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A Fairly Decent Jobbe

July 25, 2009

To ring in the 2009 Wine Bloggers Conference, the Sonoma County Tourism Bureau commissioned the comic, cheese-ball parody of Murphy Goode’s controversial “A Really Goode Job” campaign below. The quick flick premiered at the conference’s opening night and I’m  happy to report that it was well received (according to the several kind emails, tweets and [...]

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Theater of Protest

June 19, 2009

I’m a firm believer of the “use it or lose it” principle as regards exercising one’s First Amendment rights – so it is then with tremendous respect for civil protest that I was recently able to reflect upon some local expressions of free speech and likewise exercise my own free speech in the process. Of [...]

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Left Bank: Lunch on the Gauche

May 4, 2009

If you ever want to get in the good graces of your editor, take him or her to lunch at the Larkspur’s convivial French brasserie, the Left Bank. Part of a chain also represented in Menlo Park, San Jose, Pleasant Hill and San Mateo, the restaurant is something of a gustatory homage to La Rive [...]

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Amateur Wine-drinking

April 19, 2009

Let us momentarily transubstantiate ink for wine, so that with these words I may toast the Valley of the Moon Dilettante Enological Society. Clink. I like these guys, not just because they make wine, but because their name is nearly as pretentious-sounding as my own. I mean, what would it score in Scrabble – infinity? [...]

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