You should listen to Beer School @ BeerSchool.com. The hosts are John Foster (from TWiM and MacBreak Weekly amongst other things) and Motor (I don’t know Motor to be on any other shows).
The show is simple and to the point. You should listen to Beer School provided you enjoy beer and enjoy listening to guys bullshit about beer related topics. Interesting (and occasionally learninating) stuff.
More on how our little streetwalker dog (Leeloo) is proving to be a bigger challenge than I imagined later.
Posted on 2007-02-27
And just like that, I’m Emmy and Academy Award Winning Rob Blatt.
Instead of watching the awards, I made some oatmeal with Amber and tried to teach our new dog Leeloo some tricks. She didn’t learn any yet, net even her name.
I’m Leeloo!
Don’t let the photo fool you, she’s smaler than Matty. She’s a skinny little thing. Her and Matty having trouble seeing eye to eye at times (mostly when Matty wants to play) because she’s from Puerto Rico and probably doesn’t speak English like he does. I’ll give her full story later, because the important part is that we have two dogs and Matty has a sister to play with! She’s sneezing a whole lot, maybe it’s cause she stinks and needs a bath real bad.
Posted on 2007-02-26
It’s funny, I won’t remember to do this unless I see other people doing it. I fall to peer pressure easily (that’s why once I tried to eat 8 jelly packages so my friends would take me home so I didn’t wander around like SpongeBob was wandering around. It’s kind of a long story.)
1. What do you try to stay away from?
People I went to high school with, bacon & ham, political discussions, talking about the effects of bearing a child on your breasts (for the moment, I’m sure I’ll talk to Amber about it)
2. Are you clumsy or graceful?
My wifey don’t call me a moose for nothin’
3. What is it too late for?
Losing enough weight tohit my target for my wedding
4. What/who was your first love?
As a kid I was obsessed with my yelow stufed animal that I named “toy”, but I don’t think I was able to undersatnd what “loving” somehting meant. So instead I’m going to have to go with wrestling, comics books or Kiss.
5. Friday fill in:
I believe that ____ will _____ .
I believe that later today I will be playing a video game that is 9 years ld that I’ve been playing for all 9 of those years.
Posted on 2007-02-24
I was listening to my new favorite podcast, Beer School, and the topic of Fernet-Branca was this awesome drink that is very rarely found anywhere in the US outside of San Francisco. The following is from the SF Weekly:
Hemingway hated it, Hunter Thompson lampooned it, and Sean Penn told an interviewer that it treated him to the best shits of his life.
I don’t think I really need to say much more than that, do I?
Fernet Branca is a bitter, aromatic spirit made from 27 herbs and spices, including myrrh, rhubarb, chamomile, cardamom, aloe, and saffron, with a base of grape alcohol.
That one’s from Wikipedia. So the real goal would be to find a local bar that serves it because I’d like to see what, if anything, a bartender would have to say about it. Remind me to ask Phil at the theatre next time I’m there.
Apparently it was the only alcoholic drink still imported to the US legally after the 18th amendment was added to the Constitution because it was imported as a medicine. While not an alcohol drink, Moxie soda started as a medicine too.
Moxie was said to cure ailments ranging from softening of the brain to “loss of manhood.” In 1884, it was sold in carbonated form and merchandised as an invigorating drink, which claimed to endow the drinker with “spunk”.
From Wikipedia. I think the combination of these two could create a very awesome, very powerful drink that I will claim to use for medicine. Apparently Moxie was first marketed as a medicine in Lowell, MA. That explains the fasicination with the soda at the Sugar Shack in Lowell, which is now the back eating room of Suppa’s Pizza (order the Meat Stick if you ever go there).
Anyway, I now need t find myself some Fernet-Blanca and some Moxie soda and have myself a drink. I’ll have to look it up online if it already has a name. If it doesn’t, perhaps I’ll get to name my first drink, much like Tape named the “DJ on Acid”.
The Fernet-Branca and Moxie:
1/3 Fernet-Branca
2/3 Moxie Soda
Pour into ful glass of ice, serve with a straw.
Posted on 2007-02-23
