Happy Friday, good people of Earth...

I've been obsessively listening and relistening to "Cry Baby Cry" from the White Album these past few days for no good reason other than its a relatively sane and salient escape from the dumb chest-thumpings happening on the news machines constantly barking for our attentions.

These are hot and heady times. And there's nothing like a haunted and haunting song played on a harmonium to take the sting out the garbage that passes as the "real" world. Real? Really? Real what? Real crummy? Real stupid? Real waste of time?

Real tawdry.

But, yeah, "Cry Baby Cry". Lennon thought pretty low of that song apparently, but I'd go to wall that it's one of his best, in tone if not in construct. And, hey, "Long, Long, Long", man, that's another leveling sleeper hit now, isn't it?

I mean, how do you wrap your head around a world that can, in the same breath, create something as sublime as the Beatles and all that flashed and disappeared around that phenomenon and all the things as hollow and horrible as just about everything that is happening in the world right now?

I suppose they can't exist without each other, somehow. By some arithmetic anyway.

Oh yeah, beer. We just tapped a fresh batch of TRUST lager, JAQUE RENAULT'S NECK, a 6% marzen, and some fresh ASTRONAUT JUICE for the weekend. ASTRONAUT JUICE will be released in cans next Wednesday along with a fresh batch of TRUST lager and SLUSHY THING V. This slushy is loaded up with 30% fruit (Strawberry, Guava & Pineapple) and topped off with marshmallows. It's a rrrreeeeeallly good.

Tomorrow, Saturday, our neighbors at WineStyles are doing a Happy Lobster Food Truck Meal Kit Pick-Up. If you follow this link you can buy a lobster kit, pick it up at WineStyles and then walk into IBW Lodge #1 and get 20% off a growler of Trust. What a world!

Tomorrow night (still Saturday) at IBW LODGE #1 the wonderful and strange HUNGRY MAN will be celebrating the release of their new album, "PERMANENT CRISIS", with a FREE live performance starting around 10:15pm. Come out and give them some love!

And, of course, every Tuesday we have the MOST DANGEROUS TRIVIA NIGHT IN TOWN. Bring your brains and your braun and claw yourself to the top of the smallest hill in the Chicago! Win prizes. Drink.

Oh and we're getting that back patio licensed for the summer. So get your minds right, friends.