Jason Starr's "The Bully"

I read this today -


for .49 cents how can you go wrong?


Also Jason was just the guest on http://therapsheet.blogspot.com/
check it out!

You can download "The Bully" on amazon.com here:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Bully/dp/B000TDNLQ8

Mike Patton News

Per movieweb, (http://www.movieweb.com/news/NE99z9eaKH6obi)

Mike Patton is scoring the feature length film "Crank 2"

I guess I missed the first one!

There also continues to be talk of a Faith No More reunion or tour, but I have yet to see any details, and Mike Patton seems to be too busy these days to contribute much to such a reunion, but we'll see!

Blue Belle

Finished Blue Belle by Andrew Vachss today, the third in the Burke series. The first novel I read by Vachss was Two Trains Running, if I remember the title correctly. I enjoyed this book quite a bit. I then read A Bomb made in Hell, and then Flood and Strega. I’m still on the fence about this series, next time I read this author I think I’ll try another non-series effort instead.

Pizza Hut getting desperate for new ideas?

I'm sorry but isn't this really just two pizzas? or am I missing something here? - Dan VK

FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS Second-Season Premiere

Found this on Aint-it-cool-news: The season 2 premiere of Flight of the Conchords will be exclusively on www.funnyordie.com December 17th so put it on your calendars!

BEERS OF THE WEEK

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BEERS OF THE WEEK: (From Your Host, Dan VK!)

Found the following at Ladd's this week:

Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale

alcohol content 6.8% by volume	bittering hops Chinook
beginning gravity 16.0 Plato	finishing hops Cascade & Centennial
ending gravity 4.0 Plato	dry hopping Cascade & Centennial
bitterness units 62	malts Two-row Pale & English Caramel
yeast Top-fermenting Ale Yeast

The long, cold nights of winter are a little brighter with Celebration^® Ale. Wonderfully robust and rich, Celebration^® Ale is dry-hopped for a lively, intense aroma. Brewed especially for the holidays, it is perfect for a festive gathering or for a quiet evening at home.

"…best beer ever made in America."
– Stan Sessor, San Francisco Chronicle

GOLD MEDAL WINNER
United States Beer Tasting Championship (IPA: 1994)

FIRST PLACE
Chicago Beer Society — 1996 Fall Beer Tasting

SILVER MEDAL WINNER
California State Fair (IPA: 1999)
Great American Beer Festival (IPA: 2002)

Hang Ten, Weizen Dopplebock

ABV: Approx. 10%

Hang Ten is the Heavy Seas wheat beer you've been waiting for. A classic German-style weizen bock, slightly cloudy and bursting with flavor. Hang on and surf the Heavy Seas wave! Seasonally available in July while supplies last.

Samuel Adams Chocolate Bock 2008

5.5% alchohol

This beer was $15 for a single 750 ML bottle at Ladd's. (I had to pass on this one but thought it was worth a mention!)

Description from Samuel Adams website:

Samuel Adams® partnered Felchlin, a renowned Swiss chocolatier, to develop a unique innovation, Samuel Adams® Chocolate Bock. We started with a complex selection of carefully roasted malts combined with hand-selected Noble hops from Bavaria, the world's oldest growing area. After using a centuries old brewing process, called Krausening, we slowly aged the beer on a bed of rare dark cocoa nibs from Felchlin®, a renowned Swiss chocolatier. Known for their quality these wild cocoa nibs, harvested from the rainforest of Northern Bolivia, impart complex aromas and flavors of chocolate, honey and vanilla in the beer. The resulting beer, Samuel Adams® Chocolate Bock, has a big, malty character that is combined with the subtle sweetness of chocolate, giving this brew a complex full-body taste with a velvety finish.

Tettnang-Tettnanger and Spalt hops were hand-selected from the world's oldest growing area and combined with a complex selection of malts including two-row Pale, Munich and Caramel to create a rich and satisfying brew. This dark beer has a big, malty character that is combined with the subtle sweetness of chocolate. Samuel Adams® Chocolate Bock was aged on a bed of cocoa nibs to create its unique layers of flavor. As the beer matured, the fruity, tart, earthy and chocolate aromas were released into the liquid to give the brew a complex, full -bodied taste with a velvety finish. A hint of vanilla was added to meld the symphony of flavors together.

210 lbs.

The scale keeps going in the wrong direction - maybe if I start posted my weight here - I'll be more motivated to get that number back down to where it should be!