On Things Geek and Italian Rose
Geek Love Post:
I am a homer. Meaning, once I like something, I root for it wholeleartedly, like the home team. So finding out the Cubs will allow advertising on their beautiful, green, ivy-bedecked outfield walls is a sad, sad, sad thing to me. The Cubs were THE ONLY major league baseball team to have an advert-free outfield. Et tu, Cubbies?
But other geek news is cheering me up:
Clooney does Diamond Age! - George Clooney has bougt the rights for Neil Stephenson’s The Diamond Age for a possible Sci-Fi channel mini-series. Hey George, don’t fuck it up like Dune.
Winter is Coming…to HBO! - George R.R. Martin’s brutal saga of betrayal, king-making, and king-taking, to be series-ed into Rome-like form… Oooh, I’m jealous of her who plays the murderous, avenging zombie queen of the north.
Only 3 more weeks until the release of 300! Come on, you know the sheer brilliance of the trailers stop you cold.
Oh, and for those of you who piss and moan when I talk about non-wine things…
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Alois Lageder Lagrein Rose
Alto Adige, Northern Italy
imported by Dalla Terra $15
The color of salmon sushi, the smell of sweet hibiscus tea and flowers, the flavor of not quite ripe red berries.
You don’t have to worry too much about an Italian rosé being a fruit bomb. Acidity is the cornerstone of Italian vino; so the rosés–no matter how ripe–are rarely anything but zippy and refreshing.
This wine, with a simple poached salmon filet and a sauce of blood oranges and onion, will knock winter right out of your system.
February 16th, 2007 at 2:04 pm
Two pink wines in a row. You’re such a girl.
I neither piss nor moan whe you veer from wine speak. I appreciate your patter in all topics.
February 16th, 2007 at 11:23 pm
It was a slippery slope when the Tribune company allowed advertising behind home plate. The Cubs are such a cash cow; it’s so fucked that they feel the need to put ads on the ivy. What a disgrace! Waveland Avenue is weeping.
February 17th, 2007 at 2:43 pm
why wasn’t I told about this! The DIamond Age is an amazing book–BOOK, not just a sci-fi novel. If only Neil Stephenson would stop fighting the genre and just write more sci-fi and less faux-historic things he has no talent for!!!!!!
And never shy aways from geek stuff. We geeks now find ourselves making quite a bit of dough in this new computer world, and many of us are learning (slowly) to drink things other than Coke.
February 18th, 2007 at 4:19 pm
cool, cool, and cool, the wine also sounds cool, i say screw the pissers too. i agree with irata. just because i’m into food and wine doesn’t mean i’m a walking magazine demographic. speaking of graphic novels, have you been to the new fantagraphics store?