Big Frank has been thinking lately about inconvenient thoughts, red wine stains, and the excessive cost of AA batteries. OK, these are not earth-shaking topics, but they are topics. Let's forget the problem with the batteries - buy rechargeables and the problem is solved. So, what's with the coffee press? We all have had experiences with those pesky inconvenient thoughts - no need to give a list, you all know what they are, and each one of us has his/her own particular species of them. Inconvenient! In other words: thoughts that you would rather NOT have. Let's keep this simple - we are NOT going to be going, now, to visit our therapists, rather we are going to envision a coffee press! The coffe press clarifies the coffee by pushing the grounds to the botton. So, what Big Frank does is to put the image of this coffee press into his mind and then the inconvenient thought is thereby replaced. It is no use to think that you will NOT think the inconvenient thought - that is a sure way to thinking it. Big Frank is not sure whether the purging is effected as a kind of mental metaphor or whether the same result could be effected with any image (for example, a goat) because the mind cannot entertain two thoughts/images at the same time (go ahead and try it - try to envision a coffee press and your heart's desire - at the same time - can't be done). So, skip the visit to the therapist and think coffee press (or goat if that works for you).
Now - white wine. Big Frank has always been mostly a red wine kind of guy. He doesn't have any particular single grape that he favors; rather he likes the blends. However, as was recently pointed out to him rather graphically in Berlin at a late-night soiree; red wine stains your teeth and your tongue (not to mention the corrosive effect the tanins have on your teeth!). There are some ways of addressing this problem -
here's one approach. However, while whites can also be corrosive (over the long run), they don't leave you with purple lips. In addition, Big Frank was not aware of the white blends, but he now is. So, he now sips Chardonnay-Marsanne-Sauvignon Blanc or Jean-Luc Colombo les figuieres Cotes Du Rhone (2005) and has the pleasure of the rich smooth taste of the blend without red-mouth. Here are a number of
great white blends.
Big Frank has been thinking lately about inconvenient thoughts, red wine stains, and the excessive cost of AA batteries. OK, these are not earth-shaking topics, but they are topics. Let's forget the problem with the batteries - buy rechargeables and the problem is solved. So, what's with the coffee press? We all have had experiences with those pesky inconvenient thoughts - no need to give a list, you all know what they are, and each one of us has his/her own particular species of them. Inconvenient! In other words: thoughts that you would rather NOT have. Let's keep this simple - we are NOT going to be going, now, to visit our therapists, rather we are going to envision a coffee press! The coffe press clarifies the coffee by pushing the grounds to the botton. So, what Big Frank does is to put the image of this coffee press into his mind and then the inconvenient thought is thereby replaced. It is no use to think that you will NOT think the inconvenient thought - that is a sure way to thinking it. Big Frank is not sure whether the purging is effected as a kind of mental metaphor or whether the same result could be effected with any image (for example, a goat) because the mind cannot entertain two thoughts/images at the same time (go ahead and try it - try to envision a coffee press and your heart's desire - at the same time - can't be done). So, skip the visit to the therapist and think coffee press (or goat if that works for you).
Now - white wine. Big Frank has always been mostly a red wine kind of guy. He doesn't have any particular single grape that he favors; rather he likes the blends. However, as was recently pointed out to him rather graphically in Berlin at a late-night soiree; red wine stains your teeth and your tongue (not to mention the corrosive effect the tanins have on your teeth!). There are some ways of addressing this problem - here's one approach. However, while whites can also be corrosive (over the long run), they don't leave you with purple lips. In addition, Big Frank was not aware of the white blends, but he now is. So, he now sips Chardonnay-Marsanne-Sauvignon Blanc or Jean-Luc Colombo les figuieres Cotes Du Rhone (2005) and has the pleasure of the rich smooth taste of the blend without red-mouth. Here are a number of great white blends.
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