Monday, January 21, 2008

IPA in a can?

That seems weird. It was made by the New England Brewing Company of Woodbridge, CT. Usually beer in cans is mass-produced piss. This stuff wasn't the best India Pale Ale ever, but highly amusing, nonetheless.

I like Venus Williams better than Serena. Maybe it's the "older sibling" thing in me. She beat a rather hot Polish woman in the 4th round today. I found that woman's website, and the server was overloaded, my access was denied because others were using up her allowable bandwidth. Ha!

Couldn't they play the Super Bowl somewhere halfway between Foxboro, MA, and East Rutherford, NJ? Like, Southington, CT? Somewhere close? Oh screw it, the Patriots play better in warmer weather like Arizona. They could easily put up 50 with no wind or cold. Of course, the Giants might put up 30 or so of their own.

Two of my favorite comments from Futurama: The "third and third and third" as something to add to coffee in the year 3000....plus "Admiral Crunch" cereal.

Peanut butter is good with various fruits. I enjoyed a peanut butter and banana sandwich for lunch. What's also good is peanut butter and raisins. Of course, you need to spread the peanut butter on both slices of bread, to keep the raisins from falling out.

Ever go to make grilled sausage links, and realize you don't have any oblong rolls? I had bratwurst this weekend, and without the right roll, I had to cut open the casings, and pack the meat into a patty like a cheeseburger.

ESPN2 has UConn-North Carolina women's basketball on. Occasionally they'll talk about how the UConn home crowd stands until the first basket is made. The women's fans stole this from the men's fans. (Of course, it's really the same businesspeople attending these games.) Anyway, the MEN's fans stole it from Syracuse. They were doing it first and UConn stole it from them, after which the UConn women stole it further.

Parmesan Goldfish crackers....extremely good, but they do not hold even a candle to the best of the goldfish -- Xplosive Pizza....

My wife and I were thinking of doing one of those open mike nights...we'd be like the Eurhythmics or something. This was going to be our set list -- me on guitar but NOT singing...

Love Song by Sara Bareilles
Love will keep us together by Captain & Tenille
Look What you've done by Jet
Zombie by the Cranberries

The hardest part was learning Love Song, and then trying to convert the piano-heavy song to guitar as sole accompaniment. (It's like re-learning it, actually.)

10 comments:

Mega said...

What are you tuning to for Love Song? E?

These posts of your with the random stuff is the best.

Keshi said...

**India Pale Ale

wuts it like? Ale ofcourse. LOL!

wow u and ur wifey can play the guitar? Cool! Love all the songs u listed.

Keshi.

Brian in Oxford said...

Wow, these are some quick comments! I posted just 15-20 minutes ago...

Anyways, my wife just sings....I do all the music. (Kinda like Dave Stewart, no?)

david mcmahon said...

I hear you. I shall present a business case to the Australian Open organisers, to move the tournament to your backyard.

Works for you?

That way we can watch the tournament together and just become slobs for two weeks.

Works for Mrs Brian in Oxford?

~**Dawn**~ said...

I am hesitant to eat something that touts the word "explosive" in it's name...

You know what makes me kinda mad? The fact that they discriminate against cold weather teams for the Super Bowl location. How is it fair that there will be no Super Bowls in Green Bay or Chicago or Buffalo or New England (just to name a few)?

Anonymous said...

I too like Venus over Serena. Serena looks like a dude.

YesBut said...

Peanut butter and banana sandwich -yes

Sausage and marmalade sandwich?

Suldog said...

My favorite "Futurama-ism" is whenever they show city hall. It is, as you no doubt know, CITI Hall, like the credit card. Great show, abused by FOX in various totally inappropriate time slots.

Nichole M said...

I just heard Love Song the other day... it's *awesome*! The next time I sit down to update the damn iPod, it's going on there...

david mcmahon said...

Mate, you REALLY had me worried. I thought the post titled said ``I P in a can''

I'm thinking, surely not, Brian's far too well bred for that !!!!