Potatoes and Wine

[sarea]

Won't those of you who live in the U.S. of A. help a girl out and pass my potato? No, that's not some kind of sexual innuendo! God, you guys are sick. Anyway, help my spud visit all 50 states! You know you want to! Besides, it's Friday, what else have you got to do? I just want to see if there's any possibility in hell that this potato will actually get to visit more states than I have.

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My boss, as a thank-you gift for some work we've been doing lately, very nicely got members of our team our favorite booze. Since I'm not a big boozer (unlike some people who get drunk and then play WoW, healing people haphazardly), I don't really have a favorite kind of booze. My teammates got stuff like their favorite tequila or scotch, and I got ... a bottle of wine. It's an Oregon pinot noir, but that means less than nothing to me. I know absolutely nothing about wine. I'm not even sure that people who like wine and have so much to say about it aren't just making shit up. In any case, I will probably just keep this one around (like several other bottles I have) until someone who knows something about wine comes to my house. I mean, you're supposed to eat certain foods with certain wines, right? For those of you who know about wine, what am I supposed to eat with this wine, theoretically? Also, I find it interesting that the blurb says I should drink it until 2009. What happens if I bust it out in 2010? Will it be bad? I thought that, with wines, the longer you wait to drink it, the better. But now they have expiration dates too?

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OMG I heard that on the MTV Movie Awards, Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams accepted their award for Best Kiss by sucking each other's faces off at the show!! So sorry to have missed that, but I think Jade taped it. It should have been an extra on The Notebook DVD.

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South Park is one of the best shows evar. YOU GO TO HELL! YOU GO TO HELL AND YOU DIE! Mmmkay?

Comments

[akscully.livejournal.com]

:-l

Anyway, pinot noirs don't last as long as other wines in the bottle. Since it's a red, I would guess that it goes really well with beef. Get yourself a nice cut of steak or roast beef and drink it with that.

[sarea-okelani.livejournal.com]

I might have known you'd know.

Why don't they last as long? Or I guess what I really want to know is, so do they actually go bad? This is in such contradiction to what I've always thought about alcohol, and wine in particular. I didn't think they could go bad -- only get better with time.

I learn something new and shocking every day. Well, assuming I've spoken to you that day.

[akscully.livejournal.com]

It's more like my parents love wine and vacation in Napa Valley and Sonoma all the time, beeyotch.

I don't know that it actually goes bad, it just reaches its peak a few years after it was produced. What year is it?

Oh, you just keep up that attitude, missy, YOU JUST KEEP IT UP.

[sarea-okelani.livejournal.com]

Oh, I see. So the boozing runs in the family. Well then, I can't blame you. I mean, it's in your blood, you can hardly be expected to go against genetics.

Anyhoo, it's from 2001. So apparently it has eight years to reach its peak. Which is great, because it'll take me that long to clean my place to a point where it is presentable to other people who might visit to drink wine.

[akscully.livejournal.com]

I think I'm going to use Kirby as your motivation to finish IYOK. As in, if you don't finish (hell, maybe even if you do) the chapter, I'm going to tell him allllll about my hot friend in Washingtion and that I'm sure there's a branch for him to transfer to around you. You like threesomes, right? Of course you do.

Yeah, my parents said that pinot noir takes up to eight years to peak so that sounds about right. Get cleaning!

"Potato man!" "Where the hell have you been?"

[not-concerned.livejournal.com]

Well, technically I don't live in America anymore, but I still know my zip code so I have cheated and sent your potato to New Jersey :D :D :D

[lissannej.livejournal.com]

South Park rocks. We can't get it out here on DVD in seasons *cries* but my favourite two episodes are "Chickenlover" (first one I ever saw) and "Succubus". If you go to my bio page, you might see a familiar line...