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Manti Te'o conducted his first interview since it was revealed that his deceased girlfriend was a hoax. And during the interview with ESPN's Jeremy Schaap, Te'o denied being behind the hoax (via Brett McMurphy of ESPN).
"Manti Te'o tells [Jeremy Schaap] he was not involved in creating girlfriend hoax. 'There is no way I could be a part of this...When they hear the facts they'll know. They'll know there is no way I could be a part of this'"
In describing the interview, Schaap said he found Te'o to be "very believable."
Te'o did address inconsistencies in which his father claims Te'o met "Lennay Kekua" in person. Te'o explained that when he left his house to meet Lennay in Hawaii that she never showed up. So rather than face the embarrassment of discussing the situation with his parents, he just told them she did show up.
Te'o also admits misleading people about meeting Lennay because he "knew how crazy it would sound if he felt this deeply about somebody he had never met."
According to Te'o, the relationship only intensified in recent months, after she claimed to have come out of coma following a car accident in mid-May. If true, that would mean their relationship lasted four months before she faked her death in September.
Te'o also told Schaap that he tried on several occasions to communicate with Lennay via Skype or FaceTime, but that the other person would be in a "black box" and unviewable.
But maybe the most telling part of the interview was when Te'o showed Schaap phone messages he received from Ronaiah Tuiasosopo just two days ago in which the alleged perpetrator of the hoax is "apologizing for perpetrating this hoax on [Te'o], embarrassing him, etc."
Te'o did reference the story in Deadspin.com. "There is one line in the Deadspin story," said Te'o. "One of the sources said I'm 80 percent certain that Manti was in on this...No [I was never in on this], never...Never, Not ever."
[UPDATE: "More Details Emerge From Manti Teo's Interview With ESPN"]
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Iceland Wins Icesave Battle (Yes, Wins!)
You might remember the travails of the Icelandic internet bank Icesave, which took in billions of pounds in deposits from British savers, then froze them all out in Iceland's mega banking collapse of 2008.
For years, Iceland argued with the U.K. and the Netherlands, which also had an Icesave site, over who should be responsible for compensating those depositors. The British and the Dutch paid more than $5 billion to the depositors, then asked Iceland for the money back. Twice the Icelandic government reached a repayment deal, twice it was shot down in popular referendums.
But today, an eagerly anticipated legal ruling from a European court established that Iceland had no obligation to compensate the foreign depositors after its deposit-guarantee fund was overwhelmed, and that it didn't break European nondiscrimination rules by sheltering Icelandic depositors in a "good" bank while leaving foreigners to pick at the carcass of the bad bank.
It is a big win for the little country.
The court case that was resolved today examines whether Iceland violated a European Union directive by not ensuring that the foreign depositors were paid. Iceland is not a member of the union, but as part of the wider European Economic Area it agrees to be bound by many of its economic and financial rules–among them a rule covering deposit-insurance programs.
We have the full news here. From the story:
The directive, part of EU rules to which Iceland subscribes, "does not lay down an obligation on the State and its authorities to ensure compensation if a deposit guarantee scheme is unable to cope with its obligations in the event of a systemic crisis," the ruling said.
The ruling of the EFTA Court is final and can't be appealed.
The court decision has relatively little practical impact in Iceland: The bankruptcy estate of Icesave's parent, Landsbanki, appears to have enough assets to repay the British and the Dutch authorities. (By paying the depositors, the British and the Dutch governments assumed their claims in the bankruptcy proceeding, and the claims were assigned priority status under Icelandic law.)
But the judgment is a fascinating exposition of the limits of Europe's legal framework for deposit insurance. That is a hot topic. The euro zone, dealing with its own crisis, is trying to forge a "banking union" that spreads responsibility for banking crises across borders.
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Time is running out to see this year's Oscar-nominated films before the Academy Awards ceremony. What would it take to catch them all? How many hours of your life would it require? Can you watch them at home? WSJ's Jason Bellini has "The Short Answer." Image: Getty
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It might sound funny, given my trashy aesthetic tastes, but I've never really understood porn. It always seemed like they're taking one of the most emotional experiences in life and portraying it in a totally unemotional way, which I find sort of eerie. It's also totally amazing that people watch so much of it online- I'd be afraid that my computer would get a virus if I did that.
- Holly said...
This is probably a ridiculously subtle difference, but I've found *actual* intimate encounters (any level of intimacy, from eye contact on) far more affecting than any staged scene. So still porn, which sort of puts the viewer in the photographer's place, just seems weird. My brain rejects it -- "I don't know that person, why are they showing me their genitalia??" And motion picture porn has no place for the viewer. Voyeurism isn't my thing. Even intimate scenes in films make me uncomfortable because it's hollow -- people going through the motions of something that's supposed to be intense -- only we all know it's fake.
On the other hand, some photographers have done stills of their lovers, or stills of couples, that have a much stronger thrill quality to them, simply because there is real intimacy. It's not faked.
re - online porn and viruses... sure they get them! but when you're infatuated, you'll do any stupid thing, right? "I don't care if ______, I just have to see my baby!"
- Rufus said...
One of the regulars at the other site makes pornographic documentaries about couples. He likes to argue that nobody else is doing any sort of movies that show love and sex in a positive light.
