It's end o' the week grab-bag day. Why? Well, mostly because I didn't do much of anything today -- read the Sunday Times online, made some chicken stock, read back issues of Bon Appetit, watched a bunch of episodes of Cash in the Attic. So...
Here's my current fave red wine. Yes, it's wine in a jug. And, yes, that's certainly some of the appeal. But it's also damn good wine at a damn good price.
Here's a link yoinked from Bookslut, a concise takedown of 4 stupid things people often say about Pride and Prejudice. (Sarah covers that in more depth than I'm capable of just at the moment)

(okay, there was some 3rd thing I was gonna blog here but for the life of me I can't remember what it was... got side-tracked trying without success to figure out why the Gangbe Brass Band show got cancelled)