pumpktoberfest #34 - one leaf to rule them all.

film: leprechaun
beer: greenport harbor leaf pile ale

as someone with a good bit of irish ancestry, i'm fully aware of the two irish stereotypes--the drunk & the leprechaun. both stereotypes are completely hilarious & i fully endorse further comedic use of the two. case in point: the 1993 horror film leprechaun, a film that launched a six-film franchise with such amazing direct-to-video concepts as leprechaun 4: in space & leprechaun: in the hood. it was the first film role for jennifer aniston, a role she took after spending a season on the short-lived ferris bueller TV series. it also features that dude who played a manchild in pee-wee's big adventure. he plays a manchild in this film too, so i guess that's sort of his thing. the leprechaun's played by warwick davis, who was willow in willow & wicket in return of the jedi.

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a smorgasburg of pumpkins.

as i've mentioned a bunch of times in the past, three-quarters of the parow children now live in new york city, so we get together every once in a while. when we do, it's usually over food. last weekend, my doctor sister was celebrating her 35th 25th birthday so on a windy saturday the three of us & a few of the bro's pals met up in williamsburg at the god-awful hour of 11am to eat a bunch of food at brooklyn flea's smorgasburg market. it was the first time i'd returned to the market after visiting there for fucked in park slope back in may for its opening weekend. in preparation for our familial gathering, the bro had purchased three passes from gilt city that were each good for five entrees, a drink & a dessert, so we had some serious eating ahead of us. i, of course, was on the hunt for pumpktoberfest treats.

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a tale of two pumpkin (drinks).

all pumpktoberfest long, we've got guest posts from some of my favorite bloggers. so far, the posts from erica of FIPS & junk food guy have been nothing short of pumpktastic. today we've got the return of the eatinist bitch, who contributed a guest post on snacks & drinks in puerto rico to eat!drink!snack! this past summer. she kinda cracks my shit up. inside joke: don't ever get her on a boat & make her prepare guacamole for you.

fall isn't particularly my favorite time of year, but it's pretty special because it's her time to shine. by "her," i mean that curvy orange delight, the pumpkin. pumpkin pie, pumpkin ravioli, pumpkin ice cream...pretty much anything pumpkin's added to is made better with its beautiful color, rich flavor, and dare i even say it...nutrition. when i saw that jamba juice had a seasonal smoothie called the "pumpkin smash" (almost sounds like a wrestling move...or a bad dance move from the 50's), of course I had to give it a try.

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pumpktoberfest #33 - the insane housewives of VT.

film: what lies beneath
beer: wolaver's pumpkin ale

being a housewife ain't all it's cracked up to be. sure you have countless opportunities to lounge about the house sipping red wine & baking pies & gossiping with your girlfriends on the phone, but there's eventually going to come a point where your lack of fulfillment gets the best of you & you end up going straight-up crazy. take oscar-winning director robert zemeckis' 2000 film what lies beneath. in it, michelle pfeiffer plays the part of claire spencer, a housewife married to norman spencer, a big-shot scientist played by harrison ford. if you think that owning a nice house in vermont & being married to a dashing scientist is a recipe for bliss, you're sadly mistaken. claire's got ISSUES.

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five questions: sixpoint.

to kick off the third week of pumpktoberfest 2011, today we've got an interview with brooklyn's sixpoint brewery, who've brewed one of this year's new & most unique pumpkin beers. their autumnation, the first pumpktoberfest beer to come in a can, bucks the normal trend of loading up pumpkin beers with pumpkin pie spices & instead relies on a flavor dominated by pumpkin, wet hops, ginger & pepper. i reached out to sixpoint via email & jeff gorlechen, sixpoint's promotion director, sat around with the whole brewery to answer a few pumpktoberfest questions.

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