I guess the movies that I actually find aesthetically appealing are ones that sort of focus on the beauty or sexuality of the character, instead of showing a lot of sex. Hitchcock's Vertigo is one- the way he films Kim Novak in that movie is totally worshipful and I feel like my job as an audience member is to think "Wow, she's really beautiful"- which I can handle. So there are some "erotic" dramas that are the same way that I can enjoy, but yeah, they tend to be all about the tease and not have a lot of sex scenes.
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Incidentally, my therapist wife tells me that the term for this condition is "porn creep".
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Cavallotto – Top 100
Here is another of my Top 100 producers in Italy. Painting of Cavallotto Bottle by Hannes Hofstetter One of the seminal producers of Barolo is the Cavallotto family of Castiglione Falletto. Established in 1948 by Olivio Cavallotto, the operations are run today by his offspring, siblings Alfio, Giuseppe and Laura, who continue to make wines … Continue reading Cavallotto – Top 100


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July 4, 1992 remembered
In 1987, we went to Germany with AAFES (the Army Air Force Exchange Service, my husband's employer). We spent two years in the Aschaffenburg area (south of Frankfurt) and three years in Berlin. The July 4 weekend of 2011 is the 19th anniversary of our return to the U.S. from Germany.
Leaving Berlin
We lived in military housing when we first arrived in Berlin. Our apartment there was decent, but about 18 months before we left, we were moved to a spacious apartment in a lovely, brand-new building. We had playgrounds and a small shopping district within walking distance, and bus service practically to our door. We liked where we lived. And we had friends in Berlin -- church friends, German friends, and military friends. When AAFES gave us orders to Fort Campbell, Kentucky, it was hard to leave Berlin.
Keely was five years old and Isaac had just turned two. Dennis had to work full-time until the last few days before we left, so much of the work of preparing for our PCS (Permanent Change of Station) fell to me. I didn't get much sleep during the last few days. On our departure date, July 3, I lay down on a bare mattress at 2 a.m. for a nap. We got up at 4 a.m. and left for the airport at 5 a.m.
I was so exhausted that I don't remember many details of the long flight back to the US. I guess the children were good. I don't remember. Maybe Dennis was entertaining them. I suppose we came through New York -- we usually did. I do remember asking Dennis if we should make a sign with our name on it, so the AAFES manager from Fort Campbell who was meeting us in Nashville would recognize us. My husband said not to worry; he would be able to pick us out from the crowd.
Arrival in Tennessee
When we finally landed in Nashville, we gathered our children and carry-ons and headed for the baggage claim. Before long, a dark-haired, thin young man with glasses approached us and asked, "Are you the Netz family?" It was George Ricker, an AAFES manager from Fort Campbell and one of my husband's new co-workers.
As we walked from the terminal to the car, I observed that the air was very humid and unpleasantly warm. It was 11 p.m, but heat was radiating from the pavement. It certainly didn't feel like Berlin, where we had been wearing little jackets in the evenings. I had packed sweaters for Keely and Isaac, but clearly we wouldn't be needing them. George told us that Tennessee was having a record-setting heat-wave.
We stuffed our luggage into the trunk of an AAFES car, and the kids and I got in the back seat. Dennis rode in front, and George drove. We got on the interstate and drove through the city and out into the dark night of the countryside. George and Dennis talked about Fort Campbell and the job and AAFES people for a long time, and the children dozed against me. It seemed that surely we would reach our destination soon.
Then we passed a large, green road sign that announced we were entering Kentucky. George exclaimed, "Oh, NO!" And then he groaned, "I can't believe I did that!"
"Did what?" we asked.
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"I forgot to turn off I-65 onto I-24, and now we're way up north," he said sheepishly. "We have to turn around and go back. There's nothing else to do. I'm sorry! I was too busy talking!" So we turned around and drove back to the intersection George had missed on the north side of Nashville, and then we headed west on I-24 from Nashville to Clarksville (TN).
Our detour more than doubled the amount of time it should have taken to get to Clarksville, but at last, we checked into our motel suite and fell into our beds. It had been a very long day of travel.
Unbelievable heat
About noon the next day -- July 4, 1992 -- we walked out of our dark, air-conditioned rooms into the staggering heat and brilliance of a parking lot on a 102-degree day. The blinding sunshine, intense heat, and suffocating humidity made me feel weak.
My husband started work immediately, so he could save his "PCS" time-off for moving into our house later. With no consideration of his living situation, his boss assigned him to the midnight shift. Every day about 10:00 a.m., I left the motel with Keely and Isaac so Dennis could try to sleep. Mid-afternoon, we slipped back into the other room of the suite, and I tried to get the kids to take a nap or watch cartoons quietly.
At last, a home
We spent about a month in the Clarksville motel and another month in a Hopkinsville motel while we located, purchased, and waited for possession of our new home. Keely started school while we were still living in the Hopkinsville motel. I talked to the principal and explained that we weren't yet living in the district, but we soon would be.
One final bit of lunacy in our lives was the woman who was living in the house we bought. She didn't want to move out, and she was angry that we had bought the house. She found out what motel we were in, and she started calling frequently on the telephone to scream at us. The motel couldn't or wouldn't screen the calls. We wondered if she would even move out of the house, but she finally did.
