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Salutations Free Rangers, I really enjoy the work of PJ O’Rourke’s early and middle years. He was still cutting, and genuinely humorous, for a while, after he decided that he wanted to be one of those rich guys that he used to make fun of (and pay less in taxes, if...

Hey Free Rangers,Thank dog that Malcolm Gladwell thing from Outliers is relatively true, at least I’ve found it to be so. I put my 10,000 hours into writing decades ago, and while I’ve gone several long stretches without practicing regularly in the...

Howdy Free Rangers,The first time I heard the term “liquid gold” applied to wine was in regard to Chateau d’Yquem, the world’s most renown, and notoriously expensive, sweet white Bordeaux. As it ages, the vibrant light yellow color will darken, and in its...

Hello Free Rangers,Every day we wake to see what season it might be. In this post polar jet stream era, one really never does know, and that Doppler guy has an exponentially looser grasp on predicting increasingly erratic weather systems. The few recent spring-like...

Howdy Free Rangers, Time continues to have less and less meaning as a parameter of modern life, as we collectively careen toward the singularity… unless we really are living in a simulation. Is it really so far fetched? It’s pretty weird out there these...

Hey Free Rangers,Wow, crazy response to that last wine offer, sold out in record time, and I’m working on another such tiered mystery type thing in the medium/near future. That was a lot of fun (and a lot of work), and lessons were learned. After thinking...

Hello Free Rangers,I know I set myself up for this by saying that the new year didn’t begin until the 20th of January, but that month that just happened was the quickest running in at least four years. I just triple checked, it’s still a full 31 days. I’m not a...

Howdy Free Rangers,Well, it was a year. There were days, weeks, and months, but these things used to have their own defined borders, but lately they have seemed to be warring factions of reality. Btw, that’s my new punk band name: Warring Factions of Reality. Maybe we...

Hello Free Rangers,As I was writing that last e-mail (two e-mails ago, now), on an otherwise quiet Monday evening, we had a string of people going out of their way to break every rule we have in here. At one point, a new customer came into the shop, asked about...

Full disclosure: this one is going to get heavy. No judgment if you want to skip down to where you see some bold print, which will explain our new open hours and policies, and there’s a fairly serious tequila sale after that. Cheers. -JC “Some of those that work...