Having just enticed you with a delicious (albeit against-the-grain) lasagna, I might tell you what wine I just drank with it: a 2018 Mendoza Station torrontes.
A wine that's hard to find. I lucked into a couple of bottles in my local booze emporium, on sale, no less!
So, yeah, I'm watching a little TV, here in central eastern FL -- and Rachel Maddow is on, saying that the main newspaper of Orlando (80 miles from here), the Sentinal, has gone on record NOT endorsing Donald J.Trumpsky in 2020
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I've been doing this blog for nigh unto 15 years now -- a fuckload of politics since the advent of Trumpsky. Before that, I told you a bunch about on-line girlfriends and other inntimate indiscretions
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I just read a pair of articles in today's Wall St.Journal, both regarding efforrs to get more affordable housing in urban areas. I've heard about crazy trends in rentals in places like San Francisco -- for which Berlin stands in quite nicely. And I've presumed there MUST be places where housing pressures aren't so insane -- and, surprise! Tokyo is
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So, Friday the 22nd: the fateful day for Special Counsel Mueller to deliver results of his 2-year look at Trumpsky's collusion with Putin and Russia. Alas, by the Justice Department's arcane rules governing such investigations, only AG Barr has the actual report for now
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You good friends will have noted that my part of Florida is threatened tonight by the huge hurricane that already badly damaged Haiti and the Bahamas
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May not get an opportunity to blog tomorrow -- we're taking our London guest to Orlando in the morning, show her around a bit before she's off on Tuesday
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I'm scribbling from a favorite haunt in Vero Beach. the Riverside* Bar. Having a beer while waiting for a friend who's undergoing a "procedure." (Don't you HATE those
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