Beer And Conversation With Pigweed And Crowhill

The boys drink and review Brother Joseph's Belgian-style Double Ale from Straight To Ale then discuss the war on beauty. Pigweed wonders why everything is so ugly. Older buildings -- even sewage plants -- were beautiful. They were built to lift the human spirit. Modern buildings are built to be hideous. Why? It's so cheap to make things beautiful these days. Why don't we? It's almost as if we're choosing ugliness. Even churches are ugly. What about a banana taped to the wall as "art"? That's not an aesthetic statement, it's a statement about standards and meaning. That is, that there is no meaning. The boys discuss the present reality of omnipresent ugliness and review its possible historical origins. Join us for a deep dive into this fascinating topic.