Tomato soup. Very few ingredients, so it all comes down to the ingredients. It's a great for making in summer and freezing for a winter meal. Pairs perfectly with a grilled cheese sandwich.
I watched Cannonball Run a few months back and while I was expecting the usual sexist / homophobic / xenophobic jokes, what was really strikingly different was how much drunk driving was just played for gags throughout the film. Looks like it was a lot of fun to film though.
At the time I watched Cannonball Run, I had never heard of Jackie Chan. When I first saw a movie with him in it a couple of years later, I was like, hey, the guy from Cannonball Run that drove with Jaws.
I'll be in the greater PHX area for about a week to watch Spring Training. I have DBDs lined up, but don't wait for me to post topics because I'll be hung over.
The 2 year old pup Jonesy is getting the snip tomorrow and I’m preparing to be confined to the house through the weekend, at the least, so I am trying to account for all the reasons that would cause me to have to run errands this weekend….grocery store, pharmacy, dry cleaners, etc.
Firmly convinced he’s on the spectrum so I need to keep him doped up so he doesn’t chase shadows and schitt like normal and rip his stitches. This little mf’er could very well be a canine junkie after this week….
Most beautiful winter day in Los Angeles that I can remember. It was cold and windy, but the air was as clear as I've ever seen and the snow level dropped to 1,500ft overnight (for the second time in the past week). Everything over 3,000 got at least a foot leading to the most snow capped mountains bordering L.A. that I've ever seen here. Look for some really fantastic photography to be coming out in the next few days.
When I went to bed last night it was raining. It was also very cold. Woke up this morning and it was still cold. After breakfast, I unlocked the pickup. Tried to open the door; wouldn't budge. Looked again at the door. Realized that the window had ice on it. The door was frozen shut. I had to body slam the door to break the ice and get it open.
mostly nice today. we got about 3-4 inches of snow overnight on Monday and i enjoyed shoveling snow for a bit on Tuesday morning. it was the first real snow of the season in NYC that lasted more than a few hours on the ground.
it is still rather cold and the snow has not melted
A nephew and his girlfriend decided they'd like to live at Tahoe for a while so are renting a place. I think he may be regretting that decision based on all the shoveling he's been having to do. Probably doesn't have time to go snowboarding since he's too busy shoveling and clearing snow.
This would be a rough winter for that experiment. I'm hoping maybe it will drive away some of the people who moved up there during the panorama to ease the housing crunch a bit.
we were getting pictures from my older daughter of Vassar getting covered with snow, very pretty (although tbh she's not that big a fan now that she's not a kid)
Mavs down by 2, Kyrie dribbles to the top of the key with 4 seconds left. Justin Holiday is open beyond the arc because the Pacers are doubling Doncic. Kleber sets a pick for Irving in the paint. Hardaway is on the right wing as an option. Of all the things he can do, he chooses to waste time and then heave a contested step-back 3 pointer and ensures that he and Luka go 1-4 together.
Athletes exist on a spectrum from Mark Prior (perennially injured) to Justin Verlander (amazing longevity/health). Zion seems much more like Prior than Verlander, and at this point almost certainly always will be, sad to say
Warriors come back BIG for a good home win vs Portland
i almost turned this game off at halftime since Ws were down 15-20 pts. i only watched the first part of the 3rd q because i got bisy doing some work stuff.
next thing you know, Ws erase a 23 pt deficit and end up winning comfortably. i would say that Portland sort gave this one away by playing terrible in the 2nd half, but i guess they are not known for their defense ...
Louisville is 4-25 (beat Western Kentucky, Florida A&M, GA Tech, and Clemson). They were down 35-27 to Virginia Tech at half. Let's check in to see how halftime went:
Arrest warrant issued for Georgia Jalen Carter - an expected top 3 pick in the draft - in connection with the car accident that killed his teammate Devin Willock and recruiting staffer Chandler LeCroy
Own that you dropped your wrestling team after we obliterated you. Again. Also, I went 4-4 in a baseball game just by dinking fly balls off your stupid right field fence net
Wrestling? Like contact Pilates? Good riddance…rolling around on a mat isn’t a sport.
