Steve Edmunds
Steve Edmunds
He's been watching "The Incredible Two-Headed Transplant."
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Public Apology
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He's been watching "The Incredible Two-Headed Transplant."
Eden Mylunsch
Eden Mylunsch
Screagle.
Don't denigrate it just because you can't fucking afford the stuff.
And I had some 17 year-old wannabe Kid Rock come into the store once and he demanded to see what "Chris" we had.
I told him that Chris is off today but he'd be in tomorrow.
Vanilla Ice Boy goes, "no, shizznit, you know, CHRIS, the Champagne the rappers be drinking in they videos".
As I escorted this miscreant out the door I informed him that if he couldn't remember the words "Louis Roederer Cristal Ros", he sure as hell wasn't going to remember how to ask for Armand de Brignac, the Champagne that the rappers have shifted their allegiance to (really, could I have been any Cattier)?
After being hurled out into the heat of the Encino parking lot adjacent to my 7-11, he climbed into his BMW M5 but immediately encountered no slight amount of difficulty in manipulating the car's iDrive electronic system. When the perp inserted the key into the ignition to attempt to resurrect the lost soul of KDAY AM, the tweeter sounds began coming out of the subwoofer and the exhaust began pouring out of the midrange speakers and then all the airplanes doing instrument landings at the nearby Van Nuys Airport began trying to land in our parking lot because something goofy was going on with the car's electrical system (you ain't never gotten your adrenalin pumping like it does when you see a Citation X coming right at you while trying to land on a 400 foot runway that's not really a runway!!!).
Anyhow, the airplanes landing and the subwoofers tweeting distracted Junior long enough for a passing repo man to realize that the car was three hours behind in his payments (in Encino that counts as being late) so he yanked him from the car and forced him to suffer the ignominy of having to ride on the bus and then even the repo guy, well he couldn't figure out the goddamn iDrive controls (the freakin' iDrive manual is something like 300 pages long and is written in a German dialect so obscure that even David Schildknecht has to call James Wright to understand it). Rather than waste any more time, Mr Repo simply walked across the street to the Ford dealership and traded the BMW to a gullible salesperson. It was a straight across deal, the M5 for a new Focus and a used Escort (sounds like political talk, not car deals). It was quite a day.
BTW, the word "redolent" doesn't keep me awake nights, but I'm feeling that "piehole" is becoming altogether overused nowadays. And don't you think that it lacks specificity? Is the pie coming in or going out? And is it always the same hole or is it different holes? And what kind of pie?
-Eden (it's got an okay buzz factor, this l'Enfant Terrible, but something from Paso Robles might have made this a more interesting post)
Don't denigrate it just because you can't fucking afford the stuff.
And I had some 17 year-old wannabe Kid Rock come into the store once and he demanded to see what "Chris" we had.
I told him that Chris is off today but he'd be in tomorrow.
Vanilla Ice Boy goes, "no, shizznit, you know, CHRIS, the Champagne the rappers be drinking in they videos".
As I escorted this miscreant out the door I informed him that if he couldn't remember the words "Louis Roederer Cristal Ros", he sure as hell wasn't going to remember how to ask for Armand de Brignac, the Champagne that the rappers have shifted their allegiance to (really, could I have been any Cattier)?
After being hurled out into the heat of the Encino parking lot adjacent to my 7-11, he climbed into his BMW M5 but immediately encountered no slight amount of difficulty in manipulating the car's iDrive electronic system. When the perp inserted the key into the ignition to attempt to resurrect the lost soul of KDAY AM, the tweeter sounds began coming out of the subwoofer and the exhaust began pouring out of the midrange speakers and then all the airplanes doing instrument landings at the nearby Van Nuys Airport began trying to land in our parking lot because something goofy was going on with the car's electrical system (you ain't never gotten your adrenalin pumping like it does when you see a Citation X coming right at you while trying to land on a 400 foot runway that's not really a runway!!!).
