Comments | randy_byers: A beer with my name on it

randy_byers

A beer with my name on it

Jan 26, 2011 09:57

Jeff Alworth at Beervana reviews a new brew from Portland's Upright Brewing called Billy the Mountain. According to Alworth, it's their version of a traditional English old ale, which is a style I really like, and this one is aged in pinot barrels with brettanomyces clausenii (not to be confused with the brettanomyces bruxellensis used in Belgian ( Read more... )

frank zappa, beer

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maryread January 26 2011, 18:24:56 UTC

Ethel was a tree! growing out of his shoulder!

I had a couple friends in the co-op who would recite and sing this off of some live album, when the Firesign Theater ran out.

randy_byers January 26 2011, 18:45:11 UTC

When I walk the Burke-Gilman trail, I regularly find myself singing:

A regular picturesque postcardy mountain
Residing between lovely
Rosamond and Gorman
With his stunning wife Ethel,
A tree!
A tree!

Although to be honest I always heard it as "residing between the bleak Rosamond and Garvey," and I still have no idea what that refers to. Wikipedia says Rosamond and Gorman are two cities and places Billy "in California's Tehachapi Mountains, or possibly the Sierra Pelona Mountains."

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randy_byers January 27 2011, 02:05:54 UTC

Well, color me green. I never saw Zappa with Flo & Eddie (that was too early for me), although I did see Zappa with a different group twice in 1978 or thereabouts. I also met Howard Kaylan (a.k.a. Eddie) at a World Fantasy Convention back in the '80s or '90s (John Shirley had brought him), and I drooled all over him.