Comcast is still crawling along at a snail’s pace at home. At the Saucer with my netbook so I can post.
I attended both sessions of the River City Brewers Festival yesterday. Here are pics of the festival and other assorted activities yesterday.
Clay, Chad, Otto and Stevie G at the afternoon session. Chad was all dressed up for the St. Patrick’s Day parade on Beale.
Twisted Tea, one of the best beverages I tried at the beer fest. I especially liked the half tea, half lemonade variety.
A shot of the crowd at the afternoon session in Handy Park
The girls rocking the Pabst headbands.
Okay, I have to take a break from pics for a minute to address a situation that happened yesterday. The festival provided buckets at various locations around the park. This was so people from Cordova, Collierville, and Germantown could pour their beer out after sampling it. Downtowners, on the other hand, do not pour beer out: They pour beer in. The only time it’s excusable for a Downtowner to pour out a beer is if they were sampling Abita Turbo Dog, not realizing it tastes like the sweat off an elephant’s ass on a 109 degree day in Kenya.
So I was walking around the festival yesterday afternoon and I caught Pam, the girl on the left in the photo above, pouring out a beer. Pam lives Downtown. POURING OUT PERFECTLY GOOD BEER. I ought to revoke her Downtown residency for that… hmmm… no, she hasn’t lived here that long, and besides, she’s really cute. So I’ll let it go with 60 days probation. But that better not happen again.
Back to pics. I’m going to have something to say to one of Pam’s neighbors later in this post.
Here I am with The Most Interesting Man in the World.
Skippy, Chris, Moody, the Nuh-Uh Girl, Buddha and Frank at the St. Patrick’s Day parade on Beale.
Between sessions at the beer fest, The Most Interesting Man in the World made a trip to the Flying Saucer.
Bagpipers came through the Saucer after the parade.
Brick and Terry. Thank goodness Picasa has a “fill light” feature or else you wouldn’t even be able to see Terry in this pic.
Okay, I need to take a minute to address Terry. Terry: You are Pam’s neighbor. Please do your best to exert a positive influence on her. You are a role model for her (or anyone, really) to look up to when it comes to drinking. She needs your guidance.
Back to the festival for the evening session. PBR skateboard. Sweet!
Thanks to Christina and Jim who organized the festival for a great time. It was a lot of fun, and it benefited St. Jude. Can’t beat that! I hope the festival returns in 2011.
It got a little cold, so I left the evening session about 8:30. Did I decide that 8 1/2 hours of drinking were enough? No, of course not! I went back to the Saucer and drank another 5 hours worth of beer. I feel bad for missing a friend’s going-away party at Bardog, but I was too worried I’d either fall asleep or be the entertainment at the party.
It’s Sunday and I’m back at the Saucer. When I came in the gang commented, “Paul, we’re surprised to see you here. And by that we mean, we’re surprised you’re alive.” Eh. Just another day at the office for me.
Plans for the day: Well, I’ve got to stay out until at least 7 to enjoy the first day of Daylight Saving Time. Selection Sunday is later today… hmm Calhoun’s wouldn’t be a bad place to watch it, but I don’t know how I feel about taking the netbook through Bum Land to get there and back. Maybe I’ll just stay here.
Hmmm the netbook still has 88% battery power left… I think I’ll hit Publish and play some Rush Poker on Full Tilt’s site.