Amid the anger and outrage over Dewar's "The Baron" ad and the (very brief) discussion about why the ad produced for Dewar's international campaign wasn't being used in North America, we lost sight of something equally important: the exploitation and commercialization of art by corporations for the purpose of profit.  This isn't an entirely new ( Read more... )

Back in early April, I sent an e-mail to Linh Do, to ask how she was doing; she’d pretty much disappeared from the Whisky Connosr forums, and her blog hadn’t been updated since mid-February (in fact, all of the posts had simply vanished that morning).  I certainly know that people can get very, very busy, and writing / blogging can take an ( Read more... )

No, this does not mean that I've become a raging alcoholic and buried my head in a whisky cask.  What it does mean, however, is that Linh Do (aka BlissInABarrel) - fellow member of the whisky social network Connosr, and whisky blogger extraordinaire - has published the e-mail interview that she conducted with me earlier in the week.  You can read ( Read more... )

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