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Skriven 2007-05-15 02:28:56 av hap newsom
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Oh THAT wine! 
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Hello Monsieur Le Sommelier
-> 
->  -> At that it was nowhere nearly as bad a the bottle we opened at the 
first 
->  -> Seattle picnic. That stuff was as brown as iodine and was poured on 
some 
->  -> otherwise inoffensive plant life. Wooo Hooo. I don't think one could 
->  -> have even made vinegar from it.
->  HN> Gosh I'm trying to remember that bottle! At the last Seattle Picnic?
-> 
-> He's talking about the picnic just before 9/11, where United
-> was rich and happy and gave away miles like water, so I had
-> enough to upgrade Dirty Dave, and he got to sit right behind
-> me and Carol in first class (which isn't all that big of a
-> deal, unless you're a Person Of Size, which we're not, as the
-> food ain't what it used to be). I remember that evening - you
-> and I tasted several wines for an outdoor picnic at a park
-> with a fig tree - I think it was a place near the old toxic
-> waste site, where the family had deeded its homestead to the
-> city as a park or something; anyway, we had a bunch of people
-> eating sammiches and drinking wine, only we had grabbed one of
-> the reject bottles instead of the one we had intended to bring,
-> and it (a Washington state Cabernet, I think) ended up polluting
-> the little stream that went through the park. The highlights of
-> that evening were, not necessarily in this order, an Eiswein
-> that Aura brought, some liverwurst that you brought, and a walk
-> in the moonlight that Joell and Larry and Carol and I took by
-> the water after everyone else had left.
-> 
I KNEW I could count on you to remember the details, and now that you have 
refreshed my memory I remember it too! Thanks! It was indeed Puget Park 
right down on the waterfront but well hidden from the hustle and bustle of 
the "main drag" as it were! 

-> Edited to add: Salisham 1986, of which I wrote "well over the
-> hill. Originally a light wine, it didn't have enough body to
-> live this long, so what we found was a light brown liquid with
-> some particles floating in it, flavor of overripe fruit, and
-> not much tannin or acid or glycerin or anything." All the
-> membership's tastes were discriminating enough so that much of
-> the bottle was poured out as a gift to the local deities.
-> 
->  -=> Hap Newsom said to Carol Shenkenberger <=-
-> 
->  HN> I think she'd understand more than you imagine. As a military brat of
->  HN> the 50's  and 60's I always went to school with kids of all mixes,
->  HN> always played with  kids of all sorts of heritages, a true hodge podge
->  HN> of cultures. I always looked 
->  HN> at everyone as my equal and didn't really understand what was going 
on
->  HN> with  the civil rights movement till later when I found out everyone
->  HN> else wasn't like 
->  HN> me (in terms of believeing everyone is just as good as I am). My
-> 
-> Some of us were acutely aware of the differences; you are
-> pointing out one area in which the military has done good
-> stateside - as a leveler of levels it undoubtedly helped
-> the Civil Rights movement go forward.
-> 
I count myself as very fortunate in that regard. All of us kids banded together

quite well with only the occaisional problem and they were usually fairly 
minor. When Parents had problems we usually did not let them filter down to 
our level. The parents could be stone bigots...but as soon as the kids were 
out of sight they joined all the rest of us and just got along. 

->  HN> family has  been in the USA since the early 1600's and some cherokee
->  HN> blood got added in  the early 1700's (although that was a family
->  HN> "secret" till the mid 1900's or so)
->  HN> other than that I am Scotch, Irish, English, and French, and as 
common
->  HN> as  dirt. Burroughs was fiction so I knew it was "pretend" so I guess
->  HN> it didn't  bother me, certainly not as much as "To Kill a Mockingbird"
->  HN> did in highschool!  
-> 
-> I went to a segregated high school ("for the use and benefit of the
-> White race only"), and we didn't read that book there. On the other
-> hand, I'd already read it.
-> 
I was a voracious reader and devoured almost anything that was in print. I 
had an 1898 edition of the complete works of Shakespeare that I treasured 
back then...bound in red leather with steel engraving prints. I picked it up
for 
20 Francs (5 francs to the dollar in those days so I got it for 4 bux!!) at the

Thursday flea market in Downtown Chateauroux...a great place for stamp 
collectors (which I was then) bibliogeeks (which I was then and still am) and 
all sorts of odds and ends! 
Chat with you soon
hap 
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