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Super Bore

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I don’t care about the ads (dilly, dilly). I don’t care about the halftime show (unless JT sings dickinabox). I don’t really care who wins the Super Bowl. I’m a Washington Redskin’s fan with the Oakland L.A. Oakland Las Vegas Raiders being my second team. My teams have sucked forever. However, at least they have won some Super Bowls. In as much as they are our NFC East rivals, I would just as soon the Eagles not win. It is so much fun shutting down any smack talking with a “Zero Super Bowl wins” comeback.

Craft Beer

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If you’ve hung around here for a while you know I’m in to craft beer. Yelp says I’ve checked in to 45 breweries in the last 2 years.

I’ve decided to learn more about this whole craft beer thing. Lately I have:
– Taken: P’s & Q’s: An Introduction to Craft Beer course, offered by the VCU Office of Continuing and Professional Education.
– This morning I got my Beer 101 Certificate (took less than an hour)
– I’m on Chapter 9 of Tasting Beer, 2nd Edition: An Insider’s Guide to the World’s Greatest Drink

Next up is the Cicerone Certified Beer Server exam.

Not sure where I’m headed with this. Maybe I will try and sling some beers at a local brewery and see if I fit in to the craft beer culture.

Anyone out there into craft beer? Anything to share? Got any tips or advice?

Good Movie, Bad Movie, Bad Experience

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Please Stand By
“Dakota Fanning stars as a woman who escapes a group home hoping to get her Star Trek script produced in Hollywood. On the way she must conquer a new world full of challenges.”
This is in theaters but is also on Comcast PPV which is how I watched it. I thoroughly enjoyed this movie.

Hostiles
Way too long and too boring. I’m not sure what the message was except, “all men suck, especially white men”.
It was well acted.

The Movie Theater
I’ve gone off on the movie going experience before. We walk up. +100 people in line. The kiosk/auto ticket line is shorter but only one of the two computers are operational. 20 minute wait. Get inside, a 10 minute wait for the ticket taker. Someone cuts and the teenage ticket taker lets this happen. Since I am almost next I speak up on behalf of the multitude,”Why would you let him through, he obviously cut the line.” Before he can answer an off-duty but uniformed Barney Fife sticks his nose in, “There are 2 lines” he says. “No there is not”, I answer. “Yeah”, says the woman in front of me to the cop. He backs off and I let it go. Now the concession line. They have one of those winding rope patterns set up for it. It looks to be at least a 20 minute wait. No popcorn for me.
There are 7 movies previews. There are commercials for the Coke and popcorn that apparently they think I paid to watch. There reminders to STFU. There are reminders to silence your phones that several people obviously ignore. Ditto for texting.
And they wonder why people don’t go to movies.

Happy Thanksgiving

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I wish a happy and safe Thanksgiving to everyone today.
Among many other things, I am grateful I am still able to have this website and that you keep coming here. This is a most humbling and rewarding experience and I appreciate the wonderful people I’ve come in contact with through the years.
cb_thanksgiving

Malcolm Young Dead

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AC/DC guitarist and co-founder is dead.
Official announcement on their Facebook page.
Official website statement.
Family statement.
Malcolm Young wiki.
Top 10 AC/DC Malcolm Young Songs.
I had the pleasure of seeing AC/DC play several times, the last time was November 15th, 2008 in Washington, DC.
Here is a pic I took at the concert (click for full-size):

Well, I had a AC/DC video here but frigging YouTube “restricts playback”. I hate them. Oh well, shot down in flames…
 
Rock on Malcolm.