It was a happy day when we moved to our new home on the Tuesday after Labor Day. A big truck brought our furniture a few days later. Gradually, we developed some routines again and began to feel comfortable in Kentucky. But every year at Fourth of July, I remember the long (very long!), hot (very hot!), and crazy (very crazy!) summer of 1992.
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Justin Moore Named Humanitarian of the Year for Armed Forces Foundation
Justin Moore has been named Humanitarian of the Year by the Armed Forces Foundation. The award recognizes his service to the morale and welfare of military families.
The 'Point At You' singer, along with Big Machine Label Group President/CEO Scott Borchetta, was honored as the Congressman Bill and Beverly Young Humanitarian of the Year on Wednesday (April 9) at the 10th annual Congressional Gala in Washington, D.C.
The two country music standouts were recognized for their service and commitment to military families through the Crown Royal 'Your Hero's Name Here' contest.
"Although extremely grateful, I feel a little uncomfortable being honored at an event where there are decorated war heroes present," Moore admits. "I feel that my contributions are much less significant than theirs … they are the true American heroes. However, I'm thrilled to know that what I do with the AFF has helped, and that it is appreciated by all."
The country star's devotion to military families began when he was young. "Both of my grandpas served in our military," he says, "and they, along with my parents, instilled in me what our servicemen and women mean to us. It was an honor to tell some of them face to face last night. God bless our troops and God bless America."
These past few weeks have definitely been Moore's time to shine. In addition to receiving the Humanitarian of the Year for AFF, he was also named New Artist of the Year at the 2014 ACM Awards.


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Are players pushing your game in directions you never intended it to go? In this article, Gamasutra explores how games like StarCraft II and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare encourage good and bad player behaviors.
An interesting thing about games is that the player always helps design them. No matter how simple or complex the game is, there is always room for our own creative input. We add new rules, new contexts, new narratives and new measures of success, and we choose which of the original characteristics of the game we want to interact with. Games are much like books in this manner, and we will often find the most interesting things about games between the lines of the author's instructions.
When designing games, this is both a blessing and curse. How the player behaves within the context of the game has an enormous impact on how enjoyable the game will be for the player, and game designers often find themselves struggling with how to encourage the players to play in a way that will be rewarding. Managing the expectations and behaviors of the player is a daunting task, but one of tremendous importance. Games that are well developed in every sense can still fall short to an unhealthy in-game culture. The game is only as good as the players.
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Behavior is the way someone acts in response to a particular situation or stimulus. It's important here that we don't confuse behavior, which is a model for describing someone's actions, with the actions themselves.
"I am going to sleep" is a good example of what an action might be, and "I will go to sleep after this TV show, even if I'm tired now" shows us what a behavior would be. Whereas an action could be described as a data point, behavior is a graph attempting to make sense of the data. If we have a good model for someone's behavior, we can extrapolate, and derive, and experiment.
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The famous evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins coined the term "meme" in his book The Selfish Gene, in an attempt to better explain what generates culture. As a game enthusiast, you may remember that Huizinga thought that our desire to play was what generates culture, but that is not a complete model. Dawkins found a way to explain how the things that play generated got to be so popular -- how they could move from isolated behaviors into the realm of culture.
A meme is a chunk of behavioral code -- a behavioral gene -- that can get copied from one individual to another. Memes are the building blocks of behavior. The words and gestures we use, the phrases we choose, the way we fold our laundry, the way we get our hair cut, these are all memes, and they are ideas that can be observed, copied, and mutated.
In The Selfish Gene, Dawkins explains to us how natural selection acts on the genes, rather than the individuals. This gene-centric view of evolution has helped shed a lot of light on some of the more peculiar aspects of biology. The theory shows us that certain genes are more successful at being reproduced than others. The more successful genes will outperform the less successful genes and, with time, we will see more of the successful genes than we will of the less successful genes.
This simple process generates organisms that are very well adapted to the environment they live in. The gene-centric view of evolution has helped explain things like diseases and cancer, and is now a more useful model than Charles Darwin's own model of evolution. The individual is a machine built by and for genes, with the sole purpose of replicating genes.
Although they obviously do not exist in any physical sense of the word, imagining that same process of natural selection on ideas helps us understand why bad ideas spread. The survival fitness of a meme is not determined by the effect it has on its host, but rather by how well it propagates to other hosts. Memes seemingly hijack our brains and make us into machines for spreading more memes. Behaviors and ideas have a viral life of their own, just like our genes do, and we are the sometimes-unfortunate hosts of this second replicator. Memes spread through observation (even involuntary observation), and they copy themselves and mutate into new, potentially viral, strains of ideas.
When designing games, we are not completely at the mercy of these memes; there are ways for us to guide the evolutionary process of memes to a place we want. Although we can't choose which particular memes will emerge from selection, we can alter the environment of selection itself. By carefully designing the environment that the memes will populate, we can make some predictions about what will emerge.
A fitness function is a model for evaluating the fitness of an entity. When programming things like genetic algorithms we are in complete control of the fitness function -- we author it ourselves -- but even when we are not the direct authors of the fitness function, we can approach it sideways and try to model how it would work in the environment we created.
