So every Spring and Summer for the past few years, my little Metropolis puts on this shindig called “Downtown After Dinner”. The title is a little presumptuous, because it implies that you ate somewhere in the vicinity of downtown and then came down in the town to hang out. Vicinity and a propensity to fall for slogans [...]
Has anyone other than A and W ever looked at the ingredients in their version of Diet Root Beer? I hadn’t until this evening when I put a can down with the ingredient side facing me. The big two, filtered carbonated water and caramel color, I fully understand. You can’t have an un-caramelly, un-bubbly brand of not-so-near-beer [...]
Have you ever been sober around a bunch of your friends, and find yourself wondering why you ever thought their conversations were interesting, tolerable, or even intelligible? When you’re sober, this obligatory encounter with the sentimental drunk can be harder to take than Dirk Diggler. You’re trapped, and you don’t know what to do. You care [...]
