, the only child of a Midland builder, is remembered by some former students at Southern Methodist University in Dallas for not being as conservative as most. She had smoked marijuana and backpacked through Europe after graduation. A Democrat, she had also supported the anti-war candidate, Senator Eugene McCarthy, for the presidency in 1968.

In the early years of their marriage Laura joined her husband in his revels. “George and Laura ran in a much faster and fancier crowd than we did — their friends were all hard-drinking and drugging. That was part of the oil business scene then,” said Robert Whitt, a Midland lawyer.

But after a hard struggle to conceive and a fragile pregnancy with twins, Laura pulled back from the hellraising while he charged on, leaving her behind.

“I suppose there were strains in her marriage, just because he’s so difficult and high-energy and . . . she isn’t, but she never talked about it . . . Just read paperbacks and smoked cigarettes,” said Sharon Bush.

The couple kept their distance from the Bush family for several years in the 1980s, staying in Midland and even skipping the big surprise party that George Sr — by then vice-president of the United States — threw for his wife on their 41st wedding anniversary. “It’s a long way,” Barbara said, “and too expensive.” But family members confirmed that she had stopped speaking to her son, whose drunken outbursts had become a source of unending embarrassment to his wife and parents. The last eruption at a family gathering had been a tactless crack to the wife of one of his parents’ friends at her 50th birthday party: “So, what’s sex like after 50, anyway?”

He was 40 by the time he gave up tobacco, alcohol and drugs in 1986 and became a born-again Christian. In his memoir, A Charge to Keep, W credited his family’s good friend, the Reverend Billy Graham, with planting “a mustard seed in my soul”. He did not mention that he actually came to Jesus in a coffee house conversion with a much more flamboyant evangelist, Arthur Blessitt, who was known among born-agains as the man who had wheeled a 96lb cross of Jesus into 60 countries on six continents, winning a place in the Guinness Book of Records.

W figured, perhaps, that Graham was more palatable to churchgoing voters than Blessitt, who came to Midland after the bottom dropped out of the oil boom and fortunes crashed overnight. In a desperate effort to rescue lives and restore morale, some church elders invited the evangelist to stage a revival in the town. Loudspeakers exhorted the populace “to experience the love of God, the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the fellowship of the holy spirit”.

George, who had already begun attending a men’s Bible class, asked a friend to arrange a meeting at a hotel coffee shop. As Blessitt recalled, George began with a few pleasantries, and then plunged in: “I want to talk to you about how to know Jesus Christ and how to follow Him.”

“I was quite shocked at his direct and sincere approach,” said Blessitt. “I slowly leaned forward and lifted the Bible that was in my hand and asked him about his relationship with the Lord: ‘If you died this moment do you have the assurance you would go to heaven?’” “No.”

“Then let me explain to you how you can have that assurance and know for sure that you are saved.”

“I’d like that.”

The evangelist read from the Book of Romans. He quoted Mark, John and Luke to the vice-president’s son, who held hands, repented his sins, and proclaimed Jesus Christ as his saviour.

Conversion and abstinence did not affect W’s machismo, however. He still swaggered and cursed constantly. When a friend accused him of taking the Lord’s name in vain, George exploded: “That’s bullshit. Total bullshit.”

Whether talking to reporters, congressmen, or heads of state, George made no effort to curb his trash mouth. Israel’s prime minister Ariel Sharon was taken aback to hear, “I said you were a man of peace. I want you to know I took immense crap for that.”

Those closest to George agreed that the key to his new persona lay in his steely discipline. His sister Doro described him as a fat boy who deprived himself to stay thin. His mother depicted a drinker who denied himself to stay dry. Both acknowledged that the effort to control these appetites was monumental.

In order to maintain his rigid discipline, George imposed an inflexible order on his life. Like any addict in recovery, he needed a regular schedule, rising early and retiring early. He prayed daily from his One-Year Bible, which was divided into 365 readings, each from the New Testament, the Old Testament, Psalms and Proverbs.

Edgy and impatient, he exercised at least one hour, sometimes two hours, a day. With martinet punctuality, he started and ended meetings exactly on time. The routine became the core of his developing political career, first as governor of Texas and then as president.

He refused to read memos longer than two pages. He thrived on making quick decisions. His religiosity allowed him to live in a black-and-white world of absolutes with no bedevilling in-betweens. His decisiveness sprang from his need to control and to establish order amid chaos. Once he made a decision, he rarely looked back.

Despite his quick temper, he was capable of nice gestures, as he showed on the presidential trail. Ruth Gilson, an estate agent, recalled a touching moment during a $1,000-a-head fundraiser in a Washington hotel in 1999.

She was one of very few women to attend the event. “All the men looked to be lobbyists in expensive suits with huge stomachs. The room filled up fast and we were all squished together. I was at the front of the rope line. A little old lady about 85 years old crept in beside me. She said she needed to see the governor. ‘I just have to talk to him,’ she said.”

The elderly woman was frail and wearing clothes that looked worn and dated. “She looked like a church lady from the 1950s.”

George W arrived and started working the crowd. The old lady stepped forward and asked if she could say something.

He reached out and took her hand. She whispered in his ear to please do something about the price of prescription drugs for the elderly.

He nodded. “I’ll try,” he said. Then he stepped back to look at her. “Did you pay $1,000 to come here?” “Yes, sir, I did.”

“Well, I want you to get your money back.” He turned to the man with him. “Get her name and address and see that she gets a cheque for $1,000.”

The little old lady shook her head. “No, I want you to have it all, Mr Bush. I want you to win.”

“Well,” said George. “I’ll tell you what. I’ll keep $100 and you keep $900 and we’ll both win. That’s what we’ll do.”

She smiled gratefully.

“It was such a sweet gesture on his part,” recalled Gilson. “Others might have seen it as patronising, but I didn’t. In a crowd of fat-cat lobbyists that little woman in her tattered coat looked like someone’s poor grandmother, and he responded sensitively.”

Extracted from The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty by Kitty Kelley.

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First picture: MIAMI, FLORIDA - JANUARY 31: Kate Bock (L) and Josephine Skriver attend as Wheels Up hosts an exclusive members-only dinners at the Wheels Up "Rao's By The Beach" Pop-Up Restaurant in collaboration with Rao's and W South Beach to celebrate Miami's big game on January 31, 2020 in Miami, Florida. (Photo by Mike Coppola/Getty Images for Wheels Up ) Second picture: MIAMI, FLORIDA - JANUARY 31: (L-R) SI Models Jasmine Sanders, Kate Bock, Olivia Culpo, Josephine Skriver, and Camille Kostek attend day 3 of SiriusXM at Super Bowl LIV on January 31, 2020 in Miami, Florida. (Photo by Cindy Ord/Getty Images for SiriusXM ) Third picture: IW459008 Portofino Automatic Moon Phase 37 Mechanical movement · Self-winding · 42-hour power reserve when fully wound · Central hacking seconds · Moon phase display · Sapphire glass, convex, antireflective coating on both sides · Water-resistant 3 bar · Case height 11 mm · Diameter 37 mm · Alligator leather strap by Santoni Watch I Love Magazine (at Super Bowl LIV 2020) https://www.instagram.com/p/B8QyHSvImlv/?igshid=vz1ap1o4xuil

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THE MUSIC BOX OF HORRORS 2019 Brings Special Guests, Rare Prints for 24 Hours of Movie Madness on October 19

The Music Box Of Horrors returns to the Music Box Theatre with 24 Hours of complete Movie Madness from Noon, Saturday, October 19 through Noon, Sunday, October 20. Special guests include writer/director Neil Marshall, presenting his groundbreaking, werewolf-swarming debut feature DOG SOLDIERS; and filmmaker John Hancock, with his psychological horror masterpiece LET’S SCARE JESSICA TO DEATH. With mild-melting visuals and high body counts, this year’s films span the globe and more than 80 years of cinema history—1928 to 2012—with the most terrifying, pulse-pounding movies you’ll ever see, as well as special guests, a live musical score, and excellent Vendors & Food Trucks. For tickets and further information, please click here: https://musicboxtheatre.com/events/music-box-of-horrors-2019. This year’s event is sponsored by Creepy Co., who will also be producing and supplying all Music Box of Horrors merchandise. Exclusive craft beer supplied by Half Acre Beer Co.

