Daily Music SelectionAnother interesting essay from The Vice Blog. Most Beer Blogs SUCK Everyone hates the kind of people, the kind of snobs, that drink wine and then feel the need to spend hours and hours pontificating about it. Its why I created this blog I was sick of how the everyman vocation of beer drinking had become overtaken by pretentious little tipplers. It must have reached a breaking point for me when I was reading one such beer blog. The author noted in a review that hed actually drank a beer in his living room while watching TV as opposed to how he usually sampled a brew by shutting himself in a dimly lit study alone, with no outside noises or distractions, and then quietly and contemplatively enjoying the drink. He was downright ashamed and apologetic that he had actually drank a beer in a comfortable environment, lounging on his sofa with his feet kicked up while watching the game. Here’s A LINK
Central Florida Home Brewers invite you to: November12-14, 2009 Also… AHA/BJCP/MCAB SANCTIONED COMPETITION The19th Sunshine Challenge is the premier home brewingcompetition and home brewers’ convention in the eastern United States.For more details, visit the CFHBwebsite and make arrangements to attend. Florida Craft Beer Festival (Friday,Nov. 13th 7:00-11:00 PM) Enjoy THE BEST BEER BREWED in Florida…meet the Florida Brewers Guild members and brewers. Also, meetBob Hansen ofBriessthis year’s Guest of Honor.Food will be served from 7:30 – 9:00pm only and is included intheticket price. Saturday Seminar Saturday,Nov. 14th, 8:45-11:00 AM Enjoy a Continental Breakfast and variety ofBeerswhile listening toBob Hansen of Briess. $8.50 Pub Crawl Saturday,Nov. 14th 2:00-6:00 PM This has been a favorite of out of town participants, a chance to visit some of Orlando’s pubs. This is one pub crawl you don’t want to miss! $22.50 Saturday NightAwards Dinner Saturday,Nov. 14th7:00-11:00 PM This fantastic evening features aplate dinner, including beersponsored by Florida Micro Beverage Distributor. No tickets sold at the door. If you prefer to pay by check instead of PayPal, or if you have any questions contact us at email: sunshine@cfhb.org
By W.B. Dunne The News Pauper greets the reader with felicitations! Never has any such bounty been bestowed on an undeserving subject by a more venerable sovereign. As a commentator on the issues of the times, the times again and again come to the aid of the hero of the story. Dig, if you will, the Grand Old Party has removed itself from the committee investigating George Bushs torture. They stated that they had no idea that a committee to determine if an investigation was merited might lead to an investigation! The NP is no big city lawyer, but I can see and identify an attempt to undermine an issue from many fronts at once. The corporate righties are all about dropping out right now. Anybody out there catch the story that Exelon has left the U.S. Chamber of Commerce over the climate change issue? Is it the beginning of the polarization of corporations vs. citizens? Anybody out there notice that in Pittsburgh the security forces whipped out the battle tested LRAD, the sonic cannon? How long before XE whores itself against irate Americans in the interests of these breakaways? How long before someone forms a band and calls it…
Herd About It? by Ana Grarian This past week has proved very interesting. At a house party last week I met an elderly woman who used to farm in the area Virgil NY. We briefly discussed what has happened to farming and farmers in our area. She is a neighbor I hadn’t met yet and we plan to get together to talk some more. I listened to some area farmers ask good questions on nationally aired talk show broadcast from one of our local colleges. I spent a lot of time in our local hospital ER while my daughter battled a MRSA abscess.
On Friday September 25th I went to see Thom Hartmann broadcast his radio show live from Ithaca College in beautiful Ithaca NY. As always it was a masterful program. Thom is so calm and professional dealing with dropped signals, misbehaving audio, feedback screeching in his ear, in the midst of live broadcasts. Perhaps his composure is why he is also able to converse with and debate staunch conservatives like Mark Finkelstein host of “Right Angle”.
