Recently Phoenix was hit with a few storms, and one occurred over a Saturday afternoon. No problem. I can just hang out here, right? Sure. This however was no ordinary Saturday, it was one where we had one of these, and I simply didn’t want to go outside. Would you go outside during one of these?
Probably not. So it was one of those afternoons where I tell my kids to go somewhere else in the house and find something to put on for noise. Sadly, I didn’t have the remote. I never have the remote. Why? Because I am not normally interested in what is on TV; live sports, DIY, and Food Network being an exception. So I don’t care what is on because I’m probably just going to ignore it anyway. My wife picked a Netflix show called, GLOW.
This is my review of Unity Vibration Raspberry Kombucha Beer.
Prior to the storm I went to Sprouts and found this while waiting for the butcher to finish my order. I can’t watch women wrestling in the 80’s while sober; its just weird. Kombucha seemed an appropriate choice.
You heard me. Its about women wrestling—in the 80’s!
The story begins where two actresses are at their aerobics class. I paid little attention to the dialogue, but they’re both out of work and the story line takes off when one later finds out the other slept with her husband. Cue the main conflict. One is significantly more attractive in the opinion of many that recall the 80’s fondly–specifically, she’s a buxom blonde. Next they add in more conflict at the audition, where two women are questioning why are they there. They are both relived to find out it isn’t porn, but mildly disturbed it is wrestling.
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he director of this whole thing is a hilarious composite of 80’s tropes between the thick glasses, the power-stache, alcoholism, and womanizing. He embodies the type of toxic masculinity that quite frankly is missing from popular culture. Yes, he’s a dick, but he’s kind of the glue that binds all these people together and frankly that’s probably why you will watch beyond episode 1.
Another reason is you might find “Wolf Girl” strangely compelling, as she is the only character not playing a character within a character. She’s just “Wolf Girl.” The rest of the girls are hilarious stereotypes that outside the context of 80’s culture would never be seen anywhere. Some are okay, the Valley Girl, and the British girl named, “Britannica,” for example. Others are intentionally offensive, such as the Hindu girl playing a Libyan Terrorist, the Asian girl playing a character named, “Fortune Cookie,” and a Black Actress as the character called, “Welfare Queen.”
Most of the plot revolves around the actresses learning to wrestle, finding a character to play, the blonde lady coming to terms with being a headliner for a wrestling show, having nobody else to pair in the act but with her former home-wrecker friend, and her former home-wrecker friend being unable to find a character. That is until she figures out how to counter the blonde’s character as an All-American, Apple Pie type appropriately named, “Liberty Belle.”
Naturally, her nemesis is a Soviet agent named, “Zoya the Destroyer.”
The show is filled with good one liners. Once they actually get around to performing in front of live audiences does the plot start to slow down. They could’ve stopped there, but they didn’t. If you get to this point, you’re probably just going to finish the season just to find out what happens.
So what in the hell is Kombucha? It’s a probiotic tea fancied by the crunchy vegan types at Whole Foods and Sprouts. Its meant to replace the “good” bacteria in the digestive tract. I don’t recommend it unless you simultaneously spent the weekend snorting a Z-pack and are lactose intolerant. In this situation, they simply let the bacterial cultures ferment until it comes to a high enough ABV they can reasonably market it as beer. It’s not beer. It’s an affront to humanity.
So the bottom line, this show is silly but you might like it, so check it out before they make it suck like the X-Files. This drink is also silly, and you’ll probably hate it. Try it at your peril. Unity Vibration Raspberry Kombucha: 1.1/5
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161 responses to “Another Lazy Saturday”
I knew the moment I read the word kombucha what the score would be. Why anyone likes that stuff is a mystery to me.
Raspberry beer? That’s almost as lame as strawberry beer.
https://youtu.be/WzylJ2mjG0Y
That raspberry beer-et is the kind you’d find in a secondhand store.
That pun made me delirious.
Sub-threads like this is the Principal reason I come here.
I don’t mind the puns, but let’s not go crazy with the purple prose. Purple prose, purple prose, I only wish you guys would cool it with the purple prose.
