Hopscotch (1966) by Julio Cortázar is my Around the World for a Good Book selection for Argentina. It’s also a very complex novel following in a trend started by Gate of the Sun and Billiards at Half-Past Nine. I need to start reading pulp novels and mind candy from around the world. [...]
Lee Miller is a fascinating woman. She was a model and muse to photographers like Man Ray and took up surrealist photography herself among other talents. Following the Normandy invasion, Miller got herself credentialed as a war correspondent. She followed the progress of the American armed forces and the liberation of France, [...]
This month’s Tour of the Month is a reprise of The Greenway and Beyond focusing on what has replaced the elevated Central Artery since the Big Dig and what’s still to come. I wrote about the tour in detail when it was offered last August so I won’t repeat that here. But I do [...]
Beer: Aventinus Weizsenstarkbier
Brewer: Schneider-Weisse
Source: Draught
Rating: ***** (9.0 of 10)
Comments: After a long walking tour I stopped into Jacob Wirth’s to refresh myself. Once again, the beer I asked for was not on tap and the bartender offered something else. That something else was really something else, a dark wheat beer called Aventinus.
Granted [...]
Recently, The Art of Manliness published 100 Must-Read Books: The Essential Man’s Library which is getting a lot of attention in library and book-reading circles. Pop Goes the Library turned this list into a meme. I’m a man and I like to read so I’ll go through the list and see how manly [...]
Beer: Ipswich Oatmeal Stout
Brewer: Mercury Brewing Company
Source: 12 oz bottle
Rating: ** (6.8 of 10)
Comments: This isn’t the beer I wanted but the waitress at Bukowski’s offered it as an alternate. It turned out okay, even for a bottle beer (I try to stick to draughts when I’m at a saloon). Stouts run from brown [...]
Beer: Southern Tier Heavy*Weizen
Brewer:Southern Tier Brewing Company
Source: Draught
Rating: * (5.4 of 10)
Comments: This imperial unfiltered wheat ale from Lakewood, NY pours out with a thick head and has an attractive red gold color. Unfortunately it gives of more than a whiff of acidic aroma. Worse the taste of the beer is rather [...]
Here’s how I’m using my social networking tools these days.
del.icio.us
When I first registered for del.icio.us I imported all the bookmarks from my browser and then didn’t use it for a year. I didn’t really need all those bookmarks so I cleaned things up by deleting them all. I also cleaned up and consolidated misspelled tags. [...]
All Shall Be Well; and All Shall Be Well; and All Manner of Things Shall Be Well (2008) by Tod Wodicka builds on the premise of an aging medieval reenactor named Bert Hecker who liquidates all his property to buy a one-way ticket to Europe in search of his estranged son. While Wodicka [...]
Last night the wife, son, and I went to the Revels’ Pub Sing at Doyle’s Cafe in Jamaica Plain. I just have to say that a pub sing is one of the greatest things ever. What could be better than gathering in a bar and belting out songs while swigging down beers? [...]
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