thank you for the saw
SARCA
you give to a lady widow resting this evening
she stretches her face, cheeks, jawbone
she hears into her open ears now
so loud
bushes you
SM
landscape you do
pruning, grooming during this evening
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poetry is weird
it
tis only for the pretty
has it Been, thoust, seen written a
poem
abouts the feces with flies
abouts the sunbeat summer toes smushing
manure on summer sand
boiling pew from a dog left an hour ago?
no
you’ll never read something ugly
as such in poem
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a water bottle opened that night …
lots of chairs yet filled by patrons,
yet filled by whoms which need relievance of dorting
and reels and raking;
empty arena …
but by a few, a percentage – those that are early
for crisp January sales and for lowly summer concert series;
but the water bottle did rock the crowd that night,
each person sweated in their summer chair, unexpecting
from their truest soul but a treat …
early, warranted;
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Just chillin’ with Chris right now. Had a couple of beers.
I haven’t had any alcohol in a couple of weeks, but it’s nice just to have one or two.
Ultimately, does the drinking age even matter? I think one does, but it should be under 21. 18 would do well. We just have to teach kids to drink in moderation. Of course they will go overboard at first, but because there is less limitation, less taboo, casual drinking should occur over time. Also, I think maybe for it to be safer and work better, the U.S., has to work on things like building better infrastructures, i.e., better transportation. Less accidents if less people have to drive. Better public transportation (maybe exclusive bus lanes, like in Taiwan, and better bike lanes like Copenhagen?). It would mean money, but I think it would be worth it, and in the end, everyone benefits :3
But I don’t think things will work like that here. Not for a looooong while.
Sometimes it isn’t so sucky to be back to Puritan society. Just odd. I’m not saying the European way is better. But they have the wisdom that comes with age that I hope the U.S. will eventually (and soon) gain.
It amazes me that in a place like Denmark, if a politcal party were to revoke the right for legal abortions, people would be up in arms. People are like that, here, if a party mentions pro-choice stances.
I love that the alcohol age is lower in Europe, not because I can drink, but the attitudes. Of course younger people will abuse it, but rarely to the point that they are in total danger.
What does being in the U.S. teach us? These restrictions imposed only make things worse when kids do get ahold of alcohol. Also, drive-thru (i hate the way this word is spelled) liquor stores? Only in America.
Don’t get me wrong. I love this country and a lot of the values it’s founded upon, but we need to find a happy medium. But all I say is just common sense and redundant.
However, why doesn’t the U.S. gov’t act upon it?
Cuz it’s all taboo in America.
I think the picture of Cab (short for Cabernet), one of the Golden Retrievers at Wilson Creek Winery speaks for all of us last Sunday. It was a fantastic as usual day in Temecula. My wife and I decided to pick-up some of our wine club memberships at the local haunts. We started at Maurice Car’rie, then perused our way over to Ponte for a quick retrieval of the goods and then settled in at Wilson Creek.
We enjoy Wilson Creek very much. They have beautiful grounds with areas all over the outside with which you may sit and enjoy the day with friends and family. Hopefully you will even make new friends.
We sampled their wines while walking around inside. They have two wine tasting bars in the main room, along with all the wine related treats, trinkets, and gifts you could imagine.
If you walk the hallway you will enter the Barrel room where you will be treated to an additional two tasting bars. These particular bars are big and long.
Recently, they started the addition of another room behind the barrel room. We were told that the name of the new room was voted on by all who visit. They had everyone that visited submit what they might like as the name for the new room. The most popular name we were informed is “The Family Room.” It already has a handsome wine bar being completed.
I believe that name is befitting of the addition as all of Wilson Creek is indeed family friendly. Did I mention that there is also a playground for young children to enjoy along with tables and umbrellas for the families to sit under enjoying the day away?
