The Good, The Bad & The Ugly: April 28

This week's good goes to Yuengling lager. For months, I just hadn't been in the mood for one - the flavor just hit me the wrong way one day, after years of enjoying 'em. But I gave America's Oldest Brewery - which has a location right across the bay in Tampa, even though some crappy local joints still insist on charging import/microbrew prices for a bottle - another shot Saturday night, and yeah, it's back in the rotation.

This week's bad goes to one of my freelance accounts, who shall remain nameless. The company's monthly checks usually come like clockwork; this time around, it's a few days late and, well, let's just say I kind of freakin' need it.

This week's ugly is singularly so. Some fucking sadistic kid "in his late teens or early 20s, 6 feet tall, thin build, short hair, no shirt" beat a cat to death in our neighborhood two weeks ago. (The notice just appeared in our local neighborhood news bulletin this week.) What's worse, it wasn't a stray - not that beating a stray cat to death isn't reason enough to put the asshole in the hospital - but a family pet. If you live in the Kenwood area of St. Petersburg, go to www.WhoKilledAmy.com and see if you can help identify a certain young African-American male who should shortly be taking his meals through a straw.