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Brian Yaeger

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About Me

I love beer. I love roadtripping. So I wrote a book about both of those things.

My Interests

Music. Writing. Beer. Greatness.

I'd like to meet:

John Lennon, John Paul Jones, and John Entwhistle, but not Jon Bon Jovi. But I don't want to have to die to meet them.

You Are Guinness
You know beer well, and you'll only drink the best beers in the world. Watered down beers disgust you, as do the people who drink them. When you drink, you tend to become a bit of a know it all - especially about subjects you don't know well. But your friends tolerate your drunken ways, because you introduce them to the best beers around. What's Your Beer Personality?

Music:

DAKAH Hip Hop Orchestra, charlie DANIELS, Dance hall crashers, the Darkness, Darling cruel, Dead milkmen, DE la soul, DESCENDENTS, neil Diamond, Digger, D4, DINOSAUR Jr., DIRTY DOZEN brass band, Disco Biscuits, DISCOUNT, gabe Dixon band, Dizzy, DJ Danger mouse, john DOE, the Donkey show, the Donnas, Dramarama, Dr. Dre, Dr. frank, Dr. john, DROPKICK murphys, Duran Duran, DVDA, Dwarves, bob Dylan,

Movies:

Spinal Tap, The Saddest Music in the World, Best in Show, Little Miss Sunshine, Strange Brew, Better Off Dead, The Sure Thing, Three Amigos, The Jerk, L.A. Story, Zoolander, Something About Mary, Billy Madison, Grandma's Boy, Highway 61, The Tao of Steve, The Usual Suspects, TransAmerica.Spellbound, Winged Migration, An Inconvenient Truth, Roger & Me, Fahrenheit 9/11, Outfoxed, Dogtown & Z-Boyz, Warren Miller.French foreign stuff

Television:

All my favorite shows are long gone: Arrested Development, Undeclared, Northern Exposure, Mork & Mindy, X-Files, It's Garry Shandling Show (way precursor to Larry Sanders), and COP ROCK, yo!

Books:

William Least Heat-Moon, Studs Terkel, Lester Bangs, Bill Bryson, Sarah Vowell, Kurt Vonnegut, Tom Robbins, Nikolai Gogol, Fyodor Dostoyevski, Mikhail Bulgakov, Shel Silverstein, anything published by The Onion
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Heroes:

Aforementioned Bangs, Brewmasters and Braumeisters everywhere, Mom + Dad, and whoever invented Funyons for making onions fun again

My Blog

When it’s time to go

I had a few things I wanted to say, but forgot all but one. As part of an email I received this morning from a colleague who I'd asked to remove a deceased subscriber from our mailing list, she added ...
Posted by Brian Yaeger on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:43:00 PST

Silly gays, divorce is for straights

Gay marriage or...?I have to say, this is so funny. All that hullabaloo about gay marriage and how same-sex couples should be allowed to love each other the same way as the nutty "breeders" do. And th...
Posted by Brian Yaeger on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 02:13:00 PST

Top 100,000

Might not seem like much to you, but cracking the Amazon Top 100,000 is damn exciting to me.Enough friends (and my mom who bought 3) pre-ordered my li'l book to make it chart at 95,955. And believe me...
Posted by Brian Yaeger on Wed, 05 Mar 2008 01:07:00 PST

Little Cocktail Froo-Froo

After seeing a play in the theater district, my friend and I had a couple beers across the street at the White Horse Pub on Sutter. Cool proper pub bedecked in wooden everything, replete with a Great ...
Posted by Brian Yaeger on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 02:24:00 PST

Apples, barley, grapes, honey, and coffee. No rice.

I went on a road trip I've long been dying to do. Headed up the North Coast of California along Hwy 1, here known as the Redwoods Highway instead of Pacific Coast Highway. The trip started Saturday mo...
Posted by Brian Yaeger on Tue, 19 Feb 2008 11:02:00 PST

Run in the Sun

I've been looking forward to this for, well, a really long time. I finished the final draft of my manuscript. I took my brand new running shoes out for a spin along with that little Nike/iPod thingy t...
Posted by Brian Yaeger on Mon, 04 Feb 2008 05:07:00 PST

ATB Rules. Viva la couch

Thoroughly enjoying my ATB (After the Book) phase and doing everything I had planned, such as nothing. What most people take for granted, I had to schedule ages ago and finally got around to doing it ...
Posted by Brian Yaeger on Mon, 14 Jan 2008 12:24:00 PST

A pretty blonde girl

A pretty blonde girl, maybe 25. The back of a clean-cut guy, well-spoken, also all of 25. Not so much dressed to the nines as smart-casual. The full pitcher of sangria on the two-top table between the...
Posted by Brian Yaeger on Sat, 22 Dec 2007 01:12:00 PST

Fat/Pigs

Sitting in my new favorite coffee shop because it's at least open til 11 and it's not Starbux crammed with obnoxious college kids (not all college kids are obnoxious, just these 50 in particular), I w...
Posted by Brian Yaeger on Wed, 12 Dec 2007 11:26:00 PST

A Night at the Ping Pong Show

Witnessing a girl pull a chain of razor blades out of her pussy isn't what I came to Thailand for, but the alternative is to blog about the spectacular Buddhist temples or the ornate Grand Palace that...
Posted by Brian Yaeger on Mon, 12 Nov 2007 03:22:00 PST