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Thursday, December 13, 2012
God Sells His Kingdom
By Jose Saramago
Translated from Portuguese by Ronaldo Jose Meister
When God, who, when he is roaming the Earth tasting all the important wines his only son Jesus, who died for your sins, so in the future could you please make your sins at least worth dying for, is in charge of making, goes by the name of Bob, sold his kingdom to three guys from Singapore, all God's children were stunned. God didn't care about his children. He hadn't cared about his children for a very long time, not even the ones that came to worship at his virtual heaven where they would heap praise upon his wisdom like one heaps more shit on a pile of manure. You have to heap that crap somewhere, and God had a loathsome Squire to carefully monitor it, a simple mark who believed nearness to God gave him remarkable powers, though it didn't, he had little skill, but God wanted him to believe he had those powers, and the Squire was more than happy to believe him. Three wise men had appeared to Bob just as they had wisely appeared at the birth of his only son Jesus, guided by one of Bob's dying stars, as though following dying stars was the smart thing to do, a mistake similarly engaged in by all of those jackasses at Bob's virtual heaven website. Two thousand years ago those three wise men had brought gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh, though how myrrh could be considered a baby gift God could never figure out, so he sent that wise man straight to Hell, Hell being one eternal baby shower, but this time around those three wise men had brought their checkbooks, and not just any checkbooks, but sycophantic, sizeable, Singaporean checkbooks. Bob was pleased. God doesn't need money, he simply loves taking it from his stupider children, who send him money regularly in the form of a subscription, with the result that because the stupider children have given him money, they tend to believe his proclamations and commandments. No one believes advice that they haven't paid for, though those that give free advice, for example, God's lonely bloggers who believe they will one day replace Bob, are convinced that if they just act like Bob, talk like Bob, rate like Bob and, ultimately, bore like Bob, their advice will replace Bob's. Ah, God thinks to himself, that old Oedipal myth I made up a few thousand years ago has them wanting to kill their father and sleep with their mother, poor things, not knowing that their mother is a flatulent bulldog, though if I gave her a hundred points they'd gladly pay to stick their arrogant noses behind her docked tail.
The three Singaporean wise men bearing checkbooks humbly approached Bob, and the first one, the tallest one, though he was shorter than the subscriber list at Wine and Spirits, acted as spokesman for the three. Bob, he began, we worship you and love you and we want to buy your kingdom, all of it if you'll let us, but if you only want us to give you money for a portion of your holy kingdom we are prepared to do that, we only want your poor children living in ignorance of your wisdom and guidance in these Bobforsaken Asian countries to have their eyes opened to your word, and that's not a racial slur for we are of that race and we can say that just like it's OK for essentially dead wine writers to declare wine writers dead. God was silent. Please don't misunderstand, the suddenly nervous spokeSingaporean continued, we only want to give you money, and we want to be able to say who will be your Popes and Bishops, your mouthpieces and surrogates, your blessed scribes, who, after all, have already sold you their own names and honor for the privilege of living in your Light, and so are meaningless to you, as they are to everyone who loves your kingdom and the kingdom of the grape, for there is only one Bob from whom all glory and adjectives flow, the rest is all steaming Schildknecht.
When God spoke, the three wise men quaked, for they had only ever dreamed of being in the presence of Bob with their checkbooks, and never really believed that they would be granted an audience with the holy father, for they had never made wine like his only son Jesus and his adopted son Michel, who breathed the very oxygen God had created into his wines so as to make them more holy to his adopted father, and God was pleased with his adopted son, and not so much with Singaporeans, unless they had large checkbooks. Many people, God said, want to buy my kingdom, but they all live in the world I already command, the world most dedicated to loving Bob, a world where I am worshipped in the manner I deserve, my name on everyone's lips, my lips on everyone's wines, my words the best they ever hear or the last they ever hear, my commandments obeyed, Thou shalt not filter or fine, Thou shalt honor no other God before me, especially one answering to Marvin Satan, Thou shalt not enter my kingdom without a subscription, and my many other commandments. But you three wise young men come from a world where I long to be worshipped, where I long for my name to be uttered in the same hushed tones as those of Mohammed, Buddha and Wilfred Wong, where I want to spread my gospel of good living, gluttony, and the useless pursuit of perfection that doesn't exist chasing false numbers that do, where I want to convince your kind, my lost children, to seek out what I tell them to seek out so that they will know truth and, to honor that truth, give me money, as you wise young men are willing to do, and so I will sell a portion of my kingdom to you, how's a cool 20 mil sound?
We are humbled and honored to give you our money, holy Bob, money we have earned screwing so many of your little children in ways that would most impress you, we believe, and we thank you, and we promise to help spread your gospel, the gospel according to our wise and all-knowing father, to every corner of our land in order to make it your land, where your word is final, your Book of Numbers the holiest of books.
It is done, God said, but, my sons, may I inquire what it is you get out of this, aside from being forever associated with me, with all that is right and good about my kingdom?
Yes, Bob, replied the middle wise man, finally able to speak through his tears, tears generated by Bob's very presence, his Light, or perhaps by his relentlessly slinging shit everywhere, I will tell you what is in it for us. We want to rule the kingdom with you as our God. With prior access to your bimonthly Book of Numbers we can invest more of our checkbooks in your wise proclamations, corner the market in all of the nineteen future perfect scores from the next great vintage in Bordeaux, accumulate even more money with these investments, reselling your perfect Bob wines to the stupid, cash-laden brothers in our land. It should be easy, the Singaporeans agreed, and we thank you, God, for all these blessings you have bestowed upon us.
The pleasure, God said, was gold mine.
