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Stan thinks “Hell Hath Advanced to Roshambo”
We’ve always kind of feared that if we set foot in a church our skin would immediately bubble and fall off in sheets, but this morning, our worst fears were confirmed. At 9:14 a.m. we received an email from one of our fire-and-brimstone Wine Club members. Perhaps he has read Sinners at the Hands of an Angry God a few too many times, but after seeing the Tattoo Art Show on our walls he flat out canceled his membership to our Party Army Wine Club.
“I was fairly disgusted by the art on your walls,” he said. “It was as if hell had advanced to Westside Road.” Oh God. How did he know! But everyone, calm down. Don’t worry. Stan is gonna pray for us. Yup. We are in Stan the Man’s prayers. “I pray that God will show you the truth in your lost pursuit of zeal in 2006.” Phew! Anyways, I’m not sure why our irreverent approach to wine would have appealed to a guy like this in the first place, but Stan, thanks for showing us the light. You will be missed!
I can only wonder what he would have done if he saw our Naomi Brilliant’s series of twisted food photographs.
(Yes, before our Wine Hero created Roshambo from her grandfather’s vineyards and her own warped sensibilities, she was a budding photographer and artist in Portland. Perhaps this “Hamster Hoagie” is what led DETAILS magazine to say that “With a feather tattoo on the back of her left leg and a dragonfly on the back of her right, Naomi Brilliant is blessed with the graceful kind of morbidity of a Tim Burton movie princess.”)
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It’s not RSB’s fault, though. Clearly Satan lured the innocent little lamb to the Wine Club in the first place
I’m praying for you too. Will Stan pray for me?
I had a bit of typo and wrote Satan instead of Stan….I wonder if that means anything. or maybe typing drunk is just that…typing drunk.
[…] And sorry to people like Stan who might have been offended by the porn I projected onto an opposite building. How could I resist a pirate porn flick with the industry’s all-time biggest budget? (Unfortunately, Blockbuster only had the R-rated cut but still, it provided an occassional eyeful). […]
[…] One of the amazing benefits of blogging, especially when your organization is in the news, is that you can speak to your audience unfiltered. Roshambo in the past has taken full advantage of this and hired a writer to produce a very edgy blog that caters to their niche. They very rarely hold anything back. Check out this post, for example, where they bid adieu to a former customer in a very public way. […]
[…] A while back, we had a rather grim idea for an art show that showcased the works of the condemned. Roshambo’s “Death Row Art Show” surely would have raised a few eyebrows and likely invoked a fresh batch of hate mail, but that had never stopped us. Naomi’s mission for her gallery was to showcase the works of emerging conceptual artists with somewhat skewed perspectives. And in case you didn’t get a chance to see them all, I will use this blog to spotlight some of the artists we’ve displayed in the past and track their movements. But in the meanwhile, I’d like to shine a bright light on a recent SF Weekly feature on Death Row Art. Oh, and given the ecclectic crew of weirdos that we staff, it should come as no surprise that this story was written by one of our former tasting room employees, Ella Lawrence. […]
[…] We love when people write us letters. We love it so much that sometimes we even post them (for better or worse). That said, here’s a letter from a new Roshambuddy named Josh. We hope this encourages all of you 3219 people who visited the blog in the past 30 days to send us letters, comments, photos, stories, anything, I mean anything that is Roshambo-related. Did you find us in an obscure wine shop in WhoKnowsWhere, USA? Did three of you dress up as Rock, Paper, Scissors for Halloween? Let us know. We want to hear from you! Let’s make this more interactive! On Nov 10, 2007, at 9:27 AM, Josh Theodore wrote: Naomi, My wife and I embarked on our 13th anniversary trip from Texas to the Sonoma wine region this October and had an absolute blast at your temporary location in Cornerstone. How we ended up there was quite poetic…Roshambo had been recommended to us, but we had never before heard of your wines. After checking out your website, I knew it had to be part of our trip. On our way up after flying in to Oakland, I wanted to detour and stop, but it was raining heavily and late in the afternoon. The 101 was a mess and we had never been in the region, so we decided to pass and go straight to Bodega Bay where we stayed. Our visit to Roshambo 2.0 would have to wait. The next morning, we were going to head north, beginning in Healdsburg, and work our way down and back to Bodega, where friends from Los Gatos were coming to meet us. Being a man and not following a map, I missed a turn, and we ended up in Petaluma. I turned to my wife and said, “Guess we can hit Roshambo first today?” My wife, Tina, is the ultimate planner, and I could see she might be miffed that the plan for the day was not going to be followed as originally intended, but to my surprise she replied, “It’s not about the destination, it’s about the journey!” What a great way to start our day. Our Love Affair with Roshambo had begun! and, while we had many wonderful wines during our trip, the one’s we recall the most were the first. Roshambo will always hold a special place for us. We can’t wait to visit again in your new digs. All the best and keep fighting for fun!! Josh […]