What better to add to an award winning winery than an award winning restaurant. If your tummy starts a grumblin’ you need only walk no more than 50 yards over to the Creekside Grille to satisfy your hunger. My suggestion for a meat lover would be the USDA Prime London Strip. It is accompanied by balsamic drizzle seasoned vegetables and artichoke-fontina mashed potatoes. I might add that I’m the type of guy who does not enjoy looking at a dinner plate and trying to decide what is the meal and what is garnish. Being said, you will not be cheated on your meal.
We did have a fantastic bottle of wine while we were there. The 2008 Cabernet Savignon is excellent. The nose is very fruity which surprisingly is drier than their 2007. It is very soft on the tongue and is a wonderful choice on a warm summer day. I’m primarily a red wine drinker but this treasure is sure to please both red and white lovers.
Wherever you choose to go on a beautiful Southern California day, please remember – if you want to feel better just make a stranger smile. To feel fantastic, all you have to do is get them to laugh. In the end they’ll feel better, you’ll feel better and you will have made a new friend.
Temecula Valley is truely the new Napa Valley of the West Coast. I am proud to live here and be a part of the wonderful magic it possesses. Cheers friends.
Last night I drank a full-bodied from the .
A few sips in and I decided I didn’t like the vintage, but I finished the drink and poured a second.
I sipped it from a disposable plastic cup.
A Note to My Readers: I placed this under the category because the above sentences are rife with cultural critique. As a chance of pace, I won’t flesh out the details; sometimes the raw firsthand account is thought-provoking enough.
In 2003 (zomg, this was 6 years ago!) I spent a college semester in Nantes, France. I believe this was fall quarter of my 2nd senior year of college. Not that it matters.
My host father, Yvon, was a total wino. I have no idea what he did for a day job, but he drank like a fish on the brink of dehydration. One bottle a night was considered “cutting back” in his mind. His wife was a “functionnaire” – a job I aspire to.
My fellow housemates (two Chinese and one Norwegian) and I had a saying for him: une bouteille à six (one bottle for six), because he would break out an entire bottle for dinner and drink it all himself. But since there were six of us at the table, it was a bottle for six. You get the picture. This bottle was almost always Muscadet, an uber-dry, white wine from the Loire valley. Yes, he had a fully stocked wine cellar. Yes, I am totally jealous.
Before my study abroad in France, I rarely drank. If I did, it was usually at a Frat or house party with loads of drunkies about to pass out from the hard-A and roofies. (Cautionary tale: a couple of my friends and I got slipped roofies once or twice. It wasn’t a pretty picture. Females, always know what you are drinking and where it came from.) I never tried wine before my foray abroad, and always thought beer was nasty. You know it is, don’t claim otherwise.
But when I arrived in France, a whole new world was opened before my eyes. Wine is beautiful. It can by dry, sweet, fruity, sour, and everything in between. And it almost never tastes bad. (Unless y0u buy . It is crap, and I don’t care if it is cheap. is better than this shit unless you are already drunk, at which point who cares?)
But by far, Yvon’s favorite wine was . To my knowledge, it is only produced in the Loire Valley. For lovers of uber-dry wine, it is worth every penny. And this is coming from someone who was taught that any wine over $4 was too spendy.
If you don’t like really dry wines solo, try it with steamed or shrimp pasta. It is sure to become an instant favorite.
It was the summer between my sophomore and junior year when I started my first internship. I don’t want to say the real name of the company, so let’s just call it Monkey Poop. Anyway, Monkey Poop was a company that produced and directed music videos, corporate videos, and anything else that made money and was kind of cool. Over the course of that summer, they let me do some interesting things. I got to go on their sets, help them put proposals together, and so on. But I’ll never forget my first assignment for them.
I had to get them some fucking beer.
Now, I was 20, so legally I couldn’t even buy beer. Don’t get me wrong, I had certainly bought beer for myself & friends before then, but the idea of going on a beer run for an incorporated business seemed a bit sketchy to me. Still, I was an intern, and I had a “job” to do, even if it was unpaid outside of a few lunches, tokes of weed, and a large cookie wrapped up in a thank you note scribbled on cellophane. So I got the beer, and I wasn’t even carded.
