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Makin’ Beer With Matt.
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Wednesday, December 30th, 2009 @ 10:40AM
Being Matt's brewing apprentice is a glamorous job.
As you can see we use nothing but the most up-to-date equipment when Matt and I brew beer.
Everything is done in complete safety according to OSHA rules.
Sometimes the brew floor can get pretty crowded with high-tech brewing apparatus.
Hard to imagine that this can turn into delicious Nut Brown Ale in just a couple of weeks. Actually, I won’t believe it until I drink it.
Thanks for listening,
Bill
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The Fantastic Mr. Fox
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Tuesday, December 29th, 2009 @ 10:51AM
Wes Anderson is a genious.
Don’t stay away from The Fantastic Mr. Fox because you think it’s just a kid’s movie. The Fantastic Mr. Fox is so much more than that. I don’t know how someone could dislike this movie; it’s gentle, funny, insightful, charming, exciting, and visually rich. Also, the music is great. There is a song at the end of the film by the Bobby Fuller Four called “Let Her Dance” that is great. Bobby Fuller had a big hit in the 60’s with “I Fought The Law (and the law won), that most people are familiar with but this lesser known song should have been huge too. I’ve got a link for it on my Face Book page.
Wes Anderson is among my favorite directors and his film “The Royal Tennenbaums” is in my top 10 of all time. Go see Mr. Fox and rent Tennenbaums. If you don’t like them, well, you’re no friend of mine. (And if you take that line seriously, you’re really ‘no friend of mine’)
Thanks for listening,
Bill
Pago!
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Monday, December 28th, 2009 @ 6:38PM
Doesn't that look scrumptious?
This is the web stie for Pago.
I know some of you have tried this place already. I just made it. The food was stunning and the atmosphere is great. This is a small restaurant though so make reservations. I thought the price was very reasonable for the quality of the meal. Try it out and let me know what you think.
Thanks for listening,
Bill
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Sunday, December 27th, 2009 @ 1:08PM
(How Can I Trust The Sushi?)
We (the kids and I along with Uncle David, his girls and Grandpa) went to an all-you-can-eat Chinese buffet last night. We went because that’s what Grandpa wanted for Christmas. I will here make point of this fact: GRANDPA EATS VERY SLOWLY SO HE CAN REALLY TASTE THE FOOD!
I’m not certain that anything served this way:
can really taste all that good. I could smell the sushi, and I don’t think that’s a good sign. And there was a self-serve soft-serve ice cream machine. The kids spotted that right off and that’s not a good sign either.
So, the food…well, I wasn’t poisoned and I’ve eaten worse things in my life. That’s as far as I’ll go about the actual eating. But did I point out that GRANDPA EATS VERY SLOWLY? That means the kids are done eating way before Grandpa is and there’s that self-serve soft-serve ice cream machine that calls to the little darlings. It was a wild and overwhelming evening.
Thanks for listening,
Bill
How I Ruined A Woman’s Christmas
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Saturday, December 26th, 2009 @ 9:43AM
Have yourself an angry little Christmas.
This is the story of how I behaved like a jerk on Christmas Day. This story will not be a surprise to some of you.
Every Christmas Day my family and I spend some hours in Ogden at my mother’s house. Nola doesn’t do the cooking anymore, my sister Penny does. It’s a feast of huge proportion. The kitchen and dining tables practically groan under the weight of it. This year we had smoked salmon, smoked oysters, stilton cheese with port wine, baked brie, fondue, roasted turkey breast, funeral potatoes, baked ham, meatballs, (by the way, I’ve decided that I’m against balled meat of any kind), stuffed peppers, rolls and butter, several varieties of cookies, plum pudding, and lots of alcohol.
Every year, Penny invites someone (or several someones) that she has met at the restaurant she and James run in Ogden. (It’s called 2 Bit Street and it’s on 25th street in Ogden). This year was no exception. Penny invited an older woman named either Mary or Linda. I wasn’t clear on the name, but there she was, a woman I didn’t recognize, standing in the kitchen. It’s really great of Penny to invite these people she meets a the restaurant. They usually have no place to go for the holiday and Penny wants to make sure that theypre not left out….it’s a wonderful thing and certainly in keeping with the season.
The first thing Mary/Linda said to me, right when I walked in the door, is “This must be Bill.” I said yes…hello and Mary/Linda launched right in; “I heard you were on the radio so I listened to the show today to get an idea of who you are.” Now, I’m thinking, what a nice thing to do…how charming… when she launches into something like, “I just didn’t like it very much. I had to turn it off. It’s not my thing.”
I could have let it drop. I could have just said “that’s too bad” or “well, not everyone gets it” but it really hit my sore spot. “Why would you tell me that?” I demanded. “Would I tell you how much I hate your job? What do you do for a living?”
“I’m a retired tax examiner. A job you could make fun of, ” she said.
“But I wouldn’t do that. There’s nothing wrong with being a tax examiner. If people don’t like Radio From Hell or X-96 why do they feel they have to tell me that.”
“It’s just not my thing. I’m too old for the music.”
“We don’t play music on our show. So either you weren’t listening or you’re making up an excuse. You should have said nothing.”
At this point my son and then my wife are trying to break it up…which finally Mrs. Bill does. And then, there’s Mary/Linda, looking contrite and me realizing that I’ve just been a total jerk to a lonely woman who had no where to go on Christmas day. Way to go Bill.
Though I’m not sure, sometimes, why you do; thanks for listening,
Bill