All American Superstar

Today is the 13th anniversary of the suicide of Miss Shannon Michelle Wilsey aka porn starlet Savannah. After a night of partying Savannah put her 'Vette into a fence (or pole depending on what you read) and after that she went home and shot herself in her garage with a pistol, but not before calling her manager to come over and help her. Sounds like a really stable bird eh?

From porn to Aussie beer, it looks like the Foster's brewing company is lowering the alcohol content of their Victoria Bitter (loving known as VB down undah) by 0.1% in order to save a metric assload of money in taxes. You can read all about it here if you like. I can honestly recommend VB but only if it's out of the tap or a can; i tried a couple bottles when I was on holiday in Oz and boy did they taste like ass . . . but maybe they were sitting around for a long time, I was given the impression that not too many people were VB drinkers in some of the areas I was in.

Unfortunately the LCBO or Brewer's Retail in Ontario don't seem to carry VB, but here's the official Brewer's Retail aka 'The Beer Store' info page for my local Beer Store and check out all the different product they carry.

For the comic book geeks according to this article the San Diego Comic Con (which looks completely bad ass, I'd love to check it out some day - I might just have to settle for the Manitoba Comicon which seems to be on the weekend I'm flying to Malaysia - damn, might not be able to do it) to preview a new movie based on the Superman/Doomsday story, which includes Doomsday killing Superman and some replacement Supermen popping up in his absence. Now that is a Superman movie that I could really be excited to see . . . I'll be cheering for Doomsday and will likely proclaim when it's over "You know what would have made that movie better? If Batman were in it."

Here's the official movie site just in case you're interested in checking it out, because I know I'm not the only growed up here who still likes to watch superhero cartoons.

Here's an interesting article for the alco-snobs out there; after doing a (probably not very scientific) test vodka drinkers could not necessarily tell their preferred brand of premium from others and without labels to influence them sometimes picked other or even cheaper brands. I don't like vodka myself but I have heard that if run cheaper vodka through a Brita filter a few times it really helps to mellow and smooth it out. But I'm not going to go out and buy a Brita and a jug of Vodka to test that out.

And today I'll sign off with a reality check of sorts; the baby who appeared on Nirvana's Nevermind album cover is now 17 years old (for some reason it never occurred to me that the baby was out the somewhere aging, people are funny aminals, eh?), check it out yo!

And get off my lawn.