I also enjoyed reading a your bit of city life captured for me (the reader) for just a brief moment. Having moved to California in 1992, I’ve become integrated with the wine-country-casual lifestyle (that’s always the answer to anyone who asks, “What’s the Dress Code?”), but I occasionally really miss the tell-it-like-it-is city vibe.

You’ve done three important things for me, if not more:
1) Given me a vicarious subway ride to Brooklyn.
2) Turned me onto Zemata (in your comments on http://www.winelifetoday.com... The Link Between Social Media And The Wine Industry.)
3) Engaged me enough in what you’ve written to make me comment.

This was all done without any application, however, because you touched an emotional chord.

When I write my wine blog, I do it from a place of experience, and I’m sharing stories of being inside the wine business as a professional. I don’t even really expect comments, and occasionally get them… Only because I’ve struck an emotional chord with someone, just as the music reached out to your first (in chords). That was enough to make you want to blog about it, by getting you thinking about your earlier conversation and connecting the dots. It then resulted in this blog posting coming together, which started with your party conversation.

I love the innovation, though, of someone wanting to deliver a way to engage others to comment… A call-to-action application… I love these minds that never sleep!

This time, you didn’t need any applications for my comment; although, is this considered an intelligent comment?

Thanks for a great posting. It was really refreshing for me to step away from the wine industry blogs. I’m going subscribe to your blog… just because… — jo

Or am I missing something?