as anyone in northern california would be delighted to inform you its hot out. so hot in fact that its not terribly conducive to the act of generating any original thoughts outside of boy its hot worthy of documenting anywhere. with that in mind im shutting down the heatgenerating creative part of my brain leaving only the lizard brain in control which is pretty neat in order to conserve energy an...
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i must confess until a week or so ago id never heard of william m. dowd and his dowd on drinks column. hes got ten blogs seven of which have something to do with alcohol under a business umbrella he calls circle 7 associates. based on his resume it appears most of his writing is about wine and spirits which may explain why im not familiar with him. his writing is apparently very widely distribut...
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