Food writer Jeff Love starts a journey with a tale that’s best to begin here, with its conclusion to come later on CliqueClack Food in his always awesome Redneck Cooking column.

I got an email the other day from Keith. He asked me to do him a favor. I asked what the favor was. He said, “I need you to drink a six-pack of beer.”

Now that is the kind of favor I like my friends to ask me for. I quickly agreed to do the favor. I asked, “what kind of beer do I have to drink?” He said a six-pack of the Land Shark Lager he reviewed recently in his brew review column. After reading the review, it didn’t sound too bad, so I still was willing to do Keith the favor. In the back of my mind I kept thinking, “Keith has never been this nice to me before, so what’s he got up his sleeve?” Has Keith finally became a saint?

After several emails back and forth I was feeling pretty good about this “favor” Keith wanted. In his last email, he showed that he was not a saint, but more a sadistic bastard. Keith did not want me to do a review of the beer; instead he wanted me to watch an episode of According to Jim after drinking a six-pack of beer to see if the show was funnier.

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Alec Baldwin is back! A couple weeks ago it was 15-time host Steve Martin taking the reins of Saturday Night Live, and this week we were treated to 14-time host Alec Baldwin. My expectations were really high going into the episode, with fond memories of some of Baldwin’s previous hosting gigs (in particular his Pete Schweddy skits). Were my expectations met? No, not really, but it wasn’t the worst episode that we have seen this season. There were some legitimate laughs and plenty of cameos.

Let’s break it down.

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