My 2008 is now archived in whirlwind ADHD form. Damn, I really effed up by picking a 2 minute song to try to cram all those photos into, and sadly ended up using only a fraction of all the ones i picked out. I forgot a bunch of important stuff like election funnery too. Maybe i will do a part 2.

Here are some photos from my Christmas in the Sonoma cuts. And more evidence my nephew Julian and I are kindred spirits.

First off, please check out this San Francisco blog Beer and Nosh. It’s soooo good. Not only are the photographic essays top notch, but I can’t think of a website ever causing me to daydream about food and beer like this one does. And you KNOW there are a lot of food and drink sites out there. It is from this site I learned about Mission Street Food Thursdays. Every Thursday, volunteers take over a chinese restaurant on Mission and 18th and have a guest chef construct a next level menu inspired by street food. Check out the past menus on the site. Not only delicious sounding but very reasonably priced. I’m excited about hitting these up regularly.

Anyway, Serg and Stef took me to City Beer for the first time and jesus, that place is a beer geek’s paradise! I spent too much money there

and a few bottles of Delirium and Chimay. Still trying to figure out what I want to bring tonight to share with my family. After all this holiday stuff is over, I’m looking forward to trying to homebrew. I’ll document that here of course. Happy Holidays.

I don’t know why, but I love the grouchy heshers that work at Arinell’s pizza in the mission. There’s always some stoner rock or metal playing in there way too loud and they’re always throwing the pizza on the counter like they hate you and your yuppie guts. anyway, the last time i was in there the 2 guys behind the counter were arguing about whether the metal playing over the speakers sucked or not. So amusing. But really, i’m just looking for an excuse to post pics of the signs they have up by the register

Christ, I’m almost 30 and I bought a Barbie. My first barbie, mind you because we could never afford it growing up. Anyway, this one is special because it’s from one of my favorite movies

and it’s 100% real. Hitchcock and The Birds is a pretty odd and amazing choice for a Barbie but so perfect. Melanie Daniels, the San Francisco socialite character in The Birds is kind of an unlikeable beauty who always gets her way. She’s smug, bored and rich and eventually gets comeuppance for a life of complacency in the form of massive bird peckage when she leaves the comforts of her stomping grounds.

I can’t stop laughing at this video footage diane got from karaoke. My friend EJ is half-Mexican and everyone’s giving him shit for not being able to roll his RRs during La Bamba.

I love it when he gets pissed and yells ARRRGHRIBA ARRRGHRIBA in Brian’s face.

The 5th Annual Tamale Day was epic this year. Lots of tamales, beer, the de la Hoya/Pacquiao fight on PPV, Rock Band funnery, and quality time with good folks. After most had left, somebody an idea to deep fry a tamale and the night had officially reached Level: JackAss. I watched as dudes proceeded to deep fry random things they could think of such as cookie dough, rum balls and a serrano chile pepper. Str8 comedy. Many thanks to Serg and EJ for putting this together as usual.