With a purposeful grimace and a terrible sound he pulls the spinning high tension wires down!! I remember as a kid watching the Godzilla movies and just loving the carnage and destruction.  I would watch all the hokey monster movies with Mothra, King Kong, thatflying turtle thing! They were awesome, they’d fight each other, and then Godzilla turned […]

One thing Steinbeck taught us is that our plans often do not come to fruition.  This weekend was a mixed bag for me, on the one hand I had a couple of great drinks, and on the other hand the sports stuff really didn’t go my way.  The Vikings finally lost their first game.  Two […]

You gotta love Texas!  They take everything to extreme, not only is it legal to drink and drive (as long as you aren’t drunk), but they have these nifty drive through liquor stores for the alcoholic on the go! So what will you be picking up this weekend and why?  Make sure you tell us […]

Well its that time of year again.  time for all the ghouls and goblins to come to the door and collect their prizes, just to turn around and run back into the night.  I am just about done with my kids going out to trick or treat.  My youngest is ten, and he will be going as […]

Old Overholt Straight Rye Whiskey has a very significant history in the development of the whiskey industry in the United States.  Established in 1810 it is recognized as the first commercial distillery in the United States.  It produced Straight Rye Whiskey that was aged in oak barrels for four years as it is today.  Prior […]

OK…so these are Buddhist Monks, but the question is what kind of MONK-Y business do the Trappists get into? Think about a bunch of guys, all they do is brew beer and yeah pray some, I’m sure they need to sample their brew…I’m just saying I bet the Nun’s convent down the road has had […]

So How was your weekend?  Mine was…well, a mixed bag.  Yeah that is an adequate description.  As far as sports are concerned, my fantasy football team rocked!  I scored 157 points, and my kicker still plays tonight.  I now have the dubious distinction of having scored the most points in the league, but my record […]

Its Friday!! Yeahhhh!  I don’t know about you all, but it has been a hell of a week!  For me it started on Sunday with a 6 hour drive to small town Idaho so I could be there for meetings at 9:00am Monday.  I have earned my weekend, and I will take it! I have […]

Life on the bottom is complicated at best.  It is full of misconceptions and stereotypes.  For example fighting like cats and dogs.  I don’t know about you but these two look pretty harmonious, and I have three dogs and five cats, and they all seem to get along pretty well most of the time.  Of […]

There are a lot of whiskeys out there.  What makes the difference between a $12 bottle and a $200 bottle?  Sometimes it is a lot less than you think.  There are gems in the weeds, and the only way to find them is to get in there and hunt for them.  I have found some […]

There he is!  Its Jimmy Smits.  Its got to be, it looks just like him.  I’m in Vegas at a conference, there is a commotion over by the convention center, and there he is, tall, dark, by my wife’s account handsome…Its got to be him.  She would kill me if I saw Jimmy Smits and […]

Rip Van Winkle was an idle man that incurred the wrath of his wife because of his laziness and the fact that he didn’t get anything done around his homestead. The story goes one afternoon he wandered up into the mountains and met a band of ghosts playing 9 pin. He joined them and drank […]

Some things are bad, some are just OK, others are good, and then a few are truly special.  Take art for example, if you asked me to draw you a picture that would be bad! Not an artist, and never have been.  If you asked my brother Jim to draw you a picture, that would […]

Its October and the parade of pumpkin flavored beers has started down the beer aisle of your favorite stores and watering holes.  Who came up with the idea to put pumpkin in beer anyway?  The answer to that question may never be known completely, but one thing is certain there are a number of them […]

Father Time has his way of catching up with all of us.  There really are very few things that are affected by age.  There are the obvious ones like you have to be 16 to drive without restriction, you have to be 18 to enlist in the military, and you have to be 21 in […]