Joe Dressner
Joe Dressner
Redolent of blueberries, newbies, rehashed tasting notes, and self-important wine personalities!
There is no denying what's going on!
There is no denying what's going on!
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Chris Coad
Chris Coad
Please....let Wine disorder not be rehashed Wine therapy, pre-factional WLDG or any other past/present wine board.
We have too many intelligent folks here to just reserve the past.
Lets move forward.
Whoah, an angry screed!
What'd I miss?
And what's involved in reserving the past? It's tough to figure, although I have to admit I didn't read your post all the way through.
Eden Mylunsch
Eden Mylunsch
(does this mean that VLM is still the official greeter? Just because he was on Wine therapy doesn't necessarily mean that he's maintaining the post on Wine Disorder, does it? I mean, not that it's a big deal or anything, but how come he's the only one who gets to welcome visitors with a hearty: FuckyouandwelcometoWineDisorder,theinternet'sfinestwinewebsitewhereyoucantalkaboutrealwineandusefoullanguagewithoutgettingbanned.
Like, it's no skin off of my behind, but I'm just thinking that maybe someone else might want to get in on the action too. It's good practice for when we retire on meager incomes and will need to work in the wine department at WalMart).
-Eden (can you reserve in the past online at ClosedTable.com?)
Like, it's no skin off of my behind, but I'm just thinking that maybe someone else might want to get in on the action too. It's good practice for when we retire on meager incomes and will need to work in the wine department at WalMart).
-Eden (can you reserve in the past online at ClosedTable.com?)
Chris Coad
Chris Coad
Eden, you broke the box!
Our wine knowledge will come in very handy at the Super Wal-Mart. I am looking forward to explaining the difference between the Yellow Tail and the Kendall-Jackson (and that it's "varieties not varietals," that will be popular with the customers!)
Lead the way to angularity and insight, Mr. Dresser.
Lead the way to angularity and insight, Mr. Dresser.
Kay Bixler
Kay Bixler
Maybe hiring a managing editor would be a good idea. It would slow things down a little but the site would at least have continuity.
Best,
Kay
Best,
Kay
Joe-
Posting old notes here really is not a big deal. In no time at all they go to the bottom of the page and then they don't clutter up the board and then they'll be available to anyone that wants them via the search engine. I can understand not posting forty reposts in a row, so if folks agreed to limit the reposts to drips and drabs, that really shouldn't be a problem.
Another possible solution, which is done on another board, is to create a separate archive folder for reposted notes. That way, folks can just post in there without disturbing the front page.
Aside from the witty banter, the greatest treasure lost on Therapy was the collected tasting experiences and if there's a way to rebuild that here, which there is, than what's the problem with that?
Posting old notes here really is not a big deal. In no time at all they go to the bottom of the page and then they don't clutter up the board and then they'll be available to anyone that wants them via the search engine. I can understand not posting forty reposts in a row, so if folks agreed to limit the reposts to drips and drabs, that really shouldn't be a problem.
Another possible solution, which is done on another board, is to create a separate archive folder for reposted notes. That way, folks can just post in there without disturbing the front page.
Aside from the witty banter, the greatest treasure lost on Therapy was the collected tasting experiences and if there's a way to rebuild that here, which there is, than what's the problem with that?
originally posted by Kay Bixler:
Maybe hiring a managing editor would be a good idea. It would slow things down a little but the site would at least have continuity.
Best,
Kay
Managing editor, I like it. Maybe you could expand on this idea a little more.
It might get rid of the need for a preview function, if it was done carefully.
Thanks Kay.
Chris Coad
Chris Coad
limit the reposts to drips and drabs
I believe the word you're looking for is 'dribs.'
originally posted by Chris Coad:
limit the reposts to drips and drabs
I believe the word you're looking for is 'dribs.'
I believe you are correct, sir!
Eden Mylunsch
Eden Mylunsch
originally posted by Chris Coad:
Eden, you broke the box!
