Saturday, February 09, 2008
First You Do it for Love, Then for a Few Friends,
The Next Thing You Know, You're Doing it for Money
Well hey--it looks like I'm now a professional blogger. Here's a note from Google AdSense telling me they owe me--um, let's just say, enough to by Mrs. B a nice bottle of wine, though not as nice as this one. At any rate, I'm makin' more off this blog than I ever made off the best book I ever wrote.
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"After calming down the customer ordered an alternative — a magnum of Mouton Rothschild 1945 at £20,000. This time it got drunk." [From your link]
Sheesh! I wanted to send back a $9 glass of bar wine [some kind of not-expensive French Bordeaux] at the Lotus Club where my beautiful girlfriend is a member and she forbade me to do it. She said it tasted fine to her. To me it tasted like a chewed-up aspirin. No, it hasn't soured. It has bittered.
I also know of a Michelin-starred restaurant on Place Contrescarpe in Paris that actually charges reasonable prices for the food, but makes it up on the wine.
Dining there last summer, I could only find one bottle of anything red under 100 Euros, and most of them seemed to be upward of 200 Euros. I ordered the – I don't remember what it was - call it Chateau El Cheapo. When the bottle arrived at our table the sommelier announced in a very loud voice, "This is our LAST bottle of wine for UNDER 45 EUROS, Monsieur."
Right. An d try to get Google to pay you in Euros. Lotsa Luck.
Crankily,
The New York Crank
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