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About Me

My Life as it Now Stands:Iâ€™m engaged in a constant state of career reinvention as a copy writer, package designer, channel strategist, and the consummate consumer of small, quality oriented, differentiated, sustainable ag, grower/producer wines. I work as a contract/1099 consultant and as a wine industry marketer for selected imported wines, and for a small list of quality focused, family owned Sonoma, Napa and Mendocino County wine start-ups.

My Interests

Besides swimming, surfing, biking, hiking, treking: Wines by small producer growers from west Sonoma County, and Burgundy; Hard to find, but easy to love Rhone wines; Pinot Noir; Pinot Blanc; Pinot Gris; Petite Sirah; Syrah,; Grenache; Picopoul; Locally grown and/or produced (Slow) food; Biodynamic vineyards; sustainable agriculture; heirloom tomatoes & vegatables; winter lettuces; herbs; solar power; hydrogen combustion engines; quality chocolates; homecooked meals, utilizing local ingedients;the meaning of life

I'd like to meet:

Bono; Warren Buffet; Al Gore; ; Denis Leary; Al Franken; John Stewart; Laurence Feraud; Bill Clinton; Richard Branson; Bill Gates; Michael Eisner; Albert Einstein; ; Lewis Black; Robert Parker; Alan Meadows; Henri Jayer; Paul Dolan; Anderson Cooper; Keith Olbermann

Music:

Besides my life long interest in indigenous American music (traditional; folk; bluegrass), and the various schools of modern and traditional Celtic influenced music, I often find myself most creative when listening to old school, jazz, such as -- Diana Krall; Chet Baker; Stan Getz; Sonny Rollins; Bill Perkins; Charlie Byrd; Dave Brubeck; Coleman Hawkins; Ella Fitzgerald; Blossom Dearie; Miles Davis; Count Basie; Billy Eckstine; Mel Torme; Frank Sinatra; Matt Dusk; Billie Holiday; Madelelene Peyroux; Edith Piaf; Eartha Kitt; Danah Washington; Sade; Anita Baker; Rickie Lee Jones; Thelonious Monk; Joao Gilberto; Astrud Gilberto; Diane Schuur; Louis Armstrong

Movies:

In my to watch stack: The Big Lebowski; Thank You for Smoking; The Departed; The Queen; Hollywood Land; Little Miss Sunshine; Borat

Television:

No Reservation w/Anthony Bordain; Rescue Me; Daily News w/Jon Stewart; IFC; Sundance Channel; the Shield; Dirt; The Riches; The Wire; Weeds; Entourage; Deadwood; Huff; Mythbusters; College Football; Anderson Cooper; The Countdown w/Keith Olbermann

Books:

Unread books in my bookcase: My Life in France (Julia Child); Nasty Bits (Tony Bordain); The Traveler (John Twelve Hawks); Under the Banner of Heaven (John Krakauer); American Vertigo (Jean Henri Levy); The Truth (Al Franken)

Heroes:

My Dad...not what I knew while he was alive, but what I found out about him after his death.

My Blog

Immigration

Immigration As a Californian, most of my friends back East have an opinion on the current immigration debate that they just have to share with me, belying the fact that both my mother and ...
Posted by Cork on Fri, 22 Sep 2006 06:57:00 PST

The Review

The Review Tom pushed the iPod earbuds as deep as he could. He wanted to block out the constant ringing of the phone, calls from his editor, who had expected his copy yesterday. "Earth to Capta...
Posted by Cork on Fri, 22 Sep 2006 06:54:00 PST

The Meeting

The Meeting Another day! Another step! His hand wrapped around the glass of the Mendo Zin that David had brought to the meeting. A meeting that lasted so long that even the cracker crust white pizza ...
Posted by Cork on Fri, 22 Sep 2006 06:55:00 PST

Freedom Ride

Freedom Ride John, in his Studio City garage, was busy gapping the plugs on his Hog, mindless but necessary work. He'd just found his old albums yesterday, and was now listening to s...
Posted by Cork on Fri, 22 Sep 2006 06:51:00 PST

Dispatches from an Island

Dispatches from an Island The California heat has been oppressive as the Pacific anticline sets in for, what appears to be, a blazing summer. If this keeps up, I'm fully expecting the eart...
Posted by Cork on Fri, 22 Sep 2006 06:50:00 PST