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I've been on the road doing comedy for ten years now, so bear with me while I plaster on a fake smile and plow through this shit one more time.
-- Bill Hicks
Now in new 'impish' flavor!
2001-11-14 04:44:52
Man! Time flies when you're a big drunk! Feels like I just got over last years Beaujolais Nouveau hangover. A full 24 hours before the official start of Beaujolais Nouveau, Pigdog Journal brings you a sneak-peak, behind-the-scenes exclusive preview of what the critics are saying about this years Beaujolais Nouveau:
- Vermilion and nothing but vermilion and what a shine! -raves François Huwart.
- Candid and forthright like a signature! - proclaimed Sergio Marchi.
- Delightful notes of small, fleshy summer fruit with a good length! - weezed Jean-Pierre Chevènement.
- The attack is supple, the follow-up rough and penetrating, left a wonderfull afterglow - sighed Jean-Marie Luc Piere Louis.
- Approached me directly, yet at an angle, like a guy in a zoot suit! - s'est exclamé Arnaud Montebourg.
- Goes down easy, like a good Essex girl. - a répondu Gaëtan Gorce
- Has a perkey nub and a fleshy bottom-- oh, wait, you mean the wine? - a dit Jean-Louis Debré
- Fuck! I don't drink no crap ass Frog-juice! Get the fuck outta my face mofo! - intoned Tyrone Buck.
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