drstinkypants

"I've spent my whole life being "fine" with not having "nice" things and I'll be fucked if I'll throw that valuble defense mechanism away just yet."

I believe the line from The Departed was something like "I'm Irish. I can put up with something being not right for the rest of my life."

Really late in responding, but good to meet you too.

Hey. I hope you and everyone you care about are alright.

I gather fatalities are low, but still, that's a big fucking deal.

Well I'm glad you're alive and well. I was wondering a bit if everything was cool.

Sadly I won't be anywhere close but I appreciate the invite. I'm pretty much headed straight west from Missouri to Oregon, and as such the Twin Cities are pretty far out of the way. Maybe we can do a beer exchange via UPS or something.

Ooohh...so are you unemployed? And it's good? I'm jealous.

2. You're in a hospital?

3. Take the couch. I took all this furniture from my landlords, on loan but spent a lot of money having it cleaned and it was so worth it.

Me,

1. Of course you're right in using Brooklyn as adjective.

2. I am not currently enjoying bartending. I went in for my friday shift & was told I was replaced for the evening, with no other info & have not been successful in getting the boss on the phone, which REALLY sucks to be disreguarded like so & days from rent due. I'm taking it as I'm unemployed. The bar/restaurant business is totally like that, I'm used to this but doesn't make it suck less. Had to take a loan from a friend to insure my rent while I continue to audition for work. Does it blow? Yes.

3. You know I always loved Roky but didn't know he was in 13th Floor, so we're the opposite. The film is AMAZING. I was shocked. It's very important. I like films like that. It makes you feel good & it takes on subject content that just hasn't been displayed before. I loved it so much & can't get it out of my head!

I thought of you over the weekend, in Brooklyn actually, b/c I was in a cute shop that had a whole section of old fashioned style stickers that included...puffy Police stickers. As in, Copeland, Sting, yes. I was spellbound. The shop was amazing! Some time to be bankrupt.

Hope you are good.

Move over Hello Kitty, introducing Hospice Kitty.

Thanks for the nomination in the Brewpub group, but an SG will always win in a popularity contest.

Also for the hefe I used 3056 Bavarian Wheat Yeast. I racked today and I'd say it's very similar to Paulener. Lots of that banana/vanilla/clove thing but in a muted sense. Pretty good stuff.

Oh puffy stickers. Of course I remember them. I hated when you tried to move them (peel/restick) and the top layer would come off. You know what I saw last week? Oily stickers! Remember them? With the swirled oily colored liquid inside? It was a total flashback to decades before.....with much bliss. Wow.

Well the new Interpol is totally f-ing amazing. I loved it instantly, if you think you should check it out. It's totally rad. I bought a ticket to see them promptly.

I agree that not knowing Burroughs equals being totally braindead. I thought the guy was a cockweirdo in the end. Gee what a loss.

I don't think I ever heard that LIRS could be about Edie!! I keep this picture of her right over my desk...wow....(I just stuck a scan of it in one of my folders here)...I think it would totally apply to her. Wow!

So Brooklyn, ha! We were actually in his hometown of Jersey City, actually. He loves me so much.

Yay for mail! I am good at sending it too. I have many stickers and such.

The deceased was a lady, who was my grandmother's best friend and I knew her my whole life. It was heartbreaking for me to have to know how sad Nanny was, mainly. The service was strange (in a good way)-the son wouldn't discuss her for the eulogy-he said "You all knew my mother" and like 2 sentences more. It was very honorable. Interesting.

What was the story with your dad? Father's day vacation?

I agree, it was a great eulogy. He added "You all ate her house, you knew." It was proper & even the flowers (you know I have to remark) were different and wowzers-classy. None of that dreary funeral shit. I even told my family "I'm putting in my request now-do that for me." They were not amused.

Your folks staying with you=SO FUNNY! I can't even imagine. Is your dad a missionary?! Did they drink your homebrew?