The 2019 Horror marathon celebrates the exceptional careers of both Rutger Hauer and Luke Perry with a screening of BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER to close out the 24 hours. To kick off the event, we’ll feature a 35mm print of the notorious silent film THE MAN WHO LAUGHS, featuring a live score by Maxx McGathey. The Music Box of Horrors is known for discoveries and rediscoveries of under-appreciated films—many of which rarely or never played on the big screen. This year, attendees can look forward to BLOODY MUSCLE BODY BUILDER IN HELL from director Shinichi Fukazawa (dubbed by some as the Japanese EVIL DEAD), as well as director Guy Magar’s personal 35mm print of his 1987 horror-mystery RETRIBUTION.

TITLES & SHOWTIMES for the Music Box of Horrors 2019: 12:00pm - THE MAN WHO LAUGHS — 1928, 110 min., Dir. Paul Leni, 35mm - Featuring a live musical score by Maxx McGathey 2:00pm - OFFICE KILLER — 1997, 82 min., Dir. Cindy Sherman, 35mm Print Courtesy of UCLA Film & Television Archive 3:45pm - LET'S SCARE JESSICA TO DEATH — 1971, 89 min., Dir. John Hancock, 16mm - Dir. John Hancock in Attendance for a Post-Film Q&A 5:45pm - A TRIBUTE TO LARRY COHEN 6:00pm - DEMONS 2 — 1986, 88 min., Dir. Lamberto Bava, 35mm 7:55pm - BLOODY MUSCLE BODY BUILDER IN HELL — 1995/2012, 62 min., Dir. Shinichi Fukazawa, Blu-Ray 9:15pm - DOG SOLDIERS - 2002, 105 min., Dir. Neil Marshall, 35mm — Dir. Neil Marshall in Attendance for a Post-Film Q&A 11:45pm - EVENT HORIZON - 1997, 96 min., Dir. Paul W.S. Anderson, 35mm 1:30am - RETRIBUTION - 1987, 107 min., Dir. Guy Magar, UCLA 35mm, Director's Personal Print! 3:30am - ALLIGATOR - 1980, 91 min., Dir. Lewis Teague, 35mm 5:15am - TETSUO: THE IRON MAN - 1989, 67 min., Dir. Shiny Tsukamoto, DCP 6:45am - HALLOWEEN II - 1981, 92 min., Dir. Rick Rosenthal, 35mm 8:30am - THE FLY II - 1989, 105 min., Dir. Chris Walas, 35mm 10:30am - BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER - 1992, 86 min., Dir. Fran Rubel Kuzui, DCP Between films, check out the Vendors & Guests in the Music Box Lounge, including: VENDORS: Creepy Co. Bric-A-Brac Records Pretty Spooky Handmade House of Movie Monsters Graveface Records and Curiosities Tattoos by Chloe Pinnock Leaf Blower Massacre Artist Chris Kuchta Deadly Prey Gallery FOOD TRUCKS: Empanada Bike Taco in a Bag Cheesie’s Food Truck Pricing: General Admission - $30/$25 (Music Box Members) Day of Show - $35/$30 (Music Box Members) Become a member: https://www.musicboxtheatre.com/membership/become-a-member

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Washington Brewers Festival starts June 15th. Here's what you need to know.

Press Release

The 13th Annual Washington Brewers Festival will take place at King County's Marymoor Park in Redmond, WA. on Friday, June 15, through Sunday, June 17, featuring 100 statewide craft breweries pouring 536 unique beer creations at last count.

You can check out the imaginative beer names and unique styles listed below in anticipation of this annual Father's Day weekend celebration. With no rain and highs between 70 and 80 degrees in the current forecast for that weekend it looks like perfect beer tasting weather!

The Festival kicks off on Friday, June 15, at 4pm and opening night goes until 9:30pm. Friday is for 21 and older and many Washington breweries will bring Friday-exclusive beers which are often smaller-batch, specialty brews. Another highlight on Friday night is the performance of Megs McLean and Band, a fantastic local group that features a mix of guitar driven "Crunge" country, rock, grunge, originals. They will entertain from the Redmond's Bar & Grill music stage between 7:30pm - 9pm.

On Saturday and Sunday guests can choose from the full 500+ beer lineup from the 100 breweries at the picturesque Marymoor Park venue. More than 20,000 craft beer lovers are expected to attend at this 13th annual 3-day craft beer tasting event.

In addition to the beer, the festival will feature the Flatstick Pub Brewers Keg Toss, more live music performances throughout the weekend, and some delectable food options including a dozen of the area's most popular local food truck vendors. There are also wine and cider options available for those who may opt for an alternative taste.

The Washington Brewers Festival will take place on June 15-17 at King County's Marymoor Park in Redmond, WA. Admission on Friday, Saturday, or Sunday is $25 in advance at Flatstick Pub locations and local brewery ticket outlets, $30 online, or $35 at the door. Having a pre-purchased ticket will get you express entry and eliminate the need to stand in two lines (ticket buyer and ticket holder). Under 21 are admitted for free but must be accompanied by an over 21 parent or guardian. Tickets, ticket outlets, and all event details are all available at washingtonbeer.com On-site parking is $10 on each of the three days but carpools of 4 or more park for just $5. We strongly encourage a designated driver or taking public transportation. There is a convenient, dedicated drop location for Uber, Lyft, and taxi cab riders.

2018 Washington Brewers Festival - Beer Lineup

(ABV = Alcohol By Volume / IBU = International Bitterness Units)

2018 Washington Brewers Festival - Beer Lineup

(ABV = Alcohol By Volume / IBU = International Bitterness Units)

Anacortes Brewery-Anacortes

Sunrise Citrus IPA (6.2% ABV / 70 IBU)

Klosterbier Dark Lager (5.3% ABV / 3 IBU)

Saison de la Sorciere (5.4% ABV)

Tripel Vision (9.9% ABV)

Cask Apricot Sunrise (6.2% ABV / 70 IBU)

Aslan Brewing-Bellingham

Batch 15 Hazy IPA (6.7% ABV)

Alligator Suitcase Double IPA (7.5 % ABV)

Disco Lemonade Berliner Weisse (4.5% ABV)

Satan's Airport Imperial Milk Stout w/ Coffee (9.5% ABV)

Aslan Pils (4.8% ABV)

At Large Brewing-Everett

In Charge Imperial IPA (9.3% ABV / 65 IBU)

North Everett NE IPA (6.7% ABV)

Hitting On All 6 IPA (6.5% ABV / 68 IBU)

Empty Suite Saison (6.8% ABV / 25 IBU)

B.S.B. - Belgian Golden Strong Ale (8.5% ABV / 24 IBU)

I'd Tap That Blonde (4.8% ABV / 21 IBU)

Porter of Everett (7% ABV / 35 IBU)

Bonnie Session IPA (4.8% ABV / 42 IBU)

