Beer: Whale’s Tail Pale Ale
Brewer: Cisco Brewers
Source: Draught
Rating: * (5.4 of 10)
Comments: Another night at Bukowski’s, another New England-brewed beer, this time from Nantucket’s Cisco Brewers (There once was a beer from Nantucket…). Like Smuttynose Shoals Pale Ale, this beer looks quite good with a nice golden red color and a thick head, but has [...]
Archive for November, 2007
30 Nov
Beer Review: Whale’s Tail Pale Ale
27 Nov
An Owl in the Arboretum
Susan, Peter and I took a walk in the Arnold Arboretum today, cut short by the rain. On our way back to Forest Hills, we saw a large whoosh of brown feathers fly low right over the path. It was a large owl of some sort and it was being pursued by a [...]
22 Nov
Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgiving!
Thanksgiving has long been my favorite holiday perhaps due to the fact that after being born on a Sunday I came home from the hospital on Thanksgiving Thursday (which was on Nov. 22 in 1973 as it is this year). Thanksgiving was a holiday my family celebrated with more gusto than Christmas, and [...]
21 Nov
Cary Grant Film Festival
Quite by accident we had a Cary Grant Film festival at home both before and after the birth of our baby boy. Susan requested His Girl Friday from Netflix (our first film delivered thanks to Craig’s gift subscription) and then I stumbled upon the rest at the public library. I’d also checked-out The [...]
19 Nov
Book Review: Lincoln’s Dreams by Connie Willis
Several years ago my friends Mike and Annie lent me a time-travel adventure novel called The Doomsday Book (1992) by Connie Willis. I enjoyed the book (it helped me get through a kidney stone for starters) and have been smitten with Willis’ brand of science fiction ever since. A typical Willis novel generally involves some [...]
15 Nov
Book Review: Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software
Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software (2001) by Steven Johnson is a fun and fascinating book that explores self-organizing systems from slime molds to software. Debunking “The Myth of the Ant Queen,” Johnson tells of the research done in urban studies, neuroscience, and computer games that shows that there is no [...]
11 Nov
Book Review: Local Attachments: The Making of an American Urban Neighborhood, 1850-1920
Local Attachments: The Making of an American Urban Neighborhood, 1850-1920 (1994) by Alexander Von Hoffman is an historical work on the urban neighborhood in the late 19th century. I read this book because the subject of this case study is my own neighborhood of Jamaica Plain – once a part in Roxbury, then the central [...]
10 Nov
Movie Review: You Can’t Take it With You
You Can’t Take it With You (1938) is one of my favorite movies of all time, although it’s not the movie I remember. The last time I saw this film I was a teenager and I remember it being an inspiring movie about a household of eccentric people who do what they desire in life. [...]
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