Friday night: This, that and t'other t'ing

1. Welcome to rowan1, who is way cool, and rikibeth, who is really cool and knows a bunch of youse guys.

2. Reason No. 23 ya'all wish you were married to me.

alethea_eastrid came home tonight to Maine mussels steamed in Cooperstown Brewing IPA, lemon, ginger and garlic.

Oh, and fresh corns.

I then  took the leftover corn, the juice from the mussels, onions, zucchini (for color, kudos to mama_hogswatch), paprika and some water and made soup.

3. I wrote this to someone who goes to school in Boston.

Others maybe interested.

Speaking of Lovecraft . . .

If you have a car at school, head west on I-90.

Take it to Exit 8, Route 32 North to Route 9 West.

Follow the directions to Quabbin Reservoir. That's the inspiration for "A Colour Out of Space."

You can feel it when you get there.

4. Beer tonight -- Weyerbacher (Penn.) Blasphemy, an ale aged in oak barrels. I did not realize A) It is no longer brewed. B? It's a Belgian Quad. I had gone to EBI (Saratoga Springs) to see if they had the Gravitation (they didn't). I bought the Weyerbacher Quad instead (not bad), and this one (you can tase the fact that it's 11 percent and the whiskey. Makes you warm. Oh, and Stone (Calif.)
Indian Pale Ale, the standard by which all others should be measured.

5. Boston friends! The Globe is reporting that the Franklin Park Zoo may have to close because of budget cuts. Someone alert new_man.

6. The SCA never ceases to amaze me. The outpouring for Emma and Talorc is just amazing. So is the hard work of jenphalian, lbitw and knoggleknot.

7. Give me a better line from a Canadian Band than "Methane gas comes out my ass."