Van Lingle Mungo

Much is being made of sip vs. belt as a means of delivery. This ignores sniffing altogether, which is a crucial step in the appreciation of a decent whisky. The aroma will carry notes which don't necessarily come across on the tongue, and will combine with the taste to provide an overall effect whic...

Nico Adie wrote:...Springbank is the only functioning distillery in Campbeltown...

Does Glen Scotia no longer exist?

Ty Webb wrote:I want to drink with Ford. I can't imagine how long it would take me to polish off 5 or 6 good single malts in a night. I nurse a good scotch like it's the last one I'll ever have.

I will drink with Ty Webb. It'll take hours.

So I guess you are only supposed to have one drink right? Nobody in their right mind has several scotchs over the course of a night, right? This is patently erroneous. You can have as many different scotches in a sitting as your constitution/tolerance/predilection will allow. There are no hard and ...

Scotch is the greatest drink in the world, and surely one of the six or seven greatest things in the world. At its highest level, say Talisker, Highland Park or AnCnoc, it has many of the qualities people associate with "art." It is nuanced. It is accompanied by history, ritual, lore, and ...

Brett Eugene Ralph wrote:A great performance can make gibberish glorious, but a great song can also make a shitty band sound better, if not great.

Word.

Them Carpenters, for my money: more the former than the latter, alas. On the other hand, "great?" "Glorious?"

Tulsa's finest: N.O.T.A.

Does this dismissal of the actual information of which the performance is a performance of extend to classical music? One can listen to, for instance, a rote and uninspired pass through a Bartok string quartet, and come away saying, "Those four guys there turned in a rote and uninspired reading...

Would some people marry just for the benefits? Yes, just like some opposite-sex couples do now. It's not a huge problem now, and I don't see why it would become a huge problem. Oh, I wasn't thinking of it as a problem. I figure, you get two tickets to the ice show, you can invite whoever you want. ...

Shows : Sadies at Lee's and No Dynamics at The Boat on Friday. I think there's also something going on at the Boat on Saturday, but I'm going to be at Lee's for Bettye LaVette. Sundays are the Wavelength concert series at Sneaky Dee's on College, which is pay-what-you-can, and there's usually someo...