Grumpy Beer Geek

• @macgruffus - where can I find your Cincinnati Chili recipe? Sounds great! #
• Planning and plotting on where to be on Friday for iPhone 3G day. #

• @beersage The current method on Facebook is to sign up as yourself then create a fan page or group for the website. #
• Sure would be nice if everyone I followed had a FriendFeed account so I could just move there 100%. #

• Sometimes I feel like I haven’t lived since I’ve never had a bacon wrapped hot dog in the Mission. #

It’s been a while since I’ve posted an Indiana Sucks post.  I thought I might be free from the pain….  But this one was just too perfect of an example why the red state known of Indiana is at least 75 years behind the coastal states:

Indiana Teacher suspended for giving student a book

Perry Township teacher Connie Heermann a 27 year teaching veteran, was suspended from her job at Perry Meridian High School for a year and a half without pay, for giving her high school English class the book Freedom Writer’s Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them.

Apparently, the book was objectionable to the Perry Township school board because it contains swear words.

Yes, swear words. Oh, my stars and garters. Heavens to Murgatroid.

In addition to said swear words, it also contains inspirational stories of how inner city kids from very poor circumstances were inspired by their teacher’s introducing them to first-person journals from Anne Frank and others to write journals of the poverty and suffering around them, achieve in school, and go on to college. A very worthy book, it seems to me.

If you live there and your are offended by this, write a letter and get out!

• 46 Richards agree– last comic standing sucks monkey nuts. #

• Bag inspections everywhere it seems these days. The terrorists have won. #
• at the Obama surge and merge event in the mission. Needs more support from young folk. #

• at the Gonzo screening in SF. Theater is packed with freaks! #

Beer and cooking are two of my favorite things (I also like long walks on the beach and don’t like mean people). My cooking has been nonexistent lately but The Ultimate Beer Lover’s Cookbook by John Schlimm may fix that. I haven’t had a chance to pick this up, but I do have some info from the author himself:

More than ten years in the making, The Ultimate Beer Lover’s Cookbook is an unprecedented collection of more than 400 food and drink recipes containing beer as a main ingredient. From scrambled eggs made with beer at breakfast and a cheese steak sandwich with onion rings or a beer burger and Chocolate Beershake for lunch, to a surf ‘n’ turf beer-infused combo of lobster and steak for dinner (and a midnight snack of chocolate-dipped strawberries), beer lovers can feast on brewskis at any time of the day. Every genre of food is included: appetizers, breads, soups and chili, salads, fruits and vegetables, sandwiches, sauces, marinades, beef, poultry, pork, wild game, stews, fish and seafood, past, and desserts. With an introduction chronicling beer’s history, as well as hilarious beer quotes by the world’s most illustrious beer fans peppered amidst the recipes, The Ultimate Beer Lover’s Cookbook is a rousing tribute to a tasty icon more than 7,000 years in the making

Dave at Tailgating Ideas obtained a review copy and was kind enough to share his review. There’s another review at urbandaddy. Have you read this? If so, what did you think?

• I think I’m in love with the Pastrami Sausage at Magnolia in the Haight. Might have to go for lunch today. #
• Replies tab broken, no paging. I’d say Twitter is sacrificing 80% of it’s usefulness to just keep the Fail Whale away. #

• @drbeerlove - how about anchor small beer or session from full sail? Both great second runnings beers. #
• @kevinrose I like the “He died yesterday” — makes the gag site timeless. Kevin — might want to remove the hook from your cheek. #