Wooo…presentation presentation. This .75 liter ale is packaged beautifully in a corked (as in champagne) frosty brown bottle with one of those postmodern regal fonts embossed in gold. With a nice light pop, the cork is freed, followed by a light vapor rising from the bottle. The head pours nicely, somewhat short of creamy, but pleasant and unassuming. The hue is a deep rusty-golden color, slightly cloudy and showing some carbonation and smaller particles.

Hey! Hope is was nice. If you’re not into xmas, cool. I hope it was a good day for you anyway. Also, James Brown rest in peace. A true star and visionary.

Sweet! My buddy M@ hooked me up with a ticket to GnR Monday. Being one of my favorite all-time bands, I was stoked. Honestly I wasn’t that excited about the opener, Sebastian Bach (Skid Row), who I’d seen open for GnR some 16 years ago. I’ve always considered Skid Row to be wussy rock, a sort of precursor to Incubus (who should’ve stuck with the funky stuff they put out early).

I wrote this to my grandmother in response to an email she forwarded me talking about how in North Dakota when they have a huge storm nobody complains to the government. More or less telling New Orleans to quit their whining. of course ideally we’d all be prepared for a disaster. And it wasn’t the rains themselves that were the problem but the fact of the levee breach. It had been recommended to the Bush administration to improve the levee, and the disaster that occurred had been laid out to him ahead of time.

Well, GPSD had its championships this weekend, my team Top Hammer GDST (Green Dawn Soccer Team) played Ninja for the Men’s open D-1 championship. It was an excellent game, our squad played well and hard. An unlucky break early in the game led to an own goal to put us down 0-1, which is how the game finished, despite some very strong midfield play, and good showing for our defense and offense despite the freezing conditions.

Now shut up and eat.

There’s a new Mexican restaurant in town, and it’s pretty much what I’ve been waiting for. While there’s not really a shortage of decent taquerias in Portland, there is a dearth of what I call chips and salsa sit-down restaurants. Los Baez is the Portland location of a classic Salem restaurant located just above SE 24th on Burnside. Walking in, the first thing you’ll notice is that this place is huge.

I had a bunch of stuff to say today, but I ended up having to do a bunch of maintenance on the site. One of my buddies, who has a subdomain from me is getting hammered and it used up all my bandwidth. Sorry ojingo, had to turn you off for a few days until we can figure out what’s causing it. A few other little things, and now I have to get out of here.

anners sends me this. What a disaster.