Highlights from the 100 Things To Do List

As with our other blog "The Daily Vampire," we are featuring highlights from my 100 Things To Do List, which I actually wrote out last week.



1. (#2) wash car



2. (#14) Look at Craig's List for a cool new job or a good used vinyl record player



3. (#43) Check out Twitter page, even though it's so 2009.



4. (#48) Try to see a dentist



5. (#65) Make late summer reading list (that's the reason for the zombie version of "Pride and Prejudice" image, this is a bit of an in-joke since I've never read a Jane Austen novel).



6. (#77) Try to see a Shakespearean play at the American Shakespeare Center in Staunton, Va.



7. (#81) Pretend you are Walt Whitman, and sit under a tree and write a poem.



8. (#90) Look into volunteering for a cause you believe in. (There is actually a no-kill shelter for cats in Raleigh, NC, called Safe Haven, but that's a two-hour drive my zip code of residency!)



9. (#98) Research networking (I think this is actually on everyone's to-do list)



10. (#100) Eat at the new Thai Orchid in Roanoke, Va., perhaps I can find a radical feminist who will agree to pay for my meal to prove the "Father Knows Best" years are really behind us. (I should add that even though I just made fun of radical feminists, I am by no means a Republican. Michele Bachmann has proven that Sylvester Stallone was right when he said: "the cure is worse than the disease," in that god-awful mid-80s action movie "Cobra."

Beers of the World (#46)- Zywiec Beer from Poland

Today, we feature Zywiec Beer from Poland, a country I actually lived in as a six-year-old kid in 1976. The beer is made by the Zywiec Brewery, which is the oldest one in Poland. It was founded in 1852. Zywiec Beer became nationalized by 1950.

This lead to a court case between the Polish government and the Habsburg family who originally owned the brewery, and it was settled in 2005.

There are 70 breweries and 27 microbreweries in Poland.

We actually learned about this beer through a Beer Geography Quiz on mentalfloss.com, which are basically as addictive as Twinkies and heroin.

If you are wondering where entry #45 is, that can be found on our sister blog "The Daily Vampire." That brew happens to be Chang Beer from Thailand.

SIDEBAR: There is a very moving story today on the WUNC-FM (91.5-Chapel Hill) show "The State of Things" about Chapel Hill sports writer Tim Crothers who traveled to Africa to meet Phiona Mutesi, a 14-year-old girl from Uganda who lives in dires. She has nevertheless amazingly become one of the best young chess players in the real and she competed at a global tournament in a Siberian city in Russia. Mutesi said she had no idea what the weather was like in Siberia, so she asked: "Is it cold there?" The article by Crothers was in a January issue of "ESPN Magazine."

Beer Week Promo

We have no idea what beers we will feature during Beer Week (which will actually start on Wednesday as we have quotes on Monday and Tuesday this month), but since we are on a Scandinavian kick, the possibilities do include the likes of the Norwegian beer Haaken, but we have already featured the Danish beer Carlsberg.

We may also go with a beer that we learned about while wasting precious time on a Mental Floss quiz (where you can learn that Steve Martin won two Grammys, but no Oscars, and where you can kick yourself for forgetting that Cuba is one of the world's ten countries with four letters), including Chang Beer from Thailand and Zywtec Beer from Poland.