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Stone Brewing Co., while not the purpose of our trip to California this past week — the purpose is to get famous and rich, and it’s going really, really well, thanks for asking — it was certainly one of the highlights. We wouldn’t have even known to visit the brewery, which sits a little bit north of San Diego, except for our tag-along this week — an editor for the Phoenix New Times. He’s writing a story about our residencies for next week’s paper, and came to see the shows in L.A. and San Diego.

It was highly idyllic and the beer was, as expected, delicious. Wayne bought a growler of it to bring home with him. The trip to the brewery was only slightly marred by Brian’s coming down with the horrible sinusageddon that I’ve had for the past week or so. He took a Mucinex and hurried for the van, where he promptly passed out on the bench. It reminded me of another time Brian just couldn’t handle mid-day revelry in Dallas, and repaired to the van while we had overpriced margaritas at a Tex-Mex place. A group of sorority girls (the place was near S.M.U.) toddled past the van saying, “Oh my God — look at that scary rapist van…. Oh my God … there’s someone asleep in there! Get in the car! Get in the car!”

It is a scary looking van, though, even with a bunch of nice looking guys standing in front of it:

I took a couple of nice photos of the brewery itself and of its surrounding demesne. Here are some:

We talked nonstop to the journalist who accompanied us, and on returning home, I immediately felt that sick feeling in my stomach that I’d made an ass of myself — that I’d sounded too serious about it all, or tried too hard to come across as likable, or sounded like a braggart. But that’s all part of the very normal, low-level, slowly-bubbling self-loathing that fills up the bottom of my stomach. Don’t worry, it’s always mixed with a healthy dose of deluded grandeur.

This entry was written by andrew, posted on January 21, 2011 at 3:53 pm