BEER #1165

From JDub’s Brewing Co in Sarasota Florida. Haven’t been there yet, but had a couple of drafts of Dulce Brown (limited release) at Lakeland’s Beer Revolution micro/import store, which has about 6 taps to try out different beers while you shop(how cool is that?). The beer is an English-style Brown Ale, but what it really tastes like is English Xmas pudding(at least in my memory ).

I think I need to go back and get a growler if it’s still available.

It also needs to be released for Thanksgiving/Xmas in bottles for holiday meals.

THE CALIFORNIA FIRE - ELDORADO NATIONAL FOREST

 In the false-color image, burned forest appears red; unaffected forests are green; cleared forest is beige; and smoke is blue.
As of yesterday, the fire had burned almost 90,000 acres.

(With thanks to NASA.gov)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

To Joan Jett, still rockin’ it out at 56.

Saw her once in the 90s opening for Aerosmith;

looking cool in her white leather.

Great performance – luv ya Joan!

YAHRRRRR...

Talk like a pirate day, mateys!! Or walk the plank!

WHAT THE NIGHT KNOWS

By Dean Koontz:

‘Math was nothing but a giant hoax, and everyone participated in it, everyone faked a belief in math so they could be done with the hideous classes and the drudgery of the hateful homework and get on with life.’

‘What had sparkled in the Fourth Avenue store instead darkled in this house.’

AND TODAY IS...

 Rice Krispies Treats Day...and

National Cheeseburger Day.

 Have a cheeseburger and a Rice Krispie Treat. 

Or a cheeseburger made with Rice Krispie Treat, see if I care.

HEY, I CAN SEE MY HOUSE FROM HERE!

 So how cool is this? Picture from the ISS of Florida; with parts of Ga, Miss, Ala, La.

The big streak of light across the middle is the I-4 corridor, Tampa to Orlando.

 I live just about in the middle between the two.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

 To Leo Tolstoy (186 – if he were still alive), author of War and Peace, which I once read in 2 weeks so my dad would take me to NYC in 1968 to see the Russian version (6-1/2 hours!) of the movie. Because of the length of the movie the theater that was showing it had an intermission in the middle which was long enough for viewers to leave the theater and have dinner somewhere. One of the things about the movie that I thought made it better than any other version was that all the actors & actresses were unknown, at least to the American audience. Interestingly, the original Russian version clocked in at about 8 hours, but the movie in Russia was actually released as four separate films! The original 2 were released in June 1965, while the filming of the last two films wasn’t completed until August 1967.

 One of these days, planning on re-reading the book, and perhaps watching the movie again and see if they still have the impact they did when I was 15.

BEST SELLER BOOKS - PART 1

From the Publisher’s Weekly bestseller listings: these are some of the books I’ve read,

and the year they were originally on the bestseller list.

1902 - The Virginian by Owen Wister (F)

1902 - The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan (F)

1917 - Raymond by Sir Oliver Lodge (NF)

1921 - The Outline of History by H.G. Wells (NF)

1923 - Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis (F)

1927 - Revolt In the Desert by T.E. Lawrence (NF)

1927 - The Royal Road To Romance by Richard Halliburton (NF)

1927 - The Glorious Adventure by Richard Halliburton (NF)

1928 - The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder (F)

1929 - All Quiet On the Western Front by Erich Remarque (F)

CLEA'S MOON

By Edward Wright:

 ‘The street smelled of dust and regret.’