So would Helen, who likes Poe.... Welcome, Andrew!
Hi, Helen. Was this, indeed, the face that launched a thousand ships and burnt the topless towers of Illium?
Andrew - and if you want a kiss, please take a number!
sooooooooooooo......while the cat's away, the mice will play..........
Blatham, you bad bad boy.........you have a one track mind in any century.......but creative and funny.......still the rule is, no politics!
But here I am now.......sorry to keep you all waiting. I'll all dressed up in my Vulgari outfit.....does it please you?
Diane dear.......I miss you too
And HofT........we can start the party just anytime now that George, geroge, Blatham and Merry Andrew have arrived on the scene.
Ohhhhh, Blatham, we can't have you without a toga.........no. That would stop the party.
Now where is Eva?
someone's in the kitchen with eva frosting glasses.
(Joe Nation stands stupidly at the south doorway, holding his yoga mat and water bottle. Dressed in his best sweatpants outfit, he curses himself for letting his wife read the invitation to him over his cellphone,
"It's a yoga party, sweetie." she had said.
Apparently, a TOGA party is in full swing, so no lithe nymphs in leotards performing the downward facing dog to mystic music, no long slow relaxation recitations, no lifting your face to the sun in the cobra pose only a bacchanalian orgiastic extravaganza of booze, good dope and philosophy...... hey, maybe this is the right address after all.)
no yoga, Joe.........yes, toga and goood good you-know-what and philosophy.
Welcome..................
laughing, very funny
Everything is political. Derrida said so. Sure, he's dead, and I thought him something of an idiot anyway, but he was French and in this time and place, that means he's my buddy.
I have thought etruscans were cool. And weren't all that bad re women, generalizing of course.
Togas, not the most flattering outfits. I wonder what the ghibbelines wore...
They had flush toilets, them etruscans, and jewellry as beautiful as Bugatti automobiles...things went downhill with the Romans
yes, Blatham........whoever the F Derrida is.........ignorant b!tch that I am
dyslexia wrote:someone's in the kitchen with eva frosting glasses.
No. Someone with glasses is in the kitchen frosting Eva.
Is there any robust red wine - goes with my cigar.
I recommend the AppleJack...not much of a bouquet, but a bottle will bring you closer to God.
But I'm always there Bernie - I'm Irish. Pass the Applejack.
Who the hell is Derrida??? Lola is not ignorant...
Tomorrow, I'm helping out a couple with their apartment. She's Jewish, he's Irish. I wondering who will be cheaper.
Derrida? Well, there's an adventure for you. I'd recommend you consider him with the same sort of attitude one might demonstrate towards that odd uncle who insists you sit on his lap and bounce up and down. Move away from the uncle and go straight to "Sokal's Hoax".
Osso!! I was on Google looking up Guelphs and look what I found:
Quote:Italy: Where to go? What to do?
... "Chianti' is a pretty dry read but good on the Guelphs and the Ghibbelines' history.
Oh, then Mary McCarthy's Stones of Florence. And... (I talk too much). ...
www.able2know.com/forums/about19483-80.html - 43k - Cached - Similar pages
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And then I was reading about the Tuscany area and found this about a wine of the region:
A fitting place, then, to be the home of Amarone, one of the most unusual, potent, and seductive of red wines. For years, I've wondered about the stuff. You see it everywhere, but you hardly ever hear people talking about it. And indeed, the comparatively high prices can put you off. Run-of-the-mill recent vintages can start in the $40s.
But trust me -- this stuff is romance in a bottle, romance of the let-me-leap-off-this-balcony, I'll-do-anything, anything variety. The flavors here are intense -- very concentrated dried cherry and prune flavors, worn leather, violets, granite, caramel and coffee -- all of it ripping straight to your heart on alcohol levels from between 15 and 17 percent, and very, very long, very velvety tannins. It stirs the blood, it really does.
Well--anything that can stir my blood is a good thing as far as I'm concerned. Dys always does, but a good wine and Dys on the menu does some serious stirring!! Where is that damn toga with the etruscan pin holding up one of the vital parts?
Yeah, Mary McCarthy did write about them, along with a bunch of other folks. Best summary I've read was by Raymond Flower, who was really writing a book about wine history in chianti, called... wait for it, "Chianti".
I haven't tried Amarone, but I've heard of it...
sip, sip.
