https://www.mass.gov/service-details/craft-breweries
The official list of craft breweries in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. No longer in operation is John Harvard’s, one of the early craft beer establishments in greater Boston.
Fifteen creepy minutes with Marisa Tomei, the best aunt that Peter Parker, or anybody, could ever have.
A newspaper chain that heretofore I didn’t know about, Lee Enterprises, has decided to publish a single comics page across all of its papers. It will be dropping a number of comic strips, including Bizarro by Dan Piraro and Wayno, and Snuffy Smith by John Rose. Dilbert is getting the most attention, because there are assumptions about political motives. Michael Cavna at The Washington Post asks, “Is the print newspaper comics page in trouble?”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/comics/2022/09/24/dilbert-scott-adams-lee-enterprises-newspapers/
For more about the effects of the Lee Enterprises decision, Dan’s site and The Daily Cartoonist are always in the Links section of this blog. For a nominal amount of money, comics fans can, and should, be paying subscribers to GoComics and Comics Kingdom.
I’m some years away from having to take required minimum distributions from my IRA’s. Until then, they’re collecting non-compound interest, tax-free.
I was curious how the popular 4% rule for withdrawing money in retirement compares to the RMD amount. Pretending I’m already 72, the SEC’s calculator came up with a number that is very close to 4%.
An issue with RMD is it’s based on the previous year’s account balances. That’s going to be a problem for a lot of retirees, between inflation and the stock market decline triggered by the Fed’s interest rate hikes, intended to slow inflation. So far without success.
These official Rolling Stones album playlists on YouTube sure are nice.
Released for Christmas ’66 in America, Got Live If You Want It! wasn’t entirely recorded live, as can be heard on tracks 5 and 6.
After the death of band founder Brian Jones, the Stones recorded Get Your Ya-Ya’s Out.
Watching Hitchcock’s 1934 film The Man Who Knew Too Much, that I shared a couple of days ago, brought to mind the climatic rooftop scene in David Lean’s superb screen adaptation of Dickens’ Oliver Twist. Robert Newton, who has my vote as the greatest character actor of all time, is terrifying as the villain Bill Sykes.
https://youtu.be/qelzn2njS9c