Wow, nobody ever noticed any of my "headlines"-thanks! Yes, the Sicko trailer is fresh in my head. I plan on being very fanatical and judgemental in a few months, when it really gets down to making sure people register & vote. I told my own father he elected Bush by not fucking voting, thanks. He was horrified! But I am strict! I'll eventually start repeating my last-election horror story...I took it really hard that Kerry lost, like it was personal. I was really upset, on par with my first pet dying on Christmas (awful). Call me a pansy.

Don't forget that Minnesota has mosquitos the size of airplanes. That adds to the suckage of summer.

we has a internet.

That sounds brutal. I don't think i could handle working those kinds of hours anymore. Hope you aren't overdoing it.

oh my god.

you've only been at work for.. almost four hours. and I miss you like Charlie misses dangling his tail out the litter box door.

this is retarded. YOU COME HOME NOW.

oh! and! I was hearing some weird dripping sound next to me that was sort of freaking me out, so I looked around the room and...

your beer is finally fermenting! I hope it's a good one. I can't wait to try it.

I love you, btw, just so you know, and I just farted so horribly you'd probably be proud.

great how they prefer to shoot the messenger, rather than reflect on the abject societal failure of the flagship liberal wunderland.

there are two snoring Sullivans in my house, one on either side of me.

fuckin' a, you guys.

I'm just catching a 5 second breather but wanted to say oh fuck, work. Wait, what are you doing that you're 13 hrs right now? Today I worked 9am to 10:30pm...my boss drove me home (everyone else is still there though) & will be picking me up at 7:30 tomorrow

Ay yay yay

Devil's season!

I already made my espresso so it's ready to just heat up...what can ya do. More later! Good luck to you!

Proper remarks:

1. Yes I really have an espresso machine. And oh yes, it's quite lovely!

2. Ack, my mother actually isn't dead! Just might as well be. I don't have a mother but she is alive-she relocated to another state without a trace & my life has been more amazing for it. She is unfortunately a horrible thing.

3. Irreversible-you said you lost it after the first 20 minutes--was that basically the climax of the Rectum scene? Because I was exhausted too. I was sick! I didn't like the film but that death scene was filmed horrifyingly well. Fucking gross.

Hope you are good!

It's actually tomorrow at 10am. It's not going to be too bad, I probably won't be biking all the way, or at least not all at once. I think it will be ok. Not that I would turn down a ride if it turns out you are going. But I'm sure I'll be fine without one.

My brew buddy and I sort of made a kitchen sink ale with some stuff we both had sitting around. Four pounds of two-row, three pounds of Maris Otter, three pounds Munich, a pound of Caravienne, a pound of 40L, and a little shot of Carafa II for color. Plus a couple pounds of DME for some extra gravity, with Magnum for bittering, and Santium for aroma. Sort of a pale ale I guess.

Basically a partial mash is using a small amount of grain in the same method as a steep. For the recipe above all I did was put the grains in a grain bag, heat about two gallons of water to 172 degrees and drop the bag in. Mush it around to soak up the water and lid it up, then wrap it up in towels on top of a hot pad. Sticking it in an oven on the lowest heat works too. All you're looking to do is hold in the heat so that the enzymes will stay awake and convert the starch to sugar.

After an hour you just pull the bag out, rinse it with another gallon of hot water into the brew pot (don't squeeze the bag), and continue with the boil as usual. I wait until the last ten minutes to add the extract, as it's a finished product and only needs sanitized. I measure the gravity before the boil too to make sure I don't need to mess with the hop additions.

Really you don't much equipment at all to do a complete all-grain even.

This works great on the cheap. I don't even use the braid in the cooler. I just put my grains in a giant bag. If boil volume is a problem you can also use way more grains to make a concentrated wort and water it down. That's what I do too since grains are relatively cheap.

oh man! I listened to "Hallelujah" just once and had to delete it. I cried for an hour. I thought it would help, but it made it much worse. It digs up your feelings, but it doesn't help you do anything with them. I'll be able to listen to it again someday, but not for awhile. Hang in there. man. We were meant to grieve, we were her friends.

I just realized you removed me from your friends list. I'm guessing this comes from talking to people who have their neckties too tight. Sorry to see you go. I considered you sane.

well, dad got me some drill bits too...

that doesn't help my cause, does it?

yeah, you're right.