Quote of the night

"This is the south. It's fucked up here."

The gift of beer

The south, Richmond in particular, has some odd traditions. Saying you're going to show up for a party and then just not going, and thinking nothing of ditching everyone, that's kind of annoying. At least when I do that I feel bad about it. I shouldn't worry because it's kinda common practice around here. But I'm actually not ranting about the bad traditions, I'm going to talk about a good tradition. One I'm enjoying right now.

It's customary in Richmond to bring a "host gift" when you attend a party. I did not know that. Last fall we had a wine party and invited a lot of people. The idea, as I'm sure you could have guessed, is that everyone bring a bottle or two of wine and some food, and we all get drunk. Everyone had a good handle on that. But to my surprise, two people brought beer. They brought it for me! And not just any beer, there was a 12ozer of Dogfish Head 120 Minute IPA, and a 750 of Delirium Noel. Both rather rare, and extremely potent beers. And all because I opened my apartment for a party.

I'm enjoying the Delirium right now actually. This is without a doubt, a sippin' beer. You do not swill this, it will haul back and cuff you. You are polite to Delirium Noel and you drink it from the proper glassware. Any tulip glass will work, it just happens that I have 3 Delirium Tremens tulip glasses, complete with pink elephants painted on the glass and an elephant etched into the bottom of the bowl. Not to brag or anything.

But it's gonna take me a while to get through this bottle. It's a big beer. So allow me to say thank you to John for the Delirium, and to Ed for the 120

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Connect the dots, la-la-la-la

Please recall this post concerning Pyramid Schemes.  Do you sense a reoccurring theme within my blog now?  It’s almost as if I have a personal vendetta against these people, a crusade of sorts.  Anyway, near the tale end of that post I told the story of a girl that alienated her friends trying to get them into her scam.  After my last post I did a little more digging (I asked my wife), and come to find out the scam that girl was associated with was in fact the same Quixtar that I posted about last Friday.  It’s funny how all the garbage starts to land right in your own back yard.

Pyramid schemes exposed!

You may or may not have heard of about a little company called Quixtar.  I’m sure you’re familiar with Amway, same people.  Well Dateline did a nice bit of investigative journalism exposing Quixtar for what it really is.  Three people died to get us this information.  I think you owe it to their memories to read this story.

 

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