Recent Search Strings, or, “Are Wine Writers Parasites?”

Like many bloggers or other new media junkies, I’m just a little obsessed with checking at my stats counter. Looking at the terms and phrases people use to navigate the internet can be enlightening, entertaining and, well, rather creepy. Below, a snapshot of yesterday’s and today’s (thus far) searches that brought people here.
Oh, internet. You’re [...]

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Nigerian Wine Spam?

A friend forwarded me this email, which might just be the work of Nigerian email scammers. Evidently the turmoil in the financial world — and perhaps an increased awareness of both personal finances and email scams — has forced the scammers into a new game. Either that, or this whole wine fraud thing is really [...]

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St. Patrick’s Day: Who Cares?

Especially when there’s Cougar Barbie! Someone shared this with me on Facebook and it’s just too funny not to pass around.
Also: The clip ends randomly with John McCain, which is more than a little gross in this context.

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Ninja Saturday

A little Dr. McNinja ass-whoopin’ for Saturday…
The Doc’s on a CIA plane bound for a forbidden island to save the world. The plane’s been attacked, his CIA contact hurled from the gaping hole and the mysterious assailant — dubbed a robot by the CIA agent — has boarded the plane…
Go here to start from the [...]

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Tomfoolery

It’s Repeal Day folks, the anniversary of the 21st Amendment that ended Prohibition here in the United States. It’s also sort of become a Valentine’s Day/Hallmark holiday of sorts for the booze industry. Like Valentine’s Day, Repeal Day seems to inspire an raft of stories, theme parties and the like in the various media that [...]

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Wino Photos are Fun

I’ve finally got a decent camera in my phone. Not that I’m abandoning my Nikon or anything, but this does mean more spontaneous pics to share. To wit:
Check out those tartrates!

Is it me, or is that a fingernail floating in the neck of this wine? The label *did* say that this wine was bottled unfiltered. [...]

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Buddy the Amazing Surfing Dog!

The Information Age has meant a lot for our society, and the more connected we get the better we have access to defining cultural moments, like this four-eared cat for instance. Even better, I think, is this video my mom sent to me, starring a family friend’s surfing dog tearing it up at some of [...]

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The Perfect Negroni

(Above: A refreshing Negroni is the perfect cure for a case of the summertime blues)
Gotta love summer. Easily my busiest work period of the year and everyone else gets to go on vacation. Bastards. Anyway, because I’ve been buried under multiple deadlines recently, rather than post something original, I’m going to pinch work from colleagues. [...]

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Blogging Paradox: Fixed Gears on Spume

(Above: Fixed gear bikes like this one aren’t for everyone but they can sure be pretty)
So I’ve been randomly updating these pages since early December and, like many bloggers out there, I’ve become addicted to my stats counter. Not that I’ve ever done anything to market or promote this blog, but people seem to come [...]

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Olfactory Delights

…Or maybe not if you fear a little funque in your wine.
I believe that the perfume and wine worlds occupy similar rings in the sensory universe (anybody read Patrick Suskind’s Perfume?).
In a move that reflects the sensory aspirations of both worlds–and which could make even the most flowery wine writer choke on his or her [...]

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