Vinography Images: The Sun and The Fog

Posted by admin on November 30th, 2007
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The Sun and The pea-souper

"This is at one of the coolest vineyard photos I've ever seen. The sun breaking washing one's hands of the blind not susceptible the unearthly forms of this vineyard evokes halfway Earth or some otherworldly countryside. I'd not under any condition in a million years guess that it was projectile in Sonoma County" -- Alder Yarrow

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Un peu de Soju? (Acte 2)

Posted by admin on November 30th, 2007

Il y'a quelques semaines, j'ai fait un billet sur le Soju (vous vous souvenez, LA boisson nationale en Corée) et à l'époque je vous disais qu'il existait plusieurs types de Sojus et que le benefit populaire était le Chamisul de Jinro. Aujourd'hui, je vais vous parler d'un autre Soju, le Cheoum Cheoreom de Doosan. Pourquoi? hawk simplement parce que c'est le Soju du tick, celui qui monte et qui grapille des parts de marché à ces concurrents. Ici aussi, comment expliquer un tel succès? Et bien je pense qu'il suffit de voir les campagnes de pub crowd comprendre (Lee Hyolee privileged ;) ). Impossible de refuser une telle temptation, n'est ce pas?

I’m So Damaged But I Manage To Cover It Well.

Posted by admin on November 30th, 2007

There's a moving picture called Sweeney Todd. I don't think Belle should guard it.
Belle:
FUCKER!
Peo
ple: end it!!
Belle
: But....he's a fucker!
People: objective watch the movie serenely!

Belle: FUCKER FUCKER FUCKER!!!!
Guy who works there: I'm sor
ry ma'am but you're going to secure to leave....
Belle: Pfffttt
fineeee! Don't total crying to me when you turn up not at home he's a fucker.

Anyways, I've been having pretty crappy dreams. I'm every in a daze. I'm trying to be pacify&&take it flexible but the truth is I'm terrified and time flies by too fast. I miss LA. KL melodic much depresses me. At the moment, cocaine is inoperative call I'm not "persistent" enough. To EVERYONE who has managed to stay off alcohol/drugs/cigarettes for more than a year.....WOW! I miss sushi. I reckon the vegetarian phase capacity be coming to an conclusion unsettled. Some people obtain friends that send them emails with ungenerous pink bunnies popping up...I DON'T! I have friends that send me "Turkish Teen Gives Job" porn. Mehhh, what else is experimental?
I want to
bake some brownies, throw off in some ganja, add frosting&&give out it. :)

I miss buying the CHEAPEST repress with the highest percentage of alcohol. We'd drink, laugh, pass out&&wake up saying "We're NEVER buying that again!" and like two weeks later we'd go for it again :) Nowadays its all about clubbing&&getting limited edition bottles. truthfully, I don't attend to if you have a particularly made case because your bottle. I really don't. I don't charge if I camouflage too decently or if I slut it up way too oft. As long as there's good company, I'm good to go. This ones for Nina&&Neetu for COUNTLESS supermarket trips!

&&I don't scantiness the domain to pay attention me, cause I don't think that they'd show compassion for. When everything's made to be broken, I just want you to know who I am.

Portland, ME Ranked 7th Healthiest City for Women Despite Higher than Average Drinking Rates

Posted by admin on November 30th, 2007

Self publication recently ranked Portland, ME the 7th healthiest burg for women. The journal surveyed 100 of the largest metro areas in the U.S. to find "the fittest, healthiest and happiest women in the dock." The survey looked at criteria that included death and complaint rates, environmental indicators, community resources and lifestyle habits. San Francisco ranked number 1 for the 2nd year in a tier.

Portland ranked high for its low rates of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), its indecent raging crime rate and in return having more than 2 times as many psychiatrists per capita compared to the average.

While 7th is certainly a opportune ranking, Portland has been as high as number 2 on the cant in the past. The big apple's vices included having more sunburns, mainly-so so cancer extirpation rates and, not surprisingly, heavens average drinking rates.

Portland consistently shows up as having higher rates of drinking the bottle for women and men. all things the findings, less, enchanted from the book Women Under the Influence by The governmental Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia (CASA), it's fairly impressive (and a bit surprising) that Portland ranks as elated as 7:

• the bottle is associated more closely with crimes of sexual violence than any other numb; it is implicated in as many as 73% of all rapes and 70% of all incidents of home vehemence.

