Brian, I'm sorry. Sherry, I'm sorry. Rachel, you're right: lotsa cussin'. Lotsa adult language tonight. And to comment on a 180, Aaron slammed me (altho', not very well) without making any references to my ancestry and without using any profanity. The South Park reference was kinda cute. I will comment on his site and congratulate him for that.
We had a Sommelier Guild tasting tonight. The wines were not all that good. We were tasting wines made from the same grapes from different regions. The four grapes were riesling, pinot gris, chardonnay, and pinot noir. Three white grapes. One red grape. I don't think too much of white wines. Serve 'em cold enough and who cares. The best wine was the 1999 Girardin Pommard. For the uninitiated, that is a pinot noir from Burgundy. Nice wine. $22 a bottle.
My friend Michael asked me if I had heard the latest Cynthia McKinney ad. Nope. She said that Andrew Young endorsed her. Almost true. He did two years ago.
After the tasting I'm driving home and listening to the radio. Royal Marshall, Neal Boortz' (morning talk show host) engineer has a talk show from 9 to 11 at night on WSB, the major Atlanta talk radio station. Lest you think that Royal is a tool of the white man, Neal has a policy that Royal can turn on his microphone and disagree with Neal anytime he feels like it, and he does. Royal has issued an open invitation to both Denise Majette and Cynthia Mckinney to come on his show. Denise accepted. Cynthia did not.
On his show tonight, Royal played a recorded telephone message that was being sent to voters in the 4th Congressional district. The gist of the message was it is illegal to be a Republican and vote in the Democratic primary without proper documentation. What the fuck does that mean?
I got home and looked at the answering machine and saw that there were two messages. Message 1: 'Hi. I'm Robert Redford. In case you hadn't noticed I'm over the hill'. OK I made that last part up, but does anyone really give a fuck what Robert Redford, Alec Baldwin, Rob 'Meathead' Reiner, Susan Sarandon, and the rest of the empty headed Hollywood airheads think about anything? 'Cynthia McKinney really cares about the environment.' Yeah. I'll just fucking bet she does. The only environment she cares about is the congressional environment and she wants to be in it. Thanks Bob. But you're just peddling bullshit and I ain't fucking buying it.
Message 2: 'Attention Republican voters in the 4th Congressional district. (I am not making this up.) It is illegal to vote in the Democratic primary without proper documentation. (What?) There will be election officials on site to check documentation and enforce the law ... yada ... yada ... yada ... blah ... blah ... blah'. I cannot believe what the fuck I am hearing. Is the election this close? Is this an act of desperation? Be still my beating heart.
Dudes. Check any documentation you want. Georgia is an open primary state. I can vote as either a Republican or a Democrat. Tomorrow, I will be a (shudder) Democrat.
No blog tomorrow. I have a friend in town and he's coming over for dinner and then we're breaking out the guitars and jammin' until my fingers get sore, which might be early since I haven't been playing as much as I should. I will post a link to a previous blog for study purposes and we will discuss it and I will actually admit I was wrong about sumpin'. Tune in. This doesn't happen too often.
See ya then.
Posted by denny at August 19, 2002 10:43 PM