Yo, my house got a certificate of occupancy three weeks early. Is that a good sign or a bad sign?
I’d say good, If the house is complete and the inspectors sign off, and most importantly you sign off, then cool. Though I’m not sure what you mean by ‘early’ whose schedule are you basing that on?
The builder (McPadden, if that means anything to you) was saying that the CO would be issued “by Labor Day.” The contract date was Nov 1. He hasn’t scheduled my walk-through yet. ALSO: what should I look for during my walk-through?
Finish dates are always fungible if you got in early you’re one of the lucky ones. I personally never give a set finish date, there are just too many variables, unless you are a hardcore “this is the house you get and you don’t make any changes or customizable’ builder there is always a large window of when it should be done and when it is done,
what should I look for during my walk-through? open every door, test ever light, open and shut all the windows, at this point most of the real problems should be dealt with, you’re going to have some ‘settling’ the generic term we builders use for shit that just ain’t right. I tell all our clients to keep a notepad on the kitchen counter and write down every little glitch they find for a few weeks, 90% of those are nothing, a turn of a screw here, a nudge on a hinge there, etc… but occasionally a door is set wrong or there’s a loose wire in an outlet, write it down, don’t freak out it’s common. Now if you’re builder starts hemming and hawing about fixing this stuff, then start taking pictures and documenting everything, shit happens I’ve fucked up seriously a time or two, but I always make it right. That’s the key, if your builder is trustworthy you shouldn’t have anything to fret about, unfortunately only time will tell.
Founders Raspberry beer is great. Just like Sam Smith’s fruit beers.
I can’t watch women wrestling in the 80’s while sober; its just weird.
I watched GLOW back in the 80s. I watched it sober. It wasn’t weird.
This GLOW.
Yeah, you pretty much just posted the plot. Spoiler.
Oops. Sorry.
True story. Around 2001, I worked at an independent harley shop in Burbank, CA. Some guy came in one day and asked me if I’d train two girls to ride bikes for GLOW. They needed to ride down a ramp and then do a circle lap around the stage. I took the girls out to Balboa Park in Van Nuys and taught them to ride just good enough to get around the parking lot. They paid me about 500 bucks, but the one chick dropped the bike and dented my supertrapp exhaust (which cost me 350.00). It was fun, though. Never saw the show, but I think it’s the one mentioned on wiki at the El Rey.
go on…
It was actually the same bike that’s my avatar, in an earlier incarnation. I prolly could have got with one of them, with some minor effort, but I was already tired of professional hot chicks by then.
Likely not what you had in mind, sorry.
I always preferred actually wrestling with women myself. Still do.
I wrestled for a season in high school. Despite weighing 50 lbs less than me, I kept pairing up during practice with an attractive Israeli girl who wanted to be on the team. I didn’t win many matches, but I bet I had way more fun than any of the other guys on the team, including the state ranked dude.
Do what you love, and you’ll never work a day in your life.
I’m catching up on articles from the last week or so. I like the list of gun books. I have a few of the Cooper books in my library.
I once knew a young woman whose fetish was play-wrestling. You had to overcome her gradually, but then hold her down. It was kind of hot, tbh.
That must be a pretty common fetish, I don’t think I’ve ever been with a girl who didn’t like doing that from time to time at least. And yes, I find it pretty hot too. Also….
STEVE SMITH OVERCOME GRADUALLY, OR NOT GRADUALLY, IT ALL THE SAME TO STEVE SMITH. POINT BEING STEVE SMITH EROTIC WRESTLING CHAMPION OF UNIVERSE
I watched both seasons.
“Naturally, her nemesis is a Soviet agent named, “Zoya the Destroyer.””
More wood than all the forests of Siberia.
Comic Cons, is it more virgins or STIs at this point?
Its a healthy mix of nerds, virgins, and women cosplaying to show off how much time they spend (or don’t) in the gym.
HAWT.
