PSA
Blogging will be light this week. I'll be enjoying beer, books, beer, my family,
and beer. I'll plan on hitting the computer once or twice, but for the most
part, this blog will be taking it easy for a few days.
TWE
Beer Doesn't Equal Illicit Activity
> The hordes of beer-swilling men who have descended on Germany for the World Cup
are proving a disappointment for the host nation's sex workers, preferring to
party in public rather than spend time with prostitutes
[http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyid=2006-06-23T182703Z_
Something for Sunday Morning
> A novice under a temptation which seemed to her insurmountable said: 'This time
I cannot rise above it--it is impossible.' Therese replied, 'Why do you try to
rise above it? Pass beneath it quite simply. It is very well for great souls to
soar high above
Big Dress
This kind of self-obsessiveness transcends the greatest of bridezillas
[http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1888938.html?menu=news.quirkies]. This
groom is in for a painful existence:
> A bride's dress was so big it got stuck in the church door.
> Carly O'Brien&
The Weekend Eudemon
Finally, an evening a drinking.
I'm taking some days off work, so I busted my back for the past four days,
trying to get my desk cleared. It worked. I came into the office Friday morning,
went to Mass, knocked out a few small projects, took a leisurely
Leary Follow-up
In response to my post about Timothy Leary [https://thedailyeudemon.com/4753/], one of my most
knowledgeable and intellectually-reliable readers wrote to me:
> I tend to doubt the rendering of McLuhan's advice, but I don't doubt that he was
sympathetic to the psychedelic cause. Many
Brews You Can Use IV
A reader took sympathy on my lack of beer news this week and sent along the
following:
> It's been said that chestnuts are "grains that grow on trees." This statement
is
certainly true for one mid-Michigan brewer, who has taken locally grown edible
chestnuts and
Brews You Can Use III
A curious drinking song
[http://chestertonandfriends.blogspot.com/2006/06/curious-drinking-song-for-your-weekend.html]
from one of my favorite Belloc books.
Brews You Can Use II
Beer and banjo. Never thought of it, but it's a great combination:
Not much beer news out there this week. Whatta bummer. Vacation is calling, so I
was in a brews news mood. I'll get over it. It might take a six pack, but I'
Brews You Can Use
Budweiser tanks at the World Cup
[http://beerblog.genx40.com/archives/2006/june/budbombingatthe]:
> US mega brewer Anheuser-Busch has obtained the exclusive rights to sell the beer
at the World Cup in Germany. Reports from across the sea have it that the move
to only sell a thin bubbly