PHILLIES! PHILLIES! PHILLIES!

Is there no way for me to enlarge the font?  I’d like to be in giant letters, proclaiming the citywide awesome with vigor and volume to anyone who enters my webspace. 
The wildcard is for pussies.  We’re going for the division. 
Hamels, still recovering from injury, starts tonight, the first game of a 3 game SEASON.  The [...]

Dead Media

The New York Times long-lived, and world famous slogan is, “All the news that’s fit to print”.  Interestingly, they’ve taken this to a new level recently, having decided that a full page advertisement for MoveOn.org, which attacks US Army Chief of Staff General David Petraeus, was so fit for printing that it deserved at 54% [...]

Ah, autumn!

The air is getting cooler–at night, it’s almost downright cold in Philadelphia.  Each day is a little shorter.  The leaves are beginning to change their colors.  The birds are beginning to fly south for warmer weather.  The air is beginning to get a sweet smell from leaves biodegrading and from mothers firing up their ovens for [...]

Dutch Beer, Part 3: Take Home

 
Going into the trip, I knew very little about actual Dutch beer.  Other than Heineken and Grolsch, I was unfamiliar with actual Nederlander breweries.  The one Dutch beer I was familiar enough with was La Trappe, the only Trappist beer brewed outside of Belgium, which is brewed (I believe) in Koningshoeven, in the southern part [...]

Your National League Rookies of the Year.

For the AL race for Bestest Rookie, Like, Evers, check in with The Extrapolater.  Those races aren’t such big old blowouts like ’round here.   
 Anyway, rookies, almost all of ya had to go through something like this:

And only a few of you will be celebrated today.  The rest of you, well, find a place for those [...]

Dutch Beer, Part 2: Bars

 
As is the case in most touristy places, the bars of Amsterdam running along fairly common themes:

Overpriced, generic “Irish” pub.  Serves Guiness, and maybe Harps.  Employs no actual Irish people.  Generally has TV with some kind of sports on it.
Even more common generic “Dutch” bars.  I put Dutch in quotation marks because these bars are [...]

Dutch Beer, Part 1: The IJ Brewery

 
What you see above is the Gooyer Windmill.  Underneath it sits the IJ Brewery.  It’s almost picturesque, isn’t it?  A wonderful little brewpub sitting underneath a nearly 200 year old windmill, in Holland?  Well, beyond the excellent beer (which we’ll get to in a moment), I’d just like to take some time to explain the [...]

Dutch Beer, Intro

This is the first of the posts that were meant for yesterday. 
Mrs Thursday and I found ourselves in Amsterdam for a week not because either of us had a lifelong desire to visit the place, but rather out of convenience.  The Missus had spent the two months previous living in rural western Kenya, and all [...]