April 8 2008
When I first started this blog, I did rudimentary cartoons that were intended to be something of the wine blog equivalent to a political cartoon--more observationally piquant than rib-tickling. I had a lot of fun with these, but when I re-designed my site, I also intended to up the ante on the cartoons, which I had dubbed “New World.” I, in fact, did do that with a stud illustrator who knocked it out of the park in terms of providing quality illustrations that I could assemble, but I kind of lost my joie de vivre for it once the output had the capability to be polished. I can turn loose illustrations that are awesome, and I use some of them in my wine reviews and they may appear in other forms in the future, but I’m going back to rudimentary way.
I’ve re-titled these little vignettes as “Vin de Napkin.” Before anybody accuses me of being an ugly American, yes, I know it doesn’t translate to French. But, you get what it is. It’s the equivalent of a back of napkin drawing.
I won’t belabor the point, but thinking about writing a post in 500 words or so and thinking about doing “back of napkin” punditry is two different animals and I’m looking forward to re-calibrating the brain into the occasionally shorter form.
That said, and background provided, thanks for checking out the site.
Inspired by this article and this post at Fermentation:
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