A First On My Blog

In the two years or so since I have been doing this I have never made a toast in honor of anyone. Tonite that comes to a close. As some of you may know, for the past nine months I have been going thru a bit of a pig circus, but it is nothing in comparison to the wringer the stinkin pigs have been putting The Great Instigator thru! I cant tell you what it has been but he is more than welcome to leave a lengthy, scathing, comment. I say STP, he has every right to say FUCK THE PIGS!

Scott has gone from being a coworker, to a great friend, and now a hero.
So here I am in my best imitation of the statue of "what the..." (if you click on the photo it will enlarge and you can read the Dylan quote. Thanks Mollie Pootsie for the Dylan book)

THIS IS ONE OF MY BOSSES?

I figure that seeing as tho only one of my coworkers, also a manager, knows about my blog that this is a no harm no foul situation. And come on, its funny... well not so much to his wife. If it looks to you like he is passed out behind the glass you're right.

Transparency?

Just another misleading and/or naive promise from (alright, yeah it was a lie, and he is a dyed in the wool stinkin politician piece of sheep dip) your president Opaque Obama. Will any of you misguided, misled, and self deceived (you have to be to fall for that rubbish) lemmings admit your mistake?

I didn't think so. Keep making excuses instead of apologies. Whipping up babies instead of resumes.

By the way, this deserving of death roop scoop watches "keeping up with the kardashians".
Instead of watching reality shows maybe he should pull his head out of his ass and watch reality. No, just curl up and die...please.

CHILDS PLAY II

CHILDS PLAY

And then some more

So today's line up is JW Lee's Harvest Ale. It is a limited annual release brewed with the first fruits of the harvest and is released on the 1st of Dec. I have the privilege of having in front of me a 99, 00, 01, 02, 05, 06, and 07. Can't tell which I like best. The 06 is interestingly nutty, but the 99-02 are really special. I hope my helper shows up today or I'm going to be in for a world of hurt. Seven beers at 11.5% with my revirginated liver?You may be wondering "Free, what do you eat with such beers?". Well, of course pizza, pistachios , and believe it or not, Bit-o-Honeys.

And then some

So what do you drink after four different vintages of Thomas Hardy's? How about a 1988 Samichlaus!?! At one point Thomas Hardy's Ale was the strongest beer in the world. The beer that took over that top spot was Samichlaus brewed by the Hurlimann brewery in Switzerland. It topped out at just over 14%abv. Now breweries such as Samuel Adams and Dogfish Head have beers that clock in at over 20%. Personally I don't think they should be called beers. The yeast strains they use are labratory concoctions made to drive up the alcohol content. They may say that there are other reasons, but it is just bragging rights and greed.Remember when you were young? You shone like the sun!

But wait, theres more.

Holy Freakin Eddie

Unreal! A thirty one year old beer! Screw your born on dating. This 1979 Thomas Hardy's Ale is so mellow, smooth, viscous, smells of black licorice has a similar taste with a hint of almond. As for the color. imagine the Mississippi river with with ruby flakes. I believe I have just gone speechless. . In order from left to right is 79, 88, 94, 08.

Here's a new thought

I'm sitting here getting ready for work and am overwhelmed with dread. Suddenly I ponder, if the world gives you lemmings do you make lemmingade?

STP, what is it?

For some it brings to mind an oil treatment, others Dimethoxy-4-methylamphetamine, a hallucinogen from the 60's referred to as silence, tranquility, peace. However, as of this Wednesday it will be an annual event, SCREW THE PIGS day. Now pigs encompasses a wide demographic. For some it can mean the police, others the prosecutors (a wink and nod to The Great Instigator) , and to a great many the politicians. For hermit types such as myself it can just refer to people in general. I'm quite sure there is a big group that would have it stand for Screw That Paul, and thats alright with me.

Now when STP day lands on a Friday that creates a golden STP day. On such occaisions we are all to dress like the Blue Man Group but in gold and drink golden ales all nite long. I would appreciate everyones support of this day of commiseration, celebration, and rebelion in this its inugural year and those to follow. We've all been screwed by these various P's at one time or another, now it is time for us to turn the tables, or bar stools as it were.

99 bottles of beer on the wall? Thats school boy stuff

What goes up must go down, one Dusty bottle at a time. Soon to come, four days of planting and watering with expectations of happy faces blooming. The doors open a 5:30 Wednesday.

Random thoughts

The other day I found myself behind a car with both an Obama/Biden sticker and a Darwin fish with legs emblem. I had to laugh at the contradictory message of endless hand outs and survival of the fittest. The icing on the cake is that she drove in a loop in my neighborhood. Lost in more ways than one.

On TV there are a couple of shows, Operation Repo being one, that shows peoples cars being taken back for non payment. I find it amusing in two ways. First it is the ghetto trash that gets paid to retrieve the cars. My second thought that is if this is so entertaining why not show people whose houses are being foreclosed on! Maybe call it Operation Home Invasion.

Lastly, a couple days before christmas I was given a bag full of baked goods, a Hickory Farms package, and a three and a half pound bag of M&Ms. In bold lettering at the top of the bag was "resealable bag". Why?