Monday, April 9, 2007
HAMMER-TIME
All of us at DuClaw Brewing Company would like to wish a big belated Happy Birthday to an American Icon. He was born March 30th, 1962 in Oakland, CA. From his childhood stint as a batboy (some would say “ratboy” for team owner Charlie Finley) for Major League Baseball’s Oakland A’s, to his current incarnation as a preacher and pitchman for insurance and credit counseling companies, he has reinvented himself numerous in during his prolific 45 year life.
Boy of Summer
And, despite the squandering of a brilliant career and a 30 million dollar fortune, he will always be remembered as a pioneer in the fields of music sampling, pop rap and parachute pants. Today we honor Stanley Kirk Burrell, also known as…
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MC Hammer.
JUST KIDDING!
Sit down. No, really, SIT DOWN. Hammers start swinging in Bel Air 4/16/07. That’s right, we’re days away from having our ear drums explode from the piercing shriek of power tools, inhaling clouds of dirt and toxic sawdust, and having our female employees become the target of incessant wolf whistles.
Is there another attractive woman up there?
WHOO HOO!
We have still not set a date for the grand reopening, but at least there’s a light at the end of the tunnel now. Next time, PROOF OF LIFE in Bel Air.
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