That was the icebreaker. Served me well during that summer. I didn’t earn their trust through hard work, or proving valuable on set. I earned their trust because when they needed beer, damn it, I got beer for them; laws be DAMNED. And maybe I didn’t learn much from that internship, but…oh, who am I kidding, that internship was a complete waste of a summer.
Good times.
- David
The other day I drove a winery tour for clients from India who were traveling with their two young children (aged 7 and 4) that spanned Napa and Sonoma. Now, bringing children to wine country is tricky, many of the wineries are not very welcoming to families with little one. They’re prefer that you bring your dog to bringing your children and the reason is simple, children tend to disrupt sales.
That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t bring children, you just need to do that correctly. On our site www.AmicisTours.com we have a larger article explaining how to visit wine country with children in the happiest and safest way from the point of view of a tour guide who has done that many, many times.
This tour the other day was so successful I thought I would share the itinerary with all of those hopeful, wine-loving parents. Now to preface this I have to say in the strongest terms that you need a designated driver, and if neither of you is willing to forego drinking during the tour then hire us or one of our friends to drive you.
The legal ramification of drinking under the influence of alcohol in California is already very difficult, but when you put children in the car you add charges for endangering the welfare of a child. That can mean jail time. A hired car and driver is a lot smart.
That said here is the tour. We started from San Francisco at 10:00 am. In fifty minutes we were at Cline Cellars in the Carneros district of Sonoma. Besides a very relaxed tasting room that looks like a comfy country home, with a nice gift shop, it also includes a bird zoo, a museum dedicated to the twenty one California Missions, donkeys that can be fed, they have carrots on hand, and a great solar energy display. The beautiful grounds, pond and fountains charm children and adults and make great place to taste some wine and stroll the grounds.
From there we went to the Sonoma Plaza and the Sonoma Cheese factory where we picked up sandwiches for lunch. The children could play on the playground for a little while, and the family could visit the twenty-first Mission, San Francisco Solano at the corner of the square.
From there we went to the Bouchaine winery in Napa’s Carneros district. Usually with kids I would go to Regusci (in the Stags Leap district of Napa) for a picnic and tasting, because it is a working farm and winery, the picnic area is shaded and spacious and they have cute dogs. But it was hot and Bouchaine is a little cooler although their picnic tables out on the yard are not shaded. Once the clients finished their lunch they sat on the patio while the children explored the gardens under our collective watchful eyes. Even though Bouchaine doesn’t encourage families with children the staff was wonderfully gracious to my clients. If you’ve never done a tasting at Bouchaine you have missed a great time.
Then we took a tour of the valley up to Beringer and the Culinary Institute of America in St Helena. I wanted them to see the beauty of the area. We went north on Route 29 and south on the Silverado trail. We then crossed over Rutherford Road and went to Francis Ford Coppola’s Rubicon winery. This is my favorite family winery in Napa and my clients and their children loved it. They enjoyed the grounds and fountains, tasted wine, visited the second floor museum, and then got comfortable in the lovely outdoor café for a snack and cappuccino. Personally I had an espresso.
From there we went to Goosecross Cellars mostly to show off their wonderful little winery to the father who wanted to know more about how wine was made. But, Jose poured a tasting for them that they very much enjoyed while I explained the process to them and their children.
From there we made a brief stop, about twenty minutes at Darioush, another place that is surprisingly welcoming to children. They enjoyed elegance and style of the place and then we were on our way. For a little rest stop on the way back to the city we visited the lovely Jacuzzi winery where they did an olive oil tasting at the Olive Press, just across the street from where we started, Cline Cellars. Then we headed back to the city and the whole tour was about nine hours.
Keep in mind that this is a professional drivers tour because it included fairly complicated routes to save time and be safe. Also the clients, with my encouragement drank a large amount of water, which is always the secret of a great wine tour.
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