This week is all about PENNY SERENADE . . . oh, and Juliet

This week and last week are all about PENNY SERENADE.  It is a lovely musical comedy/melodrama adaptation of a movie featuring Cary Grant and Irene Dunn, performing this week and last week at the Towle Theater on Hohman Avenue in Hammond, Indiana.  I'm doing lights for the production, which means I've been out there almost every night the past two weeks.  I haven't had lots of computer time.  Tonight, though, I cracked open my bottle of JULIET, the belgian style ale fermented with blackberries from Goose Island Brewing right here in Chicago.  I bought my bottle the day it came out, which is good because now it's not available.  

It's very tasty.  Sour and slightly fruity.  Very much like a good American adaptation of a Ichtegem or a Liefman's Flemish ale, with blackberries.  The fruit is so understated, it's almost gueze-like.  NICE.  So I drank that and watched the very satisfying season finale of GREY'S ANATOMY.  

Yes, I'm still going to upload my Dark Lord Day videos.  Stop nagging me.  I've been very busy.  

I would say you should all come see PENNY SERENADE this weekend, but the remaining performances are sold out!  NEXT WEEK, MONDAY, JILLIAN IS THE BACHELORETTE!!!!!  YEAH!!  

an excellent week indeed

The Cubs won today!!  YEAH!!!!  Finally. 
Soon there will be video of DARK LORD DAY on this page!!  But I'm too tired to do it tonight.  Since I posted last:  Tasting at Puerto Rico Food and Liquor on Thursday 4/23,  DARK LORD DAY on Saturday the 25th, Tasting at DiCarlo Armanetti on Grand and Western on Sunday the 26th, The LOUIS GLUNZ BEER GLOBAL BEER EXPO on Monday, April 27, Tasting at Green Grocer on Grand Ave. on Tuesday the 28th, followed by the GREAT LAKES GRASSROOTS kickoff party at UnderBar (I'll blog about Grassroots soon, mmmmmm, spicy and herby), on Wednesday the 29th, the Harry Potter -- the exhibition preview party at the Museum of Science and Industry.  AWESOME!!!  Yeah!  They had Froot Loop rice krispie treats!!!   Oh, and then my mother went in the hospital.  She is better.  BUT that's where I was on Thursday night the 30th, at the hospital with my mother.  My mother is the queen of hyperbole.  Examples:  "these wristbands are as sharp as razors" and "these sheets are so scratchy, I might as well be lying on a brillo pad". . . yeah.  that's how Thursday night was.  I guess she's doing better.  The right side of her heart is not good.  Anyway, tonight, Friday, I had a tasting at Tabb's convenience store on Chicago Ave.  Now, sorry, I'm going to fall asleep on the couch watching the stuff on the DVR (Grey's, Private Practice, Survivor, maybe the Oprah with Hugh Jackman) because tomorrow I am going to be pouring beer at my friend Brian Mayer's event at Durty Nellie's in Palatine.  And you know what?  I love it.  I love every minute of it.  I am the luckiest girl in the world, I really am.  G'night.