Weblog: an Archive of our Newsletters and Sales

Holy Hell Free Rangers, The booze industry is crumbling. We’re doing great, thanks to all of you, but major producers are halting production, many smaller and sourced brands are shutting down entirely, and the distribution tier is resorting to raising fees while...

Hey Free Rangers, Corporate consolidation getting you down? Or more the lawless masked thugs terrorizing and murdering people? Yeah, it’s a lot. There’s a fine line between allowing oneself to be consumed by the meathook realities of the day, and avoiding all gaze...

Hey Free Rangers, You know when you wake up feeling old? Something about an ashtray in an old Wilco song. Can't recall with which part of the metaphor the listener is suppose to relate, but the ashtray likely shares most of my DNA. Yeah, no, me neither. Spry as the...

Scattered Free Rangers, Like a ______. Wrong answers only. Lefties like me are genuinely tired of being proven right. And now we have national storm troopers murdering citizens with complete impunity. The ICE agent that shot and killed Renee Good (say her name!)...

Welcome Free Rangers, To 2026, which is not unreasonable to approach with relative optimism, especially here in heartland of America, downtown Brooklyn, USA. Anybody who saw our new mayor speak at Grand Army Plaza yesterday (the other day, by the time you’re reading...

Here We Are Free Rangers, At the end of the (year’s) road. So many top whatever lists of blah blah blah and greatest stuff, things, and happenings of the year. Not here, folks. We press on haggard but undeterred. All new fresh (as a daisy in December) material for...

A Long December Free Rangers, Everybody good? Still here (there & everywhere)? Well aware that they’ve all been weird ones since (well before) the Before Times, but it’s been a weird one. The guide stones and mile pegs of the previous half century feel now so...

Hey Free Rangers, When I find myself in rhymes of rubble, mother sherry strums of thee. Wreaking whirls of foquism. Let it Breathe. … Wait, what? Sorry. So behind this week. But lots of cool stuff going on. Here are a couple of those things. First, our latest Free...

Once Upon A Time Free Rangers, Elvis borrowed a purple Sharpie from my camera bag, and I never saw it again. The King was such a well dressed eye contact straight shooter and seemed so sincere when he swore he’d get it back to me before the shank of the evening, just...

Hola Free Rangers, Once or twice per year we have to check in and reassure our (mostly) gracious regulars- especially newer ones- that you are not going to “end up in the newsletter” as it is most often expressed to us, occasionally with nervous giggles and just a...