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Category Archives: GENERAL
The Drupe Dupe: Extra Virgin Olive Oil. P.S.; Neither Was Your First Wife
This is a website about drinking, so whenever I wander off topic and enter the realm of cuisine—a subject about which I know even less than wine—I do so at the peril of my long-suffering readers. Technically however, I suppose … Continue reading
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Tagged Amanda Knox, Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Ilona Staller, Ranael Ray, The Little Mermaid
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Only 98 Photoshopping Days Left Until The Bordeaux en primeur
“I’m on a seafood diet. I see food and I throw up.” – Runway model Filippa Hamilton-Palmstierna A pair of recent headlines—one excoriating Ralph Lauren for photoshopping cover-girl Filippa Hamilton-Palmstierna to resemble Bobby Sands during Extreme Unction and another excoriating … Continue reading
Posted in Bordeaux, FRANCE, GENERAL
Tagged Chanel, Chateau Rauzan-Segla, Coco Chanel, Filippa Hamilton-Palmstierna, Karl Lagerfeld
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Drugs ‘N’ Stuff: Why Can’t We All Just Get Along?
I used to make fun of songs like ‘We Are The World, We Are The Children’, but you know what? Every once in a while, who among us hasn’t taken a moment from our hectic daily grind to glance wistfully … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony Gucciardi, Marijuana, Michael Jackson drugs, prescription drugs, Rodney King
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How It’s Made®. This Episode: Babies, Buzzes and Hangovers
Maybe once in a lifetime—if you’re lucky—somebody invents something that truly rocks the planet, and it’s fair to suggest that Ron Popiel had nothing to do with any of them. If you’d lived in the disease-ridden slop-pit destined to become … Continue reading
Att. Winos: Turns Out It’s Brain Buds More Than Taste Buds
In this vale of toil and sin where your head grows bald but not your chin, there are very few universal experiences. One of them is this: You’re in your car, at the club or listening to music in your … Continue reading
Care And Feeding Of Your New Pet Peeve—Today’s Lesson: Booze
So, you woke up Christmas morning so excited that you soiled your jammies! You ran out to check beneath the tree and found that Santa had left you a brand-new, snuggly-huggly, squeezable-pleasable Pet Peeve! Good on ya, Junior! But don’t … Continue reading
Elvis And Wine: Red, White And Blue Suede Shoes
Of all High Holy Feast Days celebrated throughout the liturgical year of America’s one true religion—Orthodox Schlockologyism—today is the most sacred. ‘For the angel said unto them, ‘Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which … Continue reading
Beat The Muddles: Drinks from the Beatnik Generation
January 6, 2012 would have marked the 77th birthday of John ‘The Hipster of Joy Street’ Wieners, an influential lyric poet who was one of the lesser known writers of the Beat Generation. Like any self-respecting beatnik, Wieners was born … Continue reading
There’s School Smart, There’s Street Smart, There’s Book Smart And There’s Me
Isn’t it amazing how the creative mind works—the literary brain especially? Isn’t it spectacular how journalists are able to compose column after column, day after day, year after year, on topics of interest to every human alive, from slobbering pre-schoolers … Continue reading
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Tagged Dakota Fanning, Faulkner, Lolita, Sound and the Fury, To Kill A Mockingbird
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I Drink, Therefore I Am: British Doctors Rail Against Abstinence
Sometimes, when the British are funny they know it—AbFab, Monty Python, Blackadder, Fawlty Towers. And sometimes when they’re funny, they don’t—grownups who still have freckles, rich people with different accents than poor people, calling cigarettes ‘fags’, chavs—especially those who incessantly … Continue reading
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