May 30th, 2007 - It's been 1 month

roymond · Post by **roymond** » Wed May 30, 2007 4:39 pm

bwell wrote:#15. If someone, who's never been to where you live, was coming to visit and you got to play tour guide, where would you take them?
I don't really get out that much, but I still don't know of anything interesting here in San Jose. Whenever someone visits we always go somewhere else like San Francisco or Santa Cruz.

San Jose has a great museum of art. Take them there. Take yourself there

I wanted to be a Senator. But organist sounds awesome now, though not at a baseball stadium. More like in a dark cathedral. With bats...hey, BATS! And Senators are a baseball team, right? Huh...

sausage boy · Post by **sausage boy** » Wed May 30, 2007 4:52 pm

1 month anniversary!

To celebrate, my now approved illustration of PP Bradshaw

He's not meant to be giving the finger... but he still looks like he is.

Ross · Post by **Ross** » Thu May 31, 2007 12:18 am

bwell wrote:[
La Mirada, CA ('89-'93 while at college)

Excellent disc golf course - did you ever play it? Where were you going to school? (just curious)

Caravan Ray · Post by **Caravan Ray** » Thu May 31, 2007 2:05 am

Who is PP Bradshaw?

sausage boy · Post by **sausage boy** » Thu May 31, 2007 4:16 am

OK, here comes the long and boring story...

The Wine Industry Journal used to run an article in the back done by a ghost writer, called JJ Remengton. It was basically a character piece, where the subject was always wine in some way. Anyway, the guy that wrote that stopped it, oh, about a year ago now.

Now we have a new ghost writer and a new character, PP Bradshaw. Remengton was a kind of larger, stout, pompus kind of character, so it was decided to take Bradshaw in the other direction. I was given a description of his, did some sketches to get his basic appearance, and then we refined it to what you see above.

Oddly, though, the character has ended up looking a bit like Peter Dry, a fairly prominent wine writer and maker, as well as Justin, our old General Manager. In fact, I had just finished colouring Bradshaw on Wednesday, when we went out to a farewell lunch. Justin was there, and I didn't twig at first, until Lu pointed out that Justin looked like Bradshaw.

I burst out laughing.

Probably didn't help that I had drunk 3 pints of Pale Ale and had a glass of red wine.

bwell · Post by **bwell** » Thu May 31, 2007 10:05 am

rdurand wrote:Excellent disc golf course - did you ever play it? Where were you going to school? (just curious)

Somehow I never heard about that and from a quick search it looks like it has been around since the seventies. I went to that park a time or two, but never wandered around. I'll avoid a direct reference to the school to avoid search engines (it's a smaller school), but it is practically across the street from that park/course on the other side of La Mirada Blvd (that should narrow it down).