(FRI) Big Bare, No Bite Imperial IPA (10.5% ABV / 80 IBU)

Bad Jimmy’s Brewing-Seattle

Cocoa Vanilla Porter (6.5% ABV / 17 IBU)

Cucumber Lime Blonde (6.7 % ABV / 19 IBU)

Bale Breaker Brewing-Yakima

Leota Mae IPA (6.2% ABV / 50 IBU)

Peach, Love & Happiness Blonde Ale (5.5% ABV / 20 IBU)

Lazy L Premium Lager (5.2% ABV / 40 IBU)

Bastion Brewing-Anacortes

Joe's Big Dumb Triple IPA (11.5% ABV / 1 billion IBU)

Madeline Saison (5.1% ABV / 24 IBU)

Beardslee Public House-Bothell Makers Mark Bourbon Barrel Aged Sidewinder Stout (7.2% ABV / 65 IBU)

Jerry IPA (7.5 % ABV / 80 IBU)

Orange Creamsickle Ale (5.8% ABV / 35 IBU)

Monka Coffee Ale (5.4% ABV / 24 IBU)

Bellevue Brewing-Bellevue

Pilsner (5.0% ABV / 29 IBU)

Imperial IPA (9.3% ABV / 87 IBU)

Vanilla Scotch Ale (7.7% ABV / 32 IBU)

Sudo Hazy IPA (5.0% ABV / 65 IBU)

Bellwether Brewing-Spokane

Eclectic Fee Honey Braggot Gruit Pale Ale (5.5% ABV / 20 IBU)

March Hare's Mad Gruit Ale (5.9% ABV / 35 IBU)

Patrick Horn (5.5% ABV / 18 IBU)

Rotating tap... check out what we have on!

Big Barn Brewing-Mead

Rye-tious Whiskey Barrel Aged Rye IPA (6.8% ABV / 56 IBU)

Campesino Tropical IPA (5.5% ABV / 62 IBU)

Mead Honey Lager (5.1% ABV / 20 IBU)

Bluff Top Belgian ABV (6.3% ABV / 16 IBU)

Miss Maggie’s Lavender IPA (6.1% ABV / 81 IBU)

Big Block Brewery-Sammamish

Raspberry Blonde (5.1% ABV)

Mosaic Pale Ale (5.8% ABV / 45 IBU)

Red Ale (6.2% ABV)

(FRI) Dark Chocolate Stout (7.6% ABV)

(FRI) Bourbon barrel aged Russian Imperial Stout (10.3% ABV / 65 IBU)

(FRI) Passion Fruit Sour (5.4% ABV)

(SAT) Bourbon Barrel Aged Scotch Ale (8.1% ABV)

(SAT) Saturday Pineapple Habanero Pale ale (5.8% ABV)

Black Raven Brewing-Redmond

Beaktweaker IPA (6.5% ABV)

Hochzeit Pilsner (5% ABV)

Updraft Pale (5.5% ABV)

Kitty Kat Blues (5.5% ABV)

Westland Feather Weather Mocha Stout (8% ABV)

Hokioi Mango and Cinnamon Pale Ale (5.5% ABV)

Pour Les Oiseaux Hybrid Aged Saison (6.5% ABV)

2018 Pro-Am Hoppy Dark Wheat W/ Spruce Tips (5.5% ABV)

(FRI) 2017 Gunpowder Plot Nitro Porter (6.2% ABV)

Boundary Bay Brewery-Bellingham

IPA Flight #518 Hazy IPA (6% ABV / 35 IBU)

Citraweisse Brerliner Weiss (4.5% ABV / 8 IBU)

The Graf Cider Beer (5% ABV / 28 IBU)

(FRI) Old Bounder Barley Wine (9.7% ABV / 100+ IBU)

(FRI & SUN) Inside Passage Ale Classic IPA (7.5% ABV / 78 IBU)

(SAT) Cedar Dust IPA (6.5% ABV / 66 IBU)

(SAT) Ekstatik Nostratik Barrel Aged with Fruit (7% ABV / 15 IBU)

(SAT) Abrikozen Sour (4.3% ABV / 10 IBU)

(SUN) The Boundary Smash Single Malt and Hop (6.3% ABV / 30 IBU)

(SUN) Frankie Sprinkles Triple IPA (12.04% ABV / 100+ IBU)

Cairn Brewing-Kenmore

Sammamish River Rye Dark American Lager (5.3% ABV / 22 IBU)

Seaplane IPA Northwest India Pale Ale (6% ABV / 65 IBU)

Big Bad Bunny Barrel-Aged Bourbon Brown (7.5% ABV / 50 IBU)

Thor’s Hammer, Chocolate Oatmeal Milk Stout (7.5% ABV / 40 IBU)

Chuckanut Brewery-Bellingham and Burlington

New World German Ale (5.5% ABV / 40 IBU)

Pilsner Lager (5% ABV / 39 IBU)

Counterbalance Brewing-Seattle

Pro-Am Kentucky Common Cream Ale (5.8% ABV / 22 IBU)

Kushetka Imperial Stout (8.9% ABV / 65 IBU)

Warp Factor Hazy IPA (5.8% ABV / 55 IBU)

Pilsner (5.2% ABV / 37 IBU)

Belgian Golden Strong Ale (8.5% ABV / 30 IBU)

(FRI) - Barrel Aged Big Bad Wolf Dark Strong Ale (10.3% ABV / 68 IBU)

Crucible Brewing-Everett

Pink Drink Raspberry Sour (4.5% ABV)

Blood Orange Smith and Weizen (5.1% ABV)

Twice Tempered Double IPA (9% ABV / 90 IBU)

Big Berries Imperial Sour (8% ABV)

GOTO Helles Lager (4.6% ABV)

Pineapple IPA (6.9% ABV / 70 IBU)

Flintlock IPA (6.6% ABV)

Steel Cut Pale Ale (5.6% ABV / 45 IBU)

Putin Out imperial Stout (8.5% ABV / 80 IBU)

Diamond Knot Craft Brewing-Mukilteo

Binnacle Belgian Summer Ale (5.5% ABV / 20 IBU)

Nitro Honey Cream Ale (4.6% ABV / 7 IBU)

Pineapple Azacca IPA (6.5% ABV / 45 IBU)

Troptastic IPA (6.2% ABV / 60 IBU)

Rotating Tap

Dick's Brewing-Centralia

Grapefruit IPA IBU (6.2% ABV / 80 IBU)

Batch 202 IPA (6.0% ABV / 65 IBU)

Cream Stout (5.5% ABV / 20 IBU)

(FRI) Barley Wine (9.5% ABV)

Dirty Bucket Brewing-Woodinville

Fricken Dahty New England Style IPA (6.5% ABV / 44 IBU)

Sleigh Warmer Belgian Strong Ale (9.5% ABV / 23 IBU)

Pink Boots Blue Berry WIT

Cherry Gose Our 6 Year Anniversary Ale

Rotating Sicyne IPA (6.5% ABV / 72 IBU)

Dirty Dubbel (8.5% ABV / 22 IBU)

XXX-IPA (9.5% ABV / 80 IBU)

Dirty Confessions (10% ABV / 22 IBU)

No-Mo Nano

Dog and Pony Brewing-Cashmere

Suffocater Imperial Amber (8.5% ABV / 70 IBU)

Old Goat Porter (5.6% ABV / 65 IBU)

Dog Days Brewing-Bremerton

Dog Wrangler Session Ale (5.0% ABV)

Bone Jour Cucumber Saison (5.8% ABV)

Peppermint Paddy Peppermint Chocolate Milkshake Stout (6% ABV)

