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

[C G Estabrook]

From my youth, I remember the Blatz jingle exactly (when I’ve forgotten the pages and pages of Shakespeare I once knew - "Now my charms are all overthrown, / And what strength I have's mine own, / Which is most faint … / As you from crimes would pardon'd be, / Let your indulgence set me free.”)

Blatz sponsored my local heroes, the Washington Senators (the American League baseball team, not the international criminals) when I was a lad. 

"Where have you gone, Yo-Yo Davalillo? / Our nation turns its lonely eyes to you…” (in your dreams) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yo-Yo_Davalillo>.

“...the jingle ... is indelibly burned there in my memory” - but without "Marcia Yockey with her horse and scuba gear doing the weather map with a ink brush.” She didn’t surface in DC.

—CGE   


PS - I have to look, but I think I have some elderly Blatz… ("Blatz beer is currently produced by the Miller Brewing Company of Milwaukee, under contract for Pabst Brewing Company.” Wikipedia)
 


> On Aug 13, 2018, at 9:52 AM, E. Wayne Johnson <ewj at pigs.ag> wrote:
> 
> 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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