This picture looks a lot prettier than it smelled.   This happened last night. At least my camera says it did.   Southern cooking saves lives. Or the lunchfast formerly known as "Fried Okra, gravy fries with pimento cheese, fried pork chops, corn bread, and lots of coffee."   I do like good beer, but when you have a large batch of different good beers, your next day can seem a bit slow to start. That's a lesson right there folks. -Skip  

Dear Charlotte, You have lots of friendly people that point us to the best places to get good beer. For that I thank you. For now. Skip

"It's all the things I saw on Twitter today, right here on the news."                                  -The lovely and obviously very talented Ms.Bloggins Sun going up, and then the sun it goes back down.  As it turns out, banjo virtuoso Earl Scruggs died today.  He was 88.  Scruggs was, in a "strangely, blues got famous too" sort of way, an American icon.  He played a banjo, which is itself for the vast majority of people and places and times an improbable anomoly.  But more than that, he…

Dear Charlotte, NC, I have never visited your fine city nor breathed your clean air, but rest assured that after this coming weekend, both will have been done. Only then would I look into some type of restraining order. So, the people who make beer at New Belgium Brewing have been rolling around the country like greasy carney workers, hauling a great deal of fun with them on their Urban Assault Ride. This year Surly put on its best suit and became the bicycle sponsor of this whole deal, and one of the riders on that contract clearly states that…

:54 is the real gem.