26 comments:
- December 13, 2012 at 9:34 AM
- Shekels Daddy said...
In the humble words of Sylvester Stallone, and words that now mean more to me as I contemplate that it could have been me rather than Bob who sold out to Singapore for a shekel or three, "Charlie, I coulda been a contender".
Someone once tried to buy my rag. It was a sweet deal. He would own it. I would work there. He would pay me less than I was making. Bob got it right. I am still waiting.
Hey, Ron, wanna buy a wine newsletter?
- December 13, 2012 at 10:14 AM
- Sisyphus Daddy said...
Another way to look at this story is that Parker has come back to life. Clearly, he had backed away from tasting and writing so much but even though he was dead, he was still responsble for little things like payroll, hiring and firing, marketing, editing.
People who think that what critics do is all swirl and spit forget that there is a whole business behind those numbers.
Parker has now tossed off those burdens and has come back to life as a dilettante. He was already wealthy so his extra millions won't mean all that much--maybe a chateau somewhere, but really, the guy is old and he is not about to climb Everest or buy a bunch of race horses (he's not Jess Jackson wealthy, after all), so good luck to him.
All he has to do now is swirl and spit and take a few notes.
Come to think of it, being born again is not so bad after all.
Hey, Ron, wanna buy a wine newsletter?
- December 13, 2012 at 10:24 AM
- Marcia Macomber said...
Ah! The final word on this subject from the HoseMeister. Why am I not surprised?
My fave? The commandments, of course: "Thou shalt not filter or fine, Thou shalt honor no other God before me, especially one answering to Marvin Satan, Thou shalt not enter my kingdom without a subscription..." Is that available on a plaque to order for $19.95?
- December 13, 2012 at 10:37 AM
- Samantha Dugan said...
I love you!
- December 13, 2012 at 10:50 AM
Hose, I love you more!
- December 13, 2012 at 11:58 AM
- Ron Washam, HMW said...
OK, "I coulda been a contender" is from "On the Waterfront" and was mumbled by Brando. Who are you, Lettie Teague?
And who tried to buy your magazine? I'm guessing Rupert Murdoch.
The Wine Advocate's days are done if Parker is just a figurehead. Those Parker buttboys will not become Lisa Perotti-BrownNoses. It's like when Steve Carell left "The Office," the whole show just started to stink. However, Parker can't be in great health, especially since he's been dead for four years, and he's earned his big payday, so Bobspeed to him. Maybe he's just the first of the current bigshot critics to hang it up...Who'll be next?
No plaques. I just had my teeth cleaned.
Baby, I love you soooo!
I'm blushing. Thanks.
- December 13, 2012 at 12:51 PM
- Samantha Dugan said...
Oh, no, you, di-ent.
- December 13, 2012 at 12:56 PM
- Dean Tudor said...
Ron, can I nominate you for the position of Jesus? That way you get a birthday coming up in 12 days...
Way to go, great writing, put it in your new newsletter WA (Wine Ass)...
- December 13, 2012 at 2:28 PM
- Dean Tudor said...
I'm sorry: I meant to say Wine Associates...
- December 13, 2012 at 2:29 PM
- Ron Washam, HMW said...
I received numerous emails asking me to weigh in on the latest Parker brouhaha, so I gave in and wrote this post. I kicked around several ideas, including a "Citizen Kane" sort of parody, a "The Great Gatsby" satire, "The Wizard of Oz" was running around in my head, but after several days it was the idea of Parker as Our Wine God who had decided to abandon us that kept speaking to me. And using the voice and style of Saramago made it work for me because Saramago, the genius, was an avid and vocal atheist. Plus, his style is made for comedy, and is a joy to write.
It's clear that I'm no Saramago. But I wanted to approach this tempest in a teapot from a peculiar, perhaps enlightening, maybe even funny, angle. God, or Bob, being vain and longing to be loved, and well-paid too, at the end of a long span being Deity, just appealed to me. Everyone else can decide if there's any truth here.
WA would be more like Wise Ass around here.
- December 13, 2012 at 3:35 PM
Rumor has it that the new Advocaters are in talks with both Wilfred Wong and Deborah Parker Wong to chisel out point scores as new disciples for the publication.
Two Wongs make a Right according to Singapore legend.
I wonder how the ratings will change given that the Durian is so highly prized in Singapore (this fruit is appreciated, if you want to call it that) for its aromas of gym socks, rotting onions and turpentine.
It's been said the country's airline is soon to offer "flights of wine" on what will be called Singapour Airlines. "Only 90+ Parker Point wines will be featured."
- December 13, 2012 at 4:11 PM
"like it's OK for essentially dead wine writers to declare wine writers dead"
Funniest thing I have heard in a while!
Nameless Assistant at Nameless Napa Winery
- December 13, 2012 at 5:08 PM
- Ron Washam, HMW said...
Anonymous 1,
So Durian smells like Authentic Wine! Thanks for clearing that up.
I usually fly on the budget airline overseas, Singapoor Air. You bring your own jet fuel. Couple of cases of Lodi Zin usually works.
Nameless Squared,
Thanks. If you get bored, send me a private email and tell me where you're assistant winemaker. I'm always curious about my eleven fans. Email is on the About page. I promise to keep your location a secret.
- December 13, 2012 at 5:46 PM
- Thomas said...
OMG! or is that OMB?
