u/sufferingcubsfan

In 2023, SSPU played a little venue in Birmingham, Alabama I knew them for exactly one song - Lazy Eye (thanks, Rock Band) - I did think that was a great song. My wife and I were hitting lots of concerts, the tickets were cheap, so we picked up a pair. To prepare myself, I started listening to an assortment of their stuff online.

We went to the show, got there early to be in the front row of the standing room venue... and holy shit was it a great time. So I got more and more into them. Started deep diving into their older stuff.

They came back in 2026, and my wife gave me tickets for Christmas. Only managed second row this time, haha. Still, just a superb show. Here I am fifty years old, belting out the words to every song, and just had such a good time. They are absolutely FIRE in person. Unlike some bands, they seem to genuinely just love what they are doing, love the way the audience gets into it - and man, was the crowd into it.

Tenterhooks didn't grab me at first. I miss a little of that old sound - the ethereal melodies, the start/stop of the volumes, the crunchy edges of it all. The new stuff is maybe a little more polished, and it's almost more of an album listen than each individual song being quite as distinct as they once were. But it has grown on me - especially The Wreckage, Au Revoir Reservoir, Thorns and All.

Right now, I'm just so immersed in the sound, digging up old classics, mixing in the new. Nikki's base grooves still drive everything, but Brian's vocals and leads are so great... and frankly, Christopher's drumming is wildly underrated. No offense to Joe, these are just the things that hit me.

My seven year old daughter has started requesting that I play them, haha.

Anyway, I know that this is a pointless post, I just wanted to share my enthusiasm, and how my fandom seems to just keep growing. This is my favorite band now, and it's not even close.

Does anyone have some leftover chocolate rye I could get from you? I hate to place a distinct order for a "seasoning" ingredient. Morebeer had been nice on pricing and I've pulled together two recipes' worth of everything else I need, but they don't have chocolate rye. I'll happily venmo you to cover the cost of shipping and the grain.

With the closing of so many LHBS, who these days do you find to be the best for shipped prices of actual recipes? I don't want to buy huge sacks of grain, and I'd like to not be destroyed in shipping costs. It does look like I need to plan to buy two recipes' worth at a time to help a little on the latter.

Who do you find has the best overlap of good selection and prices today?

I have a twelve year old daughter who has recently done a 180 from pink and bright and positivity to black and dark emotions. Okay, it's the age.

She has a lot of range, but would prefer to do a contemporary/open type solo with a few acro moves to emphasize her athleticism, while still touching on some elegance.

There are so many great songs, but most of it is "yay love song" or "girl power".

I'd love some suggestions for dark, emotional stuff that lines up for a powerful solo.

Thanks for any suggestions!

I have a twelve year old daughter who has recently done a 180 from pink and bright and positivity to black and dark emotions. Okay, it's the age.

She has a lot of range, but would prefer to do a contemporary/open type solo with a few acro moves to emphasize her athleticism, while still touching on some elegance.

There are so many great songs, but most of it is "yay love song" or "girl power".

I'd love some suggestions for dark, emotional stuff that lines up for a powerful solo.

Thanks for any suggestions!

I have to say, I absolutely love the Homebrewery. This has taken a "maybe some day" pipe dream of having an actual sourcebook for my campaign setting into "yeah, it's a lot of work still, but it can happen". I will be kicking a few bucks towards the expenses, no question about that.

I am hoping to print a handful of actual books for my biggest contributors. The thing is, printing/binding requires page bleeds - otherwise, you can pretty much guarantee weird white edges when they cut the pages for binding.

I see the ability to set pages for various pages sizes, but I don't see any option anywhere to set up a bleed. I believe that I need a quarter inch all the way around.

How do I accomplish this?

Thanks in advance!

Hey folks.

I have a lot of experience in websites, CSS, etc. But for the life of me, I cannot seem to get a custom (non-Google) font to work on my brews.

I have a font called "Press Jobs". I downloaded the ttf, then went and converted it to woff2. Cool. I uploaded the file to a web-accessible folder (copy/paste into the browser downloads the font). Woo.

At first, I thought that I'd just do my basic CSS font definition stuff.

@font-face {
 font-family: 'PressJobs';
 src: url('https://mydomain.com/project/resources_fonts/PressJobs.woff2') format('woff2');
 font-weight: normal;
 font-style: normal;
}

Then, I would simply call the font-family on a given item.

Nope.

Then, I generated the above and saved it as a css file in my local server's "resources_fonts" folder as "pressjobs.css".

@import url('https://mydomain.com/projects/resources_fonts/pressjobs.css');

This seems to work on straight HTML pages using CSS, so it doesn't look like a path or access issue, but my brews won't use the font face at all. What am I missing here?

Thanks!

How do I style a title so that it uses the fancy large letters for all letters, not just the very first one?

It looks like it's not the H1 css itself, it's a pseudo class P tag following the H1?