Rotating Tap

Dreadnought Brewing-Monroe

Gypsywolf IPA (6.8% ABV / 52 IBU)

Red Elvis Rye Amber (6.2% ABV / 32 IBU)

(FRI) Bourbon Misery Whip Scotch Ale (10% ABV / 32 IBU)

(SAT & SUN) Heart Of the Dragon Barrel Aged Cherry Sour (6.8% ABV / 22 IBU)

Dru Bru Tap Room & Brewery-Snoqualmie Pass

Pacific Crest Pale Hazy Pale Ale (ABV 5.0% / IBU 5)

(FRI) Whiskey Sticke Alt (7.5% ABV / 6 IBU)

(FRI) Pink Boots Double IPA (7.5% ABV / 6 IBU)

(FRI & SUN) Hefeweizen (4.7% ABV / 1 IBU)

(SAT) Rauchbier Smoked Beer (5.8% ABV / 2 IBU)

(SAT) Anti-Session Triple IPA (9.9% ABV / 100 IBU)

(SAT & SUN) Kolsch (4.8% ABV / 2 IBU)

(SUN) Black German Style Schwarzbier (4.8% ABV/ 3 IBU)

Elysian Brewing-Seattle

Chill Bill Table Saison (5.8% ABV)

FUZZSICLE (6.4% ABV)

Savage Journey Rye IPA (6.8% ABV)

Farmstrong Brewing-Mount Vernon

La Raza Cerveza (4% ABV)

Stoned Age IPA (6.6% ABV/ 66 IBU)

Ragged & Right Cider Project Pinata Red (6.8% ABV)

Rotating Barrel Aged Offering

Flying Lion Brewing-Seattle

Rye American Stout (6.0% ABV)

Belgian Golden Strong (9.0% ABV)

Gin & Tonic Sour Gose (4.3% ABV)

Blood Orange Imperial Red Double IPA (8.0% ABV)

Fortside Brewing-Vancouver

Orange Whip Hazy IPA (5.9% ABV)

IPA (6.9% ABV)

Hop Gold (5% ABV)

Kanaka French-Belgian Saison (6.3% ABV)

Ineffable IPA (6.3% ABV)

Super Hyped UP

Four Generals Brewing-Renton

Yellow Truck Lager (5.8% ABV/ 24 IBU)

Rye Pale (5.8% ABV / 36 IBU)

Hefeweizen (5.5% ABV / 14 IBU)

Alt (5% ABV / 32 IBU)

Renton River Haze IPA (5.7% ABV)

Fremont Brewing-Seattle

Summer Pale Ale (5.2% ABV / 45 IBU)

Lush India Pale Ale (7.0% ABV / 80 IBU)

Interurban Moscow Mule Infused India Pale Ale (6.2% ABV / 80 IBU)

Head Full of Dynomite v.4 Hazy India Pale Ale (6.8% ABV / ACT (A Crap Ton) IBU)

Dark Star Imperial Oatmeal Stout (8.0% ABV / 50 IBU)

Brother Imperial IPA (8.55% ABV / 1 Billion IBU)

Pride Kolsch Kolsch (4.8% ABV / 20 IBU)

Mango-Guava Sour Weisse Fruited Sour Weisse (4.0% ABV / 10 IBU)

Rotating Tap

Gallaghers Where U-Brew-Edmonds

Bourbon Balls Stout (7.7% ABV / 20 IBU)

Goat Head IPA (6.5% ABV / 82 IBU)

Island Paradise (6% ABV / 24 IBU)

Georgetown-Seattle

Bodhizafa IPA (6.9% ABV)

Johnny Utah Pale Ale (5.6% ABV)

L.A. Woman Kolsch (4.9% ABV)

Peach Gose (4% ABV)

#18 Imperial Porter (9% ABV)

Tom Flanders Flander's Red Ale (5.7% ABV)

Ghostfish Brewing-Seattle

Grapefruit IPA (5.5% ABV / 85 IBU)

Peak Buster Double IPA (9.0% ABV / 100 IBU)

Salty Starfish Coconut Brown Ale (5.3% ABV / 25 IBU)

(FRI & SAT) Son of Covfefe White IPA (6.0% ABV / 55 IBU)

(FRI & SUN) Dark Sour Ale (5.5% ABV / 5 IBU)

(SAT & SUN) Gosefish Hibiscus-Cranberry Gose (5.0% ABV / 8 IBU)

(SUN) Kick Step IPA (5.5% ABV / 65 IBU)

(SUN) Shrouded Summit Belgian White Ale (4.5% ABV / 20 IBU)

Gig Harbor Brewing-Tacoma/Gig Harbor

Hazy Harbor IPA ABV (6% ABV)

Blood Orange Blonde ABV: (5% ABV)

Black Cherry Stout (8% ABV)

Grains of Wrath-Camas

Overkill West Coast IPA (6.5% ABV / 65 IBU)

Austro-naut Vienna-style Lager (5% ABV / 21 IBU)

Half Lion Brewing-Sumner

Suntop IPA (6.7% ABV / 78 IBU)

Albert’s Amber Ale (5.6% ABV / 20 IBU)

Heathen Brewing-Vancouver

Raspberry Rhubarb Sour (5.0% ABV / 13 IBU)

Buena Mierda Mexican Lager (5.2% ABV / 10 IBU)

Blackberry Heathenweizen (5.0% ABV / 13 IBU)

Transcend IPA (6.7% ABV / 55 IBU)

Transgression IPA (7.5% ABV / 80 IBU)

Fifty Shades Freed - New England Style IPA (6.8% ABV / 30 IBU)

(FRI) Tiki-Tequila Sour Ale Aged in Tequila Barrels (4.9% ABV / 10 IBU)

(FRI) MegaMint Imperial Milk Stout (9.0% ABV / 22 IBU)

Hellbent Brewing-Seattle

Dang! Citra IPA (6.6% ABV)

Anniversary IPA (7% ABV)

To Be Decided Hazy IPA

Salty Dog Radler (4% ABV)

Peanut Butter and Jelly Stout (6.4% ABV)

Icicle Brewing-Leavenworth

Bootjack IPA (6.5% ABV / 64 IBU)

Dark Persuasion German Chocolate Cake Ale (6.5% ABV / 22 IBU)

Dirtyface Amber Lager (5% ABV / 21 IBU)

Kickstand Citra Hop Pale Ale

(FRI) PALE PROJECT #7 (5% ABV / 38 IBU)

(SAT) Lifeguard Biere De Garde (8.5% ABV / 22 IBU)

(SUN) Decline Barley Wine (13% ABV / 78 IBU)

Illuminati Brewing-Bellingham

Rickshank Redemption Ale Belgian Pale Ale (5.1% ABV / 27 IBU)

Brew World Order German Pilsner (5.1% ABV / 38 IBU)

Mk Ultra Rye Pale Ale (5.7% ABV / 46 IBU)

Lone Gunman Single Hop IPA (6.6% ABV / 68 IBU)

Mandarina Bavaria Zodiac Cereal Killer Russian Imperial Stout (10.9% ABV / 98 IBU)

Iron Goat Brewing-Spokane

Goatworks Mixed Fermentation Sour

Buzzsaw McThunder Hazy IPA

Passionfruit Guava Sour

Goatnik Russian Imperial Stout

Coconut Chocolate Porter

Iron Horse Brewery-Ellensburg

Send It Pale Ale (5.25% ABV / 45 IBU)

Life Behind Bars (5.0% ABV / 8 IBU)

Jellyfish Brewing-Seattle

Smack IPA (7% ABV / 70 IBU)

