OK, line cookies and bartenders–this is for you. Starting this weekend, Turner Classic Movies unveils the Friday Night Underground, featuring B/bizarre/cult classics hosted by Rob mother fuckin’ Zombie.
The Devil’s Rejects blew me away. I love me the Peckinpah and 70’s realism, so I can’t wait to see his picks. October is appropriately stocked with […]

Project Runway is the only reality show worth watching. (I used to have my own custom shop.) What are the judges smoking on Project Runway??? Baby Factory better get sent home next week, all I can say. Kane can be tacky, but at least he has range (the Monroe dress?… that couture skirting?). Laura is […]

The End of Medicine: How Silicon Valley (and Naked Mice) Will Reboot Your Doctor by Andy Kessler
This is a trippy book. Also happens to be written by my ((boston accent)) wicked smaht ((/boston accent)) uncle who has the ability to see things from an unemotional, technical, macro-lens. Sometimes his views can be scary, scary cuz […]

Watching Beirut Die
War is hell. You must read Anthony Bourdain’s piece in Salon about his days as a refugee (OK, displaced person). He talks about his glimpses of a modern Beirut reborn and the shit that hit the fan. Somewhere, Don DeLillo is proud.

Oh good, I got your attention. I hate wine critics. They are elitist snots who use their alotted column space to force their personal opinions on you. Well, that’s what critics do, you say? No. A critic’s job is to try and communicate reasons why someone may or may not like something. A critic’s responsibility […]

Little dittty in the NYT about Bourdain in Beirut.
Wish him safety, even after Richard Johnson, the ass clown on Page Six, names the hotel in which he is holed up, waiting for state department evacuation. (But don’t think for one second Tony isn’t psyched to feel like he’s living in a Don DeLillo novel.)

I thought this was going to be a premature postulation the way Portugal fought it yesterday, but it’s France versus Italy for the World Cup this year. This one’s gonna be a dog fight.
Here are the match ups:
Pinot Noir v. Nebbiolo
Pinot is pretty, but you know Nebbiolo is my bitch goddess.

Baguette v. Grissini
You can spread […]

Wanna know the top searches last month on Google that lead people to The Wine Offensive?
Too bad! It’s nice to see that Google works, and Google doesn’t work, often with hilarious results.
Here they are:
10.) mad housewife wine – Blech. Refers to my post about chick wines. I only hope by coming to this site I […]

DISCLAIMER: I don’t like Cristal, will never be able to afford Cristal, have never gotten Cristal, and laugh at the big deal made over Cristal. Boozily, as I drink my Camille Savès vintage bubbles that cost 80% less.
Frederic Rouzaud, the managing director of Louis Roederer (makers of Cristal), really, truly, royally fucked up […]

Love Pixar, hate Disney. Love Pixar, hate Disney. But I think this movie is going to be so freakin’ cute. How’d they pitch this one? “Gastrorat in France?” “It’s like Sideways, but with vermin?” Imagine Frank Bruni, redrawn as a rodent with Grover-like coloring?
See mini trailer for Pixar’s Ratatouille.
My one beef (and I know it […]