Reading idly through the Globe and Mail, I encountered this from (ultra right-wingnut) Toronto Mayor Rob Ford’s Deputy Mayor: “My advice to the taxpayer would be: Don’t send us any more activists, don’t send us any more unionists. Don’t send us any more cyclists, send us some people down here with good common sense who [...]
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Clear, very very pale gold in the glass. Clean, medium-plus intensity citrus, particularly grapefruit, and a hint of pear. Just off-dry, high acidity and light body. More green fruit on the palate with crisp apple and pear, along with lemon and minerals. Hints of residual sugar come through in subtle stone fruit through a medium-length [...]
In the glass this is clear, almost-deep ruby with a hint of purple. Nose is a clean, medium intensity black cherry and spice with a background of burnt oak and earthiness. Dry, medium acidity, and more tannins that I might have expected, with a medium body. In the mouth the black fruit again dominates, along [...]
I’m not one for anniversaries, and I’d guess that those more directly affected by the 9/11 attacks don’t see this day as much different from the several thousand that have preceded it. But I remember that for some reason that morning I skipped reading Dave Winer’s scripting.com (the original blog). If I hadn’t, I would have [...]
I enjoyed the 2009. This one is a clear, pale gold in the glass. Clean, intense nose of grapefruit, banana, and a background vegetal aroma. Dry, high acidity, with a light body. Citrus and mineral dominate, with spicy and floral notes; medium length lemon finish. 13.5% alcohol. A very good NZ Sauvignon Blanc; recommended. See [...]
I arrived in the Bay Area last Friday for a mini-holiday with mixed feelings. I’d lived here for a few years in the late 1990s, and in many ways they were years unfulfilled, passing too quickly. Flying into SFO, the polluted/beautiful image of settling ponds neatly summed up many of my feelings. That afternoon it [...]
I don’t think I’ve tasted more than one or two other Muscats, but this was the first Joie wine I ever tried—about five years ago, at Vij’s. This one is clear and almost water-pale. Medium intensity grapefruit, sage (as in sagebrush), cut grass, and petrol on the nose. Dry, highly acidic, and light bodied, the [...]
Everyone Has Germs, Even You By If We Were Us, CBC TV Rock Camp, 2003. Left to right: Karina Pry, Kevin Gaudet (aka Kehvyn Gawdette), Nikki Sooley, Sam King, Doug Hoyer.
“I stood, looking down at the worn pavement, so minutely and illegibly inscribed; and I saw the feet, my own among them, pass and repass. I stretched out a leg and tapped with my live toe, listening meanwhile, tap, tap, tap—and suddenly I felt that if I might only lend my own sound, my own [...]
