June 30, 2009 - Beer, Books and Goldman Sachs

Great new site plugging NYC Craft Beer Bars. When Summer
Streets comes in August, I'll plot a Beer crawl along the route.



Newsweek has a special edition devoted to books. Fifty Books of Our Times and Top 100 Books give you enough to think about.

I read seven books of the Fifty list and Forty-Seven
of the Hundred list. I have ten of the unread books in my library.
Using the lists, I now have eleven books to tackle. Including
"The Way We Live Now" by Trollope which I downloaded at
Project Gutenberg.



I subscribe to Newsweek so I got the "Book Cover."
The newsstands have Michael Jackson.

"Newsweek took a a different approach, incorporating Jackson's death into a regularly scheduled issue. But the magazine, a double issue for the weeks of July 6 and 13, has two different covers — with the Jackson cover available on newsstands and subscribers receiving an issue celebrating "What to read now — 50 books that make sense of our times." Number one on the list: "The Way We Live Now," Anthony Trollope's satiric dissection of Victorian financial and moral tribulations, first published in 1875."

The Financial Blogs were abuzz about Matt Taibbi's piece from
Rolling Stone about Goldman-Sachs. It is readable and calls
for people to get the pitchforks. It was up for a while but was
taken down for copyright infringement. Excerpts are now up
at Rolling Stone.