33 bottles of beer on the wall, 32 bottles of beer..

folks, I am in the alcohol business , in other words I sell liquor , wine and beer for a living...

but , until I started working where I work now, where the emphasis is to be the best in town on all three, did I realize that Beer Nurds are as crazy as Cork Dorks, if not more so.

So, if you have someone close to you, that is driving you nutso about which beer has the most hops, or when is the next seasonal due from (insert the brewery), or a myriad other questions that drive most of us to the brink of insanity!!!!!!!...

direct them here...

RateBeer.

and look for the beer buyer I work with.....

no, no I can't do it.

James, you owe me.

he made me laugh, damn it...

"now go do that voodoo that you do so well....!!!!

Harvey Korman passed today .

Back in the 1960s and '70s, he was a regular on The Carol Burnett Show, where he parodied soap opera As the World Turns in As the Stomach Turns. And he turned Gone with the Wind into Went with the Wind.

Mel Brooks loved that kind of burlesque and put Korman in his movies, including High Anxiety and History of the World. Brooks said he gave Korman tongue-twister lines because he was the only one who could get his mouth around them.

Korman also created classic comedy in Blazing Saddles. He played the conniving — but unfortunately named — villain Hedley Lamarr.

NPR

here's a scene from High Anxiety



and couple from Blazing Saddles, including the aforementioned quote.

I was traded for what ?!?

John Odom of the Golden Baseball League Calgary Vipers was traded to the United League Laredo Broncos earlier this week.

not for another player or a player to be named later..

not for money...

but for baseball bats, ten to be precise.

10 Prairie Sticks Maple Bats, double-dipped black, 34-inch, C243 style.

"They just wanted some bats, good bats -- maple bats," Broncos general manager Jose Melendez said.

According to the Prairie Sticks website, their maple bats retail for $69 each, discounted to $65.50 for purchases of six to 11 bats.

"It will be interesting to see what 10 bats gets us," Melendez said.

The Canadian team signed Odom about a month ago, but couldn't get the 26-year-old righty into the country. It seems Odom had a "minor" but unspecified criminal record that wasn't revealed to immigration officials before they scanned his passport, Vipers president Peter Young said.

Odom said the charge stemmed from a fight he was in at age 17. Although he thought it had been expunged from his record, it popped up during immigration.

Odom spent hundreds of dollars driving to the Canadian border and staying at a Montana hotel while the matter was sorted out. He then drove to Laredo after the trade.

Originally from Atlanta, Odom was drafted late by the San Francisco Giants in 2003. He pitched 38 games, all in Class A, from 2004-06, and was released by the organization this spring.

Laredo intends to activate Odom on Monday and have him make his first start Wednesday.

Odom said he was supposed to be traded for Laredo's best hitter. But when that player balked at moving to Calgary, the bats entered the deal.

Laredo offered cash for Odom, but Young said that was "an insult."

The bat trade wasn't the first time Calgary came up with some creative dealmaking. The Vipers once tried to acquire a pitcher for 1,500 blue seats when they were renovating their stadium, Young said.

I don't know, maybe the Flint Tropics got a better deal for Monix with the washing machine.

Sportsline

best Simpson's episode ever...

take the Simpson's Softball Quiz.

below is my score...

The Simpsons Softball Quiz



Score: 100% (9 out of 9)

my mother would of been so proud.

Do you remember the song?

and don't forget WonderBat.




excellent

juice, gotta get the juice...

This image shows a breakdown by county in the Continental USA of gas prices,
it must be free in Alaska and more expensive than Dom Perignon in Hawaii.

I live in Texas, where we produce a lot of oil both inland and offshore...

so our prices stand to reason, we own y'all.

and there are only 12 or so people in Mississippi and South Carolina all told with 'lectricity...

and ya know Cheney is gonna make sure Wyoming gets their fix..

But...

where the hell is Missouri and Arizona getting it.

I understand California has to pay more, but why more in NoCal than L.A?

it's a mystery..

see more detailed, zoom able and up to date map at GasBuddy.

shown the way by Neatorama

helter, skelter...

The Manson Family Murders are still keeping people up at night.

Sheriffs' detectives in Inyo County, Calif., believe a one-time hideout of the notorious Charles Manson clan may be concealing the bodies of murder victims from nearly 40 years ago. The detectives are converging Tuesday on the Barker Ranch with shovels and high-tech ground-penetrating radar to search for graves.

The Manson family killed actress Sharon Tate and six other people in Los Angeles in 1969. Later, a member of the gang suggested that more victims had been buried at the ranch near Death Valley.

A police detective last year took Buster, a dog trained to find cadavers, to the site where Manson hid after a killing spree that left seven dead in the summer of 1969. Buster's agitated behavior indicated the presence of decaying human remains, Los Angeles Times reporter Louis Sahagun told Alex Chadwick.

Subsequent searches were inconclusive, as were soil tests, but Inyo County Sheriff Bill Lutze said he would allow a limited four-day excavation at Barker Ranch beginning Tuesday. The main targets of the dig were to be hot spots that Buster had flagged.

"There was no consistent response from the dogs that searched and no conclusive findings from the soil samplings tested by top experts in the field," Lutze said in a statement. "The only way to determine once and for all whether there are bodies buried at Barker Ranch from the time of the Manson family is to proceed with limited excavation."

NPR

yes, yes we can and we will...

Jason Baskin from Obama 08

a look ahead

an amusing look at the future of Martian exploration...



Wohba

and a reminder, The Phoenix Mars Mission will land on May. 25th.

new domain.. same TexSquid..

I have moved, but nothing else will change.