If you haven’t seen Keyboard Cat in the last 20 years or so he’s been around, you probably were not connected to the internet. Millions of views on YouTube, and loads of variations of this classic funny video. But today, I came across one that I hadn’t seen before, yes, I nearly pissed my pants laughing. Keyboard Cat is funny, but Keyboard Cat on Acid……very funny. Check it out for yourself. If you have seen any great YouTube videos recently, post them in the comments below. I like a giggle. As always, If you like what you see, blast it on the social media links below. Enjoy. BTW, just found another great video. Ever wanted to see Angelina Jolie naked, with 2 babies sucking on her saggy boobs, or how about Britany Spears naked, on all fours, giving birth on a bear skin rug. You do!! Well then check out the video below.. T.B.S….Very Funny.
I’m now off to the 7th Annual Brewtopia Beer Fest in Manhattan…
The largest metropolitan zoo in the United States and a New York landmark, the Bronx Zoo is home to over 4,000 animals from across the globe. Each ticket provides admission to the zoo and special exhibits such as the Children’s Zoo, the 6.5-acre Congo Gorilla Forest, the tropics-themed JungleWorld, Tiger Mountain, and more.
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The Bronx Zoo opened its gates to the public on November 8, 1899, joining the ranks of New York City’s most beloved cultural institutions.
Current Featured Exhibits:
African Plains
Trek past lions, storks, and zebras on a typical African savanna. Herds of gazelles share their home with nyalas and African wild dogs and giraffes eye each other across a plain. It’s as close to the Serengeti as you can get in the Bronx!
Congo Gorilla Forest
Go nose-to-nose with gorillas in a 6.5-acre swath of the rainforest that will transport you to the heart of Africa. Your Congo wildlife safari will be packed with surprises as you trek beneath the canopy of leaves, through sprays of mist, and up to treetop lookouts.
JungleWorld
Transport yourself to the tropics! Inside our Asian jungle, the warm air is just right for otters, gibbons, and a tapir, among nearly 800 other critters that live in mangroves and beaches, sharing their homes just as they would in the wild.
Madagascar!
Leaping lemurs! Hissing cockroaches! Cave-dwelling crocs! Meet one-of-a-kind wildlife from the world’s fourth largest island. Towering baobobs and octopus trees, forested deserts, and other enchanting habitats will transport you there.
Tiger Mountain
Go nose-to-nose with Siberian tigers on a woodland that recreates the Russian Far East. In this showcase of the Zoo’s animal enrichment program, discover how training, toys, and foraging games help the big cats stay fit and stimulated.
Outdoor Exhibits & Rides:
Astor Court and Sea Lion Pool
Baboon Reserve
Big Bears
Camel Rides
Children’s Zoo
Himalayan Highlands
Wild Asia Monorail
Zoo Shuttle
Indoor Exhibits & Rides:
Bug Carousel
Butterfly Garden
Monkey House
Mouse House
Russell B. Aitken Sea Bird Colony and Aquatic Birds
World of Reptiles
World of Birds
Wildlife Conservation Society
The Wildlife Conservation Society saves wildlife and wild places worldwide. They do so through science, global conservation, education, and the management of the world’s largest system of urban wildlife parks, led by the flagship Bronx Zoo. Together these activities change attitudes toward nature and help people imagine wildlife and humans living in harmony. WCS is committed to this mission because it is essential to the integrity of life on Earth.
Sounds so wrong, but so right at the same time. I haven’t tried this……yet, as I just got the info. I just came across a newsletter from Vibrant Rioja. I couldn’t remember signing up for this, but then, it was to do with alcohol, so who knows. Anyway, the point is, there was this sick recipe for chocolate potato, and it goes a little something like this………… Oh! BTW, the receipe was by Jill Paradiso’s cookbook (which I can’t yet find anywhere online, but you should go find it, and buy it, because shes good, and you will like her food, and I said so….)
Jill Paradiso is a classically trained chef that has worked in the kitchens of Mario Batali and Jean-Georges Vongerichten – you might recognize them. She has also done recipe development for Martha Stewart, Whole Foods Markets, and Dean and Deluca and she’s been kind enough to share some of her recipes with us.
I [Jill Paridiso] recently served this side dish along side a mixed grill of pork sausage, lamb chops, and steak. You could easily serve it along side chicken or a meatier fish. Clearly, these potatoes offer a variety of pairing opportunities, and they are surprisingly easy and delicious!
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You will need three pieces of aluminum foil for the recipe.
Serves 4 (as a side dish)
2 lbs potatoes, cut in half lengthwise
*I recommend using either small, red potatoes (also known as new potatoes) or fingerling potatoes
1/4 cup dark chocolate, chopped (you can also use chocolate chips)
2 tablespoons coffee grinds
1 table olive oil
sea salt, to taste
1.Place cut potatoes on 1 piece of aluminum foil. Fold foil around potatoes to create a boat.
