…don’t you?
Local Wines Don’t Have To Clobber Your Food
in this issue of the Seattle Weekly
tags: seattle weekly, wine review, washington

(recycled and updated from a years old post)
All distributors have their big tastings around this time as a pre-funk for the holiday season. As a buyer, you usually only have time to taste some of what’s on display. But you have to make that time, if you want to stay up on wine and not […]

So if you missed this Tuesday’s This “IS” Burlesque 9 with Orchestra L’Pow, you missed… not only a rip roaring tour through the Led Zeppelin catalogue as executed by the band’s mad rock skills, but also…

I think I just may have found the world’s most perfect food beverage.
Cantillon Rosé de Gambrinus (imported by Shelton Brothers)
Here’s how come you know it’s so good. I had been to two wine tastings that day, planning ahead so I could save a table of rare, mousse-headed beasties to finish me off. So […]

…for once. I mean, seriously–luxury vodka is the naked emperor, mostly because these fauxteurs take “pure and clean” to absolute zero levels of taste having duodecadistilled the shit out of the alcohol. Don’t get me started. But this Ocean vodka? It’s really quite…
Maui-based and Organic Ocean Vodka
in this issue of the Seattle Weekly
tags: seattle […]

Uh, also–Elvis died this week…30 years ago this week. My only Elvis memory: Driving back from New Orleans once, I drew the very short straw of driving the first leg, the morning after Mardi Gras. I was incensed, and then saw the turn off for Memphis, parked the car right outside Graceland, honked the horn, […]

Seattle has boutique brew coming out its eyeballs right now, but one of my favorite brewmasters is an hour’s boat ride away:
Silver City Restaurant & Brewery: Another Excuse to Ride the Ferry
Silverdale eatery’s been pumping out award-winning beer for a decade.
in this issue of the Seattle Weekly
tags: beer, silver city

So, what had happened was…
This blog and I? We were on a break. It was getting to be tedious, a chore, posting on this blog. So I stopped. This started as a release, and a way to help my customers, friends and family around the country sift through the frustrating pile of marketing nonsense that […]