Anyhow, the airplanes landing and the subwoofers tweeting distracted Junior long enough for a passing repo man to realize that the car was three hours behind in his payments (in Encino that counts as being late) so he yanked him from the car and forced him to suffer the ignominy of having to ride on the bus and then even the repo guy, well he couldn't figure out the goddamn iDrive controls (the freakin' iDrive manual is something like 300 pages long and is written in a German dialect so obscure that even David Schildknecht has to call James Wright to understand it). Rather than waste any more time, Mr Repo simply walked across the street to the Ford dealership and traded the BMW to a gullible salesperson. It was a straight across deal, the M5 for a new Focus and a used Escort (sounds like political talk, not car deals). It was quite a day.
BTW, the word "redolent" doesn't keep me awake nights, but I'm feeling that "piehole" is becoming altogether overused nowadays. And don't you think that it lacks specificity? Is the pie coming in or going out? And is it always the same hole or is it different holes? And what kind of pie?
-Eden (it's got an okay buzz factor, this l'Enfant Terrible, but something from Paso Robles might have made this a more interesting post)
originally posted by Kay Bixler:
originally posted by Chris Coad:
I'm going to find me some killer juice now. KILLER JUICE!
Hey, I heard about this hipster zinfandel . . .
Best,
Kay
Hopefully you'll get to try an even hipper Zinfandel. One of the perks of the sales contest I won with Seghesio out in California this summer was I got to blend a bottle of Zin that they'll bottle a case of to my specs. Was given a finished bottle each of '06 Zin from their Benchlands Vineyard, Home Ranch Vineyard, Cortina Vineyard and their '06 Petite Sirah and told to play. It was neat to see the vineyard character differences in each of the Zin, with the Home Ranch full of unbelieveable red, briary fruit with softer tannins, the Cortina showing black fruit with pretty hard tannins and the Benchlands showing high acidity. The Petite Sirah was low acid, but with nice black fruit and firm tannins. I ended up making a blend of 60% Home Ranch, 20% Benchlands as I liked the zip it gave, 12% Petite Sirah and 8% Cortina. Hope to get the case sent to me sometime this fall and will definitely bring a bottle to a jeebus.
Chris Coad
Chris Coad
originally posted by Brad Kane:
originally posted by Kay Bixler:
originally posted by Chris Coad:
I'm going to find me some killer juice now. KILLER JUICE!
Hey, I heard about this hipster zinfandel . . .
Best,
Kay
Hopefully you'll get to try an even hipper Zinfandel. One of the perks of the sales contest I won with Seghesio out in California this summer was I got to blend a bottle of Zin that they'll bottle a case of to my specs. Was given a finished bottle each of '06 Zin from their Benchlands Vineyard, Home Ranch Vineyard, Cortina Vineyard and their '06 Petite Sirah and told to play. It was neat to see the vineyard character differences in each of the Zin, with the Home Ranch full of unbelieveable red, briary fruit with softer tannins, the Cortina showing black fruit with pretty hard tannins and the Benchlands showing high acidity. The Petite Sirah was low acid, but with nice black fruit and firm tannins. I ended up making a blend of 60% Home Ranch, 20% Benchlands as I liked the zip it gave, 12% Petite Sirah and 8% Cortina. Hope to get the case sent to me sometime this fall and will definitely bring a bottle to a jeebus.
Brad, why does this sound like a press release?
originally posted by Chris Coad:
originally posted by Brad Kane:
originally posted by Kay Bixler:
originally posted by Chris Coad:
I'm going to find me some killer juice now. KILLER JUICE!
Hey, I heard about this hipster zinfandel . . .
