"Punk Shui" by Josh Amatore HughesThis little book looks like a peon to Urban Outfitter hipster NY-fad crap. Actually, it's an amazing little book about creativity. This isn't about prissy coffee tables that look like their about to topple over in a myriad of shades of white, nor is it said hipster ironic trash to impress your neo-flanel friends ( Read more... )

This time around, a triptych about about living in these economically trying times [if you're in a situation as precarious as mine]:

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Wine ExpoThe New Year, especially in a year that has been so brutal, requires good Champagne. Not those over-priced, flavorless "luxury products" like Moet and Dom (which are owned by the same mega-corp that owns Vuitton by the way), but serious fireworks of a fizzy that will envelope the past year's baggage and the new year's worries. Champagne ( Read more... )

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Dogfish Head "Palo Santo Marron" Beer: This is a 12% Brown Ale aged in enormous vats (the largest constructed since prohibition) of Palo Santo wood. It has a nose of figs, carmel, french-pressed coffee, with a hint of some sort of dark berry at the end. Very low carbonation, and very dense with plenty of roasted walnut, salt-carmel, and struddel ( Read more... )