Friday Night Wine-Buzz. Ask me anything.

[Aristus]

I love you all...

[Haggis for Breakfast]

1. WHERE is Atlantis ?

[Aristus]

2. Beyond the Atlas Mountains.

That's how it got its name.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

3. I always thought it sank somewhere in the Med.

[Polly Hennessey]

4. I can't ask you anything.

I am having an earthquake.

[Aristus]

5. Everyone all right?

n/t

[912gdm]

6. okay...

Assuming that you might believe in supernatural phenomenon such as ghosts, do you think ghosts are actually spirits, or do you think they’re temporal anomalies that are bleeding in from higher dimensions?

[Aristus]

7. I don't really believe in them.

But if I did, I like the explanation I've heard from some who assert that ghosts are the manifestation of deceased people who aren't aware that they're dead.

Also, the idea that ghosts exist through the emotional resonance of the circumstances of their deaths is intriguing.

[912gdm]

8. Ok....

You know that video games are something that are really interesting. Do you believe that video games over time will be us realizing that we have been controlling ourselves from a different dimension the whole time?

[Wounded Bear]

9. Will the Mariners win the Series before I die?

I'm pushing 67 now.

[Aristus]

10. Oh shoot; I don't know. I hope for your sake they will.

Remember the playoffs in 1995? I'll never forget that. I was doing a play at the time, and the games were all during performances. Everyone backstage had a transistor radio crammed to their ear listening to the game. The excitement was palpable, and the let-down when they lost was tragic.

[samnsara]

12. we were hanging at the Tav in eburg sitting and drinking with people we didnt even know!

....and there was no trump... and i was so young then!!

[samnsara]

11. im the same age..i dont think its gonna happen :(

[PJMcK]

13. How do you feel this morning? (n/t)

[CTyankee]

14. You beat me to it....but I wonder, too...

[Aristus]

15. Fine, both of you. fine.

That's sweet. Not a bit hung over.

[CTyankee]

16. We need a different smilie. That one of socking it down makes it look like heavy drinking and

I don't think that's what you were trying to say. The smilie of clinking beer mugs is cheerful, tho.

When I drank wine, I used to love the Rose's of France, Italy and Spain. A cold glass of that could make for such a sweet summer evening...

[Aristus]

17. I miss the vineyards of Germany...

[CTyankee]

18. I never traveled to Germany in all my art travels a while back.

I was mostly in Italy, France and a few times in the Netherlands, once to Spain. Those places are where I found the glorious, transcendent art I was in love with...

[Aristus]

19. Treat yourself.

All of the countries you named boast extraordinary works of art. It's enchanting...

[CTyankee]

20. Thanks.

Mind if I ask you a question related to medical science?

I have a theory that chocolate excites the same pleasure centers of the brain that wine does. Is this true? I say this because I offer my hubby chocolate when he is a bit grumpy and it seems to cheer him right up...

[Aristus]

21. As far as I know, yes.

Flavors as mellow as chocolate and as intense as a good wine trigger the release of serotonin. Just as do sensations as light as a caress and as intense as sex.

Consumables are an especially important trigger of serotonin, since the majority of serotonin receptors are in the GI tract. (The popular perception is that they are in the brain, but that's just where the effect of serotonin is interpreted as pleasure.)

[CTyankee]

22. well, that explains why I got into chocolate big time when I stopped drinking wine...

and I got the same awful reaction from my liver. I presume my liver enzymes went up the way wine made them do, according to my gastro doc when he saw my blood test. I was thinking i would report the chocolate phenomenon to my doctor's office but my guess is that he would just say "well, duh..."