November 20, 2010

Brrr! Starting to get cold.



The Christmas Village is now open and Holiday stuff starts coming out.



S & S O Produce Farms puts out a Black Dirt Brand crushed tomato sauce. The Black Dirt in Goshen, NY is well-known for its taste enhancing properties.



Bonk was so enjoyable, I had to pick up Packing for Mars.



The Queens Library had this available, scooped it right up.



Picked up a Sam Adams Winter Classics Twelve-Pack. In the pack, there are 2 bottles each of:
Boston Lager - always good, their signature beer
Holiday Porter - Chalky , bitter and excellent
White Ale - Surprisingly good, wasn't expecting the flavor
Chocolate Bock - Best of the pack, you can taste the Chocolate and it's smooth
Winter Lager - Quite good , cinnamon, ginger, and hint of citrus from the orange peel
Old Fezziwig Ale - Reminds me of Brooklyn Beer's Old Bluderbuss, 2nd best after Bock.

November 11, 2010 - Veterans Day

The United States government has declared that the attributive (no apostrophe) rather than the possessive case is the official spelling.



Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia by Michael Korda will be released on November 16th. On the to-read list.



Irish Dry Stout 3.70% ABV . This is a real good brew. I prefer a little more kick, but the flavors and freshness make this a winner. Made by Victory Brewing Company in Pennsylvania.



Blue Point Toxic Sludge :Black IPA / Cascadian Dark Ale | 7.00% ABV.

Blue Point will donate 100% of net proceeds from Toxic Sludge to Delaware-based Tri-State Bird Rescue and Research to fund their Spreading Our Wings Campaign and long term efforts to build a Wildlife Response Annex.

I toast the Blue Point Brewery for such a great idea. Ironic, that the initials for the Brewery = BP.



Ernest Hemingway, The Art of Fiction No. 21, The Paris Review.
Interviewed by George Plimpton
INTERVIEWER
Well, perhaps it would be better put this way: Graham Greene said that a ruling passion gives to a shelf of novels the unity of a system. You yourself have said, I believe, that great writing comes out of a sense of injustice. Do you consider it important that a novelist be dominated in this way—by some such compelling sense?
HEMINGWAY
Mr. Greene has a facility for making statements that I do not possess. It would be impossible for me to make generalizations about a shelf of novels or a wisp of snipe or a gaggle of geese. I’ll try a generalization though. A writer without a sense of justice and of injustice would be better off editing the yearbook of a school for exceptional children than writing novels. Another generalization. You see; they are not so difficult when they are sufficiently obvious. The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof, shit detector. This is the writer’s radar and all great writers have had it.