
From the inbox today:
As you should all know, LAAFF is around the corner. We want you to prove your love of LAAFF and get into the action. We know you love to go to a free street festival and drink cheap beer and ogle the freaks (or be ogled, respectively)… in order to give you what you love, we need people.Thats right, you get to be part of the itneractive fun, the hydrating people you love fun and the sitting in the shade in the Arts2People tent fun. Why should you help?
Arts2People is a not for profit organization that has been kicking ass in Asheville for a decade and has brought things like the Asheville Mural Project, Pritchard Parks Cultural Arts Progam and um… oh yeah, LAAFF to the town. Not only that, but Arts 2 People has taken various important projects under its wings such as Faces of Asheville and Moving Women and has helped other artists and artist groups through funding or mentorship. Arts2People has been empowering artists for a solid decade and this is your chance to act like you love Asheville for all its spunky funk and give 2 or more hours of your time.
If you Love LAAFF , prove it and give us a couple of hours (or more!). Not only is it a great way to meet other freaky minded people, its also a great way to score a cool shirt, and some adult beverage coupons, on top of whatever perks we cook up at the last minute (those are the best ones).
Contact Torva at 828 808 0270 or email her at Torvawench@gmail.com to sign up.
What? There’s only one? Seriously?
The UK’s Daily Mail has a feature about Annabel Smith, the UK’s only female beer taster. “Annabel regularly sips up to 36 beers A DAY and has tried almost 26,000 samples of 3,000 different brews in three years in the job.” Holy cow. [The Daily Mail]
Pints to be £5 by the time of the London Olympics
Yikes. Not so pleasant. The exchange rate has been hovering at about 2-to-1, dollar to pound, which makes that about $10 for a pint of English ale. The new taxes are really affecting the English pubs and many think a mass closure is in the horizon. CAMRA not happy. ”Britain’s drinkers pay more in tax than almost anyone else in Europe, with the taxman receiving around 80 pence a pint.” [The Telegraph]
It’s beer week in Britain
CAMRA’s Great British Beer Festival is this week. Beer expert, Melissa Cole, ranks her Top 10 Beers at the GBBF. [Times Online] Of note is that this is the first year American craft beers will be represented, though a program with the Brewers Association called the Export Development Program.
Totally disturbing. Can’t get over it.
Dismembered heads are not accessories, people. *shudder*

Here’s a nifty picture of the wee one we wrote about yesterday. She sent me a photo. How cool.
You wear that beerlanthropy shirt proud, girl!