Oh lord, I am drunk on Pinot Noir.

[UdoKier]

AND IT IS GOOD.

I wish I was more sociable in high school. I wish I made a pass on "Rachel" instead of being so damn shy.

I wish my 1st time hadn't been with a Mexican hooker. (seriously)

I wish I had waited a couple of years longer before having kids.

I wish I had always been friendly and treasured every moment with beautiful people.

Yeah, I'm drunk, yeah, these comments are stupid - but they don't get more real.

[burythehatchet]

1. cheers

confession is good for the soul, and if you like who you are today yhen all that has happened in the past made you what you are.

[UdoKier]

5. Thanks you are beautiful.

:pals:

[Droopy]

2. Cheers, Udokier

What the hell is Pinot Noir? I wish I had some of that. :toast:

[Seabiscuit]

4. It's the name of a grape, and also the name of many California wines.

Also some French wines.

[UdoKier]

7. Good stuff, pal.

I LOVE northern California.

It's the next merlot...

[Seabiscuit]

3. And I'm approaching that state on Merlot!

I wish I was more sociable in high school. I wish I made a pass on "Marie-Jean" instead of being so damn shy.

I wish my 1st time hadn't been with a Parisian hooker. (seriously)

I wish I hadn't waited so long before having kids.

I wish I had always been friendly and treasured every moment with beautiful people.

Yeah, I'm drunk, yeah, these comments are stupid - but they don't get more real.

Yeah, I'm with ya, dude...

[Der Blaue Engel]

13. Hey, I'm drunk on Merlot!

:toast:

I wish I could feel my lips.

Or maybe I don't.

:shrug:

[Seabiscuit]

18. What lipppsssshhhh???

A votre sante

Salut

Skol

:toast:

[UdoKier]

23. Heh heh.

Kanpai. G'night!

[villager]

6. what, no Syrah?

tho' must say dipped into some reds myself this evening...

[Seabiscuit]

8. Love Australian Syrah!

Had some just last week.

[UdoKier]

10. TO be woefully honest, I never had an appreciation for wine...

...until moving to NoCal last spring. My cousin in Sonoma has a winery. He grows a lot of Pinot and a bit of chardonnay and has been introducing me.

A year ago I was strictly a beer drinker (St. Pauli Girl & Asahi Super Dry), but I'm so enjoying delving into the world of wine.

I LOVE No. California. And I love you folks.

[Seabiscuit]

11. Congrats, UdoKier! Where in No. Cal. do you live?

I lived many years there before settling in No. County, San Diego. But Berkeley, SF, and Marin County are my roots.

BTW, St. Pauli Girl is good beer!

[UdoKier]

12. Baghdad by the Bay, baby!

I love this city, always have.

I lived in SD until about 10 years ago, though. Nice town. Whatever happened with that write-in mayor?

I'm not as big a fan of St. Pauli as I used to be, but it beets the piss-water Coors and Bud make...

[Seabiscuit]

14. Well...

the write-in mayor is in litigation to determine the outcome of the race.

Love SF! Began my legal career there. Lived/worked there many years. Next to Paris, my favorite city in the world.

Graduated from Bezerkeley.

I have always despised Coors. Tastes more like sludge than any beer in the world. Plus, I used to drive for La Jolla Cab in 1971 and one of my regular passengers was Adolf Coors' widow. She was a penny-pinching/dime-tipping bitch. She had a penthouse suite at that hotel at the south end of Girarad Avenue.

I can still stomach Bud, though.

Mainly a wine drinker by now. I am beginning to appreciate Marilyn Monroe's affinity for expensive French Champagne.

Moved to SD to gradually retire and raise a family.

[UdoKier]

15. Good luck on your new mayor...

That was some inspiring shit on a crappy day...

I was back in SD last month and I barely recognized the place, it's grown so much...

[Seabiscuit]

16. Yes, it has, and continues to grow, as does the price of housing.

Seems like the recession of the past four years never touched SD.

Interestingly, after returning here 30 years later, the coast looks the same, but the land east of Highway 5 is now being developed at a rapid pace. It was empty when I lived here in the early 70's.

[UdoKier]

17. When I lived in Hillcrest & North Park...

it was a funky bohemian neighborhood with a lot of seniors. Now it seems like nothing but corporate chains and trendy eateries...

I was a quasi-right-winger back then, wish I could go back and do it all over...

[Seabiscuit]

19. Well...

Hillcrest is now the center of the SD gay community.

North Park? Between Hillcrest and Balboa Park, it's probably mostly gay by now too.

The "trendy eatery" image can be somewhat of an illusion. :)

You don't need to do anything all over as long as you're here now.

[UdoKier]

21. Oh, it was gay enough then too.

I liked that. But it wasn't so commercial as today. When I moved out, they had just opened that Miramax mutiplex thing and the Gap and Starbucks.

Problem is now I'm married w/kids, so my freedom to hang out and ahve agood time w/folks is much more limited. Didn't realize what a luxury that was then...

DU is nice, but sometimes I'd like to just sit around with nice mellow folk, enjoy a drink or a doob and act stoopid....


Poverty+parenthood= not much evening fun...

[Seabiscuit]

24. I hear ya. I became a father last September 23. Baby boy.

I had a prolonged "adolescence/young-adulthood" and got married at 52.

Now a first-time father at 59.

I don't "hang out" anywhere but at home these days.

I also long to "just sit around with nice mellow folk, enjoy a drink or a doob and act stoopid" once again.

New parenthood + any amount of income + a dedication to being a good father = not much evening fun (away from home, at least - my wife is *hot*! - and my baby's a blast!).

[Seabiscuit]

20. BTW, is that red number the projected deficit?

[UdoKier]

22. It's the debt RIGHT NOW.

The rate at which it rises is beyond disturbing.

[Seabiscuit]

25. Downright scary!

[villager]

26. love Northern California, too.

Grew up there, family trips to Sonoma may have given me the "wine bug" years before I could buy it legally...

Miss it, but need to stay near my boys, who live with their mom (in sunny SoCal). Still, I get back more and more often, lately, and am intro'ing my boys into an appreciation for things NorCalish, themselves!

[bloodyjack]

9. The internet appreciates your candor.

[Lenape85]

27. I've personally will never drink and websurf again

Some of my posts when I am drunk get just plain crude

[Bitter Betty]

28. Cheers!

I live within 45 minutes of the wine country & I love it. CA Pinot is one of those wines that is hard to find simultaneously cheap & good, but when I do find a good one I tend to stock up. Oregon makes some good Pinots too I've found. I'll be drinking later (at a bar getting my girlfriend drunk for her b-day)!