Today I have the pleasure of providing some meaty content on my friend Joe’s blog, Suburbanwino.com. It’s a post that combines my love for typos, cutting shit up, mangled quotations of Henry David Thoreau, and of course, the Mâcconais. Maybe it’s about a chicken, too. What else could you want? Here’s a teaser: Chickens are...
Waitangi Day commemorates an agreement between the British Crown and the native New Zealanders, the Māori. Many modern Māori have protested the celebration because of alleged unfairness in the treaty. But, shoot, the only treaty that I’m aware of that we ever offered the natives here in the Americas was smallpox. But I’m no historian....
There is a lot of talk about “millennials” with the suits. What do they buy!? Don’t they just download everything off bittorrent? Maybe we make a reality show where kids buy our products, in real time! So I though I should give my two cents because I am a “millennial,” according the the stodgy textbook...
Bottlenotes and Cheeky Chicago are teaming up to challenge our midwestern palates to taste at least six different wines from the sponsoring wineries at a few participating Chicago restaurants between now and the end of the month. If your liver emerges from January victorious, you’ll receive a $25 gift certificate toward the 80 Sips Around the...
Most shower heads release about two and a half gallons of water per minute. I usually take about ten minutes, you know, depending on whether or not I condition my mane, which is in the preliminary stages of ‘fro greatness. I’m doing this because that shit’s impressive. Especially when I’m tasting wine, and people want...
I am a regular guest on Wines.com’s blog the Wine Crush Blog and in this installment I take on Dara Grumdahl’s technophobic non-sequitur, read on. In a column titled “No, There’s Not An App For That,” Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl, author of Drink This: Wine Made Simple, expressed her consternation over always being asked to recommend her favorite...
