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You can't always get what you want...

Lately I've been a little obsessed with Rombauer Chardonnay. I'm not usually a white wine drinker, but we consumed quite a bit of this loveliness while out at restaurants, over the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays. And now I want some. And it is at NONE of my usual wine stores! Boo.

Of course, it also costs the amount I generally spend on four bottles of wine.

This is the description of the wine, from Rombauer's website:

Rombauer Vineyards' 2005 Carneros Chardonnay is a rich wine with layers of tropical fruit, peaches and pears. The fruit opens up into creamy textures of apples and pears that glide across the palate. Hints of citrus and light oak tones highlight the wine's lingering finish.

How can you not want a sip of this?

Pieces of Web: Heath, Harry and Hemingway

what I enjoyed on the interweb today...

From my daily newsletter, The Writer's Almanac:
"The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination." ~ Elizabeth Hardwick
"An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex." ~ Aldous Huxley

Heath Ledger will be playing the Joker in the next Batman (Begins) movie...can I handle Heath Ledger and Christian Bale in the same movie? Oh, the beauty! I hope Tom Cruise's child love slave skips this film (she is not yet listed in the cast on imdb.com). Also: how far from Jack Nicholson can the casting agents get?

What will the wine industry think of next? First they started making excellent wines with screw caps (which are much more reliable than cork). Now good wines are being put into boxes and jugs. Pretty soon, wine afficianados (or in my case, wanna-bes) won't have anything to be snobby about!

Grey's Anatomy spoilers(ish) discussed on TV Guide's Ask Ausiello here. Apparently, Patrick Dempsey is tired of McDreamy being so wishy-washy about his women, and Ellen Pompeo is boring. Also, the first episode takes place mere hours after last season's cliff-hanger. I can't wait! Over at Grey Matter, Shonda Rhimes has 1006 comments on her latest blog. If only I had that kind of following.

I wish I could have made it to NYC for this event: John Irving (genius) and Stephen King (blockbuster), acting as 'warm up bands' for JK Rowling (goddess). What I don't understand? How any fan- of the book OR movie- could possibly still think that Harry and Hermione are meant to end up together.

The many uses of myspace continue to multiply: the writers/show producers of America's Next Top Model are using myspace to promote their strike.

Discourse on the main 'curse' word of my childhood. No, I didn't cuss as a child (I still don't use foul language around my parents), but my mother would blanche and yell over the word 'sucks'.

And, just because Hemingway has been popping up so much in my blog lately- here's a bit about his cats. Hemingway's six-toed cats, named after celebrities such as Frank Sinatra and Pablo Picasso are a fixture at the writer's home in Key West. But for how long (cue ominous music)?

And a note from my personal emails: I will have Tivo in the new apartment. It doesn't get any better than that.

Never underestimate the power of kosher, adult soda...

I had no idea that this existed until I saw it on the bargain-we-must-get-this-outta-here shelf of my least favorite grocery (the Giant within walking distance of my house).

GUS, or grown-up soda "has distinctive, dry flavors for discriminating taste buds, made from real juices and extracts. And it’s nicely carbonated for added crispness and refreshment".

I tried the grapefruit variety, which was on sale for eighty-six cents. It was indeed crisp and refreshing and clocked in at only ninety calories for the entire bottle. Most sodas are over one hundred calories for one serving and list at least two servings per bottle, which really makes me angry because everyone knows you're going to drink the whole thing. The GUS site contains recipes like the GuS-ito and the GuS-mopolitan. You could only do that with a grown-up soda. A+ Actually, A- , because though the taste deserves a strong A+ (I totally rated those Soy Chips too high), there is no caffienated variety.

In other news, I had a glass of wine with lunch, which pretty much means I'm useless for the rest of the work day. Oops.

And as I went home on Friday night as drunk as drunk could be
I saw a head upon the bed where my old head should be
Well, I called me wife and I said to her: Will you kindly tell to me
Who owns that head with you in the bed where my old head should be

Ah, you're drunk,
you're drunk you silly old fool,
still you can not see
That's a baby boy that me mother sent to me
Well, it's many a day I've travelled a hundred miles or more
But a baby boy with his whiskers on sure I never saw before


~ from the traditional Irish song "Seven Drunken Nights"

Happy St. Patrick's Day, everyone!