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Fever Pitch Free Rangers, People are freaking the Eph out. Things at street level in our little corner of the world are heated, simmering, volatile, like a lead vat of cesium exposed to air. The chaos seems to come in waves, which are breaking with increasing...

Gotta Be Honest Free Rangers, I have no idea where I’m going with this, or really where we are right now. It is certain however that the collective trauma of the first three waves of the pandemic have congealed to the bottom of modern existence, likely never to fully...

Le Sigh Free Rangers, Wine education is a constant battle against the forces of misinformation wielded by hapless health influencers and soulless booze marketeers. 1) sulfites and sulfates are not the same. It’s a chemistry thing. And you do not have an allergy to...

Ya Know Free Rangers, Sometimes you eat the bear, and sometimes the bear leaves a steaming pile of trash in the tree planters in front of your shop every freakin’ time you turn around for the better part of open hours for an entire day (and it isn’t even during the...

Hey Free Rangers, It’s a lot. All of it. It’s an emotional rollercoaster out there. The daily tumult at street level is not at fever pitch, but remains at a distorted sustained hum at the lowest frequency that can negatively impact human equilibrium. Besides the...

Hola Free Rangers, There’s nothing like the perspective of distance, and I hadn’t gotten away in quite some time. This was complicated by the distance and nature of the travel, via a deeply under construction airport and a comically under construction airport. Our...

Hey Free Rangers, Just as virtual type was setting on our last note, about having to send a bunch of F-U letters to the largely ill-equipped and incompetent distributor tier of this business, a cold call rep walks in the door. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before…....

Ya Know Free Rangers, [Can't believe this didn't go out yesterday, but it was a truly ________ one in here. (wrong answers only)] Somedays holding onto a single strand of thought is what Willie Stargell said of batting against Sandy Koufax, ‘You ever try drinking...

Wow Free Rangers, Apparently it wasn’t enough for the Blue Dude (of Blue Dude Karen Project fame) that he made our Saturday a particularly trying one, he thought it best to come back to protest the resulting public shaming during our in-store tasting with our buddy,...

Hola Free Rangers, Loyal readers will likely remember, when we first moved to the new spot there was a rash of people “concerned” about flower planters on the windowsills upstairs. I believe this specific brand of neighborhood absurdity was the subject- at least...