Best,
Kay
Hopefully you'll get to try an even hipper Zinfandel. One of the perks of the sales contest I won with Seghesio out in California this summer was I got to blend a bottle of Zin that they'll bottle a case of to my specs. Was given a finished bottle each of '06 Zin from their Benchlands Vineyard, Home Ranch Vineyard, Cortina Vineyard and their '06 Petite Sirah and told to play. It was neat to see the vineyard character differences in each of the Zin, with the Home Ranch full of unbelieveable red, briary fruit with softer tannins, the Cortina showing black fruit with pretty hard tannins and the Benchlands showing high acidity. The Petite Sirah was low acid, but with nice black fruit and firm tannins. I ended up making a blend of 60% Home Ranch, 20% Benchlands as I liked the zip it gave, 12% Petite Sirah and 8% Cortina. Hope to get the case sent to me sometime this fall and will definitely bring a bottle to a jeebus.
Brad, why does this sound like a press release?
I didn't even tell you the name! El Armadillo!
Chris Coad
Chris Coad
Methinks if you work either of 'beguiling' or 'whimsical' into that paragraph, you'd have your bases covered.
Eden Mylunsch
Eden Mylunsch
originally posted by Brad Kane:
I ended up making a blend of 60% Home Ranch, 20% Benchlands as I liked the zip it gave, 12% Petite Sirah and 8% Cortina. Hope to get the case sent to me sometime this fall and will definitely bring a bottle to a jeebus.
The Ford Cortina was a pretty cool car but I can't wait to check out the new El Armadillo! Cortina. How about an ad campaign something along the lines of "She'll have four on the floor after just two glasses of El Armadillo!" or something like that? Feel free to use it if you like it.
On a similar subject (the proliferation of nonsensical single-vineyard releases), a new wine blog called
Hose Master of Wine addressed) this very same subject today, only about Mazzocco's Rockette-length lineup of Zinfandels. Hose Master makes some good points, even if the wines don't score many. $150 for a Zin? Right. Worthwhile reading, even if you only look at the pictures.
-Eden (people around here use their Maybachs to take the dog to be groomed or to drop the kids off at school- the rest of the time they have their Bentley GTs, Ferrari 599s, and the occasional Spyker or Pagoni Zonta in which to cruise around)
originally posted by Eden Mylunsch:
Screagle.
Don't denigrate it just because you can't fucking afford the stuff.
And I had some 17 year-old wannabe Kid Rock come into the store once and he demanded to see what "Chris" we had.
I told him that Chris is off today but he'd be in tomorrow.
Vanilla Ice Boy goes, "no, shizznit, you know, CHRIS, the Champagne the rappers be drinking in they videos".
As I escorted this miscreant out the door I informed him that if he couldn't remember the words "Louis Roederer Cristal Ros", he sure as hell wasn't going to remember how to ask for Armand de Brignac, the Champagne that the rappers have shifted their allegiance to (really, could I have been any Cattier)?
After being hurled out into the heat of the Encino parking lot adjacent to my 7-11, he climbed into his BMW M5 but immediately encountered no slight amount of difficulty in manipulating the car's iDrive electronic system. When the perp inserted the key into the ignition to attempt to resurrect the lost soul of KDAY AM, the tweeter sounds began coming out of the subwoofer and the exhaust began pouring out of the midrange speakers and then all the airplanes doing instrument landings at the nearby Van Nuys Airport began trying to land in our parking lot because something goofy was going on with the car's electrical system (you ain't never gotten your adrenalin pumping like it does when you see a Citation X coming right at you while trying to land on a 400 foot runway that's not really a runway!!!).
Anyhow, the airplanes landing and the subwoofers tweeting distracted Junior long enough for a passing repo man to realize that the car was three hours behind in his payments (in Encino that counts as being late) so he yanked him from the car and forced him to suffer the ignominy of having to ride on the bus and then even the repo guy, well he couldn't figure out the goddamn iDrive controls (the freakin' iDrive manual is something like 300 pages long and is written in a German dialect so obscure that even David Schildknecht has to call James Wright to understand it). Rather than waste any more time, Mr Repo simply walked across the street to the Ford dealership and traded the BMW to a gullible salesperson. It was a straight across deal, the M5 for a new Focus and a used Escort (sounds like political talk, not car deals). It was quite a day.
