Drinking with Ian, Season Two (DVD)

Set up the shot glasses, champ, it’s time for another round of “Drinking with Ian!” Season Two of the eponymous Ian’s popular, Minneapolis-based cable access show finds our hometown hero back in his old haunt, the 7th Street Entry (the servants’ quarters to First Avenue’s elegantly decayed mansion). With his well-marinated band of revelers, including bartender Ollie Stench, house poet Haiku Jim, and the show’s resident chanteur, Neil, Ian hits his stride in this second volume of late-night, on-tap entertainment. In some sort of Joseph Conrad trip to the mythical past, viewers will delve into the origins of DWI, watching long-lost tape of the 1990-something pilot for Drinking with Ian… and Troy? But nevermind Troy. They’ll learn the mysteries of shots including the Uncle Frank, the Fonzie’s Office, and the Boz Skaggs not to mention the champion bleep-inducing cocktail, the, “well, we can’t even print it here.” They’ll explore Midwestern musical greats from the legendary (the Mighty Mofo