CRAZY WEATHER

=| Snow in Malibu

Said the papers. "First time in memory of residents" as the Snooze was sure to report, semi-truthfully. Don't ask me when but I remember when it snowed in Malibu within the past five years; pipes froze out in the desert at Lancaster, and the lawns (such as they are ~ Water is scarce) looked like an ice carnival. Some of that likely going on as we speak ~ I-15 is closed by snow right at Victorville, where the Pearblossom Highway meets it.

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My Kitchen Sisters - aka the Pinays who ought to be running the federal Bailouts - went out for cookies & wine tonight. What's this about Midnight Mass five hours early, what's with that ? Early tee-time for the Priests tomorrow, I guess ... you know, i always wanted to ask about the Communion wine ~ "What is this, the House Wine ? No ! Really ? Can I see the label, please ?" but Opportunity just hasn't presented itself as yet. This sort of behavior is no doubt artifact of my association with Mikey the Oenophile ~ can't say it, can't even spell it, and he wants me to Be One ?!

Sounds like someone with a social disease, or maybe a really weird sexual disorder, doesn't it. Turtle used to tell a joke about "cunning linguists" which must have had em rolling in the aisles at his linguistic conventions [that's his Other PhD, btw. Linguistics. In his 60's. For fun. I'll spare you] ... Oenophiliac has a nice ring. Must try it on Mikey, himself an Encyclopedia of Good Cheap Wines and Chief Doofus behind a Genuinely Interesting Blog. He's the guy who got me into this, too. The blog, I mean, not the Cannabis Wars; blame for that lies elsewhere ...

It was Mikey, though, who noodled me this summer into putzing around with a "Best Buds" blog after we had done the Dozens on each other's favorite recreational Manna. He's definetely a Wine Guy who appreciates Bud. I'm a Bud Guy who can't tell the difference between Chateau Muckety '84 and a glass of Tipple on ice "that classic blend of Ripple and Thunderbird, redolent of Sterno with undertones of kitty litter, it brings me back to crisp autumn daze spent under the Overpass ..."

Come on, Mikey, give it up. Ain't gonna happen. Ain't got it ~ no palate for it. I will, however, be writing Bud Reviews in such Spirit ...

Events have, however, dictated they be set aside. Stay tuned.

Trying to beam myself back to Michigan where Winter awaits, but Bad Winds blowing out there.

Not going anywhere for moment.



= 18 Dec 08