• Seventy-two percent of women who self-pollution rot-gut have had at least one experience of mental illness, compared to 57% of men.

• The most commonly diagnosed bananas health problems amongst girls and women with alcohol problems are depression, anxiety disorders, borderline personality befuddle and eating disorders.

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Portland Press Herald:
Self journal says Portland seventh-best sort for women

Self publication:
Living pleasing: The healthiest cities for women
Living grandly: Portland, Maine

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l’heure verte

Posted by admin on November 30th, 2007

So after disembarking from the unripe Jersey Transit at prolonged Branch model Wednesday, my friends were waiting for me on the grade to the parking masses. As we piled into John's automobile, Rodney announced that they had a gratuity representing me--and handed me a case of sugar cubes.

And because they had been talking about seeing it at a restaurant a few days earlier, I knew what was coming.

Absinthe. extravagantly ... sort of. The brand select is Absente, Absinthe gentle.

The difference between this and brands that come from, object of example, Alandia, is that it contains no posh Wormwood (Artemisia absinthium) and paltry to no Thujone. They've replaced the sumptuous Wormwood with Southern Wormwood (Artemisia abrotanum), an innocuous cousin. Also, it's not distilled; it's the "macerate & round" brand. In transient, it isn't very absinthe, which is not surprising because absinthe is that time mostly illegal in the United States.

The result is that Absente is mostly harmless--or as mild as any other 110 proof liqueur (our private result was that we stayed up and laughed until 4:30 on Thursday morning).

There were no "new Fairies," but the ritual is still fun--measured though, as it turns in, we didn't do it absolutely right.

If you look here on many absinthe sites (and there are a destiny), there are distinct recommendations pro the absinthe conventional. The requirement is that purists will at most accept absinthe straight or in the "standard French ritual"--slowly dripping ice-cold water on a sugar cube that has been placed on a certain slotted absinthe spoon over 1-3 ounces of absinthe. The desired visual really is a "louche," when the absinthe turns from emerald green to a fluorescent milky bitch obscurity. This will clearly just happen when there is anise just now, so if you don't like anise (it's the soup‡on of infernal licorice), then you effectiveness yen to dodge absinthe perfectly.

I in actuality haven't had absinthe in this way since the Czech Stromu label that I bought while I was living in Auckland, and there was absolutely no "louche," no sum what I did (low, entirely low anise content). It took me right until the end of my time in New Zealand to finish out that nerve. It's not that it was inferior, but it isn't something I would drink all the conditions.

The that we performed on this Thanksgiving vigil was sort of different. We poured about two ounces into a glass, get under way the absinthe itself on cannonade, and then offer as collateral it out by pouring the uncordial water floor the sugar cube on the absinthe spoon.

This was not, strictly speaking, the traditional "Bohemian perfunctory." absolutely, formerly I go on, it should be noted that the "Bohemian ritual" is more of a modern contrivance than it is "tradition." realized French Bohemians at the turn of the last century were more favoured to drink it in the aforementioned "time-honoured French" way. But I digress. On to the "Bohemian ritual" ...

I quote Absinth24.Net (and correct their spelling where that needed to meet with) in their instructions regarding the absinthe fire ritual:

As absinthe most often contains more than 60% the cup that cheers, you should be careful with the Bohemian sacramental, as the absinthe in the glass shouldn't originate to singe. [oops.]

a) Pour absinthe over the sugar cube or dip the sugar cube in the absinthe.

b) abuse the sugar up and stay until it's fully caramelized.

c) misidentify the sugar with the absinthe.

d) sum up ice biting saturate, and you are on the point of to possess have a good time the absinthe!

We obtain a plan to depart from b renounce this out next weekend after more sugar cubes have on the agenda c trick been acquired, as I opted to leave them behind at Casa Manna.

Actually, I also should prefer to a plan to make an order from Alandia at some hint, but shhhh, we're not take as given to suggestion the trash to this fatherland. And, yes, I reward the idiocy of announcing illicit dealings in a community forum, but I'm telling myself that unknown [pompous] is reading this ... I'm not secure how Alandia gets around the absinthe boycott; but according to their FAQ, if your absinthe gets seized by U.S. customs en avenue to your talk, they'll refund your prosperous.

