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Author: vidiot

  • Is France Really Going Sour On Wine?

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    Recent government decisions in France severely restricting wine advertising and wine writing are being met, quite understandably, with protests from the French wine industry and French wine aficionados: * A French court ruled that newspaper and magazine articles on wine must contain health warnings, in much the same way the United States requires tobacco advertising…

  • Cape North Vodka Cruise: Take 2

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    Well, second time was the charm. After a tropical monsoon wiped out their first attempt at a promotional cruise, Cape North Vodka managed to shoehorn in a twilight jaunt around the bottom half of Manhattan for them and a couple dozen of their friends and fans. And me. It was chilly in New York Harbor,…

  • Cape North Vodka Cruise: Take 2

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    Well, second time was the charm. After a tropical monsoon wiped out their first attempt at a promotional cruise, Cape North Vodka managed to shoehorn in a twilight jaunt around the bottom half of Manhattan for them and a couple dozen of their friends and fans. And me. It was chilly in New York Harbor,…

  • TV’s Greatest Lushes

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    Because it’s Friday night, and also because what the hell: The Frisky lists TV’s top five female lushes, with examples. How Patsy and Edina from Absolutely Fabulous only managed to make #4 on this list (and combined, at that) baffles me, but whaddyagonna do.

  • TV’s Greatest Lushes

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    Because it’s Friday night, and also because what the hell: The Frisky lists TV’s top five female lushes, with examples. How Patsy and Edina from Absolutely Fabulous only managed to make #4 on this list (and combined, at that) baffles me, but whaddyagonna do.

  • A Brief Foray Into The World Of Contemporary Affairs [Drinking Games]

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    While the doyens and doyennes of this site have occasionally quite virulent opinions on the issues of the day, propriety generally forbids us from expressing same in here. It’s one of those things, like Boone’s Farm or most American light beers, that just isn’t done. But tonight, somewhere in the academic wilds of Old Mississippi,…

  • A Brief Foray Into The World Of Contemporary Affairs [Drinking Games]

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    vidiot
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    While the doyens and doyennes of this site have occasionally quite virulent opinions on the issues of the day, propriety generally forbids us from expressing same in here. It’s one of those things, like Boone’s Farm or most American light beers, that just isn’t done. But tonight, somewhere in the academic wilds of Old Mississippi,…

  • MxMo Submission: The Prince of Wales Cocktail

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    The Prince of Wales got around.  The future Edward VII spent his first 59 years of life as heir apparent to the English throne, but his mother Queen Victoria shut him out of all royal business and political power.  With no official duties, Albert Edward became "the playboy prince", and typified the life of a…

  • MxMo Submission: The Prince of Wales Cocktail

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    The Prince of Wales got around.  The future Edward VII spent his first 59 years of life as heir apparent to the English throne, but his mother Queen Victoria shut him out of all royal business and political power.  With no official duties, Albert Edward became "the playboy prince", and typified the life of a…

  • Gonna Check This One Out, And Soon

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    Botanica in Red Hook looks interesting: Botanica makes their own cacao infusion, fresh squeezes the juices behind the bar, grow their herbs on the roof, and they’ve even hit up a number of neighbors for backyard edibles — including grapes and figs that grow on Ferris Street, calendula from “Karen” (as they couldn’t remember her…