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Blogs, Bleader Jul 21, 2011
This is how you premiere a new rap single

Funkmaster Flex gives "Otis" a predictably bonkers introduction
- By Miles Raymer
- Tags: Music, Funkmaster Flex, Jay-Z, Kanye West, Otis, Watch the Throne, hip-hop, Ego Trip, insanity

Blogs, Bleader Feb 3, 2011
One Sip: BrewDog Sink the Bismarck!

Briefly the strongest beer in the world, Sink the Bismarck! is a ridiculous quadruple IPA freeze distilled to 41 percent alcohol. Approach with caution.
- By Philip Montoro
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, BrewDog, One Sip, beer, Sink the Bismarck!, Tactical Nuclear Penguin, the End of History, Lush Wine & Spirits, Twisted Spoke, insanity

Blogs, Bleader Dec 22, 2010
One Sip: Bell’s Batch 10,000

The last beer of the Bell's Brewery Batch series nods to the shelf-clearing end-of-season homebrews of founder Larry Bell with a recipe that calls for 160 varieties of malt, grain, and hops.
- By Philip Montoro
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Bell's Brewery, Batch 10000, Bell's Batch 10000, Larry Bell, Lush, Hopleaf, Twisted Spoke, beer, craft beer, insanity

Blogs, Bleader Dec 2, 2010
One Sip: Goose Island Bourbon County Vanilla Stout

The first of this fall's two special-edition Bourbon County stouts from Goose Island lives up to its buzz.
- By Philip Montoro
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Goose Island, vanilla, BCS, Bourbon County Stout, Goose Island Bourbon County Vanilla Stout, FoBAB, GToM, John Laffler, beer, barrels, insanity

Blogs, Bleader Nov 23, 2010
Shell Game

Surf and turf isn't always such a happy combination.
- By Cliff Doerksen
- Tags: Bad News From the Past, We're Old, Oyster trains, insanity

Blogs, Bleader Jun 23, 2010
Insane In the Membrane

Church: safe when used as directed
- By Cliff Doerksen
- Tags: Bad News From the Past, We're Old, God, everything, nothing, insanity, journalism, church, zeal

Blogs, Bleader Jun 2, 2010
A Unique and Pretty Spectacle

What the hell is it about Long Island, anyway?
- By Cliff Doerksen
- Tags: Bad News From the Past, We're Old, Insanity, Napoleon, tied to the tracks, cartoon archetypes, lighting cigars with money, wearing barrels, tying bedsheets into ropes, hobos, pies, windowsills

Blogs, Bleader May 26, 2010
Never On a Sunday

Two Michiganders put a violent end to their sister's wicked ways
- By Cliff Doerksen
- Tags: Bad News From the Past, We're Old, Michigan, religious excitement, brothers, French, sororicide, murder, fanaticism, Seventh Day Adventism, insanity

Blogs, Bleader May 25, 2010
Train Kept Not A-Rollin'

As insane railwaymen go, Buck Elmer was a decent sort
- By Cliff Doerksen
- Tags: Bad News From the Past, We're Old, Buck Elmer, CTA, railwaymen, insanity, Barry Newman reference

Blogs, Bleader May 3, 2010
Ferry Man, Take Me Home

You better have the right change to pay the ferryman
- By Cliff Doerksen
- Tags: Bad News From the Past, We're Old, Class warfare, statesmanship, horse, dirk, blood, insanity, ferry, state senator, quick thinking, justified lying

Blogs, Bleader Dec 29, 2009
The Calumet River Amazon

No woman is an island, but Lilian Stevens came close
- By Cliff Doerksen
- Tags: Bad News From the Past, We're Old, Lilian Stevens, Calumet River, law enforcement, squatting, theft, gun violence, insanity, books, goats, potatoes, alcohol, hermit, wild woman, police

Blogs, Bleader Oct 1, 2009
Today in Wild Conspiracy Theories

Did Immortal Technique have something to do with Derrion Albert's murder? (No. Of course he didn't.)
- By Miles Raymer
- Tags: Crickets, Music, Immortal Technique, hip-hop, Chicago, Derrion Albert, insanity, conspiracy theories

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