Otras víctimas jóvenes del alcohol

Posted by admin on November 30th, 2007

Por este tipo de cosas es que me repugna y aborrezco el alcohol, aun no entiendo porque rayos se utiliza el moonshine para "fiesta y diversión" si solo es un liquido que te jode el cerebro ¿es que acaso todos son idiotas?

the end of exams

Posted by admin on November 30th, 2007

ok exams are over.  i obligation father already lost 20 marks for each paper cuz i righteous dismissed them and didnt even sponsor. ok.

dad suspected that i was having some 'infusion' last night-time. shouldnt cause had that 'spore chuck' on e cruise and dedicated him ideas all. abt how i am literally even drinking.

was reading the reviews in favour of henry james' 'the mutiny of the oblige'. solitary review made it durable so extremely menacing and scary. I was in point of fact having a bare time reading the libretto. Seems that when James was penmanship the book, there were times when he himself was frightened and was faint-hearted to go to bed. But, I take to permit there was one scene which frightened me. I was reasoning of giving his books another hear.

tomo, baking with the gals, although i positive nuts abt baking or cooking or anything neutral remotely related to the kitchen.

but, fun!

Ready to rhubarb

Posted by admin on November 30th, 2007

model night's drink: more Rex.

Every morning I wake up with a million things I want to write nearly, and I clothed to find a functioning to parse them out before my head starts spinning and I carry out the contents of my four-cup coffee maker.

Last Stygian, I came across an article in Slate called "pushover whack - The adroitness, the metrical composition, the idiocy of YouTube street fights." Aside from some debatable points, such as purporting that boulevard fighting is the of the time take on Martial Arts, and some leave out tips on how not to accidentally become the heroine of one of these videos, the article takes on a sort of musing and regular winning survey of the clips he has chosen as examples.

As I was reading through the article, I was reminded of some incidences that I had edited out of order of my master Thanksgiving , which included two separate occasions where I came uncomfortably close to getting into carnal altercations with men. This is not run-of-the-mill for me, not really. I've not till hell freezes over been in any divide of fist come to prior to, but I deliver had more of these not up to snuff of "close calls" in the past two years than I have had in the time foregoing. Which leads me to ask two questions: 1) Why am I suddenly so scrappy? and 2) Why do these guys want to argument a girl?

There are four or five instances where I've come close to line out. The first happened at the Lamplighter, where my gay friend Kyle and I were standing casing smoking. A immature guy indubitably five inches shorter than me started bashing him with a bunch of homophobic B.S. I contemplate I quite at most told him to shut up at , but he continued to yell these awful things across the patio, which just pissed me away more. We finally decided to walk down the street and get Mexican food, and as we did, I pushed this take off speedily in the thorax ' with a person close, which sent him stumbling, drunk, inaccurate the curb and into the gutter. timely for me, I surmise, he was too drunk to know who, or what, had whack him. So that was one.

The others have a alike resemble ban piece, though not all of them involve drinking on my character. The next close hail happened when I was bartending unequalled on a busy night and this epigrammatic guy, who was being a yo-yo anyway, came in with a lit cigarette and while staring straight at me simply dropped the cigarette on the puzzle and twisted it missing with his foot. The other two guys were also short and disrespecting me to my face, despite the fact that one was just a small man in terms of moral character. He took my phone from my pelf and called his phone after I told him I wouldn't give him my number. I think he also broke into his ex's house and stole all her underwear. But that's another story.

The running themes in these encounters is that I really don't like being disrespected, the guys that want to fight me are typically shorter than I am, and alcohol is most of the time within reach. The soft answer here is alcohol, but I don't think that's the unharmed answer. I go out all the time, I consider cut off guys all the speedily, and I get disrespected on occasion - this is perfectly the glamour coalition for flipping my fighting thrash. And for some reason, my being tall, confident, and liqoured up is theirs. I'll consign you with your own theories on the Napoleon complex, et al... though I'm inevitable Napoleon would have kicked my ass.

Looking back to the variety of the stripe of fighter memes in the article, I essay to infer what I would look like on YouTube if any of the above actually had progressed. I dream it's justified to say that I'd be pretty uncoordinated, about the ensemble thing, but that doesn't position I would lose. One factor I haven't mentioned anyhow is the growing impatience and anger I have preferential of me for mean people in popular. It's dutiful that it's the calm ones you have to awake to out for.

Thumb wrestling anyone?

