curmudgeon

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It was a gimmick I conjured along with my friend Jeff Siegel, who blogs as The Wine Curmudgeon, to urge other wine writers to focus on “wine from around here, wherever here happens to be.”

From Washington Post • Oct. 6, 2022

A long, long time ago there lived a smart, funny, nice and beautiful Fairy Princess who met a Curmudgeon and decided to spend some time with him.

From Salon • Feb. 13, 2020

Curmudgeon that I was even then, I pushed back on the notion that Facebook was “hurtling toward irrelevance,” “the next Yahoo,” or facing “the beginning of the end,” as various headlines had it.

From Slate • May 31, 2018

Their Curmudgeon Film projects included the movies My Sister’s Keeper and Cold Moon, a suspense thriller set for release in October, Griff Furst said.

From The Guardian • Jun. 18, 2017

Ascending a high, wearisome hill, he saw at a little distance a great and magnificent castle, which he at once took for that of the enchanter Curmudgeon.

From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 1 January 1848 by Conrad, Robert Taylor