by admin | Sep 6, 2014 | Blog
n Warner Brothers Studio The last movie I ever saw at a drive in was Mel Brooks’ brilliant comedy, Blazing Saddles, in the summer of 1974. A drive in, if you somehow missed out on this seminal American cultural experience, was a place where you paid to drive your car...
by admin | Aug 28, 2014 | Blog
n Malcom Gladwell writes good airplane books. By that I mean Gladwell writes the kind of books you purchase at full retail on the fly (so to speak), at pricey airport bookstores as impulse buys to have something reasonably informative and/or entertaining to read while...
by admin | Aug 17, 2014 | Blog
n “A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.”Shakespeare from Twelfth NightLast year I sat down to interview Yosh Han, an internationally known custom perfumer. Like previous interviews with wine industry colleagues, I wanted to deconstruct...
by admin | Jul 20, 2014 | Blog
n Dateline March 20th, 2014 on BBC Online: “The human nose can detect one trillion different odors, far more than we previously thought, say US scientists.”Back story: for the better part of the last 15 or more years, the Deductive Tasting PPT segment in the MS...
by admin | Jul 7, 2014 | Blog
n Fall semester of my undergrad sophomore year. Karl Hinterbichler, trombone professor and my brass quintet coach at the University of New Mexico (UNM), suggests I attend the workshop to be given by members of the Beaux Arts Trio the following day. Mind you, I’m a...
by admin | Jun 20, 2014 | Blog
n Sabato Sagaria, MS Aspen, May of 2012; day two of the Master’s tasting exam. Sabato Sagaria from the Little Nell Resort–the exam venue hotel–is one of the last candidates of the day scheduled for our panel. This was Sabato’s third and final attempt at...
