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  1. HudsonHawk

    Why does Samuel Adams Boston Lager taste so much better than many other Lagers?

    Personally, Sam Adams is one of the worst, bland, tasteless, mass-produced swills being sold in the American beer market. Funny (to me) how it’s thrown up as an example of a decent American beer.
  2. HudsonHawk

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    One of my favorite Shakespeare re-telling plays was one I saw where The Comedy of Errors was set in 1967 San Francisco’s Summer of Love. I also got dragged by one of me ex-fiancés to the theater to see 10 Things I Hate About You, but didn’t know at the time it was Shakespeare. To my surprise, it...
  3. HudsonHawk

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Lennon was a huge fan of the Marx Brothers. He said he actually liked the Monkees because they reminded him of the Marx Brothers. He actually got the Monkees and enjoyed it or what it was.
  4. HudsonHawk

    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    Former baseball great Rusty Staub passed away this morning, three days before his 74th birthday. Staub came up in 1963 with the Houston Colt .45's, becoming one of their first stars, before moving on to great years in Montreal and New York, with additional stops in Detroit and Texas. Staub was...
  5. HudsonHawk

    Above The Tie Stainless Steel Razors ?

    You’re over thinking it. Use both sides of the blade every shave. You can get multiple shaves from the same blade.
  7. HudsonHawk

    Above The Tie Stainless Steel Razors ?

    I do. Of course, by “pass” I mean a series of short consistent strokes, which may cover the same area. I can’t imagine the need to ever shave completely, then lather up again and again repeating the same process.
  8. HudsonHawk

    This or That

    The Flying Dutchman, Wagner. Marshall JTM45 or Fender Twin Reverb?
  9. HudsonHawk

    This or That

    I’m on record already as disliking the green and yellow who shall not be named. So I’ll go with the former.
  10. HudsonHawk

    This or That

    Separate. There are six legitimate flavors of ice cream: vanilla, chocolate, strawberry, peach, pistachio, and cookies and cream. That’s it. Anything else, alone or in combination, is a violation of all that is ice cream sacred. Pulled pork or brisket?
  11. HudsonHawk

    This or That

    Man, I’ve been wanting to talk about tractors forever, but I guess I’m a day late. Mine’s an old Massey-Ferguson. I had a green and yellow one once, and it ran like a dead deer.
  13. HudsonHawk

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    One of the great scuba dives off the coast of the Florida panhandle is the HMS Empire Mica, a British fuel tanker sunk near the mouth of the Apalachicola River by a German U-boat in June 1942 en route from Houston to Key West. 33 men were lost in the attack.
  14. HudsonHawk

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Not only do they believe it, it’s a “cause”. But people see what they want to see. And as for US history, one of my favorites to remind people is that at the time of the American Revolution, there were not 13 British colonies that became US states, there were 15. Only 13 declared independence...
  15. HudsonHawk

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    They are still in awe of Rick Perry’s magnificent head of hair.
  16. HudsonHawk

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Not a land attack, per se, and not the Japanese, but the Gulf of Mexico was crawling with German submarines before and during the war. For a time, the Germans wreaked havoc on the ports of Galveston, New Orleans, and Mobile, sinking dozens of US ships. The war was surprisingly close to home...
  17. HudsonHawk

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    The gullibility to believe what one sees on TV is necessarily real probably is.
  19. HudsonHawk

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    It's popular to cast Americans as ignorant of the world around them, it particularly plays well in Europe, where people get warm fuzzies thinking they are superior to the backward Americans. But like most "reality" TV, much of it is staged and or highly edited to cast a certain light...
  20. HudsonHawk

    BATTER UP!

    I've played at parks like that. I've played at professional parks that were immaculately manicured, and at those that amounted to glorified gravel yards. Each one has its own charm...and pain.
  21. HudsonHawk

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    One of my ex fiancé's grandmother, 1908 vintage, once told me that the word s**t was THE swear word of the 20s. She didn't remember exactly why, just that it was the hip obscenity of the day.
  22. HudsonHawk

    You know you are getting old when:

    Except that elfish old man can still pick. Personally, I've come to enjoy the old man version of many rock stars, as they're now more focused on the music. But yeah, the look is sometimes jarring. I'm going to see Lynyrd Skynyrd on their farewell tour in May. My best friend from the sandbox...
  23. HudsonHawk

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I agree "Hudson" is a very important sounding name. Regal even. I named my male dog "Wrangler", after former Astros pitcher and later manager Larry Dierker. The female is named "Sadie". Mrs. Hawk named her. I wanted "Daisy", but the missus said it sounded a little *too* hillbilly. The...

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