| There's something going on in this country, and it ain't good. | If you have trouble reading this message, view it in a browser. | | | | | PBR Is Fighting for Its Existence | | Pabst Brewing, maker of shitty canned beer from hipster dreams, is fighting for its own survival. Some history: Pabst Blue Ribbon and some of Pabst's other legacy beers are not brewed by an intrepid troupe of bearded lumberjacks in the outskirts of Portland. PBR and the rest are in fact brewed, packaged, and shipped by MillerCoors, the second largest brewer in the United States. Pabst and MillerCoors struck a deal in 2001 that outlined the arrangement, giving MillerCoors (at that time just Miller) access to the young, cool kid demographic. The deal expires in 2020, with a window to negotiate an extension. With that renegotiation deadline approaching, tension between Pabst and MillerCoors is way up. Read More | | | | | | | | | This Beef Jerky Advent Calendar Is Proof That Christmas Miracles Are Real | | When Hallmark Channel movies, religious leaders, and your grandmother talk about Christmas miracles, they are referring to the O Holy Cow Advent Calendar, which marks the first 25 days of December with chunks of beef jerky. Getting a day closer to Christmas means unfolding a little cardboard flap to reveal a new jerky flavor. There's no better way to celebrate the wintery month's passing. Read More | | | | | | | | | Single? Consider a Cross-Dimensional (Human-Hologram) Marriage | | "For mother, it wasn't something to celebrate," said 35-year-old Akihiko Kondo of his wedding to a hologram. Despite his mother's disapproval (or, perhaps, in the face of it), Kondo married the love of his life, a computer-generated, perpetually 16-year-old singer with blue pigtails named Hatsune Miku, in a small but formal ceremony in Tokyo in November. But he's not the only one: Kondo says Gatebox, the artificial intelligence company that produces Miku, has issued over 3,700 marriage certificates for "cross-dimensional" marriages. Read More | | | | | | | | Follow Us | | | | Unsubscribe Privacy Notice | | esquire.com ©2018 Hearst Communications Inc. All Rights Reserved. Hearst Email Privacy, 300 W 57th St., Fl. 19 (sta 1-1), New York, NY 10019 | | | | | | |
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