... a little tipsy

So tonight was a class with Jamie Drummond, the sommelier at Jamie Kennedy Wine Bar here in Bippity Town and...

Oh wait, you don't know what Bippity Town it. Come on, I'll tell you.

So a few years ago, and I blame Sean Desman for this, it became cool and hip and so amazingly wonderful to call Toronto T-Dot. I guess this comes from the old way of calling Toronto T.O, which is pronounced T Dot O. I guess this stood for Toronto, Ontario.

But that's Toronto COMMA Ontario and unlike Vampire Weekend, I do care about the oxford comma.

And here's the other thing...I LIKE Vampire Weekend. I know I shouldn't, because they appropriate African music while they themselves are painfully white, but I LIKE it. Whenever I listen to it, I feel like the sun is shinning down on my arms on an early summer day. The same way I feel when I listen to baseball on the radio.

I don't really think there are many things in this world better than baseball on the radio. It's one of the reasons I love my XM radio, because I get all the ball games and can take it up to the cottage, and I quite like listening on a quiet day and then yelling "DAMN YOUR EYES, DEREK JETER" at some point and hearing it echo.

It mean, it beats listening to whatever geriatric rock music that people at the other side of the lake are listening to. Come on people, it's not hard to find out about new music: just listen to it and talk about it right before Pitchfork gives it a good review, and then as soon as they do move onto another group and repeat, or build your case for why you still like the band, like I did with Vampire Weekend.

So yeah...it should be Toronto COMMA Ontario, so it should be T-Com.

Also, are there a LOT of other Torontos that people get confused with? "Quick, put an O at the end of it so people don't think we're talking about Toronto, New South Wales! Oh wait, that will take too long. Just call it T-Dot. We'll call Toronto, New South Wales...ummm...T Dash!"

Either way, T-Dot makes no sense to me. It's making a short version of a short version of a name that didn't need to be shortened in the first place. So I call Toronto Bippity Town, because that makes as much sense as T-Dot.

I was a at wine class here in Bippity Town, and we were trying different, unusual varietals of grapes. I'd write about it but I'm a little tipsy and tend to ramble when I'm tipsy, so I won't do that tonight.