I persist in my attempts to teach you how to party. Drink of the Week (2:35)The Fetid Haze, built around Pikes Peak Hill Shine and one of the five recipes in Chaotic Shots and Cocktails That Will Hurt Your Friends. Game of the Week (8:53) Staring back into the charred and radioactive eye sockets of Wasteland Express Delivery Service. I still love her. Track of the Week (13:12) Focusing on Tha God Fahim’s and Black Thought’s inspired verses from “Pravda,” a drumless posse track from Your Old Droog ..read more

Be the death of the party with “Chaotic Shots and Cocktails That Will Hurt Your Friends,” a booklet with four original shots and one cocktail recipe, all poured on the show. Drink of the Week (1:45)Had to drink home remedy tea because I got real sick the same week the cocktail booklet came back from the printer. I blame you. Game of the Week (6:13) See what I found on the first few maps of Pocket Book Adventures, a solo dungeoncrawler from Grumpy Spider Games. Track of the Week (13:12) The flawless studio instincts and lethal pen of DJ Quik ..read more

Celebrating the end of the holidays, a.k.a. America’s Triple Crown of Suicidal Ideation. Drink of the Week (2:48)Does an arbol chile, a stick of cinnamon, and several days of solitary confinement do the same magic for Jim Beam that it did for Tin Cup Whiskey? Let’s find out. Game of the Week (5:33) Chronicling my ongoing attempts to learn Thunderbolt Apache Leader, the solo wargaming classic from Dan Verssen Games. Track of the Week (11:00) I am a male model. Not a male prostitute. (Modeling just sucks.) They made me take off my top ..read more

After I happily reported all the Mr. Beast cookie displays had been pulled from the Trinidad Safeway, they put one back out. I’m so pissed. Drink of the Week (2:35)Zero complaints from me or my pals upon knocking a big dent in a fifth of Bird Dog’s 7 Year Old Small Batch Bourbon. Game of the Week (5:37) Bohnanza, the bean farming game, still hits the sweet spot for pace, thinkiness and sociability. Broke it out with a few pals at Frontier Geeks on Main St. Track of the Week (9:40) I saw one bad set by them in the ‘90s. It wasn’t their fault. I thought they were bad. They were, in fact, good ..read more

Hogs will be cranked in celebration of a heroic Colorado Congressman. Drink of the Week (3:28)I used Tin Cup as a base for infusing my own l’il jar of cinnamon whiskey. I’m never going back to off-the-shelf cinnamon whiskey and neither should you. Game of the Week (7:07) Remembering board games with my intense Pappy, beginning with Stratego as a boy and ending with Splendor as a man. Track of the Week (12:22) Five reasons why Heavy D’s “Don’t Curse” — feat. Pete Rock & CL Smooth, Kool G Rap, Grand Puba, Big Daddy Kane and Q-Tip — is, for me, the apotheosis of the Golden Era ..read more

My friends at Trap Queen(TM) tease their new product, Flav-R-Stompt Fish Dinners. Drink of the Week (3:27)I drank two bottles of Yellowstone Bourbon this summer and I loved them. Game of the Week (7:56) Ever had a casual game group where one player practices it on their downtime and shows up at your table in beast mode? That’s what happened with our lunchtime Dominion group. Track of the Week (17:42) We’re focusing on Track 39 of “50 Hip Hop Golden-Era Deep Cuts You Simply Must Experience”: Mad Kap’s “Da Whole Kit and Kaboodle ..read more

Hey, there are still “thank you” gifties available as part of my June fundraising drive. Drink of the Week (2:49)The simple charms of the Banquet Beer and Dulce Vida tequila. Game of the Week (6:06) I’ve now played Sagrada in solo mode hundreds of times. Here’s why I like it. Track of the Week (10:29) The Lord Finesse tracks will continue until morale improves Outro (13:51)In review: Watch my short Sagrada solo video and give me some money ..read more

At the racetrack, God Complex Bacon Breakfast Toaster surprises everyone with a strong finish at the rail. Drink of the Week (2:14)A perfectly fine cinnamon whiskey that I’m not buying again. Game of the Week (7:17) Bullshit I’m not playing anymore: Cards Against Humanity, Uno, Talisman, Mysterium. Track of the Week (14:41) I simply cannot get through “Auditorium” by Mos Def feat. Slick Rick. Instead, we will focus on my favorite track from Slick Rick’s The Art of Storytelling. Outro (20:42): A Bunch of Other Shit I’m Not Doing AnymoreMother’s Day. Flying. Major consumer banks. This is all a ..read more

It’s my show, I can fart on the cold intro if I want. Drink of the Week (3:23)Riding out the last of the cold months by pairing a rotating cast of stouts — Guinness, Murphy’s, Dragon’s Milk — with a Jim Beam Devil’s Cut back. Game of the Week (6:54) Meet a hot-tempered former undertaker with wooden teeth, a wayward ranch hand who knows a lot about brandy and a belligerent carcass trapper with more bullet scars than brains — my first three Frontier Scum characters. Track of the Week (21:29) Professor Mike down at KABF in Little Rock got me thinking about remixes and mashups that, for me, fired ..read more

Reunited with a lost buddy over the holidays in kind of a bleak hotel. We’re joined for a game of Cockroach Poker by a bunch of kids in the lobby. Later in the episode: rock with me to a Lord Finesse track and then a reading of a poem by Layla Benitez-James ..read more