[Peace-discuss] Good books and bad beer - August 25

[E. Wayne Johnson]

I really see some value in being there for the libations as well as the 
perusal and
absconding with (liberation of) the books.

One could say there isnt any really bad beer,
but I do recall some cheap brands called Buckhorn (???) and
Blatz (made in Evansville IN) that were not the highest
expression of the brewers art.  At least I didnt like Blatz
and we would try to find a extra quarter or two so we could have
Miller instead of Stroh's.

Blatz beer sponsored the channel 7 weather with Marcia Yockey
who was a real icon in Evansville and across southern Indiana and Illinois.
I spent many evenings playing on the floor at my grandfathers house in 
the 60's when the
news and weather from channel 7 was on.  She later went back to UHF 
channel 14 in 1971
where she stayed for another nearly 20 years.
Marcia Yockey was a cool and eccentric character before it was cool to 
be eccentric.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:196607MarciaYockeyS.jpg

I'm from Milwaukee and I ought to know
It's draft brewed Blatz beer wherever you go
Smoother. fresher, less filling, it's clear
Blatz is Milwaukee's finest beer.
(Maybe,  but in Evansville it was pretty bad.)

But the jingle was great and is indelibly burned there
in my memory along with Marcia Yockey with her horse
and scuba gear doing the weather map with a ink brush.


C G Estabrook via Peace-discuss wrote:
> GOOD BOOKS AND BAD BEER - AUGUST 25
>
> Dear friends,
>
> After 32 years at 5 Litchfield Lane in Champaign, my bride and I are moving to more manageable quarters.
>
> In pursuit of felicity, I have in those years acquired a number of books and a fair number of bottles of bad beer.
>
> Will you come help relieve me of these burdens on Saturday August 25, from 5pm to 8?
>
> We’ll have a first floor and a basement of books for the taking and a dining room of miscellaneous beer for the drinking. The books are generally better than the the beers, but that’s probably true in life - in spite of Housman’s despairing asseveration, “...malt does more than Milton can / To justify God’s ways to man.”
>
> What Ben Franklin is supposed to have said was probably closer to the truth: “Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.” (A Francophile, he was probably actually speaking of wine.)
>
> You’re welcome to take the books (and the beer) you like. It would please me if friends enjoyed books I’ve enjoyed. (That’s not so possible with the beer, but you’re welcome to that too.) Bring a bag to carry the books, and a thirst to accommodate the beer.
>
> Leigh and I look forward to seeing you 5-8pm on the  25th.
>
> Regards, Carl
>
>
>
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