Uneasy Rhetoric

I have been at my current job just over two years and today, for the first time, I drove myself to work. I had a meeting out-of-office this afternoon (in Sacramento - usually “out of office” means I’ve been sent to the Bay, and Amtrak is good for that) and Sacramento public transit being [...]

Remember when King Arthur came out and there was the big flap about the fact that they digitally enhanced Kiera Knightley’s breasts on the promotional posters? That was pretty much the extent of this movie’s mojo.
Clive Owen as King Arthur looked like an overfed Nicholas Cage, now with less acting range! Kiera Knightley [...]

Redhook Brewery’s Winterhook is a reddish brown beer with little carbonation and thus very little head. It has a distinctive but slight fruity smell.
This is a very mellow beer that is not bitter at all. It has an almost dry wine quality in the mouth and goes down smooth with no aftertaste. [...]

Setting aside the snark for a moment, The Sac Rag has an excellent post on the fact that the Central Valley hosts one of the largest, if not the largest, Sikh communities in the United States, centered around the no-longer-tiny hamlet of Yuba City.
Sikhs are often misunderstood - they aren’t Muslims:
Sikhs are native to the [...]

Bridgeport makes dependably good beer, even if they did change the formula of my formerly favorite beer, Bridgeport Blue Heron. The formula change, which happened in the dark ages (the mid 1990s, I think), mellowed out what was definitely an acquired taste. (Thanks to Chris and Margaret for their hospitality and this fine, fine [...]