My husband got me a Cirie Fields Cameo for Mother's Day
Dunk texted me at 12:01 a.m., but I didn't see it until I woke up.
Hey I got this message for you??? Happy Mother’s Day?? ❤️❤️
Under it was a 3-and-a-half-minute video from my parasocial bestie Cirie Fields. I was scream-laughing in bed watching the whole thing, and have since watched it a total of [redacted] times.
Duncan says you have found your forever alliance and this is your third anniversary the day after Mother's Day. Sam, it's very seldom that we get the appreciation or the acknowledgment that we deserve while we are here to accept our flowers, so please accept these from Duncan, Cirie said in the Cameo. Duncan thinks you are Superwoman, you're a great mom, loves being in this forever alliance with you for three years, the day after Mother's Day, and many, many, many, many, many more to come. So you are doing something exactly right. Keep doing what you're doing. If you ever have a moment of doubt or question, 'Should I?' Know that you are doing exactly what you're supposed to.
Pat yourself on the back, kick your feet up, both, even the broken one, prop it up – it should be propped up anyways, it helps the healing and keeps the swelling down – and allow Duncan and whatever little Etta can do to pamper you and cater to you for this Mother's Day.
Already on it, mother Fields.
How a 'Slecknecks' Reddit post led me to 'Brew Dogs'
I haven't been on top of AK IRL the last few weeks as I usually am. I thought, six weeks on the couch will give me plenty of time to catch up on shows. Which is true, but writing is a different hurdle when you have a teething, crawling baby who demands your attention.
I usually try and write the current issue during the week, and give myself a few days to sit on it. Last week, I decided at the last minute to binge Slednecks, and came across a post on r/alaska where someone mentioned a different show I had never heard of.
There was a show about brewing in Alaska, Brew Dogs or something, and they did a show in southeast about Alaskan [Brewing], a 12-year-old Reddit comment reads. They had scenes set where they were kayaking in salt water and then all of a sudden they paddle up to a freshwater glacier thirty miles away. There is no attempt at creating something logically feasible. The MTV shows are much worse about it, but all of reality television is bad.
Obviously, we have to investigate 🕵🏼 Yes, there was a show called Brew Dogs that ran for three seasons, highlighting two Scottish blokes named James Watt and Martin Dickie who started one of the most popular UK breweries-slash-pub-chains, BrewDog. Brew Dogs aired on the Esquire Network, and follows James and Martin around the states (in season 3, they go international) to team up with local breweries and make brews with unique ingredients.
Wild that this show is called a documentary when you look it up on the World Wide Web. It is not – having fancy camera equipment does not a documentary make.
Martin, James and their Alaskan brew brethren have bread "for some sandwiches," but use it as the base of their beer, plus some birch syrup and sourdough starter.
[Kvass is] a Russian-inspired bread beer, we can take our rye bread, hydrate it, add the yeast to it to create a yeast starter that we will then pitch into our wart to ferment it, Steve from Alaska Brewing Co. said.
Alaska does not have natural hops, so the guys gather some spruce tips, and make their bevvy in a makeshift outdoor kitchen constructed from old airplane parts. I know the producers were frothing at the mouth when they saw this.
They end up making what they dub the Ultimate Alaskan Survival Beer (lol).
When the show aired, there were watch parties at the Hangar on the Wharf in Juneau, and Café Amsterdam in Anchorage – two local eateries that made it onto the Alaska episode.
(total watch time: 42 minutes)