Disappointing day today, as we lost in the Final Four of the summer league. Yet another year will go by without cutting down the net. No shame in the loss, as we took the #1 seed to overtime, but couldn't close the deal. I play in other leagues during the fall and spring, but something about the work league just makes it far more interesting. Bragging rights, I suppose. Next year, we win it all... I promise.
Tonight's beer is the Layover in Berlin from Cabinet Artisanal Brewhouse, the house brewery for The Farmers' Cabinet. Previously, the only served their beers in the restaurant, but they've recently started shipping to other bars in the Philly area, which makes them a viable candidate for review on this blog. This Berliner weisse was a hazy yellow color with a thin white head, and your nose picks up a tart, funky aroma with a touch of grapes. The taste is dry with lemon, and a nice earthy funkiness and hints of green apple. Really nicely done, and I can't wait to get back for another.
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Thing to Think About Today:
As we keep rolling through the list of best college movies ever, I need to highlight a movie that is at once thrilling and disappointing - Real Genius, starring Val Kilmer. It's the hilarious tale of Mitch, an uber-genius who graduates high school early to enroll in prestigious college honors program. He ends up sharing a room with Chris, the resident genius in the program whose knowledge of science is only surpassed by his ability to party and to not take school seriously. Their project, a super laser, gets used without their knowledge by the military, so the geek and the party guy team up with their other nerd friends to get back at the professor in charge of the program and his lackey grad student. Hilarity ensues.
So why is this great movie disappointing? Because I lived in the nerd dorm (Atherton Hall) my freshman year courtesy of my enrollment in the University Scholars (now Schreyer Honors College) program. Thanks to Real Genius, I thought it was going to be this awesome place with crazy pranks, high-tech hi-jinx, and braniacs who knew how to party just as hard as they hit the books. Wrong, wrong, and WAY wrong. The only things that happened in my dorm were people practicing the clarinet and/or playing Magic the Gathering in the tv room, or yelling at me to keep the noise down because they had to study..... on a Friday. No reassembling a car in someone's room, no freezing the hallway with liquid nitrogen for a winter carnival, no hot tub in the laundry room. NOTHING. Thanks for completely skewing my expectations of the fun you can have in the nerd dorm, Val Kilmer. You too, guy who played Lazlo and lived in the steam tunnels under the building.
Anyway, if you haven't seen it lately, it still holds up as a pretty awesome movie about college - some of Kilmer's finest work, no doubt.
And just because it's a classic scene from the movie, let's check in on Jesus' visit to Kent:
"This is JESUS, Kent, and you've been a very naughty boy...."
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