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Here’s a bit of Irish satire for you this morning. Marc Gunn, the Celtfather, performing his song “St. Patrick Never Drank” at DragonCon 2011: By the way, if you haven’t yet check out Marc’s Irish and Celtic Music Podcast as it is an amazing collection of independent music delivered on a monthly [...] I was in a controlled hyperthermia state for the past few weeks. A Narbonic induced pyrexia. And it was deadly – absorbing all my energy and brainpower until my mind was full of mad science, zombies, taking gerbils, world dominating evil hamsters, crazy computer genius and a gun-crazy intern. Yes, I was trapped in [...] The chorus of Harry Belafonte’s “Day Oh’” has been going through my head these last few weeks – so this morning I decided to listen to it, which lead to a trip through a bunch of my old favorites folk/bluegrass songs. “Sixteen Tons” by Tennessee Ernie Ford I recently stumbled upon an article about Stonefield and just had to share with you all. Stonefield is an upcoming Australian rock band consisting of four sisters ages 13 to 21. They started playing about six years ago when they talked their parents into buying them a drum kit. Amy, the oldest sister, took [...] This was a great movie! It was fun getting to see Harrison Ford back at the top of his game hanging with Daniel Craig and having adventures. Defiantly NOTHING like Indiana 4!!! This film actually had a plausible plot line (well, assuming aliens exist) that drew you into it. Jon Favreau sure knows how [...] Shortly before War World II in 1938 a small band of Trappist monks started a monastery in the Algerian desert near Tibhirine. The next five, almost six, decades were fairly uneventful for these monks despite being located in the middle of an Islamic country. Then the unthinkable happened. Armed men entered the monastery during [...]  (Courtesy of Wikipedia) A recent (The Customer is) Not Always Right post made me think about the first time I tried ordering an espresso coffee drink. It was the summer of my freshman year (1999) at LeTourneau University in Longview, Texas. I was working as an environmental field technician for an environmental consulting company who had their offices in the downtown area. Off and on throughout the summery, my boss would occasionally bring in a cup of coffee for everyone (all three of us). The cool part about this coffee is that it was not the typically black sludge that most Texans drank back them (and still do). No. This coffee was sweet and creamy with a wonderful smooth flavor. Ah…it even brought back memories of sitting under a tree in Costa Rica drinking freshly brewed coffee right off the plantation with pure cane sugar. (yeah, that was a fun time!) Immediately, I fell in love with this new West Coast style coffee.
My intermediate years of 4th through 6th grade were marked by avoiding the horned beasts opposite gender as they eked cooties. The one exception to this rule was Jolene (aka the Purple Girl) who played trombone (the BEST instrument as you could bing folks in the back of the head without getting caught!) and had purple eyeglasses, purple braces, and a sweet purple dinosaur on her trombone (give me a break, this was pre-Barney!!). Years later when I was a freshman (or was it eighth grade?) in high school, I attended my first school dance with my mother. Yep. I took my mom to a school dance…what I can I say, she had a drivers license and we lived a half hour from the school. This dance marked a turning point in my life as it was the first time I really loosed up and begin to be myself at school. Prior to this dance, I was the outcast of the school (ok, that fact really didn’t change) – attracting unwanted attention by jocks and others in the ‘in’ crowd. This made me retreat into myself (I could go through an entire day without saying 3 words – an act of God to anyone who knows me now) while outside of school I was talkative and friendly.
Yet, I was wrong (shocking, I know!) The wines produced by Kiepersol Estates are first class wines with a smooth, oaky favor that does justice to old craft. Especially their “2007 Kiepersol Estates Syrah” – wow..that was a good bottle! Sadly enough, I didn’t really care for their Cabernet Sauvignon….mostly because it was a tad too oaky – which was due to the wine being aged in America Oak barrels. However, I was impressed that all their wines are brewed to be aged five or six years – a striking statistic as most commercial wines are make to last one or two years max. The third wine I tastes was their “2007 Vitzin Rosé.” This was also a very good wine, abet one that is not really my style (I tend to stay with the dry reds), but it did have a nice favor. Continue reading East Texas Wine It was a multicolored package holding an excellent sophomore album by Midtown Dickens’. In fact, it held the album “Lanterns” in four different formats: vinyl, CD, digital download and printed words. (this way you can enjoy the songs anyway you want!) Much happiness! For those who don’t know, Midtown Dickens is a great [...] |
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