Last month I mentioned the horny names of certain beers made by Sweetwater Brewing here in Atlanta.  Well, Happy Ending Imperial Stout is now in bottles.  I applaud their ballsiness, but I wonder how in the heck they got away with putting this description on the bottle.  “Happy Ending is a huge dry hopped stiffy, for a full figured beer resulting in an ...

Talk about good timing – I watched The Departed on DVD yesterday and then it won a slew of Oscars last night.  I had watched the original movie that this one was based on, Infernal Affairs, and had loved that version.  Not many directors can top an original but if anyone was capable of it, it was Martin Scorsese.  I was blown away by Marty’s version and couldn’t wait to watch the Oscars last night (delayed, of course, since I refuse to watch live TV).

I had discussed this with several friends but I gave the new Van Halen tour with David Lee Roth 2 months before personalities clashed and the tour would end with the band breaking up again.  I gave them too much credit – the damn tour has been postponed indefinitely before it even started!  I’m sure more details will be forthcoming in the next few days but there will never be a way for Diamond Dave to reconcile issues with the Van Halen brothers.  Once Sammy Hagar left the band it became quite obvious that the problem in the band was Eddie Van Halen.  I won’t even bring up the Gary Cherone era of the band, as it was a blip on the radar, thankf ...

Until a few years ago, the mere mention of spring training would make me drool in anticipation.  Now that that has tempered off a bit, I attribute it to several potential factors, with the possibility of it being a combination of them.

1 - Baseball means springtime and springtime meant warmer temperatures.  When you grow up in the & ...

Well, my jerkoff neighbor (see 10/5, 10/6, 10/10, and 2/14 blogs for all related entries) put his house for sale yesterday.  He must be moving for 1 of 2 reasons. 

1 – His wife is pregnant with their second child so they need to move to a larger house. 

While we are in an admitted cold snap across much of the country, I have to take issue with the offhand comments of “Global warming, my ass” flippantly used by a lot of people.  Whether or not they truly mean it or it's simply a conversation starter, let's look at some general facts.  I'm not going to include links here, as you'd spend all your time flipping back and forth between articles.

FACT:  There is overwhelming evidence of global warming such as massive, state-sized chun ...

It’s amazing how things come full circle.  I’ve not been a fan of every theatre and arena and ballpark selling their original name for a corporate name, thus creating multiple Tweeter Centers in different cities and changing cool names like Candlestick Park to 3Com Park or Comiskey Park to U.S. Cellular Field.

Like all of our "All Hands Meetings" at work, our overseas offices dial in to a conference call number.  This also includes the local employees who are working remotely.  Long story short – we were called into an impromptu company-wide meeting today.  The news was that our CEO had left for another venture.  The person giving the news was the CFO who has now also added the CEO title to his job description (with approval from the Board of Directors last week).  He didn’t identify himself when the meeting began to the phone listeners; therefore, after he had given a 1 ...