Thom Dunn is a Boston-based writer, musician, and utterly terrible dancer. He is the singer/guitarist for the indie rock/power-pop the Roland High Life, as well as a staff writer for the New York Times’ Wirecutter and a regular contributor at BoingBoing.net. Thom enjoys Oxford commas, metaphysics, and romantic clichés (especially when they involve whiskey), and he firmly believes that Journey's "Don't Stop Believing" is the single greatest atrocity committed against mankind. He is a graduate of Clarion Writer's Workshop at UCSD ('13) & Emerson College ('08).
Come catch the Roland High Life on Friday, July 22 at Exhibit A Brewing in Framingham, MA. It’s an outdoor show, and we’re on early at 7pm — so there’s really no excuse not to come out and rock out, right? We’ll even have merch!
But even if you can’t make it, we’ve got some stuff coming in August and September, too. See ya at the show!
My latest piece for the Weather Channel involves two of my favorite things: sustainability, and beer!
Specifically, it’s about a Trappist Monastery in Belgium that has instituted a cool new way to clean their beer tanks using phytoremediation, or plant-based fining. This is not only an environmentally-friendly method of beer production, but it’s also a scalable project that can ultimately help the monastery to produce more microgreens, legumes, and other human-edible food products, making the entire beer production process that much better for people, and the planet.
I also spoke with some other religious leaders about the role of God in environmental stewardship. While the popular narrative tends to show climate-denying Evangelical Christians, there are in fact many devout Christians whose faith actually calls them to actively protect God’s planet from the greed of mankind. And that’s a really powerful message that the world could use right now.
I’ve always had it in my mind that I would end up singing Irish songs at pubs on the weekend, coming full circle from the way that I grew up. I just … never did anything to pursue that goal. Until finally, the fine folks at Liquid State Brewing — one of my favorite places in Ithaca, New York — asked me to perform on St. Patrick’s Day.
Who knew that people would actually pay me to sing my favorite Irish Rebel Songs and Pogues tunes while I drink their beer? Being a grown-up is great!
It was a great show, and I’m very much looking forward to doing it again next year.
49 Likes, 3 Comments - M. Bevin O'Gara (@mbevino) on Instagram: "Happy St. Patrick's Day!"
While it still bums me out that beer remains such a sexist industries, these women are doing awesome work, and it's nice to seem them get the recognition they deserve. Go team!
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