Turn on what to put on the smoker today. I’m thinking grill the hatch chilies, stuff some hamburgers with them and cheese and smoke em for dinner. OR, smoked wings and drumlettes and stuffed jalapenos OR, smoked chicken and pork belly tacos. Either way I’ll be drinking beer so not completely OT
Mmmmm. Smoked chillis.
I miss new mexico for that reason. chili season is the best season
^^^THIS^^^
I am just about to put in my web order for 2 bushels of green and 10 pounds of red to be delivered to me in the chile wasteland in which I find myself.
Nothing like clearing out your sinuses with a good batch of chiles.
Sounds awesome. I’ve consigned myself to hatch chili imports…but it works.
I have decided though…Smoked chicken and green chili stew. sure its 110 outside but damn I love me some chilies
That sounds great!
How many people are you planning on feeding? Do you know what a bushel looks like? How are you going to preserve them?
I’m not sure what SP is gonna do but if I get a large batch, I would split them and do the following
Batch 1: traditional roasting, peeling and freezing
Batch 2: split in half, smoke @200F for 2 hours and peel and seed. half of that i would chop up and use for weekly meals, other half dehydrate and make green chili powder
I know for chipotle they smoke jalapenos, do they make any other kinds of sauces with other smoked chilis?
Not too sure.
We like smoked guajillo chiles (which are always dried anyway, so might as well be smoked, too) for use in a garlic/chile soup originally from Jacques Pepin.
I had a friend in the chile/hot sauce/chile powder business for years who made a wide variety of sauces from the chiles he grew, many of which incorporated smoked chiles. He got out of the biz a while ago now. Man, I miss that guy (and the products!).
Yep and I actually loved it. German beer every year flown in on AC130s to the German wing for Oktoberfest.
I do this much every year. I eat green chile almost every day when I have it (and did eat it every single day when I lived in Northern NM). And dried red lasts a long time.
Usually I roast, peel, freeze, but this year I am probably going to pressure can half of them, which will be roasted, peeled and finely chopped beforehand (no vinegar). I have less room in the freezer than usual, and canned goods are easier to transport if we relocate again.
Let me know what you think of the results. I’ve not had good luck canning chiles. My experience has been the water bath turns them to mush.
I spent 5 years in Alamogordo and I couldn’t get enough of chilies and hole in the wall donut shops with the best damn breakfast burritos
I’m just planning on using those in sauces that I will blenderize anyway, so….
Holloman?
And, I’m so sorry. Probably felt longer than 5 years. 😉
Feeling masochistic today, eh? I don’t even know why you would spend money on that, much less put it in your mouth.
Why spend money on it? Because for reasons I can’t articulate, I have committed myself to entertaining a herd of cats once a week?
I genuflect to your selfless sacrifice to the Glibertariat. Lol!
In all seriousness, my intoxicating beverage purchasing revolves around what might be a writing prompt. Thank you.
Just remember, you spotted Royal Maghreb in a blind tasting. Looking around, apparently they don’t even make this any more, so your memory encompasses real history of a sort.
OK, I’ll confess that I nailed that one as well.
Hey, he powered through a tall boy of EARFquake for a review.
Now THAT is sacrifice.
kumbatcha is gross.
I just popped open one of my homebrew biere de garde. Pretty damn good!
Tastes more like a brown ale to me, but it’s delicious nonetheless.
They shouldn’t taste like a brown ale, they’re closer to a Saison I think. But, if you like it, “relax, don’t worry, and have a homebrew!”.
Perhaps it’s because I skipped the secondary fermentation. Anyway, good beer means no complaints!
Gosh, if only there were an article for the site about your hobby.
I enjoy your articles Mex and always read them. I rarely comment because I am not a beer guy but they are well written and I do enjoy them.
Thank you!
I just read your reloading article. It’s good. Thanks!
Seconded.
thirded, or how ever many-ded. I’m an unsophisticated beer drinker. Mostly Stella.
Totally OT, but when I was walking this morning for my daily constitutional, I saw a car with a bumper sticker that read:
BILLIONAIRES CANT BUY BERNIE!
God, how I love irony.
How about stupidity?
Seen in the Las Vegas area too…what a dolt.
