Santa Rosa, Calif.--More people are drinking wine, more retailers are selling wine, and it seems the wine world is beginning to shrug off the
wet blanket of recession that began in 2008.
There are many more who care about Blues - like the large number of season ticket holders who obviously voted with their feet to snub what they clearly sensed would be a cross between a fiasco and a
wet blanket. Does anybody really think these people and a good deal more would not have turned out for a proper open top bus tour with all the civic excitement and tradition such occasions are known for?
Placing something of a
wet blanket on USDA's optimistic projections for the future of biofuels (see story above), the International Energy Agency in Paris reports that although second-generation biofuels are considered important to meeting environmental and energy-security goals, commercial production of these fuels is unlikely to significantly take off in the next five years due to technological, logistical and cost barriers.
I hate to be a
wet blanket, but this does seem to me to be over-optimistic, to say the least.
Hugh Russell's Taddeo was excellently sung, but once again the direction projected him as a complete
wet blanket, which after a few times became annoying to watch.
Once he makes the cut, though, the media will cover Arkansas like a
wet blanket, looking under every rock and chunk.
And why have the idiot producers let brilliant, charismatic Danny leave and hung on to
wet blanket Jamie?
But as the price plunged to 375,000 yen in February 2002, NTT share sales by the government were criticized as throwing a
wet blanket on the stock market.
The five-day storm has thrown a
wet blanket on state forest fires, slowing the Bland Mountain No.
So far there is a paucity of actual experience with physician gain sharing, unless it is sub rosa, partly because of the OIG's
wet blanket effect.
On the downside are the mannered Wang Chung synth soundtrack and a
wet blanket of "Miami Vice"-like melodrama.
After all, there's no place for a
wet blanket at a big beach party.