Saison Memior (5.3% ABV / 35 IBU)

Hydra Pils (5.4% ABV / 26 IBU)

Sour Suzie (6.4% ABV / 40 IBU)

Lake Stevens Brewing-Lake Stevens

Big Dock IPA (6.4% ABV / 55 IBU)

Wrong Way NEIPA (6.1% ABV / 35 IBU)

Battleship IIPA (9% ABV / 85 IBU)

Valhalla Vanilla Russian Imperial Stout (9.7% ABV / 71 IBU)

Jalapeño Business German Pilsner (5.8% ABV / 23 IBU)

Sour Bourbon Russian Imperial Stout (9.5% ABV / 65 IBU)

Loowit Brewing-Vancouver

Cloud City India Pale Ale (6.9% ABV)

Loowit Lager (4.2% ABV)

Gose The Gozerian Pistachio Gose (3.7% ABV)

Grimlock Rye Porter (5% ABV)

Shimmergloom Stout (12% ABV)

Shadow Shinobi India Pale Ale (7.2% ABV)

(FRI) Truman's Goddamn Strong Ale (10% ABV)

Lucky Envelope Brewing-Seattle

Raspberry Sour (5.7% ABV / 7 IBU)

Blood Orange Citra Golden Ale (5.0% ABV / 21 IBU)

Haze IPA (6.7% ABV / 40 IBU)

(FRI) Peanut Butter Cream Stout (6.0% ABV / 34 IBU)

(SAT) Cuke Nukem Cucumber Sour (5.5% ABV / 6 IBU)

Mac and Jack's Brewery-Redmond

Resolution IPA (6.8% ABV / 80 IBU)

Sum' Shine Pale Ale (5.3% ABV / 35 IBU)

Experimental IPA (6.7% ABV / 65 IBU)

Maxx Stout (6.3% ABV / 34 IBU)

Herbert’s Legendary Ale (6.2% ABV / 35 IBU)

African Amber (5.8% ABV / 30 IBU)

Machine House Brewery-Seattle

Simcoe Session Ale (4% ABV)

Dark Mild (3.7% ABV)

Double IPA (8.5% ABV)

Matchless Brewing-Tumwater

All Fluff IPA

Amplified Turbidity IPA

BA Matchless Bar

Brewers Special Saaz Pils

Built To Spelt IPA

Das Fluff IPA

Maizey Star Fest Beer

Make Money Mild

Mexico Gold

Residual Heavyness IPA

Wolf Moon Mixed Culture Saison

McMenamin's Breweries-Seattle & Bothell

Selene Orange Wheat (5% ABV / 13 IBU)

Summer School Double IPA (8.2% ABV / 50 IBU)

Dutch Harbor Summer Ale (7.9% ABV / 36 IBU)

Mollusk Brewing-Seattle

Beach Beer, Margarita Sour Ale (5.1% ABV / 10 IBU)

Sunshine NWIPA. (6.5% ABV / 50 IBU)

Narrows Brewing-Tacoma

Hilltop Haze IPA (8.5% ABV / 70 IBU)

Bridge to Tomorrow V7 IPA (7.2% ABV / 50 IBU)

No Boat Brewing-Snoqualmie

Nothing Rhymes With Nikki/Hazy IPA (6.4% /45 IBU)

Alita/Vienna Lager (5.2% ABV / 18 IBU)

Rotating #1: Barrel-aged selections, dark beers, DIPA's, IPA's, sours, and other tricks we've pulled from the cellar.

Rotating #2: Rotation station of libation (same as Tap #3).

No-Li Brewhouse-Spokane

Atomic Shandy Pale Ale

Raspberry Renegade Pale Ale

Big Red Barrel Aged Imperial

Frapped & Chino Salted Caramel Brown Ale

Born & Raised Again Whiskey Aged IPA

North Jetty Brewing-Seaview

Another F’ing Raspberry Hef (5.1% ABV / 18 IBU)

Leadbetter Red Scottish Ale (4.8% ABV / 23 IBU)

River Pilot Rye Hazy Pale Ale (5.5% ABV / 33 IBU)

ROTATING TAP

Yellow Boots Kolsch (4.8% ABV / 25 IBU)

Keelhauled Triple IPA (10% ABV / 95 IBU)

Lost Jetty Soursop Saison

Fanboy Juice Bomb Hazy (6.2% ABV / 51 IBU)

North Sound Brewing-Mount Vernon

Cask Conditioned Mango 101 Imperial IPA w/Gin soaked oak chips (10.1% ABV)

Coconut/Hazelnut Goosetown Brown Ale on Nitro (7.1% ABV)

(FRI) Chardonnay Barrel aged Loganberry Sour (5.5% ABV)

(FRI & SAT) Brandy Barrel aged Big R Imp. Red Ale (8.6% ABV)

(SAT & SUN) Bourbon Barrel Big R Imperial Red Ale (8.6% ABV)

(SAT & SUN) Rotating Barrel aged Sours

Odd Otter Brewing-Tacoma

Ottermelon Hefeweizen (5% ABV / 12 IBU)

Odditea Coconut Chai Brown Ale (6.4% ABV / 24 IBU)

Oddly Foggy Hazy IPA

Odin Brewing-Tukwila

Freya's Gold Helles Lager

Galactic Space Dragon IPA

N/A lemonade (for a shandy with either beer or on its own)

Old Schoolhouse Brewery-Winthrop

Ruud Awakening IPA (8% ABV / 75 IBU)

Foggy Dew Tropical IPA (6.3% ABV / 55 IBU)

Brewers Choice Rotating Selection

(FRI) 2017 Imperial Stout (9.99% ABV)

Optimism-Seattle

B.E. Juicy NE IPA (7.7% ABV)

Hello, World! Helles Lager (4.5% ABV)

(FRI) Try Belgian Trippel (9.6% ABV)

(SAT) Bourbon Barrel Aged Before the Dawn (9.3% ABV)

(SUN) Solarpunk Sour Raspberry Sour (5.1% ABV)

Pacific Brewing & Malting-Tacoma

Hazy Rage IPA (5.8% ABV)

1897 Pale Lager (5.0% ABV)

Potomac Citra Pale Ale (6.1% ABV)

Dirty Skoog Double IPA (8.1% ABV)

Paradise Creek Brewery-Pullman

Huckleberry Pucker Berliner Weisse (4.6% ABV)

Huckleberry Pucker Shandy (4.4% ABV)

Cran-gerine Pucker Berliner Weisse (4.5% ABV)

The Arbiter IPA (6.7% ABV)

Scottish Stovepipe (6% ABV)

MooJoe Coffee Milk Stout (5.5% ABV)

Spring Colab Guava Peach Saison w/ Iron Goat Brewing (6.6% ABV)

(FRI) Culture Shock Series: Brandy Barrel Blonde Sour (6.2% ABV)

Pike Brewing-Seattle

Pike IPA (6.0% ABV)

Pike Pils (4.0% ABV)

Pike Pride Tangerine Pale Ale (4.0% ABV)

Pike Wood Aged Kilt (12.9% ABV)

Pike Soured Pear IPA (7.0% ABV)

Postdoc Brewing-Redmond

Dissertation Double IPA (9% ABV / 88 IBU)

Pop quiz #9 Hazy IPA (6.4% ABV / 43 IBU)

Lager Rhythmic Dry Hopped Lager (5.5% ABV / 35 IBU)

Blondilocks Radler (4.6% ABV / 16 IBU) (rotating)

Gin Barrel Aged Gose (8.6% ABV / 25 IBU)

