thinks about drinks

Today, I wish to open up the topic of alcohol.


mainly, my transition from:

drinking in college



to....
















today




The journey started with Mikes Hard Lemonade.

That shit sucks.

It's exactly the kind of thing you drink when you know nothing about drinking. Now I grant you...some people acquire a taste for similar beverages. I can't say I'm one of them...but I won't throw them all under the bus. I will just say this....Mikes is full of acid. its tastes like lemonade enough that you can get them really cold

...and get girls to drink them with you....and it makes for a fun day in high school or college. 


After too many rounds with Mike's or the like...its just too much., however. Hopefully you find better alcohol before it burns a hole in your stomach.

From Mike's, I went to hard liquor.

Liquor is good...because it gets you there....faster, for cheaper. And when you're in college....thats all the fuck that matters...plus you can turn it into tasty drinks with lots of shit mixed in...and its a guarantee for a good night.




I'll be the first to admit that i wasn't an early adopter of drinking. i didn't really drink regularly until my sophomore year of college. maybe thats embarrassing to admit, but whatevs.

Anyway, I think most people drink beer first, or at least second. i didn't...i didn't drink bud light until...idk...a year or two into drinking. it quickly became the most prevalent beverage at the parties i went to, but when i was buying or looking for booze, it was usually hard liquor. at least during college. raspberry vodka...malibu....other kinds of rum....other kinds of vodka.

pussy drinks.










 ..basically.



When I finally got into beer, it was light beer only. and really...whatever was around. if i had a choice, i drank bud light. naturally you end up doing shots of this or that throughout a lifetime....but my beverage of choice, was bud lights.

and then i found...

 

 This is not the king of beers, this is not a staple of any beer fridge (unless you have women coming over...they sometimes like blue moon). This is the segue drug of the beer world. Its what opens you up to looking into beers that aren't bud, miller, or coors. this is a chance to taste something fairly mild, and let it bring you into a world where beer can be more than a way it get you drunk. it can be a DELICIOUS way...to get you drunk.

I say this because Blue Moon led me to Sam Summer....then to the other Sam seasonals. which led me to darker beers....more bitter beers....IPA's, Lagers, Stouts....the list goes on. I shall dedicate the next entry to the beers Ive been trying, and giving them a fair rating in terms of how they stack up against some classics. 

i shall be including the input of others into the posting so as to have a balanced opinion. 

be on the lookout. 

in summary....

booze is great. there are so many sub categories of booze that i really must dedicate a full posting to each sub category, and get some opinions of people who actually know. that will be fun. we haven't even touched on wine yet...which when we start talking about our Culi-ningus segment here on kzzy....we open up a window into food, wine, and merriment.

ya know?

ok, this has taken some time out of my day that i really don't have, and as such...i shall renew my efforts to have a productive work day.

good talk

CHEAU

As promised...

This week's sports wrap up...courtesy of one George Bryant...

And now...In his words


"The latest chapter in the Brady-Manning / Brady-Del Rio / Manning-Belichick  odyssey has come to a close.  On Sunday, we saw who the better quarterback was (at least this year), we saw who had the better team, and we saw how very quickly expectation and entitlement can be turned into defeat, disappointment, and quite frankly, for the more passionate among us, sheer frustration, bitter rage and utter disdain for everything we thought we knew and had come to expect from a team who, for better or for worse, took us all on one hell of a roller coaster ride in 2013-2014.

After allowing my rage to subside, the disappointment to wash over me and its waters recede into the expanse of yet another football offseason where we, the most fortunate and spoiled fans in the NFL ponder what it will take to reach the top of the mountain again and recapture the glory, I still have trouble sorting through the mess inside my head of what happened yesterday.   Serenity now… serenity now… 

It can be argued that Tom Brady had one of his best seasons, however inconsistent he may have seemed at times.  Entering the season without the three biggest pieces of his offense last year in Aaron Hernandez, Rob Gronkowski and Wes Welker, he was literally left to his own devices to find a way to replace 224 receptions, 22 touchdowns and 2,627 yards.  Julian Edelman stepped up in a big way this season, but I can’t help thinking that his production is more a result of who’s throwing him the ball and how this offense is geared towards smaller, quicker receivers and the quick slant / over-the-middle game more as opposed to him being a legitimate ProBowl-caliber receiver capable of catching 100+ balls and 1,000+ yards every year.  It’s also clear that Danny Amendola still has yet to fully grasp the concept of this offense and Brady’s timing, patterns and routes.  He was targeted once yesterday.  TARGETED ONCE.  Guess who else was targeted once yesterday?  Matthew Slater.  A Special Teamer.  I can’t continue trying to figure this out or I will suffer an aneurism.Serenity now… serenity now… 

it can also be said that Coach Bill may have done his best work this year, coaching this team to an unlikely AFC Championship game in the face of everything they had to withstand – the loss of Mayo, Wilfork, Spikes, Talib for a time, Amendola for a time, Gronkowski for more than half the season, Hernandez, Welker, Tebow… wait, what?  Except for him, every loss was huge.  And as they stacked up, we had to know the levee would break.  It had to.  How can you lose the two anchors – the two field generals – of your defense and still get to a Conference Championship?  They did.  How can you have two rookie wideouts, and two slot receivers under 6’ tall, one of whom misses four games, and still make it to within one game of the Super Bowl?  They did.  It’s for this one reason alone that I say no matter how much you may dislike Belichick, his treatment of the media and his methods of managing his team, you cannot deny the man is one of, if not the best, as an NFL head coach.  How many teams struggle to be successful, and scores of others literally languish in and out of every season knowing they have no shot at even playing .500 football?  Yet here we are, once again disappointed that we’re not in a Super Bowl, but that we’ve played in FIVE Super Bowls since 2001 and EIGHT Conference Championships in the same span.   I still take Bill Belichick over any coach in the NFL, and it’s not even close.

