Beer Party Chips Tea Party’s Cup
Dear Tea-baggers, We are the Beer Party. And we find your fiscally and intellectually conservative movement not only infuriating, but it also makes us want to run outside and vomit in the street. And...
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By Geo Ong Despite my cuffed skinny jeans, asymmetrical haircut, and wiry vegan body, I don’t hate sport. Well, I don’t hate all sport. I can challenge a lot of people for the title of Diehard NBA Fan,...
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By Geo Ong London, 2008 – My friend Kyle and I spend four hours at a pub on Goodge St., bonding over pints of beer and bowls of chips. Having just met, we discuss our pasts leading up to this day as...
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400 Bottles of Belgian Beer... on the wall... Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer....
View ArticleWild Hops and the Thumb of Pestilence: A Fairy Tale
By Margaret Hedderman There is an affliction, I’ve heard, called the “Green Thumb.” Virus? Bacteria? Boogers? I, personally, am clean and clear. I have been checked and okayed by my physician. There is...
View ArticleCurrently on Tap
Hair all week. Welcome to the Skinny Arms, the pub of the future! Quite literally, actually, as one of our goals is to have our very own pub sometime in the future. And you’ve been invited to the first...
View ArticleIt’s Another Edition of Urchin Eats!
The Steaming Bean Durango, Colorado The coffee house is a magical, magical place. And amazingly difficult to get right. (See: Starbucks.) There must be the proper ratio of overstuffed chairs, tables to...
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Today’s theme: 2012 Geo Happy New Year from the Urchin Movement, New York Division! Margaret The world better end soon, because these provisions aren't gonna last forever. Sarah My first 12 minutes of...
View ArticleIndependence Day, Urchin-Style
This Wednesday, the United States of America will be celebrating the anniversary of their independence (thank you, Captain America). Like all national (and international) holidays, we Urchins each...
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Hope you’re hungry! Revolution Brewing – Logan Square, Chicago Named in honour of the rise of craft breweries around the U.S., Revolution Brewing‘s Logan Square brewpub celebrates all things...
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