Here’s the new video from Saving Abel it features NASCAR Driver Jeremy Mayfield and includes cameos from Clint Bowyer,  Carl Edwards, Martin Truex Jr. & Brian Vickers!

You may wonder what they have in common…

Metallica & Crabs…?

Well, it could be what happened while they were on tour with G’N'R in 1991!

OR

That Metallica & Crabs are both featured on the Discovery Channel on 2 of my FAVORITE shows… Time Warp and The Deadliest Catch!

Well, Metallica were not in Alaska catching King Crabs so they must have been on  Time Warp tonight!

If you haven’t seen Time Warp before… It’s awesome! And, we can blame the brains at MIT for this! They use SUPER SLOW MO cameras, to show what’s really happening, during some of lifes most boring times…

For instance, what does a wet dog look like shaking itself dry? Or, what does a melon look like while it’s being cut in half by a chainsaw… nevermind all of the microwave fun! Sometimes the shoot 5000 frames per second! It’s really cool!

Well, tonight, they showed what’s going on UP CLOSE while Metallica is playing! Who knew that James spit so much while he was singing or how fast Kirk really moves his fingers during a solo, what it looks like when Robert blows up his amp, and how Lars can hit a cymbal so hard that it bends and snaps back into place! It was really interesting to watch, and the band was really into it too!

If they are going to start featuring Heavy Metal on this show… Why stop with Metallica? Why not use these awesome cameras to analyze Lemme’s mole, or Axl’s corn rows… What about a super slow mo BJ by a groupie in the back of the bus, or what Jack Daniels looks like coming out of someone’s nose while they puke!

The options are limitless!

C’mon Time Warp… We want the VOMIT!

If you missed Metallica’s tonight and you want to see it… CLICK HERE!

Check out this article about the controversy over the name “Swine” Flu:

No Swine Left Behind

This is getting stranger by the hour.  So, no actual pigs have this flu?( there go all my pig f#$%ing jokes)  it comes from Birds and Humans?  Or flying pigs!  If that’s true, expect alot of shit to go down.  Axl may just get back together with Slash, or the Turnpike tolls will come down. 

The pig farmers are freaking out because it’s hurting business.  The Jews and The Muslims are freaking out because their religions prohibit them from even saying “Swine”.  Obviously the CDC got the whole name thing wrong.  Either way, if you get it, it might kill you, whether it’s called ‘Swine” or the “Cute Kitty Flu”.  What else could we name it?  We need your help.  The whole wide pig loving world needs your help!  Leave some suggestions in the comment section below.  We’ll pick the best one and send you a free bag of Pork Rinds.  The world and the “Swine” thank you.

Since it is an offensive term to Jews, and the pork industry, I refuse to call it the Swine Flu.  I’m going with Mexican Influenza.  And while Barack Obama was going all “I’m furious about the Air Force One Photo Op” on our ass yesterday, some democrats figured out a way to blame the spread of this disease on republicans, or rather, one republican.  Say hello to Susan Collins of Maine, who had the audacity to question why Pandemic Flu preparation was part of the Messiah’s stimulus package.

When Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid were doing the President’s dirty work, there suddenly appeared 780 million dollars worth of Flu prep in the Stimulus Package.  Remember the Stimulus?  It was supposed to put people back to work, not fund emergency delivery of Vick’s Vapo Rub to every bario in Mexico.  And Susan Collins dared to say she didn’t understand how that was Stimulus?  However, over the next 24 hours, all you have to do is watch.  She will become the enemy of healthy people everywhere, the poster child for the spread of Mexican Influenza.  If your family member gets this dreaded disease and dies, you now have someone other than a serial hand washing offender in Mexico to blame.

What will be lost in the finger pointing is that in December of ‘08, Ms. Collins pushed for 905 million to fund the Public Health and Services emergency fund to handle just these kinds of Pandemics.  Her plea fell on deaf ears.  Perhaps Pelosi and Reid were out that day, suffering through regular old “American Influenza”?

What exactly does 780 million dollars of Pandemic Flu money buy anyway?  I’ve heard thousands of experts say over the last 48 hours that the single best way to prevent the South of the Border Bug is to…..wash your hands.  And that doesn’t require a cent of government money.  Throw in a law that mandates no one can sneeze on me in public and that those of you who are sick can’t go to work, or the Bruins game, and I think we’ll be fine.

As you are figuring out, we live in a time when most people turn to the government, and then the government turns to spending, to solve every problem.  And that is why Susan Collins, and the republicans, will now be held accountable for a strain of flu that turned into an epidemic in another country, with an extremely flawed health care system.  Sorry Ms. Collins, but I say we start the impeachment trial immediately.  

Who do you blame for the flu fear that has now gripped our nation?