I’m drinking Barrel Finished Gin today… though I had a Trader Jose amber beer with my lunch (chili, done LH style)
http://www.grnow.com/gray-skies-distillery-gin/
So…gin thst doesn’t taste like medecine?
*rubs chin*
The IPA fad has seeped into Gin?
I think “scourge” or “plague” would be more accurate than “fad.”
“It’s not beer. It’s an affront to humanity.” Score 1.1/5. What does it take to score a 1 (or a 0)?
Real, no-fooling piss?
Utica Club Light?
Milk
There’s some kind of fermented milk that’s actually pretty good, forget the name now. MS Should review it.
Kefir, to be specific.
Great article as usual, amigo.
Have you tried Crooked Stave Trellis Buster? Damn tasty.
I had an interesting conversation recently about perception and how it is influenced. This got me thinking about the articles I have submitted. I know what I want to write so that is what I try to put on paper, so to speak. Then I try to edit them but I think I am seeing what I want to see so I miss a lot of mistakes and bad writing. Two or three weeks later I re-read the drafts and I think “Who wrote this shit? Someone hijacked my computer!”
I just wrote another submission but I am going to wait a week or so and then try to edit and refine it. I think that may be the best approach.
I appreciate the praise I have received but I think much of it really belongs to whoever (SP?) is editing it. Perhaps this way I can save them some work and improve my writing.
The new submission is the first of a series on trees, timber and the industry in general. There is still a couple of reloading articles cued up so I have a little time.
Write drunk, edit sober. Gives the same effect.
Write sober, edit drunk. Genuis! Thank you!
I’m drink now. I’ll look at this later.
The new submission is the first of a series on trees,
Relevant
Gonna say without clicking that it is a larch, a larch.
Damnit. I should have considered the source.
The vast percentage of what I’ve written over the years have been run reports. They need to be clear, concise, accurate and brevity is appreciated. Fleshing things out to article length is not really my forte.
I really haven’t done much to your articles, or anyone’s really. There is a point where too much editing starts to erase the author’s voice. If any of you were actually going to put these posts out as a book for sale, I’d do a different kind (and much more) editing. As it is, we just do a little here and there for clarity and egregious typos/truly horrible grammar.
The rest of the editorial team is just getting some breathing space in their work lives, so will be returning very, very soon. You all won’t have to deal with me as much as you have been!
truly horrible grammar
Hey! That’s part of (most of (all of )) my entire syntactical style!
Making up words like that, I can see why she needs to edit yours.
“><a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2018/07/how-a-sneaky-furniture-expert-tricked-versaillesArticle on antiquities fraud and people's unwillingness to admit they've been duped. (TW: Vanity Fair)
Well, I messed up the HTML but it still works. Danged trackpad.
So this guy just goes around licking furniture? Must on the spectrum.
Whatever tufts your ottoman.
I’ve always like IPAs until they got trendy and way over hopped. Currently drinking my first Sam Adams New England IPA and can give it a thumbs up. Tastes like an IPA, but doesn’t just taste like hops.
This crazy hop war made start drinking lagers again…
I love an ice cold Pilsner when it’s hot.
Exactly! I don’t need something that bitter when it that hot outside.
I did go through a short period of drinking big, hyped up on hops IPAs. It was kind of like the short period I smoked cigarettes when I was young. After awhile I thought to myself, “why are you doing this? You’re not enjoying it.”.
I test drove a Ford focus st and a vw gti today. The focus was blue metallic with great rims. Looks like this https://duvalford.com/sale/ford-focus-st-jacksonville-fl/2018-ford-focus-st-1fadp3l97jl289280#lg=1&slide=0
The focus was loaded (st2 and st3), and the gti was an autobahn. I can’t make up my mind. The gti feels like better build quality, but that focus is sexy. The focus is also noticeably cheaper to buy.
I know everyone here has opinions to share. Please chime in.
Is the AWD useful for you? Here in the northeast it would make the decision easier. GTI Isn’t an R2 right?
Both are fwd. Focus has a 6mt and the gti has a dsg auto.
Was thinking RS. My bad.
