A Muddy Boots controversyette

Clash of philosophies here in Domenicoland

Originally posted on Muddy Boots.  Not in this version

My weak-kneed partners are telling me to lay off the personal, "qualitative" observations.  Present only the facts or, to put it more bluntly, only the facts that are pointedly self-interested.  

For example, they jumped all over me after I posted the one about the wines I'd never import.  (Here.)  And Ken thought a throwaway line was inappropriate here.  "Put that stuff on mondosapore.  That's your safety valve.  You can say anything you want there.  It doesn't directly reflect on Domenico Selections.  That's what you've always used mondosapore for anyway."

They're wrong.  I'm right.

My retort is that if such light-hearted comments aren't thrown in once in a while, Muddy Boots becomes just another boring, smarmy corporate blog: one-note and conventional.  What the fuck's wrong with a little inappropriateness every now and then?  Are we in Victorian London?  Edith Wharton's New York?  Khamenei's Teheran?

Or anywhere there's W?  By the way, I put no stock in the official story that he doesn't drink.  If he truly doesn't, then he really is as stupid as we thought.  

What would you readers, all six of you pathetic dupes, say to support either side?  

Comments

[gianpaolo]

They're wrong, you right.

[fredric koeppel]

well, i disagree, sort of. I think that you're partly right and partly wrong. your opinions on wine, what you will and won't import and so on, sure, keep it real, keep it lively. (and don't forget Soave, which almost rhymes with Gavi). but jokes about George W. Bush belong on mondosapore, along with your general or specific moods, your MP3 playlist, blah blah blah. no reason why Muddy Boots can't be a "go-to" blog for people looking for humor and straight answers, but you have mondosapore for the other stuff. You can be the "Real Terry" on both.

[Thom Calabrese]

Unfortunately, when you have opm(other peoples money) involved in your business situation it makes for some compromises.
I think their suggestion that monodosapore be the place where you can be yourself and say what needs to be said(and what doesn't even!) if a fair and amenable compromise.
It just the nature of partnerships. Sometimes you're serving the shit sandwich and sometimes you're eating it. As long as the menu isn't more shit sandwich then not, you'll do fine.
Keep up the good work and keep a big jar of mustard around.

[TH]

Well, fine, I'll go with the consensus of advice. Keep it clean and businesslike on Muddy Boots, indulge myself here when one must vent. Or whatever.

I bow to the sovran will of the people.