(FRI) Pineapple Mojito Blondilocks

(FRI) Hogus Maximus Extremis Barrel Aged (14.4% ABV / 50 IBU)

(SAT) Mango Blondilocks

(SAT) Evans Kriek Flanders Red with Pie Cherries Barrel Aged (6.6% ABV/ 15 IBU)

(SUN) Grapefruit Blondilocks

(SUN) Barrel-Aged Demon Star Imperial Stout (9.9% ABV / 66 IBU)

Ravenna Brewing-Seattle

Barrel Aged Guava Gose (4.4% ABV)

Barrel Aged Passionfruit Sour (4.8% ABV)

Barrel Aged North Potion Berliner Weisse (3.5% ABV)

Big Secret Hazy Double IPA (8.6% ABV)

Jalapeño Kolsch (5.6% ABV)

Lion Tamer Bourbon Vanilla Porter

Special Rotating Tap

Redhook Brewery-Seattle

Tangelic Halo IPA (5.5% ABV / 50 IBU)

Transparent Reality, Pilsner (5.9% ABV / 40 IBU)

Humulus Unum Idaho 7 IPA (6.5% ABV / 60 IBU)

Rotating Small Batch Tap

Resonate Brewery-Bellevue

Atomic Punk West Coast IPA (7.45% ABV)

(FRI & SAT) Lithium Dusseldorf Altbier (5.2% ABV)

(FRI & SAT) Hazy Train New England IPA (6.9% ABV)

(FRI & SAT) Faith No More Belgian Pale Ale (5.6% ABV)

(FRI & SUN) Limelight Lime + Pomegranite Gose (5.4% ABV)

(SAT) Bicycle Race Grapefruit Radler (3.9% ABV)

(SUN) Freeze Frame IPA (7.0% ABV)

(SUN) Simon & GarDunkel Dunkels Weissbier (5.6% ABV)

(SUN) Hysberia Raspberry Wheat (5.2% ABV)

River City Brewing-Spokane

River City Red (5.6% ABV)

Riverkeeper IPA (6.5% ABV)

Kung Fu Death Monkey DIPA (8% ABV)

Experience Pale Ale (5.8% ABV)

Congratulator Doppelbock 2016 (8.4% ABV)

Midnight Marmot Imperial Stout 2017 (8.7% ABV)

Colonel Crusher Barley Wine (9.9% ABV)

Lime, Cilantro and Jalapeño Girlfriend Golden Ale (5% ABV)

Rooftop Brewing-Seattle

Neutron ISA (5% ABV / 42 IBU)

Single Hop IPA Azacca (7% ABV / 46 IBU)

Glorious Basker (5% ABV / 11 IBU)

(FRI) Hoppin Honey (11.2% ABV / 35 IBU)

(FRI) Barrel Aged Makeda Coffee Porter (5.8% ABV / 32 IBU)

(FRI) TRI-IPA CASK (5.7% ABV / 60 IBU)

(SAT) Barrel Aged Makeda Coffee Porter (5.8% ABV / 32 IBU)

(SAT) Belgian Quad (12.2% ABV / 39 IBU)

(SAT) Gateway Creamsicle CASK (5.8% ABV / 33 IBU)

(SUN) Barrel Aged Russian Imperial Stout (8.8% ABV / 40 IBU)

Roslyn Brewing-Roslyn

Roslyn Dark Lager (4.8% ABV / 31 IBU)

Brookside Pale Lager (5.2% ABV)

San Juan Island Brewing-Friday Harbor

Outer Island IPA (6.5% ABV)

Bull Kelp ESB (5.5% ABV / 35 IBU)

Yachter Daughter Helles Lager (5.0% ABV / 16 IBU)

Reel Hooker/Hefeweizen (5.2% ABV / 15 IBU)

Scrappy Punk Brewing-Snohomish

Coconut Blonde Ale (4.5% ABV / 12 IBU)

Lavender Old Ale (7.8% ABV / 48 IBU)

Oatmeal Milk Stout (5.5% ABV / 20 IBU)

MANGO CHAMPAGNE IPA (6.5% ABV / 50 IBU)

Skagit River Brewery-Mount Vernon

False Accusations NWIPA (6.3% ABV / 80 IBU)

Oak Aged Amber (6.8% ABV / 48 IBU) (Limited Release)

Skookum Brewery-Arlington

POG Clouds Milkshake IPA (7% ABV)

Gene Pool IIPA (8% ABV)

Burned in Light Grissette (5.25% ABV)

Rotating Tap

A Memory of Light

Barren Wood

BABS

Slaughter County Brewing-Port Orchard

Gorst Light, Bohemian Pilsner (4% ABV)

Mon Petit Belgian Tripel (8.5% ABV)

Hoptopod NW IPA (7% ABV)

Regimental Scotch Wee Heavy (8.1% ABV)

Captain Howdy India Red (6.6% ABV)

Snoqualmie Falls Brewing-Snoqualmie

Meadowbrook Farmhouse Ale Saison (7% ABV / 15 IBU)

Sunny Si Citra IPA (6.6% ABV / 75 IBU)

SnoTown Brewery-Snohomish

Jalapeno Blonde (5% ABV)

Nuevo IPA (6.3% ABV)

Loose Rooster (7% ABV)

Blood Orange Pale Ale (6% ABV)

Stagetime Session IPA (4% ABV)

SnoTown Amber (5.5% ABV)

Sound To Summit Brewing-Snohomish

Monkeyfist Maibock (7.3% ABV / 29 IBU)

10 O'Clock Tart (7.8% ABV)

Spring Mist California Common (5.3% ABV / 15 IBU)

Cucumber Kolsch (5% ABV / 16 IBU)

Tropical Breeze Hazy IPA (6.5% ABV / 25 IBU)

Stone’s Throw Brewery-Bellingham

Neighborhood IPA (6.3% ABV / 80 IBU)

Two Dollah Porter (6.7% ABV / 20 IBU)

Raincountry Liquid Sunshine Lager (5.3% ABV / 20 IBU)

On-Your-Left! Hefeweizen (5.9% ABV / 16 IBU)

Stoup Brewing-Seattle

Berliner Weisse (3.8% ABV / 5 IBU)

Bavarian-Hefeweizen (5% ABV / 13 IBU)

German Style Pilsner (5.1% ABV / 40 IBU)

Citrus Question IPA

(FRI) Funky Cold Bordelleaux (7% ABV)

Sumerian Brewing-Woodinville

Lucidity Pilsner: (4.5% ABV / 35 IBU)

Narcissism IPA: (6.6% ABV / 66 IBU)

Hopruption Double IPA: (8.0% ABV / 95 IBU)

Unforgiven Hazy IPA: (6.5% ABV / 40 IBU)

2112 Lager: (5.0% ABV / 18 IBU)

Ten Pin Brewing-Moses Lake

Groove Pineapple Wheat (5.8% ABV)

Gutterball Hazy Pale Ale(5.5% ABV)

Fermentater Lemonaughty Potato Berliner Weisse (3.5% ABV)

(FRI) Suicide King Imperial IPA (9.3% ABV)

(FRI) Barrel Aged Black Eyed Katy Imperial Stout (10.7% ABV)

(SAT) Guava Gose(5.3% ABV)

(SAT) Barrel Aged Black Eyed Katy Imperial Stout (10.7% ABV)

(SUN) Smokin’ Hot Blonde Ale(5.7% ABV)

(SUN) All About That Bas-il Herb Ale (5.8% ABV)

The Hidden Mother Brewery-Liberty Lake

Pomegranate Lime Pilsner (5.2% ABV / 16 IBU)

