If you have seven minutes available, please watch "A Night at the Garden" (2018), the Academy Award-nominated documentary by Marshall Curry on the chilling 1939 Nazi-organized rally in Madison Square Garden, attended by 22,000 people. Here's your link: youtube.com/watch?v=Mxxxlu…

Oktoberfest began in Munich, Germany today, and as they do every year, there's a poster contest to choose each year's official poster. This is this year's winner.

“They're coming for our pints!” Had a nice chat with the author of this article. Happily it looks like the pint is safe for now. theguardian.com/food/2024/sep/…

The Guardian published two (!) opinion pieces in support of scrapping the imperial pint measure. Here is my counter argument, supported by data from the World Health Organisation that indicates UK beer consumption is already drastically lower than it was a few decades ago.

Tonight isn't the first fascist rally at Madison Square Garden:

Given the regrettable decisions of the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times and USA Today not to endorse a presidential candidate in this year's crucial election, here are links to endorsements of Kamala Harris published by The New York Times, the New Yorker, The Atlantic and

So much for those who claim that drinking alcohol isn’t natural 😛 theguardian.com/science/2024/o…

REMINDER: throw out rotting pumpkins now that it's November

Unsanctioned Bay to Breakers-style Halloween parade takes over SF's Mission District trib.al/H824g1F

The award-winning cast of The West Wing reunited to endorse VP Kamala Harris for President in a new ad created in partnership with the Lincoln Project. Martin Sheen Bradley Whitford Allison Janney Not the actor known as Dulé Hill (((Jew))) Janel Moloney @MaryCMcCormack Richard Schiff

Scotch whisky cask making with an experienced cooper. [📹 caledoniancooper]

San Francisco's oceanfront Great Highway will become the Great Walkway. Car-brained journalists will call this a "closure" but you can just as well call it an opening.

Horseshoe, Ringley

NEW BOOK I'm delighted to announce after seven years of research and writing FILTHY QUEENS: A HISTORY OF BEER IN IRELAND is here! Published with Nine Bean Rows, it is available for preorder now. Link in bio. About the book: 'In Filthy Queens, we look at the history of beer...🧵

Sen. Jon Ossoff: “Has your tenure as postmaster general been a success?” Louis DeJoy: “I know how you feel about me.” Ossoff: “It’s not about how I feel about you. … It’s about whether or not seniors in Georgia are receiving prescriptions.”

Ok night owls🦉let's talk about the recent tsunami warning🌊We don't get these alerts very often and there are lot of questions, frustration, and even some anger about how it all unfolded. We'll go over the history, science and warning process👇

San Francisco has some pretty awesome dive bars. La Rocca's Corner is my favorite. Roddy bolted through the door and yelled after me with a big grin on his face, “Wait …you’re Broke-Ass Stuart? Don’t communize me, you leftist piece of s—t!” sfgate.com/sf-culture/art…