2. Add remainder of ingredients.
3.Cover the top of the potatoes with a second piece of foil to create a sealed package. Wrap the entire package with the third piece of foil- this will ensure that no liquids leak out.
4.Place foil package directly on grill. Cook about 20 minutes, or until fork tender. Cooking time may vary slightly, depending upon the size of the potatoes.
Once the potatoes are cooked through, I like to leave them on the grill for at least another 5 minutes so that the bottoms crisp!
I couldn’t find this recipe on Vibrant Rioja’s site, but there were a ton of other tasty sounding recipes; not quite as strange sounding as this one, but still of fine quality, as well as information on their wines. Check out their site http://www.vibrantrioja.com/recipes.html and sign up for their newsletter.
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I first tried Sam Adams Utopias back in November 08. The Draft Barn sold it for $400 per bottle or $20 per 30ml shot. I wish I had known back then, just how many measures I would have bought, maybe then I would have invested in a bottle, instead of per shot!! As you can tell, I think it is well worth the $20. It has a taste of a Sherry, Cognac and the faint after taste of a malt beer. 10 out of 10 from me.
Truly the epitome of brewing’s two thousand year evolution, Samuel Adams Utopias offers a flavor not just unlike any other beer but unlike any other beverage in the world. Its warm, sweet flavor is richly highlighted with hints of vanilla, oak and caramel. The 2003 batch topped out at a record breaking 25.6% ABV, beating the records that Samuel Adams Triple Bock and Samuel Adams Millennium had set before it. And like those groundbreaking brews, Samuel Adams Utopias is not carbonated and should be served at room temperature.
In one of many examples where Samuel Adams Utopias pushed the boundaries of beer, it received the highest recommendation (96-100 points) from the prestigious Wine Enthusiast Magazine (November, 2003 edition). Due to legal restrictions, Samuel Adams Utopias can not be sold in the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Missouri, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, South Carolina, Washington, and West Virginia.
History of the Beer
The latest in their strong brews, Samuel Adams Utopias has been brewed in two small limited batches to date. The first batch which was released in 2001 as Samuel Adams Utopias MMII topped out at 24% ABV, while the second batch which was released in 2003 as Samuel Adams Utopias pushed the alcohol to 25.6% ABV. Both batches were released only once and in limited quantities. “Guinness World Records is pleased to confirm that the current record for The Strongest Commercially Available Beer belongs to Samuel Adams for their Utopias MM II brew,” says Keely Hopkins, Guinness World Records Researcher. “At the current time we have not received information nor are we aware of any other organization claiming to have broken this record.”
About the Brewing
Samuel Adams Utopias was brewed at a very high gravity using a wide variety of malted barley and a touch of maple syrup. It was then fermented and conditioned in a blend of scotch, bourbon, port and cognac casks for up to ten months using a pair of proprietary yeast strains they developed at their Boston Brewery.
The Crooked Tail Café is pleased to present A Night Out on Smith Street Inked portraits by Philip J. Lockerby and Zartosht Soltani
When: Friday, August 14, 2009. 7-10pm
Where: Crooked Tail Café 272 3rd Avenue (between Union and President) Brooklyn, NY 11215 (718) 852-1414.
There will be an after party taking place at Canal Bar next door, right after the event. Friday nights feature $4 Svedka Cocktails. Canal Bar also has outdoor seating a pool table and free popcorn.
Exhibition continues through September.
Artists and animators Philip J. Lockerby and Zartosht Soltani have worked on various animated projects together over the past four years, but the work they take the most pride in is their sketchbook and napkin drawings from the dimly lit bars they frequent after work. “For this show we’re focusing on the bartenders,” Lockerby explains. “But generally we’ll draw whomever is at the bar. Maybe we’ll get a free drink or two out of this as well.” The subjects featured tend bar at a selection of Carroll Gardens and Park Slope haunts, including Sample, Zombie Hut, Boat, The Bell House, Canal Bar, Great Lakes, The Gate, and many more. Usually, Lockerby and Soltani will ink a portrait and then gift it to their subject. “When we give a bar napkin portrait away, most times we’ve made that person’s evening,” Lockerby says. “We’re just trying to spread the love around, doing what we love to do the most, which is to draw.”
About the Artists: After a decade animating for television and film, most notably the Academy Award-nominated Triplettes of Belleville, Philip J. Lockerby is currently directing an animated sequence for an upcoming documentary on the Manic Street Preachers. He is also working on a personal short film. See his work at: www.drawingonnapkins.blogspot.com.
In 1999 Zartosht Soltani graduated from the Fine Arts at Azad University of Arts at Tehran. One year later he moved to New York, where he is now working as a freelance art director and illustrator for the animation studio, FlickerLab, creating cartoons, television commercials, and broadcast design. He has exhibited paintings in Tehran, and will be a part of the upcoming Too Art for TV show in September.
