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The 4th Menu For Hope benefits the UN’s World Food Programme. Last year’s raffle raised $61,000. It’s a project started by Chez Pim, and I’ve elected to participate again because of all of you. I am always overwhelmed by the amount of money you all […]

Drouhin recalls all Beaujolais Nouveau in Washington. Try the 2006 Beaujolais Villages. Should be around $8-10 and has an earthy, strawberry jam flavor–without a hint of tin can. (Really cheap Beaujolais and Beaujolais Nouveau always tastes like fruit out of a tin can to me, sorry.)
Le Sigh, there’s an update from Joseph Drouhin if you […]

It’s not often that we here in the backwater Northwest get to look to New York City, snicker, and roll our eyes. New York Times, I guffaw in your general direction. So what if I read and comment on the newspaper two days late? I’m a busy girl. That’s excusable. This is a blog. But […]

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…

This one’s for Seattleites and visitors:
Tap House Grill Hopes to Be More Than Another Mall-Food Option
Megapub is a new sibling for the Eastside original.
in this issue of the Seattle Weekly
tags: beer, seattle weekly

I’m absolutely devistated today. Hansa, the little baby elephant and the pride of the Woodland Park zoo, is dead.
Hansa was 6 years old. She was found dead this morning. She had been exhibiting a loss of appetite and was less active than normal, and was being watched by zoo keepers. But they didn’t know […]

If you ever thought no one could ever do Trent Reznor justice like The Man In Black…
I offer you this:

You’re welcome, cookies.
Bookmark sadkermit.com for future torrid, disturbung uses of the puppet who’s not easily green.
tags: “hurt” kermie

Take a seat winos. I am not just a wine geek, a food geek a sci-fi geek, and a comic geek, I am also a web geek. And I am completely enthralled with the new NIN campaign (obviously for some reasons, but also because it truly rocking fucks).
Check out this site.
(near the bottom, on […]

whoa.
It’s like all those territories in Risk that are a bitch to keep–Urals, Yukurtsk, Northern Territories–are gonna be perfect for Pinot Noir in 80 years.
tags: wine issues

Listen, I don’t accept snail mail from unknown sources. I consider it rude, stupid, an invasion of my privacy, and borderline stalking. If you want to send me an email asking if you can mail me something, go ahead.
Hard to understand my position on this? A) Tough shit. and B) I don’t care.
But just […]