weekend edition: everybody booze up and riot!

[amand_r]

AMAND-R: Hi there!
INTERNETS: Amanda, where did you go this weekend?
AMAND-R: The Beer Festival!
INTERNETS: Was it good?
AMAND-R: I got wasted!
INTERNETS: Sounds like fun!
AMAND-R: It was, until I booted!
INTERNETS: Did you take pictures?
AMAND-R: Boy, did I!






emquilxy, Jeannie and Stu have no idea what they are in for. Well, Em does, but the others are clueless.

On the way in, we saw so many beer t-shirts and hats that we decided that no one should "wear the t-shirt of the beer you're going to drink. Don't be that guy. DON'T BE THAT GUY."


I thought about asking the Troegs people to put an ad on my car. What?


Yeah, it was inside. It wasn't a festival, per se. It was a tasting, with beers from 35 different local brewers. No one seems to police how much you've had to drink. There's free food. There was a band. A band. WOOT.



This is the sign for a new molecular gastronomy place that is going to open in Pgh soon. They gave me a black-eyed pea taco. IT WAS THE BEST THING EVER, AND I WAS SOBER.


I don't know about you, but when I think of getting plastered, I think of the Amish. That said, their Strawberry Wheat was easily one of the best beers I had all night.


I took this blurry photo of this dude's shirt, because is THE UGLIEST THING I HAVE EVER SEEN A GROWN MAN WEAR. AND IT WAS SHINY.


MAH PEEPS. What I like about that first photo is that Emily and Bren are blurry in the foreground, but my auto focus clearly wanted to settle on Sean, macking it in the middle. In the second pic, Jeannie is starting to understand just how much trouble she is in.


KEGERATOR.


Here in Pennsylvania we are known for our chainsaw art. In fact, Emily grew up in the CHAINSAW ART CAPITAL OF THE COUNTRY/WORLD. LOOK HOW THAT DUDE cuts towards himself with the chainsaw whilst casually smoking a cigarette. Srsly, I think I almost severed my femoral artery watching him. IT'S OKAY, LAWS/KEL/BEES/LIONESS, we could have just packed it in hamburger!



My drunk ass thought of you when I took these pics. This might have been the moment I stopped to Twitter you guys. Didn't I say something about doing GDL? I think his band was there.


There you go, spiderine.


Home of the RAILBENDER. Honest people, we have a friend who had documented proof that every time she gets drunk from this beer she wakes up without pants. IT WILL KICK YOUR ASS.


My favorite brewery, EVAR. They make White Magik of the Sun and Pilzilla. PILZILLA.


The saxophone dude giving my drunk ass the eye! Also, HOT DOGS. THEY WERE VERY GOOD, BUT I DO NOT REMEMBER EATING THEM. I AM SURE THAT I DID.

The whole thing went from 5 to 8, and eventually we went back to Em's; by 9 pm I was on the couch in the den, sleeping. As the beavers in my head began a massive construction project, I attempted to waterlog their project with a shower, only to somehow end up lying on the floor under the shower spray, talking to Em, who sat on the floor out in the main area. Then Jeannie came in and we had a girl session. And in the middle of all of it she made a Doctor Who joke, so I said,

Me: Do you watch newWho?
Jeannie: OMGNFVFKG'GJPBJPBJOBOBJ JACK HARKNESS.
Me: flvjfpvifnb'knfb'kjPEENMFVPFJVF'K'COCK.
Jeannie: OMG DID YOU WATCH CHILDREN OF EARTH??
Me: clefkvj'bpjbpbngjnpjdn
Jeannie: I HAVE THIS THEORY THAT DAVID LYNCH IS SCARED OF THE VAGINA. BUT IT'S A CHARMING AWE FILLED FEAR. RUSTY IS ALSO AFRAID OF THE VAJAYJAY, BUT IN THE BAD WAY, AND I SHALL EXPLAIN.

I would tell you all the secrets of the universe, but I cannot remember it. Alas, much like that last glass of Lime Wheat from the TRASH brewers, it sounded like a great idea at the time.

Then I took a chunk out of my foot and bled all over the floor. Blah blah, I got home, blah blah shower, hit my foot in the same place in a different shower and bled all over the floor again.

WOKE UP WITHOUT A HANGOVER. THAT'S RIGHT, ALL THOSE CHICKENS I SACRIFICED TO OGUN AND MARINETTE HELPED MY SHIT OUT.