Imperial Russian Rye Stout (9.5 % ABV / 60 IBU)

Smoked porter (7.2% ABV / 35 IBU)

IPA (7.2 % ABV / 75 IBU)

Smoked Red (6.4% ABV / 38 IBU)

European Pale (5.5% ABV / 55 IBU)

Morel infused smoked red (6.7% ABV / 43 IBU)

(SAT) Pink Peppercorn Ponderosa Pine Saison (6.9% ABV / 14 IBU)

Three Bull Brewing-Snohomish

Belgian Strong (8.2% ABV)

Aught 6 Imperial Double IPA (7.8% ABV / 65 IBU)

Camp Bitch Blonde (5.5% ABV)

Three Bull IPA (6.2% ABV / 85 IBU)

Racked Blackberry IPA (5.8% ABV / 75 IBU)

Three Magnets Brewing-Olympia

Little Juice IPA (7.0% ABV / 50 IBU)

Us and Them ESB (5.2% ABV / 25 IBU)

Robust Porter (7.7% ABV / 20 IBU)

(FRI) Howard’s Blend b2

Timber Monster Brewing-Sultan

Blood Orange Blonde (5.8% ABV / 26 IBU)

Sultan Savage Double IPA (8.3% ABV / 107 IBU)

Stone Chucker Vanilla Bourbon Porter (5.5% ABV / 41 IBU)

Top Rung Brewing-Lacey

Shift Trade IPA: (7.1% ABV / 50 IBU)

HDR IPA (7.3% ABV / 87 IBU)

Coffee Three Sixty Red (5.8% ABV / 34 IBU)

(Rotating) Raspberry Pastry Stout (7.6% ABV / 32 IBU)

(Rotating) Red Wine Barrel Aged Pyrolysis Imperial Stout (9.8% ABV / 40 IBU)

Triceratops Brewing-Tumwater

(FRI) Strawberry Golden Ale (6.7% ABV)

(FRI) Liquid Swords IPA (6.5% ABV)

(SAT) Pappy’s Extra Stout (6.5% ABV)

(SAT & SUN) Pennsyltucky Vienna Lager (4.8% ABV)

(SUN) Collin James Irish Red (4.8% ABV)

Triplehorn Brewing-Woodinville

Whicked Pissah (7% ABV)

(FRI) Barrel Aged Mystic (10% ABV)

(FRI) Pepperbelly Blonde Ale (7% ABV)

(FRI) Inceneratorjulbock Lager

(FRI) Shakti; Farmhouse Saison (6.3% ABV)

(FRI) Intervention; Traditional Imperial IPA (8.8% ABV)

(FRI) Nothing Gose Unpunished (4.6% ABV) (FRI & SAT) (FRI, SAT & SUN) Bloodgeon (4.8% ABV)

(SAT) Shaktiberry Saison

(SAT) Barrel Aged Wolf's Cross Stout (8% ABV) (SAT) Oatstanding Oatmeal Porter (6.3% ABV)

(SAT) Brink-182; Hoppy Punk Rock IPA (6% ABV)

(SAT) Twee Kettle Sour (3.8% ABV)

(SAT & SUN) The Enabler;India Session Ale (4.9% ABV)

(SAT & SUN) Stupid Monk Honey Belgian Tripel (9.5% ABV)

(SUN) Mellow Out Dad Lavender Saison (5% ABV)

(SUN) Brink-182; Hoppy Punk Rock IPA (6% ABV)

(SUN) Bygg Vin 2017 Barleywine (12% ABV)

(SUN) Nitro N3m3si5 Imperial Milk Stout (10% ABV)

(SUN) Landwink Flagship IPA (6.9% ABV)

Two Beers Brewing-Seattle

Wonderland Trail IPA (7.1% / 84 IBU)

Overhang Imperial Porter (12.9% ABV / 60 IBU)

Fall Line Russian Imperial Stout (12% ABV / 50 IBU)

Mango Passionfruit IPA (6.4% ABV / 58 IBU)

Lima Loca Mexican Lager (3.8% ABV)

Evo IPA with Pineapple (6.2% ABV / 70 IBU)

Waddell's Brewing-Spokane

Barrel Aged Imperial Alligator Oatmeal Stout (11.5% ABV / 50 IBU)

Basic Batch Vanilla Coffee Cream Ale

Mexican Lager (5% ABV / 20 IBU)

5 Mile IPA (7% ABV / 27 IBU)

Walking Man Brewing-Stevenson

Black Cherry Stout (7.2% ABV / 35 IBU)

Trespasser - NE IPA (7% ABV / 50 IBU)

Red Alt Bier Style Ale (5.2% ABV / 30 IBU)

Wenatchee Valley Brewing-Wenatchee

Hopsicle DIPA (8% ABV / 90 ABV)

Poe Ridge American IPA (6.7% ABV / 66 IBU)

Overlord Pale Ale (6.5% ABV / 54 IBU)

Hydroelectric Hefeweizen

White Bluffs Brewing-Richland

Nectar of the Gods IPA (6.7% ABV / 60 IBU)

Biere De Garde French Farmhouse Ale (6.9% ABV / 25 IBU)

Red Alt Bier Style Ale (5.2% ABV / 30 IBU)

Kaptain Kölsch (4.8% ABV / 18 IBU)

Young Buck Brewing-Spokane

'It's Got Electrolytes!' Gose (4.0% ABV)

Mimosa Gose (3.5% ABV)

Farmhouse Funk 3.5 (6.4% ABV / 5 IBU)

Warp 8 IPA (7.5% ABV/ 75 IBU)

Hyperdrive Imperial IPA (8.5% ABV/ 80 IBU)

Event Horizon Imperial Stout (9.99% ABV/ 99.99 IBU)

192 Brewing-Kenmore

Shticky Blonde Ale (6.75% ABV / 22 IBU)

Sundown Amber Rye (5.5% ABV / 45 IBU)

Wally Hop-Skip Double IPA (8% ABV / 65 IBU)

Shed Light (3.5% ABV / 20 IBU)

20 Corners Brewing-Woodinville

(FRI) Ground Rush West Coast IPA (6.2% ABV)

(FRI) 4.20 Pounds Per Barrel New England IPA (5.7% ABV)

(FRI) General Campbell Wheat Beer w/ Raspberry, Pineapple & Blueberry (5.0% ABV)

(FRI & SAT) Four Roses Barrel Aged Old Works Imperial Russian Stout (10.2% ABV)

(FRI & SUN) Mountain Berry Gose w/ Blackberry, Elderberry, and Huckleberry (4.9% ABV)

(SAT) Dunce Cap Double IPA (8.0% ABV)

(SAT) Autonomous Classic American IPA (7.2% ABV)

(SAT) Vagablonde Kölsch (5.5% ABV)

(SAT) Golden Barrel Aged Sour Sour Ale (5.5% ABV)

(SAT) Pepper Lager Vienna Lager infused with Chilli Peppers (6.2% ABV)

(SUN) Ground Rush West Coast IPA (6.2% ABV)

(SUN) Dunce Cap Double IPA (8.0% ABV)

(SUN) Calcutta Saison w/ Ginger, Citrus Peel, and Coriander (6.2% ABV)

(SUN) Mountain Berry Gose w/ Blackberry, Elderberry, and Huckleberry (4.9% ABV)

(SUN) Cow Tippin Milk Porter (4.5% ABV)

(SUN) Ghost Trees New England IPA (6.5% ABV)