Last night team ‘ThisBarSucks’ took on team ‘ PS 20 Something’ at bocce ball at Union Hall (702 Union Street, Brooklyn 11215). I am ashamed to say, that we got our arses well and truly wooped. Although we did win the very prestigious and nationally recognised ’who can drink more’ challenge. I am not sure that I let the guys and girls from PS 20 Something know that there were other challenges going on at the time, but let’s not let that small bit of information take away our glory.
What did they get out of beating us. Well, they got the most awesomest prize…..ever!! They won the ‘Soul Of Union Hall’. That is some seriously heavy shit right there. Think about it, any time you apply for a mortgage, you can declare that owned assets include ‘The Soul Of Union Hall’, or when at a job interview, you can feel quite confident that when you get asked ’why should we hire you, all you need to do is flop it out, and declare quite confidently that you own ‘The Soul Of Union Hall’. Truly awesome.
To make things worse, they bought along with them, their very own Sportscaster. I just hope that his editing is as good as his recording (I think I let a few F bombs spill out onto the Bocce lanes). Anyways, our abysmal attempt at bocce will no doubt be making it’s way onto the electric pages of PS20Something. Check them out, and if you are ever in a bar, and some guy in bright green pants and a collarless shirt approaches you, and challenges you to a game of boccie, you know to kick him in the nuts get him drunk first 
ARE YOU READY FOR A SHOWDOWN? Well apparantly Max and the gang at http://ps20something.blogspot.com/ are.
Not so long ago, I attended a bloggers get together, which was held at The Bell House. I had had a few drinks prior to the gathering, and a few more at the gathering, then a few more…hey, what do you expect, we met at a bar 
anyways, a couple of weeks pass and then BAM! out of the blue comes an email from PS20Something. Apparently I had accepted a challenge from them. WOW! maybe I should drink more, more often.. This is going to be awesome. I mean, I get to go out mid week, with a bunch of fun people, drinking lot’s of beers….and…..I get to kick some arse at Boccie Ball at Union Hall. There is only one other thing, that I can think of, that would make this a night to remember, and that would be a sportscaster and live streaming video.
“What was that!”
“There is going to be a Sprtcaster there”
“Awesome. What about live streaming video footage”
“Sweeet! I had no idea that I had the ability to stream live video from my cell phone. Qik.com/ThisBarSucks.”
“Well, I guess the game is on”
To the guys and girls at PS20Something. Let the games begin
The challenge begins Wednesday, July 15th at 7pm @ Union Hall, Brooklyn
For those of you who have wondered what happened to my site updates, well, their is a really, really crappy computer manufacturer out there, which, for the purpose of this post, I will refer to them as ‘Dell’. My less than a year old XPS 1530 Laptop has so far, lost it’s second hard drive, as well as a broken fan and a motherboard. I have also been told by a computer technician that my motherboard is on it’s way out….again!, as the system is over heating. All this has has left me more than a little frustrated. I will keep this rant very brief, as I have been told that a Dell REC (Resolution Expert Center) escalations agent will be calling me, and I want to give them one last chance (I have no idea why!). My only advice to those of you who may be thinking of buying a dell is….don’t.
Fingers crossed, I will have access to a half decent computer in the next week.
I appreciate your understanding.
UPDATE: I got a call from Dell, and they offered me a choice of two options. Get the hard drive replaced, along with the motherboard and a new video card or have the whole computer replaced with a refurbished model, along with an upgraded video card and bluetooth (they do not make the XPS1530 anymore).
There are several lessons to be learnt from this.
- Back up all, back up often.
- If you really, really, have to buy a Dell. Pay the extra money to have an upgraded and extended warranty
- Learn Hindi or Filipino, or both
- Listen to your friends when they recommend getting a Mac or HP, NOT Dell…
In my quest to fill the dull void between visits to your local bar, I have started up a collection of awesomely addictive computer games from the early 1920′s. Their terrible music, slow game play and recockulous graphics made these games a huge hit back in the day.
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This weeks classic is ‘Simon’ – “Simon’s a computer, Simon has a brain, you either do what Simon says or else go down the drain.”
The idea of the game is a simple one, as Simon likes to say. Follow the pattern of lights and sounds for as long as you can remember them. The lights show up faster the more sequences you correctly recall.
FACT: Simon was launched in 1978 at Studio 54 in New York City and became an immediate success. It became a pop culture symbol of the 1980s.
This weeks game was bought to you by Neave Games
I know that every now and again, things can get a little mundane. Well, let me take care of that! Welcome to your first serving of crap but very addictive games. In this edition I bring you
Space Invaders – A very nice Japanese man with a very nice Japanese haircut called Tomohiro Nishikado once had the inspired idea to make a video game about shooting white goo at a rampaging invasion of wobbling blobs. And so, in 1978, Space Invaders was born.
Control keys
Move left = left arrow key, Move right = right arrow key, Fire laser = space key
Pause game = P, Quit game = Q, Mute sound = M
If you have a game you would like to see on here; or have coding for a game, that you would like to share contact us.
This weeks game was bought to you by Neave Games