The lesson of the weekend is: do your voodoo sacrifices before you leave the house to go get wasted.

Comments

[bluejeans07.livejournal.com]

HAHA~ oh gay men scared of ladybits... XD



Glad you had fun at the Beer Festival!

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

It made total sense at the time, whilst I was lying on the floor in the shower, bleeding!

I did have fun! Woot!

[beeej.livejournal.com]

Am interested in Lancaster's strawberry wheat beer. I had a Salty Dog blueberry wheat beer while in the Outer Banks last week, and it was most awesome. Still pining for Shipyard's Pumpkinhead Ale, but am hoping to sweet talk the local distributor into getting me some this year. In other words, beer festivals are totally awesome, AND we own a kegerator. Maybe now you'll come visit me next time you're in the DC area. ;)

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

There were a lot of fruit fusion beers there. I think the Pittsburgh Home Brewers Association had a slamming Lime Wheat. I am usually skeptical of fruit beers, but the strawberry wheat was pretty slamming. I highly recommend it.

I LOVE THE KEGERATOR. My cousin has one in her basement. I live in jealousy. UNtil, you know, I have to go buy a keg or something, and then I'm all, "FIFTY BUCKS? WTF?!!"

[iamshadow.livejournal.com]

I spent Friday night drinking cheap wine and vodka and having conversations with Emma and alisso about anal play and sex toys. Also, I cuddled a puppy a lot and ate far too much delicious but bad for me food. FTW!

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

lol best weekend evar!

[phinnia.livejournal.com]

mmmmm, berry-wheat type beers (typo: bears, wtf?) are my favorites. nom. that lime one sounds fab.
also i hate the whole injure self/reinjure self in same spot cycle, so annoying. teh spouse has this one spot in the middle of his forehead he's constantly injuring.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

Yeah, man, it was RIDONKULOUS. It didn't hurt when I did it, but it hurts NOW.

[blue-fjords.livejournal.com]

Oh, you silly. I don't drink beer. Please still be my illicit mistress. I can drive you to all sorts of beer festivals, where you can drink!

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

OMG I WILL NEVER TURN DOWN A DESIGNATED DRIVER! MINE IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE.

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

This looked like fun. A LOT OF FUN. FUN!

BEER IS FUN!

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

BEEEEEEER. Honest to god, they were tasting glasses, but they were all lik 6.8%. I was knocked on my ASS.

[cruentum.livejournal.com]

I couldn't help but focus on that giant bear in the corner.

[smirnoffmule.livejournal.com]

The Hub is going to BLOW YOUR MIND.

[bodlon.livejournal.com]

I have got to come visit you for the sole purpose of drinking. It will be EPIC.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

I am told I am a very fun drunk before I pass out!

[smirnoffmule.livejournal.com]

AHAHAHA I DID NOT REALISE AMERICA HAD REACHED THE LEVEL OF CULTURAL ADVANCEMENT AT WHICH BEER FESTIVALS OCCUR. I heard you saying on twitter you were going, but I imagined you were going to like Bavaria or somewhere.

The chainsaw art is fricking badass.

On a related note to gay men and fear of minge, there's Watchmen also, wherein the squid Adrian drops on New York - which is as far as he's concerned the the most vile and alien and terrifying beast that the great creative minds of his era can concieve of - somewhat resembles a lady's vagina. Well, apparently. I think it just looks like a squid myself.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

WHAT IS WITH THE VAG FEAR, DUDES? WHAT?

THAT CHAIN SAW LADY. I WANTED TO HAVE HER BABIES. BUT FIRST, SHE HAS TO PUT DOWN THE SAW.

[lawsontl.livejournal.com]

All this talk of beer leaves me flat, as it's a foreign country I have visited but, alas, did not enjoy. If it'd been a wine fest on the other hand. Therefore, my attention immediately locked upon and remained locked upon the very first picture. Not your dorky expression (though it was indeed dorkiness personified, most excellent), but the fact that your decor combines MISSION with THE HEADS OF ASIAN GOD TYPE THINGS.

THAT is SO BADASS!

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

MY COUSIN'S HOUSE IS FULL OF AWESOME STUFF LIKE THAT. I BELIEVE THOSE WERE MADE WITH A CHAINSAW.

[paragraphs.livejournal.com]

OMG, I just want to sit down and braid your hair. Seriously. My fingers are itching.

For some reason, Nick doesn't like me braiding his. That's what he gets for being a guy with long hair!