210 Brewing-Arlington

210 Blonde Ale (5.3% ABV / 10 IBU)

210 IPA (7% ABV / 85 IBU)

210 Double Rye IPA (9% ABV / 83 IBU)

210 Berliner Weisse

54-40 Brewing-Washougal

Kascadia Kölsch-style Ale (4.8% ABV / 20 IBU)

Half Cocked IPA (6.8% ABV / 70 IBU)

Zeppelin American Amber Ale (5.6% ABV / 25 IBU)

Cucumber Gose Well w/ Lime (5.0% ABV / 12 IBU)

7 Seas Brewing-Tacoma

Ballz Deep Double IPA (8.4% ABV / 84 IBU)

Water Chopper Gose (7% ABV)

Never Say Die Nomadic IPA (6.3% ABV / 72 IBU)

Cascadian Dark Ale (CDA) (7.0% ABV / 65 ABV)

7 Seas Pilsner (5.2% ABV / 32 IBU)

from News - The Northwest Beer Guide http://bit.ly/2JwwCx2

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While visiting theme parks in Orlando might seem to be the obvious option, there is actually so much more excitement and thrill that Orlando has to offer, and they are all out of this theme park bubble. Check things to do in Orlando for a complete guide, while night owls can find out about their various night activities from this link. Prepare to be amazed when you explore and discover what else Orlando has to offer.

1. Ride the Orlando Eye

One of Orlando’s newest attractions, the Orlando Eye is one of Florida’s foremost authorities when it comes to the panoramic majesty of downtown cityscapes. A four hundred foot Ferris Wheel set in the heart of Orlando, the Orlando Eye is both owned and operated by the same reputable organization behind the London Eye, the famed European attraction.

The construction itself is the world’s first to employ a cutting-edge suspension design, allowing for as smooth a Ferris wheel ride as has ever existed. The site itself also plays host to a number of domestic and high-profile events, from local social functions to weddings to school visits. During your ride on the Orlando Eye, you will enjoy time suspended above the ground in an enclosed, temperature controlled capsule, perfect for a visual perusal of the city from above. On days when visibility is at a maximum, you can catch views of Cape Canaveral to the east, and the downtown Orlando skyline in your immediate line of sight! While you are up there, maybe you can catch some of the destinations highlighted in our list of the best day trips from Orlando!

2. Beat the clock at The Escape Game Orlando

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3. Feel the rhythm at the House of Blues Orlando

For a unique taste of the local culture, together with an intimate immersion into the Orlando music scene, come check out the House of Blues in Orlando, Florida! Home to countless award-winning performances over the years, this top-tier venue regularly plays host to some of the top blues musicians to grace the face of the planet today. Their constantly updated online schedule is always decorated by a unique assortment of new and renowned musicians, events which always provide locals and visitors alike with the perfect excuse to hear world-class music.

The House of Blues in Orlando also plays host to a wonderful onsite restaurant and bar, so you can satisfy all of your culinary and beverage needs without ever leaving the premises! From their daily happy hour specials to their restaurant and bar-specific entertainment, the House of Blues Restaurant and Bar is, in itself, a site worth the experience, if only for the fabulous sensory experience that is the synthesis of wonderful food and music alike.

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4. Explore the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge

Nothing against the Walt Disney World Resort, but the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge is more than four times its size! At a stunning 140,000 acres (roughly 218 square miles), this preservation of some of Florida’s finest indigenous species truly allows visitors and locals alike to taste authentic southern life, at its absolute finest.

Officially characterized as a U.S. National Wildlife Refuge, one of 562 nationally protected spaces within the United States dedicated to the continued preservation of America’s wildlife, vegetation, and fish, the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge hosts more organized life than perhaps you’ve ever experienced. Home to over 1,000 plant species, which together with 117 species of fish, 330 birds species, 31 individualized mammal species and 68 reptile and amphibian species make for a truly unforgettable visit, the site itself is captivating from the moment you set foot upon its lands.

And there are so many ways to experience the refuge itself! Take a tour of its bioluminescent lagoon, with A Day Away Kayak Tours. Learn more about the life that typifies the region at the Visitor Information Center. Glimpse crystal clear waters at the Indian River. From bald eagles to osprey, American alligators to Loggerhead sea turtles, there’s so much to see and to experience in the great outdoors, at the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge!

5. Catch an Orlando City Soccer Club game

Who needs Disney when you get the chance to witness one of Orlando’s finest recreational outlets? Welcome to Orlando City Stadium, home to the Orlando City Soccer Club, one of the newest members of the Eastern Conference of the MLS. Headlined at one time by former World Cup winner Kaká, Orlando City SC, the team exists as one of the more recent installments of the wildly popular Major League Soccer organization in North America. Given the wonderfully mild climatic conditions which typify the immediate Orlando region for the majority of the soccer season, there’s never a reason why you can’t come out and support Orlando City. As the twenty-first team allowed admittance into the MLS, Orlando City SC remains identifiable by their distinct logo, the lion contained with a purple shield.

Led by forward Cyle Larin, whose twelve goals in 2017 ranked seventh among all active MLS players, the Orlando City Soccer Club looks poised for a breakout year in their upcoming season. The team recently acquired the Sacha Kljestan, who ranked first in the MLS in 2017 with 17 assists, and paired with goalkeeper Joe Bendik, whose 118 saves ranked first among all goalkeepers, the team has seen vast improvements. Come out and support Orlando City SC the next time you’re anywhere near Orlando, and pick up a commemorative purple jersey during your stay!

6. Party till after-hours at The Beacham

The Beacham is a live music venue and nightclub in the heart of downtown Orlando. The history of the building dates back to the early 1920s when it touted famed vaudevillian acts. What’s old is new again, with true-to-the-original renovations creating a historic, yet state-of-the-art spot to catch the hottest national touring acts. However, be sure to check the required dress code, in order for you to have a night you’ll never forget.

7. Dine at the world’s largest McDonald's

This McDonald’s is not like the rest. First of all, it’s shaped like a giant bag of fries, and secondly: it’s world class. To accommodate the throngs of people lining up to get Happy Meals, it has a touch screen ordering system that possibly makes fast food even faster. For the food, it’s not just McChickens and McWings, they also sell pastas and pizzas! As if that’s not enough, they also offer a full dessert bar. Naturally, the restaurant has plenty of cheap arcade games to keep the kids entertained. This world-class McDonald’s is located at International Drive, a place that has a lot more to offer, it might take you a whole day to explore!

8. Bask in the glory of nature at the Harry P. Leu Gardens

Harried tourists often overlook botanical gardens but in Orlando it’s a shame to pass up on the 50-acre (20 hectares) Harry P. Leu Gardens. They house more than 1,000 rose bushes (in season from April to January) and the largest collection of camellias in North America (in bloom November through March). Located on Lake Ivanhoe near downtown, the gardens also features a citrus grove and a butterfly garden.

9. Have the coolest experience at the largest permanent Ice Bar

The Ice Bar in Florida is the largest in the world, and it is there all year around. It is divided into two areas: the Ice Bar and the Fire Lounge. Upon entering, you will be greeted by an Ice Princess who will provide you with Thermal Coats and Gloves. As you step inside the Winter Wonderland, the fabulous frozen sculptures make the perfect setting for your photo moments. When you feel you want to heat things up, slip into the Fire Lounge for a night of dancing.

10. Drive out to the birthplace of speed

Fun for race fans, friends and families, Daytona Beach is world renowned for its resorts, the Daytona International Speedway, swimming, surfing and all other fun, beach activities. But the Daytona Beach Pier is often an underrated, beautiful part of the beach. It’s a historic attraction that recently reopened after a 5 million USD restoration. Definitely worth a visit!

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