BTW, the word "redolent" doesn't keep me awake nights, but I'm feeling that "piehole" is becoming altogether overused nowadays. And don't you think that it lacks specificity? Is the pie coming in or going out? And is it always the same hole or is it different holes? And what kind of pie?
-Eden (it's got an okay buzz factor, this l'Enfant Terrible, but something from Paso Robles might have made this a more interesting post)
This is some hall of fame shit.
Well done, Eden. Fuck the iDrive.
Oh, and I love this place. Thanks Politburo.
Chris Coad
Chris Coad
originally posted by SFJoe:
Asses.originally posted by Chris Coad:
Methinks y'all have your heads up your ass.
I'm going to find me some killer juice now. KILLER JUICE!
It's more crowded if there's only one collective ass. A world of intestinal discomfort!
I once saw a Maybach parked in front of 360 in Red Hook.originally posted by Bwood:
did once see a Maybach)
Sharon Bowman
Sharon Bowman
originally posted by Bwood:
and "Moose."
Crying uncontrollably, here.
Never want to see that word again, ever. Except applied to a large animal.
lars makie
lars makie
originally posted by SFJoe:
I once saw a Maybach parked in front of 360 in Red Hook.originally posted by Bwood:
did once see a Maybach)
When I lived in NYC I would see Jay-Z's Maybach in front of his 40/40 club all the time as I would stumble out completely of my shit on Cris, er, Moose, er... Fuck, what was this about? Actually, it was right by where I was working at the time. I like the little curtains in the back seat the best, like a little hearse.
There's a lipstick joke in there waiting to get out.originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
originally posted by Bwood:
and "Moose."
Crying uncontrollably, here.
Never want to see that word again, ever. Except applied to a large animal.
Sharon Bowman
Sharon Bowman
Oh, dear.
Chris Coad
Chris Coad
Chenin blanc is also known as pineau de la Loire?
I'll have to remember to note that in future. Obsessively.
I'll have to remember to note that in future. Obsessively.
Arjun Mendiratta
Arjun Mendiratta
Nothing wrong with lithe, methinks. Given that it's going into my mouth it's certainly preferable to 'well-endowed.'
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As the most frequent user of "Moose" on WT, I apologize.
I can no longer afford Moose, but I am glad that "GruVee" is still acceptable based on the above posts. I plan to drink much more GruVee wines and eat all my veggies in 2009.
Best,
Joe (Who thinks that anyone who actually wants Cris should be sold as much as their CC can max)
I can no longer afford Moose, but I am glad that "GruVee" is still acceptable based on the above posts. I plan to drink much more GruVee wines and eat all my veggies in 2009.
Best,
Joe (Who thinks that anyone who actually wants Cris should be sold as much as their CC can max)
Eden Mylunsch
Eden Mylunsch
originally posted by Joe_Perry:
I can no longer afford Moose, but I am glad that "GruVee" is still acceptable based on the above posts.
File this under "sins of omission"...just because a word doesn't appear in the banned language section of the Wine Disorder terms of usage you agreed to adhere to when descending into this wretched-yet-compelling manse, it shouldn't necessarily mean that any nondelineated words are acceptable.
When you walk into almost any kind of store, it's not like they've got signs posted all over the place saying "No Stealing - This Meanz U!!! or anything. Likewise, even if you don't see words such as "moose", "screagle", "redolent" et al spelt out in the WD manifesto of implied non-usage, that shouldn't give you license to use them willy-nilly (or even Billy Joe nilly).
I know, it's good to push the envelope and all, but maybe some things should just be licked and sealed and left alone. Lead by example, do unto others (etc) and, as Doug Kenney once inscribed in my yearbook, "Have a bitchin' summer and don't take any wooden suppositories".
-Eden (and don't forget to drive it like you stole it, at least if you've got one)