Today’s the 15th, man, so that means we’re halfway through the summer months. Being a “man of cool weather” I’m always counting down the days towards fall. Concerning June, July and August, well, we’re halfway through ‘em.

It’s all downhill to September.

Of course, I’ve got a couple obligatory ruminations on the subject regarding, “How Fast Times Seems To Whip On By.” But I’ve beat that horse to death. Instead, just know this: I’ve been busy as fuck alllll summer long and if the monster lists in my Field Notes have anything to say, well, they’ll say this much: “We’ve got a mountain of shit done so far…” And of course, have mountains to still climb. Just how we like it.

Hope everyone’s summer is going well. Back to it.

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THEY’VE GOT MY VOTE: Ely’s Olympic bid for 2016!

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SCOTTY NICE!: Scott Howard updates, and man, some nice stuff is going down. Bravo, man!

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FROM THE BEER SWILLERS OF WICKED COBRA: A nice little assortment of foam scrapers. You know, to scrape of the top of a pint. Incredible. When I look at a link like this, and then think about the modern brewery experience, you just get to thinkin’, “Man, everything sure has gone to shit.”

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ONE OF MY ALL-TIME FAVES: A postcard set of Lester Beall’s Rural Electrification Administration posters from back in the day. A patriot.

I wrote a paper on the guy in school. Such a great story. I heavily recommend picking up a copy of this one. After years of a successful career in the city, he moved his studio to the country into a barn. Everyone came along and everything. So awesome. Something to think about.

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ALWAYS BACK TRACK THE URL A COUPLE CLICKS: And be sure to dig around here. Hey Rohloff from Farmer’s Brewing! This link got me fired up for the upcoming project! Get ready man, we are gonna slay it! I mean, come on.

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KING OF THE BREEDS: “A skateboard and wiener dog.” We’re cool with that. Sure. (Thanks, Rod!)

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ON THE PLAYER TODAY:

01. Mercury Rev - Deserter’s Songs
02. Muddy Waters - At Newport 1960
03. Whiskeytown - Stranger’s Almanac