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Hey Free Rangers, We’ll return to the swirling Sea of Stories soon, but for today, there is too much to talk about here in the desert of the real to indulge too deeply in the latter, but soon… So, this offer was going to be an in-store tasting, but wires were crossed...

Holy Crow Free Rangers, So much… where to start. Oregon focused Magical Mystery packs (with a little help from their Californian friends) accreting as I type. Don’t mind the caution tape in the shop friends and neighbors, but seriously, no molestar. Project underway....

Hey Free Rangers, First, Michael Brooks was the most important leftist communicator of our time, and one of the funnier humans that has ever graced this particular ball of dirt. He would have been 41 today. I never met the man, and I miss him every day. His core...

Hello Free Rangers, Long story tolerable (and apologies to those reading outside the reach of the NYC subway system): Until very recently, the Atlantic Ave BID (Business Improvement District) had been a tiny, weird, dysfunctional entity into which we were forced...

“Wasted and wounded it ain’t what the moon did I've got what I paid for now…”                          - Tom Waits Chaos Free Rangers, It may feel like there’s a crazy from the heat kind of slowing out there, and this may be true geologically, but the collective...

Ya Know Free Rangers, I was in the midst of a fun chaotic paragraph full of sound and fury, but this week has already been a real one, even by current shitshow standards, and all creativity has been derailed. Mondays usually find Derek and I in a relatively quiet...

Hey Free Rangers,  It’s incredibly humbling to lose- even for a limited time- the use of a regularly working part of one’s physical human machine, more so when the cause was user error. But this can be the acute result of catching a falling wine bottle while it is...

Hey Free Rangers, Granted I have a lot of pet peeves, but what the f@ck is up with people who reach behind each display bottle to pull one from the cubbyhole in back simply to fondle it, read the back label (there is often only importer info there), and then lay it...

So Free Rangers, Yelp used to be the bane of our existence, generally siding with faceless strangers, and their often baseless lies, over hardworking small business owners and operators, by design. But nobody really uses that godawful site anymore, and Google has...

Hola Free Rangers, The dog days are upon us, and there is no end in sight. Dog days are defined here in Brooklyn as days that are so hot that our neighborhood doggie friends, immediately upon entry, flop down on the floor, where the temperature is lowest, and the cool...