- December 13, 2012 at 6:11 PM
- Fabio (Vinos Ambiz) said...
Sixteenth, dammit! That's because I couldn't get up bright 'n' early because I was drinking some non-natural wine and all the chemical toxins contained therein made my eyes and brain shrivel up and had assume the foetal position in the dark for 2 days!
- December 14, 2012 at 1:41 AM
- Thomas said...
Do you pour the tea over the warts? And what is done about assholes?
- December 14, 2012 at 6:41 AM
- Dean Tudor said...
Ron --
You could add Dorothy Parker to your list of those parodied sources.
Isn't she the sister of Robert Parker Jr? Or just one of his bitches, always in heat...
- December 14, 2012 at 7:50 AM
- Ron Washam, HMW said...
It's actually OMFB.
It must be tough to be so sensitive to imaginary things. Coincidentally, I usually write in the fetal position.
I know I did a quick Dorothy Parker parody in one of my Tasting Note posts. I don't think she's Robert's sister--I assume you're confusing her with Truman Capote.
- December 14, 2012 at 8:36 AM
- Stillman Brown said...
101 durian-flinging siamang points for this piece, sir. I can't believe I was the first person in the biz that Parker threatened to sue, but I might have been the first to publicly mock him. You're funnier; thankyouverymush!
- December 14, 2012 at 8:40 AM
All - nice parody, first of all - creatively does reign supreme. Coulda done without the piling of feces comments, but...gotta catch 'em somehow, eh?
I'm continually amazed at how the whole blogger community continues to throw grief at WA, while somewhat acknowledging Bob's impact. I see a continual disconnect/denial with reality in the US Wine market. Cheap crap wine still prevails...and there have been few drivers for novice wine fans to learn/upgrade/guide to better wines. Still 20-25 years post-revolution (of fine US wines), still 80% of the market is under $8/bottle...and we all know it is tough to make a fine wine for less than that.
My point - to all - is that America still needs pundits, guides, helpers...to make the whole wine thang less scary, less confusing, less snobbish. The 100-pt scale took off because there was/is/will be a need to translate in-depth wine knowledge into a simple tool others can use. Smiley faces, thunbs up, whatever. But don't lose touch with the average American (or even ore difficult, the up-and-coming Asians) who are trying to demystify the wine world and steer towards better bottles and experiences.
- December 14, 2012 at 11:51 AM
- Ron Washam, HMW said...
Thanks, funny is in the eye of the beholder, but I'll take 101 points of anything, and especially because I have an inordinate fondness for siamangs. And, after all, Christmas is the time for gibbon.
Yeah, I get it. But most folks, the under $8/btl crowd, drink wine for the alcohol--not the terroir, not the points, just the buzz. They don't read Parker and have never heard of him and don't care.
No one owes Parker anything. He had a great life, made a lot of money, and influenced his chosen field in ways none of us will ever come close to. He influenced my generation, but not the current one, who must be seriously confused about all the fuss over his selling part of his kingdom.
The point of my parody was, in a sense, that he never cared about us, he only pretended to. But he was convincing, and passionate, and in the right place at the right time. When God sells out, we'll always ask, What will we do without Him? The truth might be that we'll be better off.
- December 14, 2012 at 5:31 PM
Ron, were you not invited to Suckling's funeral? If not, I think that there is a video of it on his website. I went, and really enjoyed the Mexican wines that his will provided should be poured. I also wept at his famous daughter's rendition of the Eurythmics classic, "Thorn In My Side", as a proper sendoff for her dear old dad. I was asked to deliver the eulogy, which went as follows:
"On balance, letting his hair grow to unreconstructed-hippie length proved far more effective in disguising his combover than Bob Parker's did in life."
- December 16, 2012 at 10:09 PM
Z, Americans can only afford cheap crap wine after they blow all of their disposable income on rags cataloguing the idle ramblings and musings of a bunch of amateur wine poseurs passing themselves off as professional critics!
- December 16, 2012 at 10:15 PM
Nicely done!
- December 17, 2012 at 6:14 AM
- Ron Washam, HMW said...
I was invited to Suckling's funeral, but I couldn't make it. I was at a Gruner Veltliner tasting. Though I would have liked to hear your eulogy, which, oddly, foreshadows my next post coming up in about five minutes. Man, it's like you're a Mayan, all foreseeing the future and stuff.
- December 17, 2012 at 7:54 AM


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Constipation While On Elimination Diet
Evie4 replied to Loey's topic in Related Disorders & Celiac ResearchAfter resolving most of my "C" issues once going gluten free, I still struggled sometimes with certain foods. I am now taking 250 mg magnesium oxide daily and I am quite regular. I stumbled on to some literature about how there are many people low in this mineral. You can read much about (magnesium supplementation) from many sources on line. I've never been big on supplements, but knowing that I suffered from malabsorption for so long, I figured reasearching and obtaining quality supplements was a wise for me. I had tried everything from more water, fiber, fruits/vegetables etc. and those things just didn't help. It was terribly frustrating to do all the "right" stuff and still suffer. I know how difficult living with constipation is, I hope you are able to find relief.
