Monday, October 24, 2011

I have to find a photo for this but now I have found this...

At a Ceaileigh awhile ago a friend and I performed the following - a list of descriptions of whiskey...as we read back and forth, we crumpled to the floor and ended whispering to the ceiling...it was fun. We didn't win. My friend's partner was a judge.

About Whiskey

Minty sweet
Oily and firm
Pure caramel
Sweet almost meaty
Plenty of dolorso character
Warming in a vigorous well defined finish
Gradually revealing a broad complex of interlocking flavors
Rounded and velvet-soft with a big development of dry, spicy, bitter-sweet marmalade-like orange and heathery smoky flavours even a faint tang of saltiness
The flavours are so tightly interlocked at first that the whiskey appears reluctant to give up its secrets…
Aromatic, heather-honey notes give way to cut-grass malty sweetness which intensifies into a sudden burst of peat
Peat some incense like heather honey with a fruity softness
Unhurried, with chocolaty notes and gingery dryness
Skips sweetly along at first and then becomes mean and moody
Salty, dry, smoky – a roaring crescendo…
Lots of seaweedy, oily, peppery notes
Tangy again in a rather quick finish
A late echo of its peaty island home
A bit of cinnamon wouldn’t you say?
Assertive wet-earth character
Fresh light flowery fruitiness
Sweetish without being cloying
Lightly sweet without being sticky
Chewy – definitely chewy
Lingering to the tongue
A cigar-box character
A hint of sulpher
A touch of mustard
Some spirity notes
Faintly phenolic
Astonishingly creamy
Rich and luscious
Fairly warming
Clinging moth-feel
A whiff of smokiness
Gingery and crisp
A hit of oakiness
It lingers but not long enough

Saturday, October 15, 2011

In Edward Albee's Sandbox, the grandmother responds to the events with the words: Lordy, Lordy, Lordy.
Walt Whitman yearns to sound a barbaric yawp.
And I alternate between Lordy, Lordy, Lordy and yawping...

Thursday, October 13, 2011





I found a shopping list amongst my important papers:


...ginger...potatoes...insurance...yogurt...Get a life!...blood tests...broth


So I went up the mountain and got a life!

Sunday, October 9, 2011

All this just to record a wonderful example of a grammatically ambiguous sentence!

I shot an elephant in my pajamas.