When Squirrel refused to shake hands with me at the Kosher Wine Experience because I was on Todd’s side of the breakup, that simply confirmed what I already knew. He was an asshole.
I never even think about him, now that you mention it, unless one of you guys decides to bring up his name. Despite the fact that he managed to suspend me twice for improper political commentary, which merely proved that, he also had no sense of humor, because my improper political commentary managed to include such horrible statements, is the fact that Ken star was born 50 years too late because he should’ve been solicitor general for the Third Reich.
Didn’t the Mark Squires board exist first, and then Parker, wanting to have a chat forum, asked Squires to collaborate? So he linked the Squires board to the WA website? Inevitably the board was then identified with Parker, but I thought it Squires more or less remained in control?
And that put him into a seriously bad spot. According to him, Parker had a thinner skin and wanted to close the board long before it happened. Squires had a thin skin regarding some issues, but in person was really an affable guy, with a fairly dry sense of humor. I had dinner with him a few times long ago.
So when the WA was sold, Squires went along with it and I suppose at some point he totally lost control of the board that he had started as a personal hobby and now feels compelled to leave. Kind of sad in a way.
In the end, he became a pretty good critic on his own. Over the years I’ve spoken to a number of producers whose wines he reviewed and they all spoke well of him, praising him for giving the wines time and not dashing off a review after a sip and spit tasting.
Sigh. To think of what might have been. He could have been ruling the world today.
Zuckerberg had a little hobby too - a site where he could share pictures of hot chicks with his friends. And today, one man "doth bestride the narrow world like a Colossus, and we petty men walk under his huge legs and peep about to find ourselves dishonorable graves."
He was an ambassador’s wife (as the Netflix show insists on calling husbands). He needed to look the part. I’m not sure if he went skinny dipping in any ponds though.