Yea, we like beer. We like local. Local design? That’s us! We have been known to consume a growler or two, mostly thanks to our friends at the Ithaca Coffee Company. Oh, and you don’t want to know how many Growler Cards we have already filled up as part of the new Growler Club. Don’t forget to check out what is on tap.

So keeping in mind all of these things that we like, I was happy to read from our friends over at the Ithaca Beer Company on their Beer Blog about their success, so far, in the Great Lakes Brewing News National IPA Competition. It’s like March Madness, but with a different type of madness…

Anyway Ithaca Beer’s own Flower Power has made it into the Final Four! They go up tomorrow (March 8 ) against Bell’s Brewing Company Two Hearted Ale. Flowers vs. hearts? We better win!

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So we’re on Technorati now. Network away. Yahoo.

A little music trivia on this Leap Day?

A friend recently posed an intriguing bit of Beatles trivia to a group of us. We were gathered to watch Julie Taymor’s, Across the Universe, an excellent collection of Beatles classics tied into a compelling (if a little contrived) story of love, war, drama, and of course, music! Here is the trivia question:

What of the plethora of Beatles’ songs start out with the exact words in their title, and in addition, start exclusively with vocals?

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This has been all over lately, so allow me to embrace my inner lemming, and post it here, too.

Basically, it’s the Garfield comic strip with the Garfield the cat image and text wiped out. From the page:

Friends, meet Jon Arbuckle. Let’s laugh and learn with him on a journey deep into the tortured mind of an isolated young everyman as he fights a losing battle against loneliness and methamphetamine addiction in a quiet American suburb.

It’s the first time I’ve laughed at Garfield since I was eight. I recommend you check it out.

FYI, half of us are vegetarians and the other half are semi-veg, but sometimes you just need to know how to handle yourself when faced with a renegade swan. Sometimes…