Author Archives: Nik Bronder

Santa's Pub Crawl: Southport to the North Pole.

Santa checkin’ the List.

St. Nik’s been checking the list and he doesn’t care if you’ve been naughty or nice. You’re invited to the Santa’s Pub Crawl on Friday, December 14th. The route is still up in the air but we plan to navigate Southport starting at the Schoolyard at 8pm and head North as far as we get. Santa plans to bring along a helper with a Polaroid camera and enough film for everyone who wants one. Santa would perfer you to buy him a beer or two because he has all those damn kids to worry about in a couple weeks.

Please use the comments to let me know if want to take part and feel free to suggest some bars… Santa is not from around these parts.

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The route and schedule has been decided:

Bowling above a hardware store.

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Last night a group of us met up for some good old fashion bowling at Lincoln Square Lanes where I bowled the game of my life. We played three games which I won the first and then I self destructed in the last two games. The bowling alley is located above an Ace Hardware store and is everything you would want in a bowling alley. Cheap beer, live music and birthday parties.

Jane knows bowling.A real bowler has a ball that matches their shoes.Balance and leg kick is what really puts a spin on the ball.Stacy calling me Munson as I start to fall apart mentally.This man only speaks in terms of strikes and spares.A man on a mission.Form and Fundamentals is what wins.More awesome bowling.Documentary evidence of my bowling victory.This what I would call an ‘Action Shot’.Julie and Nik showing how we ‘roll’.Todd, Jane, Lisa & Stacy: all defeated by Nik Bronder in Bowling.

An Irish Disaster.

 

A thieving bastard managed to steel 450 kegs of beer from the Guinness Brewery in Ireland on Wednesday.  A single man drove into the Dublin brewery and hitched a trailer full of beer to his truck and then proceeded to drive out the front gate.  This is considered to be the largest beer heist in Guinness history.  A choice quote from the news report:

 Police said it would be difficult for the thief to sell the stolen beer without attracting attention, unless he has criminal associates who own a network of pubs.

Hmm.  Possibly the IRA?  Just a hunch.

When I was in Ireland last year there was public outrage because Guinness was transitioning to a new system of beer distribution… Trucks.  They were doing away with delivering beer by train and going with the more modern approach.  As you can imagine the Irish were furious as this led to beer arriving at the pub not as quickly as by train.

And now we learn this.  I will say there is no way a man would have been able to do this if the beer was on a train.