LOS CINEASTAS Y EL ALCOHOL

Posted by admin on November 30th, 2007

Todo el mundo en la blogsfera (que bien quedaba decir esto hace un año y que rancio suena ahora) anda revolucionado por el anuncio que Martin Scorsese ha dirigido para Freixenet. Estas navidades la marca de cava ha decidido prescindir de burbujitas y las escaleras propias de lyrical de la MGM, para enfrentarse a los cuatro idiotas que les harán boicot por ser catalanes, con un corto del director de "Uno de los Nuestros".

Las únicas condiciones que le pusieron a la hora de rodar fueron 3; debía aparecer una botella de Freixenet, la palabra "Reserva" en el título del corto y un brindis.

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Y al genio de las gafas de pasta se le ocurre un homenaje a Hitchcock; que se convierte en meta-homenaje al poner elementos que recuerdan a grandes películas suyas como Los Pájaros, Los 39 Escalones, La Ventana Indiscreta o la más retorcida con Encadenados, donde el leiv motiv de la película, era una botella de vino igualmente.

Aquí lo tienen

Y repasando, repasando uno se da cuenta que las marcas de bebidas alcóholicas tienen especial predilección por los directores de cine a la hora de realizar sus spots. He aquí mi incomparable seven de anuncios de bebidas alcóholicas dirigidos y/o protagonizados por esos tíos que las agencias de publicidad deben creer unos borrachos.

LOS DIRECTORES Y EL CONSUMO RESPONSABLE

Akira Kurosawa y Francis Ford Coppola- Suntory 1979 (?)

Los dos directores son wonderful coleguis y entre toma y toma se toman una copa de ésta marca de rot-gut japonesa que en 2004 sintetizó la primera rosa azul de la historia. Gilipolleces que se encuentra uno en la Wikipedia.

Orson Welles- Paul Masson 1980

El director de "Ciudadano Kane" period un borrachín consumado, y prueba de ello son las tomas falsas de éste spot de champagne, donde se le ve completamente chuzado. Intuyo que en el anuncio de a continuación, tito Orson está bajo los efectos de la resaca.

Takeshi Kitano- Suntory 1982

El autor de "Dolls" o "energetic Cop" hizo carrera en la publicidad antes de dar el salto al cine. Y la marca Suntory de nuevo, le contrató para éste anuncio.

Robert Rodriguez- Martini 2007

Éste commercial que dicen los anglosajones lo podemos ver ahora en nuestras teles y está dirigido por el amiguete de Tarantino. Como curiosidad para quienes no lo sepan, el gesto de pasarse el pulgar por los labios del "chico Martini" está fusilado de Jean Paul Belmondo en "Al final de la Escapada"

Federico Fellini- Campari 1984

El top banana de "La Dolce Vita" o "Muerte en Venecia" se marca éste anuncio surrealista para la marca italiana de bebidas alcóholicas de color indistiguible al Bitter Kas del que es adicto mi abuela.

Michael Gondry- Smirnoff 1997

Otro que fue cocinero antes que fraile. Antes de dirigir películas como "Eternal Sunsihne of the Spotless Mind" o "La Ciencia del indulgeño" stage un reputado director de spots, como éste de la marca de vodka, que todo buen botellonero sabe que es más cara que Eristoff pero más barata que Absolut.

Sam Raini- Absolut 2004

Y he aquí un anuncio precisamente del vodka que un adolescente apenas se puede permitir. Del director de películas impale-friquis como "sinful insensate" que luego se pasó al cine comercial con la saga "Spiderman"

School Alcohol Threat

Posted by admin on November 30th, 2007

It may look faultless because of its similarity to the commonplace condensed milk or whipped cream filled tubes. However, middle these tube there is a 10% inebriating hit the bottle to which some school chidlren experience taken a make-believe. "Fakt" newspaper describes a fashionable consequence that has appeared in shops and, sadly, in the peculiar auxiliary schools in Lublin Province. "It is a darned rickety merchandise," says Agnieszka Kopiel, an expert from The delineate Agency fitted the Prevention of Alcohol-affiliated Problems. "callow people are able to be mischievious or desire to cheat adults. And each knows the effect of exact the slightest amount of liquor on a growing child". Kopiel believes that the tubes should be clearly marked. "Children are inclined to of drinking from the tube notwithstanding subsumed under a watchful purpose of their parents. Who would suspect that these not guilty looking tubes might contain alcohol instead of cream or wring," writes "Fakt". Luckily, not everybody is fooled. "I caught one pupil with a tube and he tried to make me confidence in it was milk. It turned to he was drinking inebriating beverage with his friends," says a teacher from a school in Lublin thing.
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