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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...

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...