DATE: Tuesday, September 15, 7:00PM.
VENUE: Peking Duck House, 236 East 53rd Street.
THEME: Anything you wish. Sierra Car Crash 2005 ringers (one per cuvee) would be fun, if not too many.
GUESTS OF HONOR: Andy Raffle and Scott Manlin can dine for free, if they promise not to select Chicken Little appetizers. Semi-professional wine critics wishing to attend will be reimbursed for travel costs.
Attendees:
Victor Hong and guest
Jay Miller (the one with a palate which all can respect)
Jay Hack
Walt Hoehler
Mark Golodetz
Michael Sopher
Henry Kahn
The thin skins off these fatty ducks will surely beat the thin skins found elsewhere.
September 15 will be the one-year anniversary of the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy, eighteen-month one of the Bear Stearns collapse , and three-year one of the famed Negam-Aki Default Correlation Debacle Thread .
On e-Bay now. High-score JSM gems will be collector items, just like beanie babies and Marilyn Merlot. Cabbage Patch dolls should be the official avatar of high-score JSM gems.
Jay had sent me a very funny note suggesting some possible wines to taste here.
We should have one woody bottle, in honor of all the lumber no longer used to frame mini-mansions. We should bring a good but perennially overpriced wine, which might now be available at a decent price, sans mortgage. We should bring a 2000 Pichon Lalande, to see where all the green stuff at now-defunct banks has gone.
Someone should bring a Left Bank or Right Bank biggie, so that we can bet if it fails before this weekend.