Erie Ale Works delivers!

Without further ado, yourIdiotville feel-good story of the week: https://www.goerie.com/story/entertainment/dining/2020/10/22/erie-ale-works-has-some-big-things-going-other-places-toughing-out/3712481001/?fbclid=IwAR0iU5VT-2YXLnakoJUNLR89AUQ681AFYe35dt7nYN8UtigvalPtZoVV2Jg If you’ve ever listened to Idiotville Podcast (or set foot in Erie, PA generally), you know we love our beer. We’re spoiled in that our town has many great breweries, but Erie Ale Works just upped the ante. Beer delivery! Thanks to the Erie Times-News’ […]

S*** the President Says – 10/19/2020

Ladies and gentlemen, behold, some s*** the president said during the previous week: We begin this week with a tweet I’ve been looking at for seven days now, wondering what in the world it’s supposed to mean. Where would Illinois go? Why is it sad? Why is the stagnant geography of a state any sort […]

Forget what other people say. Erie is great. You can be anything you want to be in Erie

I saw this article earlier in the week courtesy of Erie New Snow, and I admit it brought me down: https://www.erienewsnow.com/story/42753506/erie-ranked-slowestgrowing-city-in-america The headline was that out of 515 cities ranked according to 17 metrics in the two broad categories of “sociodemographics” and “jobs and economy” by Wallethub – a website of which I’d never heard […]

S*** the President Says – 10/12/2020

Ladies and gentlemen, behold, some s*** the president said during the previous week: Now he tells us the secret, after it’s too late for 210,000 of us: don’t let yourself die! If you can’t breathe, just wander out back to your helicopter and have your pilot fly to your 10 doctors waiting with oxygen and […]

Otters’ Drysdale goes 6th overall in NHL Draft – Something good happened in Erie, 10/9/2020

Without further ado, your Idiotville feel-good story of the week: https://www.goerie.com/story/sports/2020/10/06/erie-otters-defenseman-drysdale-taken-sixth-overall-nhl-draft/5904491002/?fbclid=IwAR3fZEjm6ty7SLL-I_O4aViRE7Y1a187RnPSWRQVhhlNzNEJ7RvebejO2SY It is rare that losing great talent counts as a good news story for a city, but this is an obvious exception: Jamie Drysdale of our Erie Otters was selected by the Anaheim Ducks with the 6th overall pick in the 2020 NHL Draft. […]