New York City Subway Redecorated!
During the recent strike, NYC Transit employees used their free time to spruce up the place and hang a few of those pine tree air fresheners here and there. (Those things don't make the smell of urine and dead bodies go away -- nothing short of a meteorite hit can do that -- but they will vaporize your nose hairs so you shouldn't smell a thing!)
And yes, I'm just kidding -- about them sprucing up the subway. That's actually Cinch in Santa Monica, where glam Swiss-Italian journo/TV host Claudia Laffranchi and I went for a drinkiepoo the other night, but squint your eyes, all you ex-New Yorkers, and it's the Bleecker/Houston #6.
What is the Advice Goddess' libation of choice?
nash at January 2, 2006 10:51 PM
There are a number of them; all of them, white; all of them wine: Sauvignon blanc, Chardonnay, Viognier, Sancerre, Pouilly-Fuissé, Pouilly Fumé, and white Burgundy. More than one and a half glasses without food, and I'll be sleeping under the bar. I can't remember who it was, but somebody used to make fun of me for taking a handful of little Laughing Cow cheese in a Ziploc bag to parties, just in case. Better goofily unsophisticated than a drunk on the road!
Amy Alkon at January 2, 2006 11:10 PM
There's some redundancy in the above. Pouilly-Fuissé is a white Burgundy. It's also (mostly) made from Chardonnay stock </pedantry>
Stu "El Inglés" Harris at January 3, 2006 9:57 AM
And by the way, here's a tip for the thrifty lover of white burgundy. Drink the wine of St. Veran (sometimes St. Verand) whenever it's on offer. It's also a chardonnay, and the village is walking distance from Fuissé, but it sells for roughly half the price of a decent P-F. St. Veran abuts the extreme north of the Beaujolais, and some St Veran wine is in fact marketed as "white beaujolais".
Stu "El Inglés" Harris at January 3, 2006 10:12 AM
Mais, duh...sadly, while I like wine, I'm a wine idiot, to a great degree. Merci pour la leçon.
Amy Alkon at January 3, 2006 3:36 PM
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