Mmmm, Beer...

[infrogmation]

I'm going to visit my brother in Gainsville Florida for Thanksgiving.

He brews his own beer.
*AND* I just found out that a beer is now on the shelves there that alas isn't yet availible in Louisiana: Budweiser.

I mean the REAL BUDWEISER.

Yay!

Comments

[vyoma.livejournal.com]

Hang on a second, did somebody say Gainesville?

Any chance you might make a side-trip down Tampa way after the holiday? If so, please let me know! Its about 3 hours away, but it'd be fun to meet up in person should you have some extra time on your hands and a burning desire to visit, say, the Museum of Science and Industry. (http://www.mosi.org)

I don't think

[vardissakheli.livejournal.com]

that could possibly hold a, um, candle to the (http://users.bestweb.net/~notr/kartuli/2002trip/wacky.html)

If you had a whole bunch of time,

[milena-shibush.livejournal.com]

I'd say come visit here (http://www.dep.state.fl.us/parks/district4/koreshan/index.asp), which was named for this interesting guy (http://www.naplesnews.com/01/05/bonita/d588564a.htm). But, it'd be a long drive.

Re: If you had a whole bunch of time,

[infrogmation.livejournal.com]

Hm, never heard of that before!
It's near Fort Myers? I visited Thomas Edison's winter home there years ago.

Gainsville

[infrogmation.livejournal.com]

This will just be a short visit, and I don't expect to get any further south this time. I've enjoyed visiting Tampa in the past, and probably will again sometime.

Re: Gainsville

[vyoma.livejournal.com]

Maybe next time, then. I'll probably be hanging around this place for the next couple of years... so give a heads up when you'll be out this way!

[ernunnos.livejournal.com]

Jealousy!

Yay for Gainesville and Beer

[milena-shibush.livejournal.com]

I was just in Gainesville, where I did consume massive quantities of beer. Yessiree Bob. Or Froggy. Have a great turkey day.

ps

[milena-shibush.livejournal.com]

In the Times recently:

Inside Mexican Pyramid, Buried Clues Link Ancient Cultures

November 19, 2002
By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD



In excavations at the Pyramid of the Moon near Mexico City,
archaeologists think they have found an answer to a
perplexing question about two of the Western Hemisphere's
greatest ancient cultures: what links, if any, existed
between the people of Teotihuacan, in central Mexico, and
the Maya civilization mainly in southern Mexico and
Guatemala?

An international team of archaeologists reported last week
the discovery of buried jade objects and three skeletons in
a tomb in the pyramid ruins of Teotihuacan. The team said
this revealed for the first time a Maya influence at
Teotihuacan, suggesting some close interaction between the
ruling elites of the two cultures 1,700 years ago.

The jade apparently came from Guatemala, in Maya country,
and was carved in Maya style. A jade statuette bears the
image of a man with fairly realistic features and big eyes.
The skeletons were found in cross-legged, seated positions,
a practice more familiar at Maya sites than in Teotihuacan.

Dr. Saburo Sugiyama, an archaeologist at Aichi Prefectural
University in Japan and the co-director of the excavations,
said the jade objects were intriguing because they were
like those that were often used as symbols of rulers or
royal family members in Maya societies.

"We have to study the objects and bones further, but the
offerings strongly suggest a direct relation between the
Teotihuacan ruling group and the Maya royal families," Dr.
Sugiyama said.

The discovery was announced by Arizona State University in
Tempe, where Dr. Sugiyama also holds a position as research
professor. The other leader of the project is Dr. Ruben
Cabrera of the National Institute of Anthropology and
History in Mexico City. Excavations at the pyramid are to
resume next summer.

Considered the first great city of the Western Hemisphere,
Teotihuacan was built to a master-planned grid pattern with
broad avenues and imposing pyramids. It was the center of a
distinct culture, which at its peak was contemporary with
the early stages of Maya cities far to the south. The two
seemed very different cultures, with only occasional traces
of interaction, notably by noble Teotihuacan visitors at a
number of Maya cities.

The three skeletons were of men who were about 50 years
old. They were buried amid lavish goods in a tomb at the
top of the fifth of the pyramid's seven layered stages.

The skeletons did not have their hands tied, as they do in
many such burials, but the archaeologists said this did not
necessarily rule out death of the men as sacrifices. The
burial site has been dated at about A.D. 350, near the
zenith of Teotihuacan's power.

Dr. George Cowgill, another archaeologist at Arizona State,
who recently visited the site, said these were "the richest
undisturbed burials yet found in Teotihuacan," including
new evidence of Maya contacts there and "what looks like
elite gift-giving at the highest levels of Teotihuacan
society."

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/19/science/social/19JADE.html?ex=1038713791&ei=1&en=ce647d5c095802c4

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Beer!!!

[mshollie.livejournal.com]

You mean the real Bud, from Cesky Budejovice? (I hope I wrote that right...I can write some Croatian, but Czech is close enough, right?)

It isn't that I don't like the stuff. It's just that I can't drink it with the medications I'm taking.

It's times like this where I really dislike being a walking Walgreens.

Good luck in Gainesville. Looks like I'll be staying home this year and watching a Miss America-less Macy's parade AGAIN this year. *sigh*

ROAD TRIP!!!

[mshollie.livejournal.com]

(the icon says it all). Ft. Walton Beach, please.

Oh, well, maybe later. I'm heading out in the other direction this weekend to my old Cajun stomping ground, to see all my little adopted Cajun kitties (oh, and some people, too. :))

I'd better pack the Zicam and the Nasalcrom, just in case. I love cats dearly, but I'm highly allergic to 'em. *sigh*

I would be a "walking K&B", except K&B ain't dere no more. Besides, "Walking Walgreens" sounds a lot more alliterative, don't you think?

[amatrixangel.livejournal.com]

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