San Francisco Beer Week Feb. 6-15, 2009 Join Bear Republic and tons of other Bay Area breweries to celebrate all things great about beer.
Meet the Bear Republic's Brew Crew at Zeitgeist on Thursday, February 12. 199 Valencia St. @ Duboce Ave. in San Francisco.
Come hang out at this Mission beer stop and meet the brewerʼs of Bear Republic. Brewmaster, Richard Norgrove and some of his brew crew will be on hand to share a pint and answer any of your questions. Specialty drafts from Bear Republic available all night.
I've never been to Zeitgeist. I'm curious to check it out. But I am afraid that every angry, pierced bike messenger in the city would be there and they'd all yell at me.
ok so I am not the slickest dude. But I gotta tell you... I've been drinking AND Eddie Money sounds reaalt fucking strong pumpin through the speakers. " I think I'm in Love," indeed!
went to the Trappist last night and had an 11% Lost Abbey Stout that was chocolate butter, followed by a lovely dining experience up the street with great conversation and the whole bit, and I was staring out the window looking at this lovely building across the street and thinking, wow, we just had a wonderful two rounds of drinks followed by a fantastic dinner in glorious ambience in downtown Oakland.
The National Book Critics Circle announced the finalists for its 2008 awards at a well-attended event at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe in New York City Saturday night. Here is the complete list of finalists in each category:
Fiction
Roberto Bolaño, 2666, FSG Marilynne Robinson, Home, FSG Aleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project, Riverhead M. Glenn Talyor, The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart, West Virginia University Press Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kittredge, Random House
Criticism
Richard Brody, Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard, Metropolitan Books Vivian Gornick, The Men in My Life, Boston Review/MIT Joel L. Kraemer, Maimonides: The Life and World of One of Civilization’s Greatest Minds, Doubleday Reginald Shepherd, Orpheus in the Bronx: Essays on Identity, Politics, and the Freedom of Poetry, University of Michigan Press Seth Lerer, Children's Literature: A Reader's History: Reader's History from Aesop to Harry Potter, University of Chicago Press
Biography
Paula J. Giddings, Ida, A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching, Amistad Steve Coll, The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in an American Century, Penguin Press Patrick. French, The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul, Knopf Annette Gordon-Reed, The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family, Norton Brenda Wineapple, White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson & Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Knopf
Autobiography
Rick Bass, Why I Came West, Houghton Mifflin Helene Cooper, The House on Sugar Beach, Simon and Schuster Honor Moore, The Bishop’s Daughter, W.W. Norton Andrew X. Pham, The Eaves of Heaven, Harmony Books Ariel Sabar, My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq, Algonquin
Nonfiction
Dexter Filkins, The Forever War, Knopf Drew Gilpin Faust, This Republic of Suffering: Death and the Civil War, Knopf Jane Mayer, The Dark Side, Doubleday Allan Lichtman, White Protestant Nation, Atlantic Monthly Press George C. Herring, From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1776, Oxford University Press
I can clearly see you love the man and his work, as I know you do not resort to cheap snarkiness. If The Savage Detectives is any indication, he is the most overrated writer of the new century.
I have to like this I have to like this I have to like this I have to like this ad nauseum until, like that sugar on the radio, you just give in.
i will say i like the release of 2666 - they did the one doorstop version and then a three book booxed set in paperback. pynchon did the samey same with gravrainbow, but priced the paperback much lower. bookstores will no longer exist in five years, and they should blame not charging $15 for the 2666 paperback as their downfall.
i'm rooting for patrick french and elizabeth strout - she wrote the only book i've not read that i want to read, robinson excepted - she's won enough already...
I have a ticket left over for Jay Reatard with No Age opening in the Gaelic in Surry Hills (Sydney) this coming thursday. Anyone interested in flying over and getting on the piss???
I'm watching your country right now, waiting for Roddick and Jokavich (sp?) to tee it off and start pounding the shit out of the ball. Just got done coaching Lucas's basketball team to an opening game loss. Clearly, the coaching was to blame.
Send the ticket and I'm there, dude. Man, it looks hot down under. I hope your house has air co. By the way, I just d-loaded the newest and lastest Hunches record, and it is terrific. I'll send if you give me a few other things you'd like to justify the postage.
I am watching as much tennis as I can. I like watching Tsonga play. There is a heatwave in Melbourne at the moment and it doesn't look like it's going away. It's been hot in Sydney as well. Not nice last Saturday it was 42 celsius. Too hot.
I saw The Hunches are coming out with a new record... Great. You said you also had some live recordings of them. I will dig my mind for more stuff that you might have.
