"...and hallucinogenic mushrooms."
That's a headline in The Mercury News of San Jose today. When I go hunting Goggle, once in every while, for beer news to comment upon there are always masses of these sad stories about beer and violence to get through about, say, man beats man with beer or, you know, man beats beer with man or, heck, even beer beats man with man. They are unendingly dreary, always say pretty much the same thing and undermine the work everyone does to raise the perspective folk have about beer.
But the fine work of Marshall Cartwright, 33, reported this week in The Mercury News really stands apart from the crowd. What a genius. Especially given he was "claiming to be a covert military operative from Australia" even while he was "urinating in the bushes" when he was not sell the beer in the keg by handing around a Mason jar...11:45 a.m. last Monday. Excellent work Marshall Cartwright, 33. Brilliant. You have reached the apex of the beer pig pantheon. We salute you!
Comments
Knut Albert - October 31, 2008 6:13 AM
The wet suit sort of supports the Australian military story, though the harmonica is a bit more tricky.
We trust you to follow the case, Alan. If we don't hear more about Mr. Catwright, 33, we can assume that the story is hushed up and that he really is a spy. Maybe he had all his funds in Icelandic Kroner and had to sell beer to get money to call home to Australia?
neesee - November 4, 2008 5:52 PM
Beer keg, harmonica, wet suit AND psilocybin? Sounds like my kind of party! Military
operative from Australia peeing in the bushes is too funny. But when he took the mason
jar with him, I'd be a little suspicious that he might be recycling the beer!