Fecking NOOOO!
This cannot be happening!
Dublin Guiness Brewery to close?
My Irish brethren – don’t let this happen! It’s a slight against common decency! What would Dylan Thomas, George Best and Father Jack have said!
The local on-tap stuff is already shite thanks to hard water around the local breweries, if the canned / bottled imports from Ireland go, I’m going to have to give up drinking, which just isn’t right.
If it weren’t for alcohol, why would I do things like register domains on a whim (enlartenment.com? People still ask me what it means) or open MySpace profiles (http://www.myspace.com/thatfleminggent) or take advice about baring my soul on online dating services as a good idea
(Yeah, it worked for you – but you’re smoking hot – every photo I have of myself looks like I’ve just eaten / about to eat an infant.
You know who you are and I love you all the same 
)
Then again – perhaps a combination of my good self + MySpace + RSVP/Lavalife = more people start drinking = more reason for Guiness to stay at St. James’ Gate.
Stout Beer For The Win!
Highbrow and Low-brow quickies.
Some interesting odds and ends picked up today:
- British composer, conductor and friend of every brass muso living or dead, Sir Malcolm Arnold died on the 23rd. Playing and listening to his works over the years has been a great pleasure and his work will live on – it’s all very accessible, even those who may only know “Colonel Bogey” from “Bridge on the River Kwai” can enjoy them.
- I never thought Condoleeza Rice a potential Miss World, but didn’t realize things were this bad. It must be all the torture/corruption/fearmongering/wiretapping apologia….
- When your laptop manufacturer puts out a warning or recall on their powerpacks and batteries, you’d better pay attention, even if you are a well respected Linux kernel developer.
