February 2011
40 posts
“I like to think about the life of wine. How it’s a living thing. I like to think about what was going on the year the grapes were growing; how the sun was shining; if it rained. I like to think about all the people who tended and picked the grapes. And if it’s an old wine, how many of them must be dead by now. I like how wine continues to evolve, like if I opened a bottle of wine today it would taste different than if I’d opened it on any other day, because a bottle of wine is actually alive. And it’s constantly evolving and gaining complexity. That is, until it peaks, like your ‘61. And then it begins its steady, inevitable decline.”
—Maya, Sideways
Ariz. May Require Hospitals to Check Citizenship →
abcnews.go.com
So much for:
“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me.
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.”
Boooooo (although we can both agree it sucks to BU)
I’ll drink to that!
Why Toy Story 3 should win the best picture Oscar - video →
guardian.co.uk
In the first of a 10-part series leading up to this year’s Oscars, Guardian film critic Peter Bradshaw presents the case for Pixar’s animation to win the best picture prize