The VW is probably better to drive, but my bet is a bigger bitch to service if my Audi ownership is anything to go by.
If you plan on keeping it past warranty I’d lean Ford.
After years of owning German cars I’ve had enough of them.
My current a3 is the only car i haven’t had to have serviced under warranty in almost 20 years. That was seven different German cars with major warranty claims.
Isn’t the A3 the same platform as the GTI?
Just for something new that would push me to the Ford.
It is.
In my limited experience with VW and Ford I’m going to say the Ford has better build quality. Everyone I have talked to recently that has a Focus (or Ive known that have had one, granted 10 years ago) has liked or loved their cars. I also hate VWs water pumps.
I absolutely love my Fiesta ST. A lot more fun to drive (although not as fast as) than a WRX. I like the small size, but it’s strictly a one-person car for me.
The wife calls it my clown car. I’m 6’3″ and 250# – it’s apparently amusing watching me climb in and out.
I test drove a wrx. It didn’t make the cut.
I only mentioned it because I’ve put a lot of fast miles on one. The only other car I would have chosen was the GTI but a couple friends were having VW problems.
I had a 2010 gti. It had some problems, but all were covered under warranty. Also, it was fun to drive. VW’s new 6 year warranty has me willing to go back.
We looked at Subis a while back. Horrible quality interior. I think my 79 Brat was nicer than any of the new stuff and it was a disposable car when new.
Also, the dealership had a fiesta st in the show room. It is also a hot looking little car, but wasn’t quite what I was looking for.
How long have you had yours?
I had no idea they brought back the Fiesta model name. Kind of surprising. This is a Fiesta. Now get off my lawn!
The new ones are nice looking http://www.fiestastforum.com/forum/threads/6103-Official-Shadow-Black-Fiesta-ST-Pictures-Thread
Growing up, my neighbor put one of the old ones into a tree. Really messed up his passenger.
Bought it in ’14 when they first came out. Love at first sight. 50k with no problems. The front tires don’t last long (feature not a bug).
It’s the FIAT Abarth (real one) that I’ve always wanted.
I’ve had two Foci. Both were very sporty and fun to drive. Both were 5 speed standards.
The first was a 2003 that was reliable until I hit 140K. At that point non painted metal under the hood started rusting. I replaced the fuel lines, EgR valve, and some fasteners. This rust was due to the immense amount of salt it hat to endure during 3 years of high speed commuting in the winter.
The second was a great car with no issues. I traded it in for a Mazda3 after 125K miles. My wife wanted more dodads and what nots (electronics).
As long as it doesn’t have a Powershit trannie, you should be okay with the Fuckus. Sorry, after three strikes (Fusion, Focus, Explorer), Ford is out. They can send me a free Shelby or Boss 302 and maybe I will reconsider.
“Raspberry Kombucha Beer”
NOT TODAY, SATAN
Didn’t OMWC make a comment earlier about “not getting” some kinky sex acts ?
I think pig-mask-laser-shooter wins.
They must have used a random word generator for the nouns in that article….
That or Scandinavia is as weird as Germany
That short article was a trip into an alternate universe. Makes the Swiss look sane.
I’m calling mass hysteria unless some videos come out.
“And their waterwheel sex could be considered sexual harassment if anyone took offence, he added. ”
Well, so long as they have their priorities set.
OT: Jesus H… it’s 50 years old, but Mike Shencker’s solo for Rock Bottom is still incredible.
For the tl:dl crowd: start at 4:03 or so.
UFO were underrated.
Thank you, CP. I think they were much better than a lot of bands that got far more exposure.
Ignoring outright bribery, which was what drove most radio airplay at the time. I think it was two things. Firstly, UFO’s sound was very early 70’s. They sort of absorbed a little bit of everything from their contemporaries. Secondly, it was a time when both fans and the press mostly focused on singers. Mogg was a perfectly good, but not outstanding singer.
