At Oliver’s Cock & Bull for a morning ante-vino restorative. Feel the pain…
UPDATE: Fantastic 100 Mile dinner with the winemakers at Tinhorn Creek last night. Up until 3am with the cooks and some of the service team (on the fly, Rob Clark made a Catelli pasta with fat-macerated pork belly. So nasty delicious). I woke up at 7am feeling like my body was made out of Merlot-soaked potato sack (God is a couple of Advil Extra Strength Liqui-Gels for Migraine Relief).
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Lunch at Burrowing Owl’s Sonora Room today after a multi-coffee breakfast at Cock & Bull. Drove down to Osoyoos for a walkabout in my kickass rental electric blue Chevy Cobalt cranking The Stones (Midnight Rambler).
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Baker’s market with fat and fluffy meringues. Plenty cookies. Biker gangs. Wholesome. Now I’m back in Oliver in a room at Southwinds (sweet monkey love, they have wireless!).
Working on a story all afternoon and then maybe heading back to Tinhorn to pick up my liver. Back to the city in the morning.
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Original post – I’m up in the Okanagan staying at Tinhorn Creek winery for a couple of days. Chefs Rob Clark and Quang Dang (of Raincity and “C”) are here setting up for a special 100 mile dinner that starts in 15 minutes. There is no internet connection (posting via Blackberry), so I’ll touch base again on Sunday night when I fly home.
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Censorship Mr. Morrisson, say it isn’t so.
As I recall, unless the disinformation police slipped me a quicky, up until the early hours of Friday evening, the Pink Elephant was the most commented on blog on this site.
Well I’m glad I was among the few early birds allowed to read industry commentary, until you decided?
The Okanagan can’t be ‘that’ intoxicating.
I feel that you do have a right to protect your reputation on the public part of the site, but if you don’t want to stir up controversy, then you should leave the comments off in the first place.
But I AM annoyed that my comments were deleted under 2 other subjects as well! There was nothing controversial about them!
Yeah, I suck. I thought it was getting too personal and, in parts, mean-spirited. I’m also away and can’t moderate as well as I’d like, so I just thought “screw it, why not erase it all and relax.” I did and I have. Call it censorship or a sense of entitlement to a weekend without bullshit…
I am sorry about the other comment deletions. Zeal by Blackberry. Totally accidental.
As for having controversial comments in a “controversial” post…I didn’t assume people would be start casting aspersions on the guy’s personal life. I thought it was cheap and low.
I agree.
But people feel very strongly about the guy because he is such a public figure.
As Rhonda said: “Love him or hate him, people love to talk about him.”
Ditto to deletion… was quite passionate about Shittiest. Thing. Ever. :(
Ah well, enjoy your weekend without bullshit, Mr. Morrisson.
Sad, as I always admired your penchant for stirring it up.
Once again, sorry about the accidental deletions. Shit happens, and I believe all of my varied penchants have remained intact throughout.
PS. it’s Morrison with one ‘S’, dearie ;-)
A.K.A. “Old Man Liver”
sh*t . . . I’m intrigued – what did I miss?
A train wreck…no worries, another will likely be along at some point.
Mr. Morrison,
since we are in the mood for apologies… sorry about the mispell.
Won’t happen again, old man liver :)
sorry to interrupt the slow moving train wreck that keeps unfolding, but i thought i’d comment on the sonora room (which was mentioned waaaay back up there).
i had a great customer service experience at both b.owl and the sonora room during my most recent oliver wine country tour in august 2007 (posting individual reviews of each winery on my blog shortly w/r/t service).
the sonora room’s service on the patio this summer for lunch and dinner was excellent and the library wine selection and soft sell was superb.