Finger Food Ideas
Evie4 replied to Evie4's topic in Gluten-Free Recipes & Cooking TipsThanks you guys! I have to bookmark the links! I got off work early and have been working in the kitchen for the past 5 hours! I'm pooped! For anyone who might read this thread looking for ideas...here are some of the things I made or will be making: crustless mini quiches bruchetta with a porcini mushroom-parsley garnish toasted bread cubes with gruyere and chorizo crackers with goat cheeses garnished with herbs (my friend has a dairy and I got 7 different kind--yippee!) crackers with cream and lox mini chicken salad sandwiches deviled eggs with lox garnish Think I'm forgetting something...this last week has made a zombie out of me!
Finger Food Ideas
Evie4 posted a topic in Gluten-Free Recipes & Cooking TipsI probably have enough stuff to put out for our gatherings the next couple days...but I'm kinda compulsive and keep thinking maybe there's something more I can add. Nothing too complicated would be nice. Evie
Ken, thanks for sharing that. I'm going to let my (Japanese) friend know, we shop together and she reads labels for me at the Asian store!
Got it! Thanks a bunch! Still looking for a "skin" recipe
Starving In The Airport
Evie4 replied to NorthernElf's topic in Traveling with Celiac DiseaseIf I'm more than 30 minutes away from home I have some food with me ha-ha! I have to eat small amounts throughout the day. When I travel I bake up a breakfast bread that has onions, ham or bacon, cheese (well now I'm not supposed to eat dairy either). I add some herbs. It seems to work (appeal to my palette) anytime of day. I also bake up some sweet muffins. I have to know I will ALWAYS have something the moment I start getting hungry, otherwise I get cranky and difficult to be around! :0) My husband will vouch for that!
Ken...I miss my potstickers! One of the hardest part of going gluten free was knowing I couldn't go for dim sum anymore. If you have any recipes/tricks to share for making gluten free wrappers and fillings, I would be thrilled to get some! I wouldn't be able to use buckwheat flour as it seems my husband got hives from buckwheat tea the last time he had it.
Ken here is the spekulatius recipe. I wrote it up last night as my husband insists I make them every year from now on. He is calling them Lebkuchen as they are very reminiscint of the very fine Lebkuchen in Germany...not like the "gingerbread" type most Americans are familiar with. I intentionally used more ground almonds than flour mix. Typically spekulatius are a bit more cookie than nutty if that makes sense. I try to use use 2:1 expeller coconut oil and ghee in all my baking now. Coconut oil is cheaper and some ghee gives that delcious buttery flavor. There's a lot of text to the recipe, I really tried to describe the process as clearly as possible. Also, the recipe called for cardomom, I didn't have it so I put in a little dry ginger. They still came out great. Not sure if the will get hard...in which case I will put a sliver of fresh apple in with them. Spekulatius 1/2 cup (ghee and expeller coconut oil) 1 1/2 cup almond meal/ground almonds 1 cup brown rice flour 1/4 cup potato starch 1/4 cup tapioca flour 1/4 cup sweet rice flour 1/4 cup plantain flour 1/2 teaspoon xanthum 3/4 cup sugar (I use organic cane) zest of one lemon 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon 1/4 tsp ground cloves 1/4 tsp nutmeg (freshly grated) 1 egg (beaten with 1/4 tsp water) sliced almonds (FOR DECORATING) . Mix dry ingredients in large bowl. Mix ghee and coconut oil, add to dry ingredients by dropping small blobs at time into flour mix and stir intermittently. The idea is to create a mix like (cutting in) shortening for a pie crust. Continue mixing so that texture is uniformly crumbly looking. In a separate bowl, beat the egg and water together. Add egg mixture to dry ingredients. Stir ingredients thoroughly. Continue to mix with your hands. Knead it until it has a uniform appearance. It will be coarse, but it should hold together. Divide dough in half. Form two rectangular flat pieces about 4" x 7" and about
Ken, I made these chocolate cookies this evening. I meant to use my teff flour blend...but after a long day of work and cooking dinner...I totally forgot and grabbed my other blend. These cookies taste like a rich nutty chocolate brownie. Totally got the thumbs up from my gluten tolerant husband. I'm going to try using more plantain and less rice flours (ratios) in the future. I'll try to remember to post if I hit on any promising combos. I also used this flour blend to make spekalatius. I must say, they are quite impressive (if you like that kinda thing). I'll have to write up the recipe as it was adapted from a (gluten) recipe. Rich Chocolate Nutty Cookie Recipe In a large bowl mix: 1 3/4 cups flour (blend equal parts plantain, brown rice, sweet rice, tapioca) 1/2 cup cocoa powder 1/2 teaspoon xanthum gum 1/2 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 teaspoon salt In a small bowl mix: 1 egg 1/3 cup water 1/3 cup butter (I actually use 2:1 expeller coconut oil and ghee) 1 cup sugar (I use organic cane--the tan stuff) 1 teaspoon vanilla Coarsely chop 1 cup pecans. I Also used pecan half for the top. Add the premixed wet ingredients to the mixed dry. After thoroughly mixing, add chopped nuts. The dough will be VERY stiff. Scoop with teaspoon into balls about the size of a quarter. You can use your fingers to get it off the spoon onto the cookie sheet. Push pecan half on to dough, smashing it down. I molded the ragged edged with my fingers before baking. Bake for 6-8 minutes at 375 F. Remove from cookie sheet after one minute to cooling rack. I use parchment to bake on--you should be able to bake on ungreased cookie sheet.
