So off topic

I've been good about staying on topic -- wine stuff and so forth.  But tonight I've drunk a lot of wine and had a nice time with friends, and I feel like being an off-topic fool.  For I am what I am, etc.

So here are a few Andy Rooneyish non sequiturs...

1.  To Vinitaly in 16 hours or whatever it is. The iPod is fully charged.  The Italian cell phones are fully charged.  The Blackberrys are fully charged.  I, ladies and gentlemen, may not be fully charged.  Full of ripasso though.  Haven't packed, however.  I laugh at your middle-class preoccupation with packing.

2. Modern life: you spend most of your time packing and arranging chargers for the iPods, cell phones, etc.  And when you get to a hotel you don't first hang up your clothes.  You charge your iPod, cell phone, Blackberry, and your laptop. 

3. I hear from AC that Banfi has been cleared of all wrong-doing in the Brunello rave-down.  Time will tell.  What will the German, Swiss, Dutch and Belgian courts rule?  There seems to be a huge amount of interest in the scandal in those countries, which had been dubbed by the Italian press, "Brunellopoli." 

4. Vinitaly cries out for a functional theme song.  I believe I have it:  Download 99_luft_balloons.mp3

5. Ah the audacity of hope.  Good on yer.  Now, for a personal theme song, composed and performed especially for the occasion:  Download dirty_deeds_done_dirt_cheap.mp3

6. It's late but...Download 01_beds_are_burning.mp3

7.  March isn't quite over but the site traffic and page views are awesome.  Thanks in no small measure to Tom of Fermentation.  Download 03_some_kinda_love.m4a 

Comments

[Fredric Koeppel]

Brunellogate?

[TH]

-opoli is the equivalent Italian suffix to -gate.

I believe it originated about 20 years ago when "kickback city" (tangentopoli) was the phrase that summed up all the unseemly suckling at the public teat.

[David J]

Terry, just as I had a question,off you go...Carlton is booked thru the wkend of the 18th May, are these guys as funky as some unhappy guests make 'em out to be?
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[Riddowsin]

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[Blinodito]

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lavoro in un centro commerciale e oggi ?? aperto!!! quindi:
1-non sono potuta andare a mare, perch?? altrimenti sarei dovuta tornare presto, e invecce di un piacere diventeva una faticata
2-devo pranzare in fretta perche poi devo mettere la divisa e uscire di casa alle 3
3-arrivata li devo vedere la gente abbronzata che ?? tornata da mare, oppure la gente vestita bene che sta passeggiando
4- finir?? di lavorare alle 21.30, sar?? a casa alle 22
5-sar?? stanca morta e quindi fozre rester?? a casa...

non disprezzo il lavoro, mi sento molto fortunata ad averlo, anche se le condizioni sono queste... ma proprio oggi non mi va di lavorare.............
fuori il tempo ?? un p?? nuvoloso ma si pu?? andare a mare

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