? !
Pizza box? Ear box? Box cantata? Box bottle?
I gave up boxing when I took up wrestling while living in Florida*.
What would a "managing editor" do here? Would they fix the errors before they went to print? What if they turned out to serve as sort of a pre-censor functionary, their strings pulled by upper-level luminaries? Such tinkering might ultimately rip the charm and unique nature of this board from its very chestal cavity, spewing all sorts of messy stuff on the carpet and across the internet. And who will pay their salary? If money's to be inserted in the appropriate orifices and auspices, my vote would be to send it to establish a preview function, and then maybe to an easier way to insert html into our posts manually (but only if Mr. Camblor has the time). Just my 2 on the subject.
-Eden (*did someone say "alligator"? If so, I'm up fer some wrassling!)
Chris Coad
Chris Coad
originally posted by Eden Blum:
Oh, alright, Chris...Poking my head out of lurking mode because Coad (sweetly) guilted me into it... though I'm a little spooked by the fact that someone else with the name "Eden" is already on here... Anyway, seeing as I'm not used to this posting thing, it's baby steps for me, and for the moment, I'll just go back to inhaling the remaining fumes of the 1990 Gianni Gagliardo Preve Barolo we opened for mom and dad's anniversary last night.
A bientot...
Eden Blum
Woohoo!
Great to see you back on board, Eden. Glad I still have the chops to work the guilt trip thing, it kind of runs in the family.
By the way, I have the feeling Thor is going to say something prophetic. I can just sense it. 3... 2... 1...
Sharon Bowman
Sharon Bowman
originally posted by Chris Coad:
I believe the word you're looking for is 'dribs.'
Chris - and I say this with all the profound, genuflecting admiration I testify to your prose expressions - why ever do you use single quotes? Are you British? Are you shift-shy?
Thank you.
originally posted by Eden Mylunsch:
originally posted by Chris Coad:
Eden, you broke the box!
? !
Pizza box? Ear box? Box cantata? Box bottle?
I gave up boxing when I took up wrestling while living in Florida*.
What would a "managing editor" do here? Would they fix the errors before they went to print? What if they turned out to serve as sort of a pre-censor functionary, their strings pulled by upper-level luminaries? Such tinkering might ultimately rip the charm and unique nature of this board from its very chestal cavity, spewing all sorts of messy stuff on the carpet and across the internet. And who will pay their salary? If money's to be inserted in the appropriate orifices and auspices, my vote would be to send it to establish a preview function, and then maybe to an easier way to insert html into our posts manually (but only if Mr. Camblor has the time). Just my 2 on the subject.
-Eden (*did someone say "alligator"? If so, I'm up fer some wrassling!)
I'm all for messy spewing, but don't like the idea of censorship, unless it could automatically remove the word varietal so that I never have to read about its improper usage again. That is why I asked for a little more on the idea from Kay. Of course, knowing that Kay is pretty sharp, I didn't imagine censorship as part of the deal.
By the way Eden, if you find your cellar is overloaded with old Bandol that you want to get rid of to make space for other stuff, give me a shout. My wife mentioned that mature Bandol would make a fine Xmas present for her this year.
Chris Coad
Chris Coad
Chris - and I say this with all the profound, genuflecting admiration I testify to your prose expressions - why ever do you use single quotes? Are you British? Are you shift-shy?
Who will rid me of this meddlesome pedantette?
I wasn't quoting anything, I was merely accenting the word. I suppose italics would've been better, but I was too lazy.
I'm not in fact British, but my family was stationed in London for a number of years before I was born. My sister can never be president, poor thing. And I've been known to utter an occasional "crikey" and inexplicably and somewhat affectedly use "petrol" when I mean gasoline. Plus, I've got a cricket bat on my desk, so I understand the confusion.
Kay Bixler
Kay Bixler
originally posted by Eden Mylunsch:
What would a "managing editor" do here?
