Women? They Want WOMEN Beers.

This is so funny. I have no idea who created it, but it's over at Lew's site, where it had flitted past my busy eye a day or so ago. Astute Reader Dexter enouraged me to pause a moment to watch. Just a hoot. Oh, bartender! I'd like a beer with a pink label that features shoes and chocolate, please.

Wow. The Connections Just Keep Coming.

So last week my big techno-attempt was Facebook. I'd been a "member" for some months, but only so could see photos of new grandchild (his parents using F. to keep parental units posted).

But I decided to open my wall, post a photo, and try to use Facebook for more than just baby photos. So far so good.

BUT: this week I figured out how to integrate my blog posts and my tweets into Facebook. So now all three are connected, and I've got one-stop shopping at Facebook. (Plus, I figured out how to add those GODDAMN icons to my website sidebar. What a project that was...)

For anyone else trying to use Twitter itself to integrate tweets into Facebook: Lotso luck. I made many attempts and all failed (I got error messages from Twitter.)

Today I tried to do it using TweetDeck. Bingoooooooooooooo! So am not feeling completely stupid this week.

Plus am cranking along on current chapter of new book. Life, in other words, is reasonably good. Which, sigh, means some kind of shit is about to hit one fan or another...

Speaking of Beer and History and .... Jeff Alworth Looks At Widmer Brothers

This got lost in the shuffle of me trying to learn how to use this new blogging platform the past couple of weeks (*1): Jeff Alworth at Beervana wrote a lovely essay about the history of Widmer Brothers Brewing, which recently celebrated its 25th anniversary.

Take a look, and thanks to Jeff for keeping the (history) spririt alive. By god if it kills me, I'm gonna convince at least a few Americans that history can be interesting. . . While you're there, check out the well-deserved praise Jeff received from Sunset Magazine:

"Alworth's near-poetic descriptions of beers and craft breweries make us proud to live in the West." Sunset Magazine

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*1: I love my new website and especially the 21st century blogging platform I'm now using, WordPress, (as opposed to the truly antiquated version of Moveable Type I used on my previous site), but the learning curve has been, shall we say, steep. The the good news is that learning how to do one thing enables me to figure out how to do ten other things. Although I pity the poor person who doesn't grasp the fundamental "logic" of using the internet, because almost none of it is obvious. And thanks again to all who chimed in with advice so that I was able to figure out how to put images in the sidebars. So wowy!

"Group" History Continues

Charlie Papazian's commentary on Part 2 of the First Draft Follies series about the early years of the American Homebrewers Association. I also inserted this link into Part 2 itself.

Pints, Prostates, Good Guys

You can find all three at the Facebook page of Rick Lyke's grassroots group, Pints for Prostates. (You can also enjoy Rick's work as the "Beyond Beer" writer for All About Beer. (You know: "beyond" = non-beer kinda drinks.)

Scholars, Rogues, and Dawn Farmer

I can never get enough of the crew at Scholars & Rogues. Let me count the ways, etc. But am especially fond of the marvelous work of Dawn Farmer. This is so  . . . exquisite. Visual version of  poetry: cuts straight to, and then extracts, the essence. Her blog is here. Enjoy.