May 2006

Nomaville: Hump Island

May 31, 2006

At 10 a.m., on Sunday, the Contessa made the tactical error of answering the telephone: friends from the city had forsaken a hiking expedition in Pt. Reyes and decided to visit their wine country pals instead. A moment later, the phone rang again – other friends in the city had tired of their poolside pastimes [...]

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SonomaWino: Loxton Cellars

May 31, 2006

You say ‘Syrah,’ I say ‘Shiraz;’ you say ‘posterior’ and I say ‘your ass’ – but let’s not call the whole thing off – yet. Presumably named for the Persian city of Shiraz where it likely originated, the grape-with-two-names was originally brought to France by Guy DeSterimberg, who, of all things, was returning from hacking [...]

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Walken and Talkin’

May 30, 2006

This episode of the Daedalus Howell  Show looks through a glass darkly (well, not too darkly) at actor Christopher Walken: Candy Rosenbaum of The Online Christopher WalkenFanClub chats about her main man; Lost’s Neil Hopkins does the world’s best Walken impression; Brandon Scott of the film, website and paranormal investigative team AlienSecrets refuses to answer [...]

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Winded by the Corrections Dept.

May 28, 2006

Shame on New York Times scribe Elaine Dutka for mixing up her Nouvelle Vague auteurs. In an article about licensing film clips for documentaries (read about my own travails in this arena here), Dutka reported that an upcoming IFC documentary received a license to use a clip from seminal French New Wave flick Breathless for [...]

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