I know this is against the rules

originally posted by mlawton:
I truly have no interest in that forum or most of the wines they discuss over there, but that doesn't mean I shouldn't notice what a jackass Squires seems to be in that interchange. Is it really any different from someone posting a link to the wonderful work that Bruce G is doing in Japan?
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Soon enough there'll no doubt be a post showing what a jackass I can be as well.
In fact, I'm slowly coming to the conclusion that the main purpose of the internet is to present us all with ample opportunity to make jackasses of ourselves.

I hang out at that other board just about as much as I hang out here. I've even worked out an accomodation of sorts with Mr. Squires... we keep out of each other's way. Not hard for me to do, since my virtual agoraphobia prevents me from posting more than once a month or so.
Having said that, I do view the msrmp board as an opportunity lost. The whole air of a lame duck presidency trying to create and maintain a legacy is pretty stifling.
I've never understood why talking about wine is OK, but talking about talking about wine is a waltz through a minefield.

Cheers,
 
talking about talking about is always a minefield...it's just that the internet is faster feedback than published academic discourse....plus, on the internet, people write like they think, more than they talk, so it's ripe for weirdness.
 
originally posted by David M. Bueker:
Ian - it was Neal Martin that was talking about all his Burg notes & I think some are already up in the Wine Journal section.
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Neal Martin generally seems fairly sensible in those few samples I've read of his wine writing. Anyone who's a fan of 1971 Bordeaux (for which fondness I myself am indebted to Jayson) has an automatic plus in my book
 
originally posted by Bruce G.:

Having said that, I do view the msrmp board as an opportunity lost. The whole air of a lame duck presidency trying to create and maintain a legacy is pretty stifling.
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That's a great way of putting it.

I've never understood why talking about wine is OK, but talking about talking about wine is a waltz through a minefield.
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Part of the raison d'etre for this bored is to talk about talking about (even talking about) wine.
 
if this were an art criticism site, nothing would happen without criticism of the criticism. i think it's part of the territory. pettiness can't be helped...it can be mildly entertaining...and so is this thread. have we learned anything we didn't know yet?
 
originally posted by Joel Stewart:
if this were an art criticism site, nothing would happen without criticism of the criticism. i think it's part of the territory. pettiness can't be helped...it can be mildly entertaining...and so is this thread. have we learned anything we didn't know yet?
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Yep.
Just another in the many reminders that the internet often devolves to the least common denominator.
Best, Jim
 
I don't feel weird about posting about the TWA board. I used to post there all the time, learned a whole lot, liked it, but it was frustrating to me that it took the turn it did. It doesn't seem like a bad thing to feel that and express it.
 
originally posted by MLipton:
originally posted by Joe_Perry:

She's the greatest singer that ever lived. Imagine the power of Tebaldi with the passion of Callas and the looks of Pavarotti.
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Susan Boyle has a very nice voice, but any comparison to either Tebaldi or Callas is not appropriate. As the son of a trained operatic soprano, I can tell you that she needs a good coach to get to the stratospheric heights of the true pros. She might very well have the pipes to do it, but she ain't there yet. And she looks a bit too much like a Monte Python version of a British housewife for me to take totally seriously (superficial, but true).

Mark Lipton
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Susan Boyle will not be stopped by you or anyone else. She has already moved past Tebaldi and Callas in the history of greatest opera singers of all time. The painting of Joan Sutherland was thown out of the Sydney Opera house yesterday and replaced with a Susan Boyle poster done by Shepard Fairey.
 
originally posted by Joel Stewart:
but...she doesn't have a 4.5 (recently downgraded from 5.0) octave voice, like Don Van Vliet does now does she?
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No, but she recieved Three Stars from Michelin 'cuz she is just that good (and for her all-weather handling).
 
originally posted by Joe_Perry:
originally posted by Joel Stewart:
but...she doesn't have a 4.5 (recently downgraded from 5.0) octave voice, like Don Van Vliet does now does she?
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No, but she recieved Three Stars from Michelin 'cuz she is just that good (and for her all-weather handling).
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sorry Joe, i just never put that much trust in Bib (under my car, or, on my table)
 
originally posted by Joel Stewart:
originally posted by Joe_Perry:
originally posted by Joel Stewart:
but...she doesn't have a 4.5 (recently downgraded from 5.0) octave voice, like Don Van Vliet does now does she?
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No, but she recieved Three Stars from Michelin 'cuz she is just that good (and for her all-weather handling).
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sorry Joe, i just never put that much trust in Bib (under my car, or, on my table)
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The new xICE2 tires are the proverbial bomb. Pilot Sport Cups are also a very good set.
 
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