They could cut the cheeky pun content by at least half and possibly get CWD back up to 2004/05 levels. Also the in-jokes need to be consolidated and given a proper narrative.
Chris Coad
Chris Coad
Kay, do you think this approach would increase or decrease our angularity?
And have you ever noticed that Jay Miller looks like a slimmer V.I. Lenin, but is really John Malkovich?
And have you ever noticed that Jay Miller looks like a slimmer V.I. Lenin, but is really John Malkovich?
Eden Mylunsch
Eden Mylunsch
originally posted by Kay Bixler:
They could cut the cheeky pun content by at least half and possibly get CWD back up to 2004/05 levels. Also the in-jokes need to be consolidated and given a proper narrative.
Well, since you put it that way, your first point makes plenty of sense and is O-Kay by me. I'll increase my CWD content accordingly, although I've not been drinking much that's been worth writing about as of late.
As for the second aspect, I think that the cheeky puns occasionally combined with in-jokes create their own narrative, particularly if the reader engages enough to figure out what's going on. These things tie the board to its history more than any reposted tasting notes can.
The original attraction of this site (and its predecessors going back to Wine Asylum) is that it's not written with the intention of appealing to the broad demographics of the lowest common denominator. Everybody comes here with an outsider perspective and it's up to us to find our personal equilibrium and create the community (such as it is) that inhabits the site. The diverse backgrounds and abilities of all participants (not to mention their geographic dispersion) serves to elevate the potential of topic choices and the resulting posts often draw from numerous fields of interest. This serves to meld the threads in such a way that they provide stimulating (if sometimes confusing) reading to passers-by who are not into the forum's rhythm. If it's too abstruse for some readers, they will move along to other fora that are more focussed and less nimble. I like the fact that the improvisation here is underpinned by knowledge and experience, like soloing with a great rhythm section in front of a jazz club crowd that knows the song and appreciative of what you're trying to achieve with the solo. It's a performance beneficial to both the performer and the audience, with each getting what they want from the interaction.
There are plenty of other sites in which I participate that are meticulous about keeping people on their topic, but none combine all of the various disciplines the way Wine Disorder does. Here wine merges with food, cars, birds, stereo equipment, chemistry, mathematics, punctuation, and all sorts of other stuff to become something that's educational, entertaining, and at times, intellectually challenging (of course, at other times it descends to the level of bonehead-moronic, but that comes with the territory). I would recommend finding a copy of a Harlan Ellison story called "The Crackpots". It's available as an e-book download (or better yet, just find a real book copy of "Paingod, and Other Delusions")...the story has some connection to these circumstances (plus, it's just a beautifully written story, as are most of the rest of the stories in the Paingod collection).
A managing editor using a Monty Python-esque Foot of God to stomp the bejeezus out of transgressors is perhaps too draconian for the heart and soul of this board and I would urge against such heavy-handedness. These cycles of eccentricity come and go on the board with relative regularity, and events of the past few months (economics, politics, Albanians,health, etc) have set everyone a little more on edge more than ever before. So it goes in the big city. Things will undulate back in a more "normal" direction over time, and I'm not sure that a managing editor will hasten the process without harming the flow.
-Eden (I gotta get back to my Faberg Egg website - I'm enmeshed in a knock-down, drag-out battle royale over what constitutes "appropriate use" of lapis lazuli)
Eden Mylunsch
Eden Mylunsch
originally posted by Marc D:
By the way Eden, if you find your cellar is overloaded with old Bandol that you want to get rid of to make space for other stuff, give me a shout. My wife mentioned that mature Bandol would make a fine Xmas present for her this year.
Probably not going to happen any time soon. I'd sooner divest myself of the Pinotage wing of my cellar before finding it necessary to delve into the Bandol sub-cellar to make room. Besides, what would I need more space for, if it wasn't to get more Bandol?
-Eden (but if you guys want to head west sometime, I'd be happy to pull some old Tempier out)