Weekend Plans?

Charlie here this week sharing with you a rundown of some of the best things to consider in and around Cincinnati (and this week Atlanta) this weekend! This weekend there is one things we want to highlight first and foremost. That would be the official house hand of the Charlie Tonic Hour, Doctor Bombay...

Almost Famous

So there is a movie that I absolutely love and I plan to watch it, once again, before this day is done. The move is Almost Famous and for me it is a film that holds a mix of personal and emotional connections to this day. Let me paint a picture that just may bring you to the reason why I love this movie so...

Episode #36 – Put A Pin In It But Serve It With Beer

This week the Discourse Intercourse stories from the past week grows into a full segment on how make the most of a great beer. From there the discussion moves to Pinterest but along the way that chat takes a decidedly “Charlie Tonic” turn for the sexy as a copycat site with a very familiar name...

Drink Your Dessert

This post first appeared on Queen City Drinks but this week Charlie and I did a dessert and beer pairing for Episode 36 so I thought it would be appropriate for this week as well. Enjoy! Money and calorie constraints suck. As much as we’d love to be able to spend and eat all we want without...

Weekend Recommendations

Afternoon Social at the Howard Steamboat Museum: The Corn Island Steampunk Society is pleased to announce that they are hosting their first official event since forming as a group, Saturday August 25th at the Howard Steamboat Museum in Jeffersonville, IN. Although the leaders of Corn Island have been...

Make Your Own Bärenjäger

Charlie and I tried some Bärenjäger for Episode 35 of The Charlie Tonic Hour. We didn’t have a recipe to make with it, and the impromptu Bärenjäger/Tequila shooter I created was swiftly vetoed (called the Honey Fire by Charlie), so I thought I would be without a drinks recipe for the week. But...

Episode #35 – Mars Rovers, Print Prognostication and a Bit of Honey

This week two things are a little different about the show. First, we keep it under an hour, which rarely seems possible these days. Second, the sound of nature infuses our podcast as we record with the windows open for a change. What hasn’t shifted is the constant conversation, which was particularly...

Print vs. Digital

So, I have this crazy notion that paper will be sidelined for digital within the next five years. I tend to shock people by saying that “paper will be dead within five years”. Once that grabs the attention, I like to add that that is “dead” with an asterisk. What is the asterisk? By...

Robot Invades Mars!

  On Episode 35 of Charlie Tonic, Charlie and I geek out over the Mars Curiosity Rover and other amazing space facts. No matter how cynical and jaded our society has become, we can’t be too far gone if we can take the time to pause as a nation and celebrate landing a robot on Mars. The color...

Weekend Recommendations

Wait a moment, where’s Ginny Tonic? Isn’t she the one who knows best when it comes to a fun weekend? Well, that is true, but this week you are going to have to settle for old Charlie. Ginny is all tied up with a mix of things like solving world peace, ending war and famine in our time and even...

What’s In A Name?

I was tooling around Proust (a site which we’ve discussed previously a couple of times now) once again this evening and stumbled across a question it just made sense for me to answer. What is in a name? Do you have any nicknames? How did you get them? I’ve only had one nickname my entire life...

Episode #34 – Traveling, Podcasts and a Mountain Lodge

This week we have a road show for you. We’re not necessarily returning from a show, but we were traveling for five days and the drive back turned into the only chance we had to record so we made a theme of it. Learn what happened on the road, who we ran into and more in the Discourse Intercourse...

Old Fitzgerald Bourbon

Although I may have been a bit spoiled lately, with being able to get ahold of some bottles of Angel’s Envy and Four Roses Small Batch and all, but that doesn’t mean I can afford to drink like that everyday. For a weekend trip to Tennessee lately that Charlie and I took recently we decided to...

Sing Out Loud

Recently, Ginny Tonic mentioned a “fun little website called Proust that helps you build your own autobiography by asking interesting questions and letting you answer, add pictures and share with friends”. I thought today it might be fun to accept that same challenge and answer a random question....

Weekend Recommendations

It’s another sad and lonely weekend without Ginny or Charlie on the events scene but don’t let that stop you from having fun. Airship Passepartout’s Monthly Gathering: Airship Passepartout in Dayton has been gathering steam at a remarkable rate. This summer they have officially secured a...