What is close, however, is the end.  The ever-closing window on the New England Patriots and their chances at seeing the top of that mountain, and hoisting another Lombardi trophy.  Tom Brady will be 37 entering the 2014-2015 season.  By most assumptions, that gives him 3 solid years left before his age dictates just how far he can go on the field.  The Patriots have to be prepared for the fact that he has two very good seasons left in him before they have to start figuring out who will be drafted or brought in to take over as the face of this franchise.  And although the Patriots are arguably the best in the game at moving forward and being consistent with the “DO YOUR JOB” and “NEXT MAN UP” mantra, I can’t help but think they need to start going all-in on Tom Brady.  Quarterbacks like this are generational; they don’t come around often, if at all, and they must capitalize on what they have before his age gets the better of him.  

Two years ago, I scoffed at the idea that the Patriots needed more offensive weapons, needed more ways in which they could average or eclipse 35 points a game.  The offense was fine as it was and was not the reason they couldn’t get over the hump in big playoff games.  Now, the story is different.  The defense is trending in a positive direction.  Injuries notwithstanding, they have a core who can make plays, turn the ball over and take away the opposition’s biggest threats, even if the linebackers are average at best in coverage situations.  The offense, however, has lost too much punch.  While they’ve gained what has shown to be a potent running attack with Ridley and Blount, the running game has become complimentary; it’s a passing league.  The league changed several rules just to make the passing game a more prominent part of today’s NFL.  And with that, the Patriots must respond in kind.  It’s clear that Tom Brady is deficient when it comes to connecting on a deep pass with any accuracy.  They can’t stretch the field with Julian Edelman, Danny Amendola and Austin Collie.  Running Gronk up the seam is always a nice chunk play, but that leaves him exposed and prone to further injury; a fact that we have seen now for three years is devastating to this team’s ability to move the ball and score in the red zone with any efficiency.  What the Patriots lack now is the ability to open up the field and keep a defense on its heels and spread out. Amendola and Edelman are both great options in an underneath passing attack allowing Brady to keep the chains moving, but they have nothing to show out wide up the sidelines or over the middle downfield.  Kenbrell Thompkins and Aaron Dobson may develop into just what they need, but forgive me if I reference history and the Patriots past failures in drafting reliable wide receivers.  Although it was injury that kept them out this year and not lack of talent or inability to grasp the playbook, we still saw moments of confusion and misunderstanding highlighted by Brady openly “communicating” to them where they should have been on certain routes.  

 Perhaps it’s the perpetual front-and-center idea of “value” that caused them to pass on the likes of Anquan Boldin and Mike Wallace, but this offense would look drastically different with tall, long, physical receivers who could go up and get the passes Brady overthrows or get open downfield to be able to pick up more yardage and extend drives.  It’s hard to say the Patriots should swallow their pride and break the rules that made them the most successful franchise in football over the past fourteen years.  What we do know is that quarterbacks like Tom Brady can change a franchise for a decade or more.   And we all must resign ourselves to the fact that it may all be over inside of five years.  Tom Brady is 7-8 in his last 15 playoff games.  It would be nice to see him cement his career with another Championship without having to do it with retreads, rookies and punt returning slot receivers.   There’s no shame in going all in. "

FUCKING SHIT

Well....congrats Denver and Seattle......


FOR RUINING MY FUCKING WEEKEND!!!!!!!

i am going to let G5 give you the business later today...or this week. i don't think you're ready for it world....


but kzzyers....i know you're up for the challenge....

Boom goes....your face!!

I can still touch my toes.


Good morning to anyone who will ever read this. It's morning. I've gotten my day off to an early start. already had some good conversations with people, so i'm in a good mood.

that being said...i have several things i need to get off my chess.


firstly, the anticipation of Brady v Manning for the AFC championship, is fucking giving me heart palpitations.

I mean, these guys are both champions. First ballot hall of famers. playing some of the best football of their careers (see: peyton manning), and just as everyone wanted, they are going to be facing off on Sunday for the fucking AFC championship. Both teams have weaknesses on one side of the ball or the other. Patriots most notably have lost countless players, and have still managed to be in this spot. Denver on the other hand, has had a fairly solid receiving core all season with the likes of welker, decker, etc. still managed to lose several games, probably because of their defense....and it just makes for a hell of a matchup now that we are heading into the superbowl stretch.

whichever team wins, they will be going up against a very solid NFC....should be a hell of a Superbowl too.


In other news, its been a decent winter. Weather-wise anyway. some snow, so it feels like winter, but warmer days mixed in there so we aren't buried under bullshit piles of snow, especially here in the city. I can't speak for the burbs, as i'm sure up where booty on the street reporter, Tony Steel lives, i think they got a bunch more.

anyway, glad to be heading towards spring in the next few months....and with spring, comes one of the greatest past times of them all....

Golf.

until such time as i see fit to post again, i bid you all...a good day



CHEAU