I was visiting family in Greenfield, MA(The Gateway To The Berkshires) and was fortunate to stumble upon an excellent independent brew.  Last blog we covered something from a giganto international brewery, this time we’ll give some love to a small local brewer. 

While I have never stepped into The People’s Pint, I will make it a priority now that I’ve tried their “ESB” or Extra Special Bitter.  My brother handed me a 220z bottle while we were grilling in unusual Spring heat.

This is how The People’s Pint describes their ESB:

 Extra Special Bitter (ESB) – A classic example of an ESB, where the sweetness of the barley malt balances the slight bitterness provided by Target and Golding hops. We add East Kent Goldings during secondary fermentation; this process of “dry-hopping” provides a distinct, flowery aroma to the beer. (abv: 5.1 % | original gravity: 1057)

I Have no friggin’ idea what they are talking about.  Like I said in the first blog I’m not a connoisseur, I just love beer.  I can tell you this.  It has bitter in it’s name, but don’t let that turn you off.  At first pour I got a whiff of a sweet, not overly flowery aroma.  The head was thick and the slightly dark amber color made me druel involuntarily.  I could smell the hopiness as I was taking my first cool sip, but it wasn’t hop overload.  The light sweetness in the aftertaste was extremely pleasurable.  I then enjoyed a second bottle while grilling the Burgers and brats.  As I was inhibiting my brother from grilling properly(or as I like to call it, “trying to help) I got a blast of intense grill heat on my forearm.  Not an actual burn but painful still.  I immediately poured some ESB on the area and felt relieved.  This may not only be a delicious beverage but could also be a burn relief potion.  Again, I am not a doctor.  I recommend you consume in the normal fashion.  It also went well with Cheeseburgers and Brats, the hopiness cutting through the greasiness of the grilled meats.  Good stuff!  May I also suggest, if imbibing in extreme heat and sun, having a few pacers(waters) in between 22oz bottles.  Maybe it was all the delicious meat and cheese, or the disappointing Celtics loss, but I started feeling a little dopey.  I guess you should apply that to all alcoholic beverages in hot weather.  Again, I am not a doctor.

I, like many others hope and pray that they turn the Craigslist Killer story into an HBO mini-series.  It should be easier than a happy ending from an exotic masseuse.  All the good parts are already written:  Nerdy, preppy, pre-med student with a sexually charged obsession to dominate mixed with an out of control gambling habit compounded by skyrocketing student loan debt snaps and robs prostitutes with one encounter getting out of hand all the while his angelical fiance denies his dark side….whewwww. Can all that be squeezed into a 30 second promo?  I’m thinking Michael Cera as Phillip Markoff and Ellen page as the fiance.  It could be like a sequel to “Juno”.  Now that we know he was sending pictures of his junk to prospective tranny enthusiasts it could be a full blown major motion picture.  Jud Apatow’s “Craig’s Bucket List”, a feel good romantic comedy about things to do before taking the plunge with a girl who has no idea about your huge debts.  Or the Farrelly Brothers “Rubbin’ One Out”, a wacky romantic comedy about growing up and the misadventures of a pre-med student who befriends a tranny exotic masseuse who might lose her/his massage table if they don’t come up with thousands for the mob.  Or,(cue the late Don LaFontaine) “Prison Is Better Than Marriage”, Form the producers of “There Will Be Blood” and “Meatballs 4″.

Would this be such an appealing story if it were a part-time Auto Parts Delivery guy from Ayer who was robbing and killing hookers at a shitty motel known for prostitution and drug use?  This question didn’t hit me until someone in the media said it was a shame that the alleged victim, Julissa Brisman, was murdered because she was so pretty.  If it was a meth head tranny hooker with a black eye and 30 pounds under weight would they feel the same?  The other two alleged victims were selling sex on-line.  Brisman didn’t have the chance.  And what about the golden boy Markoff?  He supposedly had everything to live for, B.U. pre-med, lovely fiance, fun at poker night.  Would it be different if he had nothing going for him?  Would the story be worthy of a 5 minute meeting with the Weinstiens?  Or would we all write it off as people who had it coming?

The danger posed by the recent Swine flu epidemic in Mexico gives us perhaps our first opportunity to see this new administration in true “crisis management” mode.  (And please don’t try and tell me that managing the recession by doling out billions of dollars is “crisis management”.)  We have a legitimate threat to this country’s health and I want to know what our government is going to do about it.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, fresh off her mea culpa meeting with the veterans in the American Foreign Legion, doesn’t feel it’s necessary to check passengers arriving via airline from Mexico.  Are you donkin me?  What’s the big deal?  Are we afraid of panicking people?  I think its bizarre that we haven’t worried one bit about panicking the American public into a spending freeze with threats of “the next depression” but when faced with a flu outbreak that has killed 103 people in Mexico, we don’t want to trouble passengers deplaning from Air Cancun!

