There will be Blood N Stuff at the Hex on Friday

Garage beers before?  After?

Dublin Ireland and St. Paul Minnesota

Downtown St Paul MN Metal record shop just opened.  I wonder if they'll have the new Witchcraft double vinyl? - but two new guitarists?  not sure I want it anyway.  Gotta go there.

Probability Wave

Big Surf at the classy Hexagon Friday December 7th - new album release party.  BloodnStuff the following Friday the 14th.  I will see you there.

Northbound Smokehouse and Brewpub

I went to this Kickstarter success for the first time tonight, now about two months since opening day. This is a cool-people place - all hipsters and locals, and they did an excellent job rehabbing the building.  It's standing-room only any evening I drive by - very warm and inviting,  in fact they are looking to expand as demand has out-paced supply since day-one.  The food looked really good too.

I appear to be alone in my opinion that their flagship IPA "Big Jim" and its "American-hopped" style isn't very good.  I really wanted to like it,  I ordered it twice but found myself making faces at the strange flavors in my glass.  The Indeed Haywire (heavy double-IPA) also on tap, seemed a bright, bubbly palate cleanser by comparison.  I'll be back though,  hundreds of hipsters and locals can't be wrong.

White Plume Mountain

Metal Evolution

Sam Dunn series.  It should be "may result in severe civil penalties eh."

Full-On Re-Glue  Need-One My-Self

Indeed!

Indeed brewery has the best tasting beer currently available in minneapolis - they absolutely do.  Imagine the best fresh creamy deep rich ipa you could ever drink and you've got it, except that they call it a pale ale.  You should stop by their tap room, ask for Day Tripper on cask, I can't think of a beer I'd rather be drinking.

St Paul Saints

Chips and cheese waiting for me on the bench next to her.

1988 - the first year the sub-category was awarded, Crest of a Knave beating And Justice For All and Nothing's Shocking.  They are ironically, like Rush, one of those stereotypical "not-metal bands that metalheads like" though...

Rollerdome yesterday.

Hot Dog Roaster Tong Cover - And How!

Stuff

Blood

Brian May's Dad

Helped him design and build that Red Special.

BloodNStuff killed at Amsterdam.  See them people.

Fun Saturday

The day began with a too early cycling start time that faded into an excellent beautiful ride.  Along the river, across the Mendota, along the river again, up through downtown St. Paul and then back down the hill to the MPLS greenway.  As we reclined in the back yard afterwords my rock star neighbor Bill stopped by with free tickets to see Doomtree at the Summit brewery - the fish tacos and pork tacos of his creation were both delicious, pork slightly better - shout out to Barrio.  See Dessa there in the front?  Missed Halloween Alaska who I would have really liked to see, but did watch DT from a reasonably close perspective, it was crowd-packed, concert-rules in effect,  freaking awesome local talent.  

Filth Hounds of Hades

CloudKicker  A guy with a guitar and a computer.  And a map apparently.

I've traveled with hobos

And it was fun.