what am i supposed to do with boones farm?
my party was excellent, slightly bigger than the gathering on my birthday itself, and with a different set of people. it was especially great to get to hang out with meg. wish i could have had it on a weekend when half of my friends were not going out of town, but between getting back from florida from vss, the cvs symposium next weekend, and then going to texas, there wouldn't be any other time until mid-june.. and that is very much not my birthday :)
i'm thinking maybe now that i have a pretty good idea of some wines that i know i like, maybe i should stop buying almost exclusively from wine sense.. there really are better deals to be had. but then again, they are so convenient, and they've been good to me. i need to check out century, though, and my wine cellar is full right now, so i'll make that be my next trip.
it was kind of funny.. mike's friends and mine are clearly on different schedules. jose and jessica showed up sort of late into the party, maybe half of the people had left. they playfully told me they thought i was being kind of pretentious about the wine, so they brought me boone's farm. i got a big kick of that. but now it is sitting on my table and i have no idea what to do with it. my first instinct was to dump it down the sink and recycle the bottle, i mean it was a gag gift anyway, right? but then again there is probably someone somewhere who would love to indulge in wild island flavored apple-wine product. this person may be 19, and i may have no access to her, but it still seems bad to be wasteful... any ideas? oh but anyway, then vik, johanna, and charlie showed up right as the last of my friends were clearing out. so i kind of had two parties in one! probably 20 people showed up to my party in all, but since i only had a dozen wine glasses and i washed out abandoned ones a couple times to pass over to newcomers, that's probably the max number of people at any given time.
yesterday morning i was kinda hung over, not sick but just with a bit of a headache and craving for fatty foods. i spent most of the morning "educating" myself about the blogging world, which just seems totally surreal and ridiculous every time i hear about it. i mean... people whose main source of income is their internet presence? people who make their living by throwing stones at celebrities, then become celebrities, who get stones thrown at them by competing bloggers? if you want to indulge a little, here's the track i took:
*first, the NYTimes Magazine article by blogger Emily Gould, whom I had never heard of, but is apparently a celebrity, as she attempted to explain to her therapist.
*in the middle of that, so I could follow the attack by Jimmy Kimmel that she was talking about, the YouTube record of her TV appearance
*then, to get some perspective, the bitchy slam posted on her former place of employment, gawker.com, which led me to
*the page six article by former gawker co-worker and ex-boyfriend josh stein, which i agree is quite evil, and
*the ny observer commentary on the phenomenon, both before, and in response to, the huffington post reposted-by-gawker bitchslap
what is it with nyc that this is such a big deal? i mean it is a little fun in that guilty-pleasure way, but still it seems so bizarre for people to be so caught up in this. is it just that there is a high concentration of people in the city who actually make their living doing this? so they become the clique that bickers through the internet? weird...
anyway, at this point, meg called me and asked if i wanted to go to the zoo. which sounded like a much better use of my time. so i saw adorable animals with meg, ashley, and patty. the baboons were the best, they had 3 babies, and one was barely bigger than a squirrel.
i'm thinking maybe now that i have a pretty good idea of some wines that i know i like, maybe i should stop buying almost exclusively from wine sense.. there really are better deals to be had. but then again, they are so convenient, and they've been good to me. i need to check out century, though, and my wine cellar is full right now, so i'll make that be my next trip.
it was kind of funny.. mike's friends and mine are clearly on different schedules. jose and jessica showed up sort of late into the party, maybe half of the people had left. they playfully told me they thought i was being kind of pretentious about the wine, so they brought me boone's farm. i got a big kick of that. but now it is sitting on my table and i have no idea what to do with it. my first instinct was to dump it down the sink and recycle the bottle, i mean it was a gag gift anyway, right? but then again there is probably someone somewhere who would love to indulge in wild island flavored apple-wine product. this person may be 19, and i may have no access to her, but it still seems bad to be wasteful... any ideas? oh but anyway, then vik, johanna, and charlie showed up right as the last of my friends were clearing out. so i kind of had two parties in one! probably 20 people showed up to my party in all, but since i only had a dozen wine glasses and i washed out abandoned ones a couple times to pass over to newcomers, that's probably the max number of people at any given time.
yesterday morning i was kinda hung over, not sick but just with a bit of a headache and craving for fatty foods. i spent most of the morning "educating" myself about the blogging world, which just seems totally surreal and ridiculous every time i hear about it. i mean... people whose main source of income is their internet presence? people who make their living by throwing stones at celebrities, then become celebrities, who get stones thrown at them by competing bloggers? if you want to indulge a little, here's the track i took:
*first, the NYTimes Magazine article by blogger Emily Gould, whom I had never heard of, but is apparently a celebrity, as she attempted to explain to her therapist.
*in the middle of that, so I could follow the attack by Jimmy Kimmel that she was talking about, the YouTube record of her TV appearance
*then, to get some perspective, the bitchy slam posted on her former place of employment, gawker.com, which led me to
*the page six article by former gawker co-worker and ex-boyfriend josh stein, which i agree is quite evil, and
*the ny observer commentary on the phenomenon, both before, and in response to, the huffington post reposted-by-gawker bitchslap
what is it with nyc that this is such a big deal? i mean it is a little fun in that guilty-pleasure way, but still it seems so bizarre for people to be so caught up in this. is it just that there is a high concentration of people in the city who actually make their living doing this? so they become the clique that bickers through the internet? weird...
anyway, at this point, meg called me and asked if i wanted to go to the zoo. which sounded like a much better use of my time. so i saw adorable animals with meg, ashley, and patty. the baboons were the best, they had 3 babies, and one was barely bigger than a squirrel.