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bart plantenga

Bart Plantenga is the author of Beer Mystic, Radio Activity Kills, Paris Scratch & NY Sin Phoney in Face Flat Minor. His books YODEL-AY-EE-OOOO & Yodel in HiFi created the misunderstanding that he’s the world’s foremost yodel expert. He’s also the DJ of Wreck This Mess. He lives in Amsterdam.

Beer Mystic Burp #16: Books – Increasingly Illegal Intoxicants?

bart plantenga

An interview with Karen Lillis When I was just beginning high school I was one scared, miffed, gawky, pimply kid, unlike the rest of the kids somehow. But what kid of 13 didn’t feel that way? (photo: Karen in the ...

Beer Mystic Burp #15: Beer as Therapy

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It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners • Albert Camus You gotta chortle in your beerhead at the maxim “Beer Is Cheaper Than Therapy,” a tongue-in-cheek saying fraught [...

Beer Mystic Burp #14: Beer = Food = Books

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Apparently I said “In NY the louder and crazier you sound, the more attention you seem to get,” and this was quoted in the Sunday Boston Globe about our Cambridge gig. Luckily they used a photo of Judy Nylon and not me. ...

Beer Mystic Burp #13: Without the Voodoo of Hope

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Hitching through mid-1970s Canada usually meant Canadian Border Services stopping you, inquiring how much money you had on your person. If it was under $25 they’d refuse you entry, which meant hitching the long way round ...

Beer Mystic Burp #12: Stroh’s Cans to the Head

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I suddenly have vivid memories of survival in Flint, Michigan, Motor City Jr., birthplace of GM. I was a stranger here because I rode a bike with books of poetry in my back pocket and some locals could smell this alienness ...

Beer Burp #11: Obsolete Drunken Nirvana

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Rich Dana, is not just the editor of the retro-future activist aesthetics journal Obsolete but also a guy doing battle – and making his own peace – with the various seemingly overwhelming forces of displacement, corpo...

Beer Mystic Burp #10: The Amble, The Ale

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The Amble, The Ale: Walking Nowhere Into the Pale “Freedom knows no propaganda more effective than people calmly enjoying themselves.” • Raoul Vaneigm, The Revolution of Everyday Life I was pointed to a youtu...

BEER MYSTIC Burp #9: Beernuts are People Too

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You can make a lot of friends on social networks if you’re into beer. You can do that quite adequately in bars as well. You buy a few elbow jockeys a round of canned goat urine and you might have friends for life, the kind...

BEER MYSTIC Burp #8: Eddie Don’t Do Beer

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No, Eddie Woods don’t do beer, he does white wine, anything above 3 euros is just fine. Pinot Grigio or Chardonnay is more than OK by him. Not before 5 and thereafter, he switches to red – Merlot [EW correction] or Beau...

BEER MYSTIC Burp #7: Beer = Liquid Cartoonist

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BEER MYSTIC Burp #7 X-Large I see is the new large in clothing sizes. Size matters, so now a medium cup is like a trough of soda at McSubWenNuggests. They even try to super-size you when you rent a car, from an obese sedan ...

BEER MYSTIC Burp #6: Plagiarism and Unpaid-for Beer in a Paris Swamp

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BEER MYSTIC Burp #6 We made a toast. “To he who casts the first kidney stone.” Clink of beer glasses, tink-tink, small amber waves sloshing over the sides, beer-head mustaches as our only disguise in the Pik-Clops in th...

BEER MYSTIC Burp #5: A Mental Jersey Leads to Spirited Beer Consumption

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BEER MYSTIC Burp #5 Before Jersey Shore was a TV show, it was already a socio-anthropological phenomenon of some steroidal bonehead beach bum magnitude. Summers were and still are an excuse for so-called [or seemingly] norma...

Beer Mystic Burp #4: A Weird, Bloody Barroom Ritual Remembered

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Beer Mystic Burp 4: A Weird, Bloody Barroom Ritual Remembered Imagine this, you walk into your local bar, a place where you know where to hang your truss, and upon entering you instantly sense something is amiss, awry –...

Beer Mystic Burp #3: Pivo is Czech for Beer

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Pivo Is Czech for Beer But Also An Alter-Ego In 1993, you could live like a bastard prince in Prague – if you had dollars to spend – on a pauper’s wages. Beer was 15 US cents – and we would repeat the names ... Pi...

Beer Mystic Burp #2: Spilling Beer

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Su Byron Spilling Beer: Late at night Su Byron and I would walk back from whatever disaster, like in Fanelli’s where things happened or didn’t. On the way home – each our own hovel with beds where the sheets no longer ...

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