A bottle of Chateau Cheval Blanc wine from 1947 sold for $304,000. Three bottles of Chateau Lafite-Rothschild 1869 went for $233,000 apiece. The mystique about aged wine provokes crazy behavior like that. But here's a more mundane fact: Most wine deteriorates with age, and should be sold within a few years of being bottled. I'm thinking about these things as I meditate on your long-term future, Sagittarius. My guess is that your current labor of love will reach full maturity in the next 18 to 20 months. This will be a time to bring all your concentration and ingenuity to bear on making it as good as it can be. By September of 2017, you will have ripened it as much as it can be ripened.

My New Year's Resolution is to get some projects going on Amazon Studios.  More about that after I recover from my current case of head crud.

There should be nothing generic or normal or routine about this week, Sagittarius. If you drink beer, for example, you shouldn't stick to your usual brew. You should track down and drink the hell out of exotic beers with brand names like Tactical Nuclear Penguin and Ninja Vs. Unicorn and Doctor Morton's Clown Poison. And if you're a lipstick user, you shouldn't be content to use your old standard, but should instead opt for kinky types like Sapphire Glitter Bomb, Alien Moon Goddess, and Cackling Black Witch. As for love, it wouldn't make sense to seek out romantic adventures you've had a thousand times before. You need and deserve something like wild sacred eternal ecstasy or screaming sweaty flagrant bliss or blasphemously reverent waggling rapture.

The problem is normalcy has a very tight grip here.  What's weird, isn't.  Which way is down?

http://www.theearlhayspress.com/index.html

You'd have to be about my age or older to understand.

It's all about product placement. The rules were a little different in movies and TV prior to the 1980s. The studios used to have to pay and pay big money to include branded products on screen. So instead of doing that, they'd hire somebody, the above link for a very big example, to fake it.

The "Nacy L. Courey's" beer can was an unintended icon of the late Seventies/early Eighties dramedy show. I have no idea where it first appeared, but it appeared frequently on The Rockford Files and Eight Is Enough and a lot of other genre shows.

Now the world has reversed; companies compete with one another to appear in big movies, and now, when a studio does a fake like this it's more likely for satirical intent. But it's still enough to keep The Earl Hay's Press open and busy.

Now I want to design a race car livery celebrating Courey's Age-Dated Beer. After I do one for Schleppo, of course.