Almost finished fourth season of The Wire... I don't want it to finish. Hope you're all good!
hey rein - good to hear from you. reatard is a blast live.
tuna, gran torino was pretty damn cool. i guess the only un-pc movies can be made by 80 year olds these days. Milk was good as well but not as good as Drugstore Cowboy, but not much is. slumdog millionaire isn't all that but it has its moments, including the finest woman i've seen in a movie in years. oakland needs more hindus. revolutionary road on tap for tonight. here's hoping kate takes her clothes off often...
Patrick knows his stuff, as does Darrin Cahill and Brad Gilbert. Bradley is annoying but often says what others won't about players choking or playing it safe. All three know the game and I'm never insulted when they're talking, unlike the old warhorse, Cliff Drysdale, whom McEnroe patiently endures year after year.
Mary Carillo looks a hell of a lot better now that she did twenty years ago, and she too knows the game. Mary Joe Fernandez and Pam Shriver have nothing to offer. Put Kournikova in the booth, or Ana Ivanovic- they too can suggest getting the first serve in on a big point.
Roddick has matured. He's much less obnoxious than he used to be. If you're tired of him, though, don't worry- Fed has his number and should destroy him tomorrow.
29 comments:
San Francisco Beer Week
Feb. 6-15, 2009
Join Bear Republic and tons of other Bay Area breweries to celebrate all things great about beer.
Meet the Bear Republic's Brew Crew at Zeitgeist on Thursday, February 12. 199 Valencia St. @ Duboce Ave. in San Francisco.
Come hang out at this Mission beer stop and meet the brewerʼs of Bear Republic. Brewmaster, Richard Norgrove and some of his brew crew will be on hand to share a pint and answer any of your questions. Specialty drafts from Bear Republic available all night.
Berr nerd! Beer groupie!
I've never been to Zeitgeist. I'm curious to check it out. But I am afraid that every angry, pierced bike messenger in the city would be there and they'd all yell at me.
3:17?
I keep looking at that picture of waffles and chicken. Guys, we need to go. What are your respective schedules like next Saturday around 11 AM?
ok so I am not the slickest dude. But I gotta tell you... I've been drinking AND Eddie Money sounds reaalt fucking strong pumpin through the speakers. " I think I'm in Love," indeed!
check out the Australian Open on ESPN2- fantastic stuff out there
went to the Trappist last night and had an 11% Lost Abbey Stout that was chocolate butter, followed by a lovely dining experience up the street with great conversation and the whole bit, and I was staring out the window looking at this lovely building across the street and thinking, wow, we just had a wonderful two rounds of drinks followed by a fantastic dinner in glorious ambience in downtown Oakland.
Fuck the haters. Really
when is chicken and waffles- I average about two doctor appointments daily this weekend by I might be able to squeeze it in if you're buying
The National Book Critics Circle announced the finalists for its 2008 awards at a well-attended event at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe in New York City Saturday night. Here is the complete list of finalists in each category:
Fiction
Roberto Bolaño, 2666, FSG
Marilynne Robinson, Home, FSG
Aleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project, Riverhead
M. Glenn Talyor, The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart, West Virginia University Press
Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kittredge, Random House
Criticism
Richard Brody, Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard, Metropolitan Books
Vivian Gornick, The Men in My Life, Boston Review/MIT
Joel L. Kraemer, Maimonides: The Life and World of One of Civilization’s Greatest Minds, Doubleday
Reginald Shepherd, Orpheus in the Bronx: Essays on Identity, Politics, and the Freedom of Poetry, University of Michigan Press
Seth Lerer, Children's Literature: A Reader's History: Reader's History from Aesop to Harry Potter, University of Chicago Press
Biography
Paula J. Giddings, Ida, A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching, Amistad
Steve Coll, The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in an American Century, Penguin Press
Patrick. French, The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul, Knopf
Annette Gordon-Reed, The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family, Norton
Brenda Wineapple, White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson & Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Knopf
Autobiography
Rick Bass, Why I Came West, Houghton Mifflin
Helene Cooper, The House on Sugar Beach, Simon and Schuster
Honor Moore, The Bishop’s Daughter, W.W. Norton
Andrew X. Pham, The Eaves of Heaven, Harmony Books
Ariel Sabar, My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq, Algonquin
Nonfiction
Dexter Filkins, The Forever War, Knopf
Drew Gilpin Faust, This Republic of Suffering: Death and the Civil War, Knopf
Jane Mayer, The Dark Side, Doubleday
Allan Lichtman, White Protestant Nation, Atlantic Monthly Press
George C. Herring, From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1776, Oxford University Press
Bolano Bolano Bolano Bolano Bolano Bolano Bolano Bolano Bolano Bolano Bolano Bolano Bolano Bolano Bolano Bolano Bolano Bolano Bolano Bolano Bolano Bolano Bolano Bolano Bolano Bolano Bolano Bolano Bolano Bolano Bolano Bolano Bolano Bolano Bolano Bolano Bolano Bolano Bolano Bolano Bolano Bolano Bolano Bolano Bolano Bolano Bolano...