Here is my experience with plantain flour... I've been working with it over the last year. I made a flour mix that is 1 part plantain, 1 part brown rice, 1 part sweet rice and 1 part tapioca. I really like the fine texture it gives muffins. I tried it in banana bread and cranberry nut, but I found them to be too dense and moist. I remade the cranberry nut bread with 1/2 of that blend and 1/2 regular rice flour and that was better. Not at all gritty. I should of however baked it a little longer--the center was still too moist. I used that same combo (1/2 of the blend and 1/2 regular rice flour) in cornbread and that came out really well. Not too dense and not crumbly and dry. The first time I purchased it I bought it through Barry Farms. They have a recipe for pancakes and I tried it out. Didn't like it. The pancakes reminded me of whole wheat and were dry. I also have a blend with teff, plaintain, tapioca and something else...I'd have to check. I wanted to try and get more nutritional elements into my flour mix. This mix produces tan colored muffins as you might imagine. But I've had great success in making banana nut, blueberry and raspberry muffins. I didn't try it in my christmas baking as some cookies are meant to be light in color. I think I'll whip up a batch of cocoa drop cookies with this flour tonight and see how it goes! I think it is very likely true that no gum may be necessary. I'm going to omit it in my loaf (nut breads) next time and see how it turns out.
Glutening And Calling In Sick
Evie4 replied to DesertGirl's topic in Coping with Celiac DiseaseI just wanted to say I'm sorry you are in this position. Being sick is hard enough, but worrying about these work things just adds to the stress. I feel for you. I've been fortunate to have my job a long time and don't have to worry about being out. But I rarely take off. I saw what happended to some people who did that (because of chronic illness) and I've always been afraid where being absent would leave me. Granted, my direct management has always been good to me, but others haven't been so lucky--and one never knows how the bosses boss feels about attendance. I live in a place where jobs have never been abundant, so it's always a worry. It is hard to go to work being sick. I struggle with whether to take my IBS meds (that knock me out) and go to work or not take them an be in excriutiating pain at work. Sometimes I wish I could just stay home and not work, but that just isn't an option. I take it one day at a time. I agree, do document. It would be sad if you ever had to get a lawyer, but one never knows what they might be faced with. It sounds like she's picking on you. I'll venture to guess that it's not that she doesn't believe you are sick, she doesn't want to accept it and so she's punishing you. Just make it go away already so we can get back to business as usual. And yes, she might feel like she can't count on you now. Perhaps you could talk to her about the fear.
Just Diagnosed.
Evie4 replied to MissMay's topic in Coping with Celiac DiseaseI found the initial cleaning out of the pantry and fridge was difficult. It
Where Do I Start
Evie4 replied to Dan T's topic in Celiac Disease Pre-Diagnosis, Testing & SymptomsDan, constipation was my main motivation to go gluten free. I'm in my late 40s and it was becoming progressively worse. I went mostly gluten free and found that two days in a row of consuming gluten constipated me. Then it was a single day of consumption and I couldn't go for a couple days. Things were going really well after completely stopping gluten and then I found out if I eat legumes a couple days in a row or if I eat too many gluten free starchy things like muffins, cookies, pretzels etc. I start having problems. I've been suffering from IBS for about 16+ years now. I tried all the traditional recommendations. Fiber was a disaster, no amount water or exercise worked. I have pretty much always eaten well balanced meals with daily fruit and vegetables. My husband has no problem with our diet. I don't know if I have celiac disease. I do have genes, symptoms and test results that point to it. So I'm gluten free and life is better. Not perfect, but better! So...you could try eating less starch and no gluten and see if that helps. In my case, the amount of gluten you have been eating would be too much for me to not be constipated.
Need A Safe G-f Shampoo For Black Relaxed Hair
Evie4 replied to Chev's topic in Teenagers & Young Adults OnlyI don't have your type hair, but I do have frizzy hair and dry scalp. My hair has been less dry since I use Dr. Bronner's (fragrance free baby--light blue label) liquid soap. I put some tea tree oil in it as well to help with my itching problem. You can buy it at many places, look in the health food or natural product section of the store. I no longer have to use a defrizzing product on my hair as the soap leaves some of the oils in the hair.
Going gluten-free For "support"
Evie4 replied to nmlove's topic in Friends and Loved Ones of CeliacsI find anytime there is a significant change in the diet it can cause some issues. I for instance, can't eat pears. For whatever reason, they just cause me all kinds of problems anymore. Apple juice can give me the runs. Legumes contstipating. Can't digest bananas...etc. So eating healthy doesn't always mean my body likes everything! Maybe you can see some patterns if you keep a food diary--or just limit your food choices and gradually add more things in. Just a thought


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New Catholic Dictionary – Saint Catherine of Genoa
Also known as Caterina Fieschi Adorno. Born in 1447 in Genoa, Italy; died there in 1510. Widow. Of an illustrious family, she was married at 16 to Giuliano Adorno, a young nobleman. After ten years of unhappiness and spiritual apathy, a divine light enabled her to appreciate the Love of God. Thenceforth her interior state was one of intense absorption in God. After the conversion and death of her husband, she cared for the sick in the hospital at Genoa. Her wonderful revelations she embodied in two works, "" and "." Canonized, 1737. Relics in church of her hospital, Genoa. Feast, 14 September.
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