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I got to look at Hydro Street Brewing's Quarterly report and am very pleased. WELL DONE!! They have a beef and beer sandwich which is outstanding and their K of P Porter is one of the best porters I've tasted. The Stout is pretty darn good and I've been talking to people about their lighter beer and people seem to love them. Soon you will be able to buy Hydro Brew at a few local bars.
This Saturday Mark Croft (Kroft?) will be performing . .. not that I really like him but he seems to have a pretty large following in these parts. I don't DISLIKE him, just not my taste in music.
HSB is getting building permits for an outdoor patio and are looking to expand so all is well.
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I've been talking to a lot of older people this week at Hydro Street and I'm going to get a good photo of The Griswold House in Columbus (now the Zeidler Funeral Home) (I did ge some nice shots). That is the house on 146 Dickason, built in 1857 and has a cupola on top of the roof.
OK - 1/2 hour later - I just ran out to take some photos of the Griswold House before we have 7 days of rain.
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I asked about that cupola and what it was for and the woman said that it was used in the old days to spot the Indians that were coming down from The Dells. Seems when the train came in they would meet it and trade goods. That's pretty cool!!!
George Griswold (was that the same guy in Family Vacation?) built this house as an exact replica from his hours on New York but construction was held up for a few years until the railroad came to Columbus so he could get the pink brick.
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Also I talked to a 95 year old woman who gave the first $5000 to restore the Columbus Auditorium. She seemed a little disappointed that it's sort of gone on the way side but she LOVED my eight photos that are on the walls of Hydro Street!
It seems that when the American Players Theater were just forming they wanted to use the Columbus Auditorium but since it was in disrepair they decided to go to Spring Green.
Once again the people of Columbus with their short vision put the nix on REALLY helping the town. Do you think having 100,000 extra people in Columbus every year would help any? OH WAIT - many people in Columbus do not want the town to thrive. We would not want all of those people roaming the downtown area. sigh!
As she said (sort of) "I'm 95 and have seen a lot and it seems many people in Columbus just have no vision".
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Ever want to buy stock in a "word"? I want to buy shares of "Recusal". It has not been used much and is actually at it's peak at the moment. The word was not used a lot until the 1960s according to Google Ngram.
Here is the graph for the word.
recusal = the disqualification of a judge or jury by reason of prejudice or conflict of interest; a judge can be recused by objections of either party or judges can disqualify themselves.
So this word is being used a lot in Wisconsin when one of our Supreme Court judges "allegedly" put his hands around another judges neck in an argument which seems like a normal stable thing for a judge to do! Well he wants all of the other judges to recuse themselves from any disciplinary action. sigh!
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OH - Walker our kindhearted Governor is complaining that the Democrats are only talking about chaos and division and he only wants to be positive and forget about the past. Mean ol Democrats.
Well, here is an idea. FINALLY the democrats are learning from the current Republicans and are playing dirty. I've always said that I believe it was election fraud to have fake Democrats in Primary's. BUT, now there is a fake Republican that will force Walker to have a primary.
Why not just have everyone vote for the fake Republican and get rid of Walker right there.
Seems most people are all up in arms about the Unions being bashed. But from my point of view it's not THAT big deal, I was not in love with the union anyway. The only bad thing is the argument "I'm a Republican, why should I HAVE to pay dues that go to the Democratic party".
Well, I'm a Democrat why should I shop at ANY business that is in the Chamber of Commerce who give their dues to the Republican party. Perhaps we should boycott any Chamber of Commerce business . . just to be fair.
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"To avoid potential conflicts between viewers and out of consideration of building a harmonious ethical social environment, we’ve decided to cut off the nudity scenes."
"Considering the vivid 3D effects, we fear that viewers may reach out their hands for a touch and thus interrupt other people’s viewing."
Perhaps instead of reaching OUT, they might reach DOWN?
THERE WILL BE NO DELIGHTING IN THE THEATER!!
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And finally - yesterdays Brewer game. The Brewers are looking pretty darn good except when they look pretty darn bad. HOWEVER - the pitcher yesterday that killed the Brewers ALSO killed my fantasy team. The good thing is that I traded Fernando Rodney a reliever on Tampa Bay for Garza a couple days ago so he's mine now.
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OH - that North Koren Rocket. Did you see that thing? I was looking at it and it looked like something from the 60's. I told DJ "That thing will never fly" (because I'm an expert) and she laughed and said something on the order of scenes from The Right Stuff (or something like that). Well, I guess it didn't fly very far. BOOM!! Back to the drawing board dudes.
So while 25 million people starve they have exploding bottle rockets.
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I can't believe that kid is not wearing a bike helmet - what a horrible parent!
Perhaps there should be some sort of class before you put your new boat in the water. FAIL!!
BTW - Columbus is RICH in color this time of year - Screw the Redbuds, this city has so many flowering tree's it's amazing!! Redbuds are fine but there are so many colors in Columbus it's magnificent!
Have a great weekend
Rod
I want to buy stock in the word Redonkulous!
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