I can clearly see you love the man and his work, as I know you do not resort to cheap snarkiness. If The Savage Detectives is any indication, he is the most overrated writer of the new century.
I have to like this I have to like this I have to like this I have to like this ad nauseum until, like that sugar on the radio, you just give in.
i will say i like the release of 2666 - they did the one doorstop version and then a three book booxed set in paperback. pynchon did the samey same with gravrainbow, but priced the paperback much lower. bookstores will no longer exist in five years, and they should blame not charging $15 for the 2666 paperback as their downfall.
i'm rooting for patrick french and elizabeth strout - she wrote the only book i've not read that i want to read, robinson excepted - she's won enough already...
Chiken and waffles, saturday at 11 AM. If you are man enough.
I have a ticket left over for Jay Reatard with No Age opening in the Gaelic in Surry Hills (Sydney) this coming thursday. Anyone interested in flying over and getting on the piss???
I'm watching your country right now, waiting for Roddick and Jokavich (sp?) to tee it off and start pounding the shit out of the ball. Just got done coaching Lucas's basketball team to an opening game loss. Clearly, the coaching was to blame.
Send the ticket and I'm there, dude. Man, it looks hot down under. I hope your house has air co. By the way, I just d-loaded the newest and lastest Hunches record, and it is terrific. I'll send if you give me a few other things you'd like to justify the postage.
Get on the piss, mate...
I am watching as much tennis as I can. I like watching Tsonga play. There is a heatwave in Melbourne at the moment and it doesn't look like it's going away. It's been hot in Sydney as well. Not nice last Saturday it was 42 celsius. Too hot.
I saw The Hunches are coming out with a new record... Great. You said you also had some live recordings of them. I will dig my mind for more stuff that you might have.
Almost finished fourth season of The Wire... I don't want it to finish. Hope you're all good!
hey rein - good to hear from you. reatard is a blast live.
tuna, gran torino was pretty damn cool. i guess the only un-pc movies can be made by 80 year olds these days. Milk was good as well but not as good as Drugstore Cowboy, but not much is. slumdog millionaire isn't all that but it has its moments, including the finest woman i've seen in a movie in years. oakland needs more hindus. revolutionary road on tap for tonight. here's hoping kate takes her clothes off often...
is that Pink Shark? Rein if that is you, I have two questions for you. 1) What town do you live in? 2) will you be in Australia next Xmas?
Liz and I are thinking of going and want to see you.
http://www.tiger-town.com/whatnot/updike/
I've taught this a number of times- one of the few things by the patrician I like
Damn right it's me Tony. I live in Sydney and will still be here next xmas. Is that the coming xmas you are talking about????
Yes. Xmas time 2009. We will probably leave SF around Dec 26th and be there for a couple of weeks.
Great! Would be good to go on a rampage in Sydney.
Damn, I only saw the story, didn't know the man died. My condolences to your pop- he was a big man, wasn't he?
Final thoughts, Australian Open....will someone please shoot Bud Collins? Jesus, take him out of his misery. And mine.
Is it some kind of union rule that all female tennis commentators HAVE to be hatchet faced lesbians? Jesus!
On a positive note I like Pat McEnroe quite a bit. More than his brother.
Back on the negative tip...Andy Roddick needs to be punched repeatedly in the face. He is a punk whose self regard is nauseating.
Patrick knows his stuff, as does Darrin Cahill and Brad Gilbert. Bradley is annoying but often says what others won't about players choking or playing it safe. All three know the game and I'm never insulted when they're talking, unlike the old warhorse, Cliff Drysdale, whom McEnroe patiently endures year after year.
Mary Carillo looks a hell of a lot better now that she did twenty years ago, and she too knows the game. Mary Joe Fernandez and Pam Shriver have nothing to offer. Put Kournikova in the booth, or Ana Ivanovic- they too can suggest getting the first serve in on a big point.
Roddick has matured. He's much less obnoxious than he used to be. If you're tired of him, though, don't worry- Fed has his number and should destroy him tomorrow.
when's the aussie final?
couple good NYT articles, the first on everyone's favorite author, the other on the self-publishing industry.
i'll be releasing Fairfielders next month for $14.95...
I'm starting a band called Pam Shriver's Thong. Wanna join?
I hate Gilbert even if he is knowledgable. He just an over grown Sigma Chi guy. And Roddick still is intollerable to me.
I'll play the trombone in Pam Shriver's Thong.
Brad Gilbert is a Piedmont jew. He's about as far from Sigma Chi as far gets.
I have Lucas only this weekend.
What's the haps?
Post a Comment