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Perhaps we need to place our order with El Vino. Note the specific claret recommendation. http://www.elvino.co.uk/wines/newshome.asp

LOL! In our house it was Mateus bottles. I thought my brother was the coolest guy on the planet for getting the drips so symmetrical. Your brother was the coolest guy on the planet! A little anal, but still cool. Me, I changed out candles to get a multicolored effect.

The glory days may be long gone, but for $19 you could do a lost worse. I found it much more restrained and Bordeaux-like than the Gallo of Sonoma single vineyard cabs that run $10 more. Not that I'm a fan of California cabernet, by any means. I find I hardly ever reach for new world wines these days. Can't speak to today's Gallo, although in the old days I got some strange kick out of melting candles in their cluster of grapes shaped bottles. Ah, youth!

Beaulieu Vineyards is one of the oldest vineyards in California. It was founded by George de Latour. For years, Beaulieu's cabernet and later its Private Reserve Cabernet set the standard in California. In 1969, Latour's heirs sold to Heublein which dramatically increased production. Sic transit gloria.

Just saw a sign the other day. There's now a stretch of Fairfax designated as Little Ethiopia in L.A. Several restaurants.

Port tongs for sale. http://www.wineware.co.uk/62/16/wine_rack_details.htm But does anybody really use them, or they just hang around looking like implements of torture from the Spanish Inquisition?

You should be able to pick up a Louis Jadot Beaujolais for $7-10. For somewhat more, a Ridge Zinfandel would be super.

Sounds more like a Good Humor Man. I once worked about 2 months in a Dairy Queen for 50 cents an hour plus tips, so basically 50 cents an hour. They had a good spicy burger, good dip cones (not ice cream though) and some kinda special shakes called Shinook (Chinock) (?). Left to go across the street to work for a newspaper for $1.15 per hour. Minimum wage got raised so I was soon earning $1.25. Then, I could afford to eat at the DQ.

Do people really use these (presumably, carefully)? What's the story?

6356 Hollywood Blvd., 2d level.

Rachel Ray is awfully chipper.

You can get wine there.

From the LA Weekly re Monkeymay's new place opening very soon: At the opening fete for CINESPACE, the futuristic, Blade Runner-esque digital theater-meets-supper club, the bathroom's clear-glass front door freaked out some of the shyer ladies in the house, even though there were private stalls. Of course, the see-through entrance didn't even faze the dudes, who had more to worry about, since you really could watch 'em doing their business. That's one way to get discovered in Hollywood.

While on St. Croix you'll want to check out the Cruzan Rum Factory which has been in operation for over 300 years!

Ditto EuroDisney.

Stop smelling corks. Go out and get a bottle of Domaine Gramenon, La Sagese, 2001. Under $20, peppery flavor you might find in a more expensive Chateauneuf du Pape in a Cotes du Rhone.

Dairy Queen Man???

I've got a friend who gets this great look of concern on her face while pushing the close button on elevators to keep out people coming at the last minute.

Actually, maybe you could do a show in which you come up with gourmet versions of all the Fear Factor "dishes." Be sure and get some of the lovelies from that show to try them.

Is there a way you could go to places like Morocco, etc., and do a dope den tour?

Perhaps you should do a show on the food at Betty Ford and similar drying out spots. Maybe a spa food show, too. Mud baths and martinis.

Office work is for tourists.

Super market sushi is for tourists.

All this talk of fast driving made me think of tires (tyres to some of us). http://www.pirellical.com/cal2003/mypirell...equestid=153054

It's the view of some that Renu Nakorn in Norwalk, CA (near LA) has the best Thai in the state.