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Beer for Johnny

Johnny just recently completed his Ph.D. in a medical science field from a major research university and is currently engaged in a postdoctoral research position at an East Coast school that demands long hours at low pay. Needless to say, Johnny needs beer, but the combination of low cash flow plus student debt makes such an endeavour extremely difficult. This site serves provide John with the funds to purchase beer through viewer donations under the following guidelines: 1) Money shall be collected to purchase beer and, if warranted, accompanying fringe requirements (food, etc.). 2) Said beer will only be of the 'microbrewed' variety; that is, a fine craft-brewed malt liquor available from select beverage distibutors and/or exceptional breweries/brewpubs. 3) As a trained microbiologist and avid homebrewer, funds may be used towards supplies utilized in homebrewing, for the Johnny believes that if you give a man beer, he drinks for a day; teach a man to brew, he drinks for a lifetime. 4) As 'Beer for Johnny' has not yet been deemed a not-for-profit venture, donated money may be used to offset taxes incurred by this collection of revenue. 5) These guidelines may and will be amended as future events dictate. Get beef? Email me. PayPal donations accepted by clicking the icon below.

Wednesday, May 05, 2004

Welcome the the inaugural post of BEER FOR JOHNNY. I am your protagonist, Johnny, and I have set up this blog to help me in my quest to purchase and consume drinkable beer. It is my belief that beer is by far the most aesthetically pleasing liquor -- more fanciful and complex than wine -- available to the masses, and the disciplines involved in making this wonderful elixir constitute a true art from.

I have set up this blog in efforts to provide me with the funds to pursue my love of all things 'zymurgy' (look it up) . I am in my early thirties and spent the last 7 years completing a doctoral degree focusing on the treatment of cancer and infection. I am currently within the early throes of a postdoctoral tour (usually 2-4 years) in efforts to someday start-up my own research program as an independent research professor. Not only do postdoctoral positions generally pay slighty higher than a graduate stipend (i.e. jack-squat), I now find myself paying off all of the loans accrued during the bulk of the last decade towards getting where I am today.

Long story short: pay low, bills high, beer flow in jeopardy.

It is therefore my intention to rely on the kindness of strangers for obtaining the funds with which purchase and consume good beer.

More to come later!
posted by John  # 8:22 PM

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