Trending: Huey Lewis

I was just rocking a Twitter sesh and noticed that Huey Lewis was trending. Why the hell would Huey - master of the '80s - be trending on Twitter - master of the not '80s? A little research revealed that Huey sang the national anthem at tonight's NLCS game in SF. Disappointed I missed it, I checked to see if it was available on youtube. No dice. However, I did stumble upon this piece of solid gold. 1985 World Series: Huey Lewis And The News doing a humble rendition of The National Anthem. Hearing Huey's feel good rasp come in at :50 mark and the accompanying visual forced me crack a Budweiser. This is the culmination of many things good.

UPDATE: This is one of those gross, Embedding disabled by request, videos so there will be no video on TCD. Check out the video here for yourself.

Weekend Inspiration

Anheuser-Busch to offer 500,000 free Budweisers

That's right. As reported in bizjournals.com, Anheuser-Busch plans to offer 500,000 free Budweisers at bars and restaurants in the hope of attracting more drinkers among the under-30 crowd. This is AB's largest ever national free sample effort. The reason for this, and this is astounding to me: Only 4 out of 10 people in their mid 20's have tried Budweiser. TRY. Budweiser used to flow quite freely during my HS and college days. Friends and colleagues would agree. In fact, a few of the staff members may wish they didn't have as many Budweisers at the staff retreat last weekend. It just makes me wonder what everyone else has been drinking? Craft beers (jvining)? Keystone? -- I guess that is understandable given the age demographic. But to reach your mid 20's and not even try a Budweiser is un-American to me.

I hope that people take advantage of this wonderful opportunity. I know TCD staff members will be on it and provide information on which local watering holes will be serving cold Buds during "National Happy Hour" on September 29.