I’ve been cooking with chilis forever. Today is the first time they burned my hands. I don’t mean a temporary zing while cutting them. It’s been over four hours and I can still feel it. These were red scotch bonnets. Habanero varieties vary widely in strength. But these must have been like the carfentanyl of peppers. I was going to use three. Then after cutting into the first one made me cough. I decided to use only two with their seeds and ribs removed. On the upside, dinner came out fine.
What did you use them in?
I have learned to wear gloves when handling them after an incident about 20 years ago where I got some extra, extra hot NM green on my hands then absent-mindedly rubbed my eyes. The gloves make me stop and remember.
I’ve made that mistake working with dried red chiles once. Wasn’t my eyes though…
Waxing the low-rider?
No, as far as I know, Spud has never lived in Espanola.
Apparently, I have to do some mansplaining.
A friend of mine once cut up some habaneros and thought he had washed his hands thoroughly afterwards.
Later that night, his girlfriend told him that, no, he had not washed his hands enough.
Doh!
I wash my hands with dish detergent after cutting hot peppers.
The blue Dawn Ultra is the best I’ve found for eradicating it. But better not to have the need!
That’s what I use.
I stir-fried chicken thighs with bok choy, garlic, ginger root, five-spice, cornstarch, soy sauce and plum jam.
That sounds fabulous!
Thanks. Luckily, I just didn’t throw in three whole peppers as I had planned or it would have been way too hot.
Did you save me any? Sounds delish.
The swedes dont necessarily have the market cornered on weird .
Fuck. Off.
I cant count how many times the airport bar, open at early hours, has likely saved my life on a flight home….
“Bloody mary, 2 extra shots”
#metoo. There is no doubt the occasional “unruly” drunk passenger. But I wonder how many passengers aren’t unruly because they’re drunk (or buzzed)?
I won’t fly unless I can drink.
OK, I won’t fly domestically anyway because of the TSA security theater for not much payoff. If I can’t get there driving, I don’t go. Sorry, Hawaii!
Now, if Italy is on the other end of the flight….
Some of the European airports are getting just as bad. Last time I flew in Europe, I found out the hard way that if you have high top shoes on, you have to take them off. I wore my hiking boots on that trip as they are comfortable for walking long distances, and they have tops. I had to take them off just like in the US.
I could understand a two-drink limit to curb excessive drinking, but how does a pre-10am ban do that? That just seems…arbitrary.
But we allow a miniature horse that could jeopardize the passengers…totes okay
We’ll Tinkerbell is only four inches tall so seriously, how much liquor can she hold?
Speaking of excess and intoxication, how is this driver NOT from Florida ?
Truth Or Dare fail?
I bought this beer on a lark because I saw it at Whole Foods, looked at the label which said it was organic, raw, vegan, and gluten-free, and decided it was the most Whole Foods beer that could possibly exist.
I don’t recall what it tasted like, which means I probably found it drinkable but not great and/or was too drunk to care at the time.
A friend of mine drinks Miller 64. I asked him why he doesn’t like beer?
Milwaukee’s Beast Diet.
4.5% ABV, 3.5g carbs/12 oz, and $0.99/24 oz at my Kroger.
Its my current jam.
Nice to see you’re working the Carbs, Beer can be brutal…..
Sup Tres!
/Lobotomy Bock in the Air!
HEY YUFUS!
Good article on how progs ruined science fiction.
https://quillette.com/2018/08/18/the-forgotten-story-of-how-punching-up-harmed-the-science-fiction-fantasy-world/
Hello From the Avi resort in Laughlin Nevada!, the last 24 hours have been a special kind of Hell for us, but that will wait for another Time, finally get to chill with some good Beer. I found some local beer from Mudshark Brewing, out of Lake Havasu City, AZ, Desert Magic IPA 7.2% Abv, it’s OK, cloudy and quite refreshing,
https://photos.app.goo.gl/cSRpnnq25qeN58Em7
I’ll post some stuff when i get home and can arrange the photos and story, it’s a Fucking Story…………
Sorry it was rough getting there. But at least you are there now.
Thanks for that, time for Sea Smith?
Looks like it.
They make a good Pilsner, and PB Stout. I’m surprised nobody shut them down being called “Mudshark.”