We live in a free society, and we can’t tell people that you can’t travel to Mexico (if you want to avoid Swine flu or getting caught up in Cartel crossfire) but we sure as hell can stop letting people into the country without a check-up. I can’t wait until the President finds a way to blame this on Americans, like when he spoke of the Mexican drug wars and the un-truth that most of the weapons used were from our country.  I’m guessing he will trace the swine geneology to prove the pigs caught it from rogue American pigs.  Or maybe a California frat boy on a weekend bender in Tijuana.   I mean, at the first mention of Mad Cow disease, we stop importing all beef from the UK.  Why are we allowing people to come back from Cabo without a once over?

We are told that President Obama recieved hourly updates on this yesterday….while he played 18 at a country club!  And by the way, is it just me or did we not know before the election that Barack Obama was a golfer?  He is supposedly a low handicapper, but I never saw anything about that pre-election.  Is that because bowling is much more of a blue collar sport?  Just asking…

Crisis management.  (And I’m not talking about saving par when your drive goes in the junk.)  We will see what they do on this one.

Welcome to the first round of many(hopefully) of the Brew Blog.  I’m not claiming to be a connosouir of fine beers and ales, but I do love them so.  You’re feedback is more than welcome, especially if you have any suggestions or reviews of your own.  I’ll not only be reviewing beer but also talking to brewers and hopefully people of note who also enjoy a glass of the nectar of the Gods.

Our inaugural Blog is a review of the Latest offering from the fine folks at Guinness.  They will be Celebrating their 250th Anniversary of not just brewing their fine beers but of one of the greatest real estate scams since we wrangled Alaska from the Russians.

To mark this anniversary, Guinness is releasing it’s “Limited Edition 250th Anniversary Stout”.  Unlike the Guinness draught, this is a highly carbonated stout.  So don’t expect the smoothness of the Cans or bottles with the nitrogen widgets.  It had a modest head after pouring, nothing like the creamy crown on the draught.  The first sip revealed a lighter more refreshing tasting stout, most likely due to the high carbonation.  It seemed more like a porter.   A bit of roasted maltiness and little bitterness.  The aftertaste revealed that familiar smokey barley Guinness flavor .  It became much tastier as it warmed, developing a sweetness with the roasted barley taste.  The carbonation mellowed more and it’s true stoutiness was revealed.  I’d say let it sit for 5-7 minutes before taking the first sip.  I could definitely drink a few of these with a fat cheeseburger or a big plate of Bangers And Mash.  I usually switch to the more hoppy beers for the warmer months, and this wouldn’t be too much on a sweaty 85 degree day.  I’d say this is a lively tribute to the vision of Arthur Guinness.  It retains all the things that made Guinness a world dominating stout in a slightly new form.

On a side note: Mistress Carrie entered the room with a bag of her mother in-law’s Oatmeal Raisin cookies and they were a great accompaniment to the Malty bitterness.  Just for the record, I was on my second…Beer that is. About a dozen later I realized that despite the excellent combination, my stomach was expanding from the over abundance of oats and raisins.  This is not recommended.

Well, it’s Thursday… and that means it’s music meeting day!

It’s the day that we sit down and look at all of the music that is out there to choose from… and there’s a lot!

Marilyn manson came out with a new song this week… 

‘Arma-godd**n-motherf**kin-geddon’ From the upcoming album The High End Of Low which will hit stores on 5/26

He’ll be part of the Mayhem Tour at the Comcast Center on 8/4.

Then, there’s Chickenfoot! A little Van Halen, a little RHCP and some Satriani for good measure! The song is called ‘OH Yeah’ from their upcoming release ‘Chickenfoot’… Fancy album title huh? Kep listening to win tickets to see them at the Middle East!

I saw Dope at the House of Blues last week open up for BLS… They killed a cover of ‘Rebel Yell’ from Billy idol! The song is on their new album No Regrets that is in stores now… This cover KICKS ASS!

Hollywood Undead is making some serious noise around the country with their second single ‘Young’! If you missed them at the House of Blues recently… The next time they are in town you should really try and check them out! It’s a CRAZY show!

Shinedown has released the title track from their latest album ‘The Sound of Madness’ as their next single! I’m so happy that these guys are starting to get the attention that they deserve! They have a special place in my heart! If you haven’t seen the ‘live’ version of the song that they recorded for us, at the House of Blues… You need to check it out!

Watch it here!

Other new stuff to be listening for…Green Day, Staind, AC/DC, Cage the Elephant, Anberlin and Papa Roach! 

As always… If you hear something that we should be playing LET ME KNOW! and, Iif we’re playing something that you don’t like… LET ME KNOW THAT TOO! We’re here to play what you want to hear!

A friend of mine sent this to me…

I thought it would make you laugh!

GO NAVY!