With all his bitching about the changing times, did he ever frakking bother to make a single phone call? Or is he too good for that?

Does he think Browne’s controlled Murray’s schedule? How about sharing some of his bitterness toward the Guinness rep who was scheduling the visits? Or doesn’t the famous KC Beer Blog know who the Guinness distributor is? With all his bragging, you’d think he knew every beer-related individual in a 100-mile radius.

BTW, Fergal (whom I met and had a wonderful chat with) was not going from Browne’s (which he left at 4:30) to the Flogging Molly concert (where the doors opened at 6). He went from Browne’s to O’Dowd’s on the Plaza which our lordly Beer Blogger would have known about if he had a frakking clue. I would also suspect Mr. Beer Blog would have been MUCH more comfortable in the faux Irishness of O’Dowd’s (not to mention the clubby atmosphere provided by his fellow posers).

Also, who the hell arrives at an event an HOUR after it starts and expects VIP treatment? Whatever happened to getting to an event ON TIME (or perhaps early) to get your story. Unless, of course, the whole purpose was to find something to bitch about. In that case, Mission Accomplished.

Ironically, Mr. KC Beer Blog both bitches about how the Browne’s event wasn’t “announced” according to his standards yet still managed to blow through four kegs of Guinness in under two hours (something he could have learned if he had actually talked to anyone at the event). So I’m thinking this is more a case of unexpected success than any sort of failure on the part of the fine people at Browne’s.

But stealth seems to be more yer man’s style. Arrive late, tell no one what your purpose is, find fault with EVERYTHING, and then put it all on the Internet as if it was the universal experience of everyone at the event.

Well, from what I witnessed (since I was there from about 1 p.m. until after 5) just about everyone (well except for Mr. Frowny Face from KC Beer Blog) had a grand time, despite not living up to Mr. Beer Blog’s standards.

Somehow I expect we’ll learn to get over this failure.