The Spring 2023 issue of Food & Dining Magazine is now available in all the familiar places: Louisville area eateries and food shops, newsstands and online.
To paraphrase the great Indianapolis sports commentator Kent Sterling, a New Albany High School graduate, let’s talk about beer—beer is who we area and it’s what we do.
However, first a digression into century-old movies.
“Duck Soup” is the cinematic masterpiece bequeathed to us by the four Marx Brothers. Groucho Marx plays Rufus T. Firefly and Harpo Marx is Pinkie, a prospective spy. Film reviewer Tim Dirks picks up the story, as quoted by Carter B. Horsley.
To identify himself to Firefly, Pinkie rolls up his sleeve and shows him:
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- a tattoo of his curly-haired face on one forearm
- a bikinied dancing lady on his other flexing forearm
- her phone number tattooed on his right side
- his residence – a dog house tattooed on his stomach. When Firefly looks closely and meows, a live barking dog emerges
Firefly is incredulous: “I bet you haven’t got a picture of my grandfather?” Pinkie is ready to turn around and pull down his drawers, but Firefly has had enough and suggests he’ll see it some other time.
More recently, an acquaintance of mine was explaining the strange disappearance of a mutual friend. The conversation went something like this:
Acquaintance: “Our friend is holed up writing his autobiography. He says it’s for his son.”
The columnist: “But he doesn’t have any children.”
Acquaintance: “Precisely.”
Alas, your friendly correspondent boasts neither tattoos nor kids, and when recently asked the probing question “Who do you think you are, anyway?”, I was compelled to think long and hard before replying: “Maybe I’m Bo Donaldson & the Heywoods.”
Wait, say what?
The Cincy band didn’t even write this classic 1974 hit song themselves?
I guess it’s all just skittles and flippancy, so let’s talk about beer.
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Monday, March 27 was beer writer Michael Jackson’s birthday. Jackson, who died in 2007, would have been 81 years old. To celebrate the Beer Hunter’s birth, All About Beer has a solid compendium of 10 favorite columns by Jackson, who memorably visited Louisville in 1994.
Hip Hops: When Michael “Beer Hunter” Jackson came to Louisville in 1994 (part one)
