Anheuser-Busch to Buy Chicago’s Goose Island (Follow-Up: The Real Reason)
When my friend shared with me the news story about the sale this morning, I immediately saw the conspiracy unfolding and responded:
And so we now see the true reason behind the “great” American lager becoming no more.
It’s all a cover for international forces to ultimately gain control of the pioneering, American microbrew market! Damn, Belgians. [...]
Tex’s Oscar Picks (Updated: 5/5 for Major Categories)
Best Picture: Hurt Locker
Director: Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker)
Actor: Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart)
Actress: Sandra Bullock (The Blind Side)
Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds)
Supporting Actress: Mo’Nique (Precious)
Original Screenplay: Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds)
Why I’m Boycotting New Years (or at least the revelry)
A few days ago, Simon Winchester wrote an opinion piece in the Journal tracing the origins of our modern inclinations towards debauchery and revelry to celebrate the New Year. The culprits?
(Temporal innovation with clocks + Scottish customs like Hogmanay and First Footing) X the cultural legitimacy that Alfred Tennyson can give you = the popular [...]
“Sherlock Holmes” – Doyle WOULD be Proud
Sherlock Holmes hails as the most portrayed movie character of all time with 75 actors providing their unique spin to Doyle’s legendary character in over 200 films.
Having grown up reading some of the Holmesian “canon”, I always found Basil Rathbone’s, who always portrayed a great antagonist too, portrayal very “true” to the literary characterization of [...]
Dancing with Delay
In response to what I had taken as the funniest joke I had heard all day, I almost veered off the road into the nearby creek (aka pulling a Kennedy minus a blonde) after realizing that Tom Delay will actually be a contestant on Dancing with the Stars. And so, the former House majority leader [...]
The Ugly Truth
When I noticed today that The Ugly Truth had beaten out G.I. Joe for UK’s top box office spot (looks like the Global Joe bet didn’t pay off – see prior review), I decided to give Robert Luketic’s pseudo chick-flick (or is it?) a try.
Katherine Heigl, whose claim-to-fame is Apatow’s Knocked Up, plays an “in-control” [...]
G.I. Joe – The Rise of Cobra
When I first heard that G.I. Joe was going to be made into a live-action film, a shot of childhood nostalgia encompassed my entire being as I drifted off pondering the Hollywood incarnations of laughing gas balloons, a WWF-inspired Sergeant Savage, a traumatically deranged and emotionally disturbed Cobra Commander, and kick-ass, flag-waving “real American heroes”. [...]
Stinger…A Highly Recommended Cocktail
(Written on December 29th, 2008)
Many of y’all know me as a “beer man”…someone who takes pride in his Tecate with lime salt, his Texas-true Shiner Boch, his good ol’ unfiltered Hefeweizen, and his unnecessarily copious amounts of watery Old Glory reserved for beer pong.
That said, sometimes I might get caught going for scotch or Crown [...]
If I Were a Drink…
(Originally written on June 7th, 2007)
From one of those amusing facebook quizzes. Haha!
You are a part Fine Glass of Wine. You are sophisticated and refined, but also complicated and hard to deal with. Not everyone loves you, but those who do swear that you’re the coolest thing since sliced bread. One of [...]
