The reign of "multicultural LDA Zillennials" is coming to an end

Sundays are normally reserved for The Fingers Weekender, but that’s on hiatus for January. Before or after today’s special edition, make sure to check out:

• My scoop at Fingers about the latest action at Anchor Brewing Co.;

• My column at VinePair about the US hop industry’s glut-defying high-wire act;

• New reporting at Fingers about the “payday loan” theory of RNDC’s latest financing;

And that’s about it. As ever, if someone forwarded this to you, buy a subscription to get next Sunday’s edition straight in your inbox.

Hello and apologies for the unusually late Sunday edition. Your fearless Fingers editor drove through the night in order to be back at HQ before a brutal winter storm began pummeling Richmond and the rest of the Eastern Seaboard, which it currently is. We made it home intact, but my normal writing hours did not. Hence the delay. But much like the United States Postal Service [citation needed], neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays this boozeletter from the swift completion of its appointed publishing schedule. And so, it brings me great pleasure to present for the first time the quarterly winners of Fingers’ prestigious [citation needed x2] 2025 Buzzwords of The Week of The Year competition, which today enters the home stretch.

Selected by paying Friends of Fingers in a grueling two-week sprint of inspiring democracy and insufferable corporatespeak, winners from Q1, Q2, Q3, and Q4 will now face off with one another in a four-way runoff in hope fear of earning top bottom honors for the year that was. Please bask in the glory/horror of each original entry below, then cast your vote to crown Fingers’ 2025 Buzzwords of The Week of The Year:

Voting closes one week from today, on February 1st, 2026, with a winner to be announced in the boozeletter edition that immediately follows. Who will carry the shame of saying/publishing the most LinkedIn-brained shit in the American vice business last year? Only time will tell, reader. But one thing is for sure: the year-long reign of "multicultural LDA Zillennials" is coming to an end.

💬 BUZZWORDS OF THE WEEK OF Q4 2025

And the winner is……“damp-drinking–forward menu”!!!

Published December 21st, 2025 in the edition titled “Jim Beam is already on glut watch for 2026,” the original entry ran as follows:

💬 BUZZWORDS OF THE WEEK OF Q3 2025

And the winner is… …”US Modern Oral”!!!

Published September 7th, 2025 in the edition titled “Joe Six-Pack just got laid off,” the original entry ran as follows:

💬 BUZZWORDS OF THE WEEK OF Q2 2025

And the winner is… …”a lot of concern about the whole immigration question”!!!

Published June 15th, 2025 in the edition “Tilray Brands is Going Through It™️,” the original entry ran as follows:

💬 BUZZWORDS OF THE WEEK OF Q1 2025

And the winner is… ”Neo-Hedonism”!!!

Published January 12th, 2025 in the edition titled “Bring back SVEDKA’s weirdly thicc robot,” the original entry ran as follows: