Apr 1, 2008
How does one measure the damage done by someone’s pursuit of their obsession? I think inevitably it is a measure of the disregard one shows toward those other parts of the obsessed one’s life that suffer as a result of otherwise due amounts of attention being spent on the object of the obsession. This begs the questions, can any obsession be healthy and can an obsession really be termed that if the those other parts of one’s life remains intact,…
Apr 1, 2008
So it happened again. I won another poker tournament. This time I was not up against a final player who appeared more interested in his vodka than the game. Rather, I was up against a player who had recently made it to the final two tables of the World Series of Poker. This was the second hold’em tournament I’ve won in the last six I’ve entered, including a 7th place finish also. Upon winning a good friend suggested I needed…
Mar 18, 2008
I’ve been thinking about what it means to be Gay. It’s not that the wives of my male friends have to start worrying about my charms. No, instead I’ve been thinking about the notion of marketing wine to the gay niche. It came about when the folks at the "Food & Wine For the Gay Palate" blog asked if they could post an old entry of mine about the subject of a gay-facing wine website. At this blog there is…
Feb 20, 2008
It’s a fair rule I think that on your birthday you get to do whatever you want…within reason and mostly within the law. With that in mind, I’m choosing to torture my kids today. No, I’m not going to force booze and wine down their throats. I’m going for the next best thing: I’m dragging them to a Jazz Club in San Francisco. They could think of other things to do. But, they know the rules about birthdays. There I’ll…
Feb 13, 2008
Roger Clemons is testifying in front of Congress on steroids use in baseball. Barry Bonds is effectively out of baseball. My beloved San Francisco Giants are predicted to come in last place. But none of that matters… PITCHERS REPORT TO SPRING TRAINING TODAY!!! All is good in the world. Just as the coming of spring is the moment when hope takes over for vineyard owners who see a new growing season rapidly approaching, so too is the opening of baseball’s…