This began as a Facebook status update but something went horribly wrong and it got way too long.

I'm reading Youngme Moon's "Different" (non-fiction, business book) and I'm thrilled and depressed by it, all at once. About business, sure, but personal options, too. So, here's the list of things, in order, I blame for my current exhiliration and despair: Kermit Lynch, Jerry Brown and his new dog "Sutter" (a Welsh Corgi), Jay McInerney, the unwooded Santa Rita Hills Chardonnays of Greg Brewer, Derrick Schneider (with the complicity of the San Francisco Chronicle), K & L Wines, Randall Grahm, the Spanish Padres who planted what we call "Mission" grapes at the California Missions in the 18th Century, the pop-up retailing phenomenon, unrest in North Africa and the Middle East, PRWCA's Zin Man (who looks and sounds like my grandfather, according to my mother, and I agree), Cambria's Pewter Plough Playhouse, and Youngme Moon ... especially Youngme Moon because I'm reading her with all the urgencies and ideas of the other stuff top-of-my-mind. It's really quite maddening. What next! Oh, also, I overuse commas, and that bugs me. Hemingway hardly ever relied on the comma.

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