I speak wine and food fluently. In several languages. But just the nouns. 

Of course, even if you get the pronunciation right, the French will roll their eyes at your awful American accent.

I guess I’m more of an oenophile than I thought, because I’ve never had any trouble pronouncing those, and I failed French. Twice.

“All of these varieties are French, a notoriously tricky language for Americans to get right”

I didn’t know you were a coin-us-sewer

Anytime I can post this:

There’s a winery in Sonoma called Gundlach Bundschu that produces a gewurztraminer. It used to sell posters that pictured a motorcycle cop pulling over someone in an older car that said “Sonoma Valley Sobriety Test: if you can’t say Gundlach Bundschu Gewurztraminer, you shouldn’t be driving.”

I have a friend obsessed with Malort who decided we all needed bottles for... I’m not sure if he thought the rest through.

Malort: A liquid Gypsy Curse that’s been bottled?

It’s kind of the soda version of Malort. Herbal and bitter.

I guess I’m in the minority in that I liked it. But I also have learned to like bitter tastes in things, and can appreciate the undernotes even if there’s a lot of bitter.

I suppose this would be an excellent non-alcoholic aperitif, in that after drinking it, whatever you taste next will only improve things.

Everything about season 3 has been fine. I don’t get all the online hate about it. Ciri does super elder magic Ciri stuff, Geralt kills things and then gets his ass kicked, Yennifer is looking good in her dresses, and Jaskier is having gay sex. There’s nothing to criticize here.

Best tag line belongs to Vampire Hookers

If someone told me a movie I’d made was my ‘Fifth Element’ movie, I’d take it as a high compliment. 

Saw it today and it was really, really good. Much better than GotG 2, where I felt Gunn fumbled a bit, though I do enjoy that movie. This one is just everything Gunn excels at, which is wringing emotion out of absurdity and bombast, mainly by being to true to his characters. It’s definetely one of the darkest of the…

Spoiler-free review: man, I really wanted to love this. I love Gunn, love the characters, but it’s so sloppy in some respects and SO schmaltzy at the end that I couldn’t help but yearn for the structure and relative discipline of the first movie.

I enjoyed it, but I feel with all the focus (rightfully) on the main cast, Adam Warlock ended up feeling kind of pointless. He didn’t have much in common, character-wise, with his comic book incarnation, and I don’t think Gunn found any sort of hook for him. Hopefully they’ll find something for him to do.