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As my friend Tom lamented, 'It's not a safe time to be a dancing legend.' In the last month, the world lost both Merce Cunningham and Pina Bausch ( Read more... ) -
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There's a party brewing tonight. If I weather it well, perhaps I'll even post something substantial tomorrow. -
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Some friends who blog beer for the local weekly started discussing what their last beer on earth would be. What a hard choice! At the moment I were to realize this was my last beer on earth, would I want it to be the tastiest? most alcoholic? most sentimental? Maybe I need to start stocking a "final beer" in my emergency preparedness kit, just in ( Read more... ) -
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I learned about the death of Michael Jackson last night during a beer tasting. My immediate thought was of the beer critic. "Hasn't he been dead for a while? Oh...right." -
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I also realized that, although I wrote it, I never actually posted the
beer round-up for April. I had 28 different beers, 15 of which were new.
new beers are in bold
Abbaye de Leffe S.A. - Leffe Blonde
Bar Harbor Brewing Co - True Blue Ale
Bells Brewery, Inc - American Porter
Bells Brewery, Inc - Lager
Bells Brewery, Inc - Oberon Ale
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Oops! Been sitting on a few posts because either 1) I can't be bothered to spend time in front of the computer when I'm not being paid to do so and/or 2) I convinced myself it would take too long ( Read more... ) -
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With a little bartering (and a lot of charm) I convinced two of my wonderful geeky neighbors to flex some linux brain muscle and install new photo software for me. Many of my issues with installing it in the first place are due to the old OS I have running. That's the next big project I'm working up to, but I have some decisions to make before then ( Read more... ) -
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I'm working on a little (fun!) project. As part of my research, I'm trying identify as many disaster-themed cocktails as I can. So far I've come up with:
hurricane
car bomb
mudslide
kamikaze
Pearl Harbor?
And what about beers? I could only think of Rock Bottom's Hop Bomb.
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In March I sampled 25 different brews, 10 of which were new. My beer sampling slowed down quite a bit, and I'll explain in another post some of the reason for this.
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Some numbers I recently thought about (not to be confused for metrics ( Read more... )