Brew Date:9/20/2008 Last Fall I was examining my brewing palate and realized I’d not done an Irish Red. Why not? I like Irish Reds. I’ve purchased Irish Reds. Why haven’t I made an Irish Red? At the same time, I was wanting to branch out a bit on my recipe sourcing. Don’t get me wrong. …
Monthly Archives: February 2009
The Live and Loves of Mr. Jiveass N*****
Brown, Cecil. The Life and Loves of Mr. Jiveass Nigger. 1969. Berkeley, CA: Frog Books, 2008. “All the publishers are interested in selling books and if you say something about sex and being a nigger then you got a bestseller” (206). C.S. Lewis writes that fiction allows you to be a thousand men whilst always …
The Book of the Unknown by Jonathan Keats
Keats, Jonathan. The Book of the Unknown: Tales of the Thirty-Six. Random House, 2009. $13.00 When one reads “modern-day fairy tales for grown-ups, reimagined from Jewish folklore” on the back of a book, one is prepared for ironic tales in which that which we see the good side of the bad. We’ve been prepared for …
Two Dummies Brave the Ice
Ted on the Ash Cave Path, originally uploaded by TCTruffin. On Friday, Ted and I thought it would be nice to return to Hocking Hills State Park and see the ice formations at Old Man’s Cave and Ash Cave. Todd thought, “What with the recent fluctuations in temperature–the warm days followed by the bone-chilling cold–there …
