Monthly Archives: February 2010

Feb 14 2010

Bourbon County Stout

Goose Island’s Bourbon County Stout is one of my favorite beers.  Incredibly rich and complex, it is a great beer to slowly sip an appreciate its aromas and flavors.

Today’s Tribune has a short review that talks a bit about the history and future of Bourbon County: A stout mash note to Bourbon County.

It mentions some plans Greg Hall has for future version of the beer:

Next month Goose Island will release Bourbon County Coffee Stout — a partnership between Goose Island and Intelligentsia Coffee & Tea — a stout aged for more than a year in bourbon barrels and then infused with Intelligentsia’s Black Cat espresso. Later this year, the brewery will introduce variations such as a stout aged with vanilla and one aged in 25-year-old Pappy Van Winkle bourbon barrels.

I can’t wait to try these, especially for the vanilla one.  (We’ll see how it stacks up against my own vanilla porter!)

Feb 11 2010

Phish to Play Wrigley Field?

There’s a blurb in today’s Chicago Tribune suggesting that Phish will play at Wrigley Field this summer:

Next for Wrigley: Matthews, McCartney, Phish?

While nothing is set in stone yet, it seems likely this will easily pass through approval.  I certainly hope it does.  I think, if Phish were to play Chicago, this is where they should.  Northerly Island is too small for a Phish Concert, and Toyota Park is really not “in” the city.  (I haven’t been to Toyota Park yet, but the location just doesn’t really appeal to me as a memorable concert going experience.)

Soldier Field might be another option, but I think it may actually be too big for a Phish concert.  But a double bill with DMB or Paul McCarney?  Maybe Wrigley is too small for that!

Feb 8 2010

The Ribwich is Back

I thought I’d balance out that last post with a little lighter fare, as it were:

Eating Out with the Simpsons

Like a rib, it tastes like liberty. Like a rib, with a bun of sesame. We start with authentic, letter-graded meat, and process the hell out of it, till it’s good enough for Krusty.

Check out the rest of Taquitos.net for more snack-related goodness.


Feb 8 2010

Christocrats

(I don’t usually get political on this blog, so forgive me for this.)

It’s funny that I saw this article today: The Tea Partiers: Fraudulent Fiscal Conservatives, as it speaks to something I was thinking about just this morning.

With Palin and the so called “Tea Party” in the news, I was thinking about what a bunch of hypocrites these people seem to be. The thought that occurred to me was this:  They claim to be for smaller government and lower taxes.  But, I wonder if you asked any of them if they were in favor of drastic cuts in military spending and ending the wasteful and fiscally irresponsible “war on drugs”, what would they say?  I guarantee the vast majority of these people would be against those two things, even though doing either would mean smaller government and lower taxes.

I’m just glad that these people are really the lunatic fringe of the conservatives in this country, even if the main stream media is currently portraying them as the base of the Republican party.

Feb 1 2010

Interview With Bill Watterson

A very rare interview with the creator of “Calvin and Hobbes”:

Interview with Bill Watterson

I particularly like this quote, about people grieving about the ending of the strip:

It’s always better to leave the party early. If I had rolled along with the strip’s popularity and repeated myself for another five, 10 or 20 years, the people now “grieving” for “Calvin and Hobbes” would be wishing me dead and cursing newspapers for running tedious, ancient strips like mine instead of acquiring fresher, livelier talent. And I’d be agreeing with them.

I couldn’t agree more.  I pains me that upcoming, talented cartoonists can’t get any traction because print newspapers continue to fill their funny pages with worthless dreck like “Cathy”, “Marmaduke”, and “Beetle Bailey”, and other increasingly irrelevant cartoons that should have quit a long, long time ago.

Now, excuse me while I break out my copy of The Complete Calvin and Hobbes and get nostalgic for a little while.