This week on the STL Hops Twitter
Avery Sixteen has arrived at the Wine & Cheese Place on Forsyth. According to the website The Full Pint, this is a Saison on Steroids. (a day ago)
Square One Brewery just put their Agave...
Gov. Sarah Palin announced Friday that she will step down as Alaska's chief executive by the end of the month. She will not seek election to a second gubernatorial term in 2010.
Article
Official press release
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I’ve made a change in how the beer tastings will be listed in the Friday Round-Up, it’s going to be a week’s worth of tastings starting with the Friday that the list is posted. So if you’re a retail...
This Friday, Shannon from A Girl’s Gotta Spa joins Bionic Beauty to share her thoughts on Achieving Powerful Beauty.
First here’s a little background on Shannon and her blog…
In 2005, Shannon launched her beauty blog, A Girl’s Gotta Spa! (making...
(via Southern Beale)
John Feehery, a former staffer for Dennis Hastert and conservative lobbyist, warns in this CNN commentary that the Democrats will use their new filibuster-proof majority to foist silly French ideas like the metric system on Americans.
OH NOES! ...
Yet more spam from Timothy V. Johnson…
Subject: cap&trade
From: Congressman Timothy Johnson <timothy.johnson@houseenews.net>
Reply-To: 2100042350.26983.250@houseenews.net
Date: 2 Jul 2009 10:46:04 -0700 (PDT)
To: Janice Hopkins
Who the fcsk is Janice Hopkins?
[self serving crapola deleted -- Basically Mr. Johnson thinks money...
The Axe Man.
We’re all familiar with the Axe commercials, right? Women flocking to the yummy smelling guy? Well, the Bionic Hubby (known from now on as “BH”) agreed to review some of the latest goodies from Axe. Their new line...
Soon we will see crews doing to St. Louis’ North 14th Street what I saw yesterday in the town of Rockford Illinois: ripping out a tired pedestrian mall (Map).
Crews began ripping out the two remaining blocks last month.
There were 48...
Unemployment is certainly bad for those people who have lost their jobs, but for those who look at the unemployment numbers for a direction of things to come in the stock market, it's a different story. Yesterday's jobs report...
.Canada Day in Toronto: this man was literally wrapped in the flag. We stopped and talked for a while. He wasn't a Torontonian, but rather from London, Ontario, half-way to Detroit. Why did he dress like that? "I just really...
To simplify is to create balance for life. Or at least part of it, in my opinion. I once heard that the richer someone gets, monetarily, the more paranoid they become because they fear someone will take it...
Welcome home, Woody
After shooting fitfully funny films in England and Spain, Woody Allen returns to New York, and, working in predictable territory, brings forth an oh-so-predictable movie, "Whatever Works", and if he doesn't blast a home run out of the...
This turned out to be one of the most up and down days of my life. On July 1st my band Achalachia had a show at the Fubar for the Jupiter Studios Battle of the Bands, and it should have...
The girls still playing in Lake Erie.....They've spotted me!Our initials and all of our left hand prints in the sandI smartly chose the positioning on this picture as to hide as much of my body as possible! Ha ha!Washing...
Dude, have you heard of this band? They just might be my new artist that I listen to until I'm sick of it. There is no one around today that sounds like them, except for maybe the ...
This past weekend we had a great shoot, and rather than finishing 3 hours after we were supposed to, we finished an hour early. Help it! Our first shoot was literally on the metro. It was pretty...
Today was a "big" grocery shopping day. After lunch I prepared the list, made sure the bags were in the car, and set off for the store. When I got there, I navigated up and down the aisles putting...
The second giveaway in honor of Bionic Beauty’s Second Anniversary is now live!
For this contest, you have the chance to win one of three copies of Jackie Silver’s amazing book “Aging Backwards - Secrets to Staying Young”. In my...
Back in elementary school, when I wanted to get the attention of a particular girl, I would try to do something impressive, all the while acting nonchalant about it. OK, Patricia, you’ll notice me now! Nobody else in our 4th...
Cellist Bjorn Ranheim, who the last time I saw him had
shaved his head just before the last Casual Classics concert, sent me a note
about the "intense music festival" he's already in the thick of in Boulder, the Colorado
Music Festival, aka...
This post was originally going to be about your beer cellars, but instead I’m turning to a different topic. This weekend being the celebration of America’s Independence, I’m asking the question, “What was the defining moment that caused your independence...
Upcoming 4th of July DealsMcCormick & Schmick's - McCormick & Schmick's is offering a lobster special this weekend, beginning today and running until Sunday. Enjoy 1 lb of Maine lobster special served with seasonal vegetables, for $19.95.O'Leary's - Enjoy...
A newfound hobby of mine is Geocaching. Put simply, it’s a world-wide game in which people hide small containers, or caches, in various places, and then provide GPS coordinates for others to use to find the caches. There are hundreds...
A few weeks back I was standing in line at a fast food restaurant and one man was arguing that his order was wrong and that he was overcharged. At first, most of us thought, "okay fine, whatever." but he...
In addition to being the size of a thimble, I’m thinking my bladder is a sensitive, shy type that didn’t like being called out in my last post.
Thanks to it, I was up at least every two to...
Last night at knit night we had a bacon potluck of sorts.
I’m still not sure how exactly this came about, all I know is that we were discussing random things last week at knitting and it morphed into a discussion...
Yet more Republican spam…
From: “Chairman David Cole” <chairman@mogop.org>
Subject: Help us combat ACORN’s influence
To: Me
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:16:42 UT
Dear Concerned Conservative,
Bzzzt! WRONG!
Late last week, Jay Nixon’s administration agreed to pay $450,000 in taxpayer money to the Association of...
It's no secret that I'm just a bit of a Nintendo fan. In fact, if you are a regular reader (thanks to both of you!) then you know that if I had MY way, my life would revolve around music,...
.There's only so much to say about a catenary arch but what's around it is infinitely variable. Maybe that's where this series is going.And, note from Toronto - these French-speaking Quebecois were in T.O.'s Dundas Square yesterday on...
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