Nothing. Just a bunch of random tweets I have been gathering, some of you folks might recognize a line or two. Inspired by a piece I read by Jonathan Safran Foer in the New Yorker, which had nothing to do with twittering, although the style of writing inspired this post, after the jump:
My website is [...]

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From the “recent conversations with winemakers” department…
Q. I noticed in a recent meeting we were in one of the people was talking to you about winemaking. What was that all about?
A. Interesting question. They talking to me about how to make wine. They ask me about how high my sugar levels are and why I [...]

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From the archives August 12, 2007
The Dream:
I walk into an ancient Italian restaurant where I used to work that no longer exists. Ali is standing by the salad pick-up line, in his waiter clothes. I say hello to him. Then I ask him, “What are you doing here?” He says, “What?” I say, “Ali, you [...]

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from the “Shake your money maker” files

Chris Bridges, aka Ludacris, in Italia Blue andyours truly, aka Italian wine guy, in Armani Blue.
Sometimes the work just kinda gets to you. After a couple of hard hitting weeks with Italian winemakers, export managers and winery owners, yesterday I took a ride to one of our warehouses to [...]

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Blogger is still a little sluggish lately. I gathered the links for posts I did in the past few weeks, in case you missed one or two, or just wanted one place to find them all. I know I posted a lot, and many new folks have been visiting the site. it really is so [...]

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