Category Archives: Actual News

Art for wine’s sake

Posted on May 6, 2013 by Bill Ward

Oh joy. There’s good news to be found on the wine front today: A little Champagne can improve our memories. I might have read this before and just forgotten, thanks to a lack of bubbles. But most of the good … Continue reading →

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Linkin’ logs: 4-30-13

Posted on April 30, 2013 by Bill Ward

Some might say the Interwebs is/are getting curiouser and curiouser. But through my looking glass, it’s getting cooler and cooler. To wit • Are you a wine snob, a wine geek or neither? This handy-dandy primer from Katie Kelly Bell … Continue reading →

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Linkin’ logs 4-7-13

Posted on April 7, 2013 by Bill Ward

Spanning the world-wide tubes that form the Interwebs: • When it comes to wine in Thailand: elephants good, pythons bad, two seasons every year good, rain-induced low yields bad. • I’ve seen many an odd permutation of that whole WWJD thing, … Continue reading →

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Linkin’ logs: 3-27-13

Posted on March 27, 2013 by Bill Ward

Back from judging the latter part of Pigs & Pinot (and consuming a lot of both). The attendees were quite classy, even the lady at our dinner table whom I dubbed June Cleavage, thanks to dangling necklace baubles that screamed … Continue reading →

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Linkin’ logs: 2-20-13

Posted on February 20, 2013 by Bill Ward

February, especially here in Tundraland, is a humor-impaired, irony-deficient month, it seems. I have seen little drollery on the InterTubes this month. But that doesn’t mean there’s not unusual and interesting stuff out there. To wit: • I learned a … Continue reading →

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Linkin’ logs 2-2-13

Posted on February 2, 2013 by Bill Ward

OK, I might be able to have a white wine for the Super Bowl, because the temperature is going to reach 15. Think that’s funny (odd or ha-ha)? Well, yesterday morning the Weather Channel’s website noted that my little corner … Continue reading →

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Linkin’ logs 1-16-13

Posted on January 16, 2013 by Bill Ward

We’re getting smarter and showing more ingenuity. I know because I read it on the InterWeb: • If you read much about politics or religion, it’s easy to believe in human de-evolution. I choose to go with this study finding … Continue reading →

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Linkin’ logs 1-7-13

Posted on January 7, 2013 by Bill Ward

I loved “Lincoln.” Daniel Day-Lewis basically occupies the 16th president’s skin (you forget it’s Lewis entirely) and Tony Kushner’s dialogue is beyond stellar. I also love linkin’, even though I have been sidelined from doing it for a while. In … Continue reading →

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Linkin’ logs 11-10-12

Posted on November 10, 2012 by Bill Ward

Spanning the InterTubes, from the potentially sublime to the semi-ridiculous: • For years I’ve been working hard, and sometimes even successfully, at not overhyping stuff I love or consider very promising, like this bar or this grape. I’d much rather do a … Continue reading →

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Linkin’ logs 10-5-12

Posted on October 5, 2012 by Bill Ward

There’s a whole lotta heavy-duty news I could send your way, but for me serious times call for a little levity, or at least cleverness. To wit: • I’m not crazy about beer out of cans, so I seriously doubt … Continue reading →

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