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

hAAHAHA I haven't tried braiding it since I started growing it out. I sense twin french braids in my future.

[spiderine.livejournal.com]

THANK YOU!

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

I HAD ONE IN YOUR HONOR!

[valancy-joy.livejournal.com]

Ah ha! things my liquor soaked friday night were missing... hot dogs ... and some saxophone player eying me up.

less bleeding please!!!!

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

AHAAHAHAH YES.

YOU ARE CLOSER TO LANCASTER BREWING THAN I AM.

[crowie.livejournal.com]

My local pub, as in I can see it from my window, says it has over 200 different types of beer. They have a menu categorised by country and everything. It's sort of neat although they do get the number up by only having a few bottles of each one usually so they may be out for the evening of the type you pick. Good fun though.

I should probably go there more often but it's small and gets crowded easily. I also prefer ales on tap and they don't really have lots of those. Still the density of pubs around here is ridiculous.

Anyway sounds like you had a lot of fun, bleeding all over the floor notwithstanding

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

Haahahah i love tap much better than bottles, too. I loled the other day when I was in DC, because this IndIan restaurant has a "Beers of the world" list, and it had six beers, and one of the places they listed was "Pennsylvania'. LOL domestic BEER OF THE WORLD.

[elainasaunt.livejournal.com]

I am drinking, even as I type, a kriek, which is a Belgian lambic made with cherries. It is not sweet. For someone who grew up in a part of the USA where people put tomato juice and salt in their lager (often at the same time), it is pretty damn' sophisticated.

Lambic is this very cool variety of beer that, instead of being made with cultivated brewer's yeast, is just left out in the air in a particular valley in Belgium where wild, possibly alien yeast spores land on it.

Presumably they strain it before serving.

I'm envisaging Amand-r with Pippi Longstocking braids and loling. Nice pix!

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

OMG I WOULD DRINK THAT BEER. Actually, I have been known to drink any beer.

I need to get me some braids.

[beesandbrews.livejournal.com]

Mmmm. Lambic. Fruit beer is wonderful stuff. I had a stout last weekend and it tasted like IPA, which it shouldn't, and made me sad. But at least I didn't spit it on the table.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

I drank a lot of IPAs this weekend. I like IPAs normally. OMG I had Ommegang's Three Philophers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewery_Ommegang) this weekend and it was horrible. Like drinking wine-beer. It was the only thing I poured out.

There were a lot of good fruit beers. I had a FANTASTIC pomegranate blueberry, too. Mmm, don' t even remember the brewer. :(

[hanuueshe.livejournal.com]

DUDE, I THINK CHAINSAW LADY WENT TO COSTA RICA WITH ME.

Or, at least, look suspiciously like the chaperone. Has the same fashion sense too.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

AHAAAHA AWESOME.

[kel-reiley.livejournal.com]

i don't drink beer
unless it's free
i will drink nearly anything if it's free

a friend of mine recently got into homebrewing, but i haven't seen him in a few years :(

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

NOW IS A GOOD TIME TO REKINDLE YOUR FRIENDSHIP, IS WHAT I AM SAYING!

[sthayashi.livejournal.com]

So..... Jealous....

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

NEXT YEAR GET YOUR ASS IN GEAR.

[planejane.livejournal.com]

I think you looked pretty cute in that first picture. And I notice you have double jointed thumbs. Good for if you ever get arrested.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

HITCHERS THUMBS! I 'M A GENETIC FREAK1

[planejane.livejournal.com]

Me too! My second toe is much longer than my big toe. It's completely useless.

[arsenicjade.livejournal.com]

You left before we fixed my comp. That said, Geeway would tell you not to make fun of people who wear the shirt of the beer they drink, b/c dude, you were that kid once, okay?

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

I WAS NEVER THAT PERSON. MIKEY IS THAT PERSON.

[arsenicjade.livejournal.com]

No, Mikey's a lot cooler than Gee, in the technical sense, or, I guess, the scene sense. But he doesn't seem to care. Which is, you know, cool.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

How do you know this? Have to taken their internal temperatures?

[dvanulya.livejournal.com]

Beer fests - yay! Drunken bodily damage - not so yay!

Side note: Dogfish Head! My hometown (sorta) brewery. They sponsored a poetry prise which I never won!

Side note 2: Hahahahaha Fry and Thompson and random other guests. I am going to have a t-shirt made. Or something.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

AHAHAHAHAH DOGFISH HEAD is an okay beer. I've had better, but I'd pick them over Bud any day.