Livestrong teapot and other items

Ouch! Maybe it's the effects of New Year's Eve, but looking at that stuff makes my eyes hurt.

/Lew

it's not just you, and it's not just New Years, that really is quite tacky.

Thanks for that. In case anyone's worried, I appear to have recovered already from last night's, uh, rigors. Most of the credit goes to late '80s Menghai Qing Bing, with an assist from kasha.

/Lew

Urgh, I guess I am feeling the same way. Last night was a blur. Vodka

• Champagne = nasty hangover. I'm recovering with a 7-year old sheng pu'er of unknown producer -- I forgot the brand -- that I think has been mildly wet stored in Guangzhou. It's working wonder for my head and stomach...but only until I saw those yellow things.

Lewis Per>

It's not so much a grapefruit as a road-hazard yellow.

I bet it looks great on those tacky black granite countertops all my friends are buying.

--Blair

It would look even better on a two-lane blacktop. Road hazard, indeed!

/Lew

You guys are rough! BTW, anyone who has been invited to see my newly renovated ktichen can now consider the invitation CANCELLED, and that would include you, Blair! Tacky, indeed!

I'm drinking of a 1999 Mini Beeng from Meng Hai, which I've had around for a few years now, and I'm enjoying it especially this morning. It's full of flavor, complex vegetal in a bitter field, and persistent. ("Patience" is the new word, I think, in this latter regard.) I'm very pleased. Happy to say I have one more stashed away against futures. (After all, I heard property values might fall three percent, which means those of us with those great black granite countertops have a solid edge on the market.

Michael

Michael

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OK, I looked at it. You guys are just seeing it in the wrong context. Add just a dash of green, and you've got what in the technical jargon is known as "baby-shit yellow." What's wrong with that! Seriously, there's room for all God's colors here below. Michael

What's wrong with that? I had champagne + whisky + gin/tonic + beer and I was fine. I even had more wine last night :p

MarshalN

Black Granite is the new Avocado.

Pink Granite is the new Harvest Gold.

--Blair

Sixty is the new thirty. M, happily wending his way to senility.

But, WAIT! Are we talking that disgusting, tasteless high gloss mirror shine stuff, or the delicately textured no-gloss? If the former, I take back all the bad things I said about you. (Mine's green, anyway.)

Michael,

I'm having a party next week for when I turn the new thirty. I had to go through two lighting installs for my kitchen granite. I ended up with multilple canisters in the ceiling for difuse artificial light. The gloss is the sealer applied at the factory after the polish. I'd say a no gloss is a stain waiting to happen but that also applies to any granite. Was the install done recently or have you lived with it for awhile? Initially I said I'd never do another granite install. Now I would. Granite is like tea. The next person may not like your choice. I like breaking apart puer on granite. I use a wooden meat mallet to get the hard stuff started and finish by hand.

Jim

Michael Plant wrote:

I happily buck trends by a little thing I call, waiting it out. Sure I then have linoleum floors and formica countertops but hey, they work :)

Seriously though, I don't see this travarteen (sp?) and iridescent tiles and granite everywhere lasting. Granite stains, the iridescent tiles are hideous, and travateen is overdone in almost every case. And don;t get me started on wood lamanate flooring. These materials will break down in no time and I believe many of them will need replaced before they even get a chance to go out of style.

I go for timeless, classic materials that have no era or fad associated with them. No one ever looks back on beatutiful real wood and says it looks outdated or not in style. I do like bamboo as a wood product, and I'll probably go with Corian for my counters since it is resurfaceable and seamless and just as nice as anything else.

I do enjoy laughing at those who jump into these fads after seeing them on all the home shows on TV and then realizing that those people could care less about the actual lifespan or usefulness of what they do once the cameras get turned off... they don't have to live there.

- Dominic

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Jim, I used Cardoza stone. It's dull green with marbling-like striations. It's harder than marble, but not as hard as granite. I am not afraid of stains. Each one as it appears will be named, and logged as to perpetrator, etc.. As the stains and stories grow old along with me, I'll make people stand at the kitchen counter as I recount the tales held by each stain. As you can guess, I have few friends. The counter is a recent edition. Realize that I did not jump to own what I saw on TV as I own no TV. Michael

Ah yes, New Year's eve. Always a good time when your host has a full keg of Woodchuck Amber draft cider on tap among other lovely products.

Phyll: Neifeis say puerh helps with alcohol and hangovers. I'm glad to see they were right.

Everything I know, I learned from neifeis.

/Lew

Whoops! Before anyone has a chance to correct me, let me say that I meant (and I belive the previous poster meant) nei *piao*.

/Lew