Weekend Potpourri
It’s unfortunate (perhaps) that all my posts recently have been a mishmash of short things, but after April 10, my life will begin returning to normal. More on that after the fact.
Goodbye, Mr. Heston
Can we have that gun, now?
Hook and Ladder Wins Beer Madness Tourney
As if there wasn’t enough reason to be excited about Hook & Ladder opening up a brewpub here, they went and won the Washington Post Beer Madness Tournament. From the article:
Their Backdraft Brown, this year’s Beer Madness champion, is an American-style brown ale with a chocolate caramel sweetness from the specialty malts, balanced by a splash of citrusy Cascase hops. The Fleischer brothers donate a portion of the proceeds to groups that help burn victims: a penny per pint, a quarter per case, and $4 from every keg sold! If we needed an additional reason to drink their beer, this is an admirable one.
Congratulations to Hook & Ladder! Meanwhile, in my March Madness brackets, I picked UCLA over North Carolina in the finals. Damn.
Urinate. But if you were better looking you’d be a 10.
There’s been some concern/hilarity on the listserv lately, depending on what side of the fence you’re on (literally). Someone has been urinating in soda bottles and leaving them in odd places – in people’s yards, dropped over fences, sitting by the curb.
I get my fair share of crap in the yard. Living on a main thoroughfare between stops for the 20 bus, there’s always plenty of bottles, bags, garbage, etc. And if it came down to urine-filled Gatorade bottles, I’d be hesitant to post it to the listserv for discussion. But thanks to those with the chutzpah to do so for the humor.
Live Nation Update
As reported on Silver Spring, Singular, among other places, some of us got together with Ted Mankin of Live Nation to see what the company had in store for The Fillmore Silver Spring. First off, this is NOT a done deal. If you’re for this deal, I urge you to actively support it. Ted will be answering questions for the general public at the Lee Building on April 8. Help make this happen.
And for all you bozos that think the Silver Spring Blogosphere is a mouthpiece for the Live Nation movement, please take take a trip down to 9:30 or The Birchmere and have another cool glass of STFU. I want music sooner rather than later, and I think this is the right ship to be on. Period. Get behind it or get your folk-song-singing-NIMBY-lovin’ ass out of the way.
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So will his body be turned into Soylent Green? (“It’s people!”)
And didn’t Ben Hur write Little Women?
On a different note, the urine-in-a-bottle fiasco involved the bottles being dropped over someone’s backyard fence on a regular basis. Gives whole new meaning to the Not In My Back Yard thing.
More “Not In My Back Yard” stuff from the QueenAnne’s listserve. Someone complaining about 3 little girls running through their back yard. What has this world come to when little girls can’t cut through someone’s back yard?
Maybe you should send over some bottles of urine to put things in perspective.
We can put a sign on the fence where the urine bottles normally go asking them to reroute all pee receptacles to said yard from the Queen Anne’s Listserv.
I remember when Truman Capote was on Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show and he said that all actors were dumb. Carson replied that Heston was a graduate of Northwestern, and Capote shot back, “he’s not a very good actor”. Agree or not, it’s one more gun off the street.