The Pocket Idiot's Guide to Tailgating

by David Blend

Tailgating is defined, by the American Tailgater Website thusly: To participate in a picnic that is served from the tailgate of a vehicle, as before a sports event. The Pocket Idiot's Guide to Tailgating will be the ultimate and ONLY book you'll need to planning and executing--and attending--a tailgate party. The author will offer excellent advice on the best kinds of barbeque equipment, such as gas grills versus charcoal grills, coolers, and where...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0028644018
• ISBN13: 9780028644011
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: Alpha Books
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.2" x 7.4"

Customer Reviews

BBQing, A Way of Life

Dave Blend is a master writer. Funny, side-splitting and a hell of a guy, Dave makes me want to pack it up and move back home to Texas with his savory words about yummy BBQ! I can tell you that his book has also pleased many Alabamians. They take their tailgating mighty seriously down there, and his book has entertained my family and their friends. He has successfully pulled together the South and the Lone Star State into BBQ solidarity. We need to all go in on an RV, grab a little Salt Lick sauce, and watch some football. Thanks for this tome to BBQ and inspiring me to watch more Crimson Tide (and of course my Longhorns). If one can get me to watch football and like it... then that ONE is a great writer who should be showered with publishers, wanting all his novels.

buy it for the BEARS BUS.

The Bears Bus, featured in this book, is the GREATEST MOTORIZED CONVEYANCE in the HISTORY OF MANKIND, and for that reason alone you should purchase a copy or two. Hundred.The book would be better if it came with a free ALF poster. Or without a description of Minnesota Vikings fans.

How can they say that?

I don't know any of you people, but I do know this: An author's predilection towards alcohol and 1970s grooming habits in no way influences the quality or themes of his work. For instance, the late Robert H. Heinlein, a favorite of mine both for his visionary glimpses into a future that has already come to pass, and his knowledge of "Nth Dimensional Non-Euclidean Geometry" (would that more writers would familiarize themselves with that subject--hint, hint, Tom Brokaw!), was an avid gardener, yet that didn't keep him from writing bravely on the subject of sex (Heinlein was vastly underrated as an eroticist) and interstellar revolution. My point? Maybe if everyone read a little more erotic science fiction, we wouldn't be so worried about how much people drink and what they look like!

Might I interject?

Forgive me for interjecting here; I, too, am familiar with the author's work. Likewise, I have followed the reviews of Tim Rogers and Adam McGill (see below) for some time; without exception, I have found them to be elegant and insightful, if not a bit over-reliant on the semi-colon. But I must take exception to Mr. McGill's continued fixation on Mr. Blend's hair; aside from poor form, it's also embarrassing. For those of you who have not had the pleasure of meeting Mr. McGill, he is a bit of a worm; he also remains an ardent advocate of globalization and the "new humanism." Making matters worse, at no time in his review does he actually engage the content of Mr. Blend's latest book, in particular its controversial analysis of the drip-free grill. A glaring oversight; no doubt, one he now regrets.