That fence was admittedly a joke, tho Albany’s field sported a similar short RF IIRC. If we’re being honest, the ESAL was filled with dogschitt ball fields. O’Dowd was nice, Encinal and those St. Mary’s a$$hats had OK ones…everything else ranged from meh to garbage. We played St. Elizabeth’s on some skin infield with busted glass in the hood across from Too Short’s old house. I see fields the HS kids play on now and it pisses me off!
haha so true. Your fence was worse than ours but we had the jank center field drop off so it went from 30 feet down to 8 feet in dead center... but that was like 300 feet out. So many cheap HRs
And that St Elizabeth's field. Lawdy. I still tell the story of when we dropped our varsity team off at Skyline and we drove down E 86th to get to their field to play JV. I saw prostitution in action, drug deals, fights... my lily white ass was terrified. So we only beat them 19-0 that day. Damn their program sucked.
Agreed…I remember away games at Richmond and Kennedy HS (Richmond) - seriously eye opening experiences. I think PHS finally got booted out through the Caldecott tunnel to a league with Acalanes, Miramonte and Campo. It was fun watching Jason Kidd twice a year and playing against him in baseball for a couple of years…Newellbany played v him in hoops. That was a drubbing.
we had a week shortly after we expelled 11 of 12 varsity BBall players for receiving oral ministrations from a frosh in the lunch room were we got beat 80-18 by O'Dowd at home and 95-46 at St. Joe's (J Kidd's frosh year). Whomever made that schedule was an asshole
"Milk Street Vegetables", by Christopher Kimball. It's an outstanding cookbook that takes great regional dishes from around the world, localizes some of the ingredients for the US, and then simplifies some techniques. I found it as an outstanding way to reinvigorate some of my boring vegetable side dishes. Over 300 pages. Best of all, they are almost all available for free on his website here: https://www.177milkstreet.com/recipes/collection/milk-street-vegetables
Just finished "Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro (who is British). Brilliant book made into a pretty good film starring Anthony Hopkins. Last night started "King Richard: Nixon and Watergate--An American Tragedy" by Michael Dobbs. I've been a Watergate obsessive for decades.
i should read that. i just recently finished _Klara and the Sun_ which i thought was "good, but not his best work." still, pretty interesting premise of a having an artificial friend ..
I am currently reading Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver. It's apparently based on David Copperfield (which I have never read), but situated in Appalachian Virginia in modern times. It's good.
Don't know if I every thanked you. You once directed me towards several books/femaleauthors that I really liked, especially the The Dutch House by Ann Patchett, brilliant book. Been reading mostly women recently after years of (stupidly) avoiding them.
Something Korean
I watched a K-drama, Iris, on Netflix. It's a 20 episode series about two guys in a S Korean spy organization. I really enjoyed it.
that's ollllllddddddddddd, man
I'm not sure how it popped up on my recommended list. But I liked it and the main female star is cute as hell.
Albany
Ivy Room
I do vaguely recall throwing down nearly a dozen Jack and sodas at the Mallard Club one fateful eve during my 1st year of law school. Boy howdy.
Piedmont sucks
That’s fair.
New York
An underrated meal
Tomato soup. Very few ingredients, so it all comes down to the ingredients. It's a great for making in summer and freezing for a winter meal. Pairs perfectly with a grilled cheese sandwich.
Ina does a delicious tomato orzo soup with grilled cheese croutons (made with Gruyere) floating on top. Have some in the fridge right now.
Don't I know it. It's my go to dinner when Mrs Slug wants an easy night. Any grilled cheese sandwich goes with tomato soup.
Agreed, but better sandwich, well it is better.
Non-coffee/tea hot beverage
Hot chocolate
Postum.
does alcohol count?
a typical good ski day involves a 1030a hot toddy after a few warm up runs.
A movie that has aged well
The Princess Bride
The Fugitive.
EDIT: Air Force One (another Harrison Ford flick).
Well the first 60%, sure.
The original All Quiet on the Western Front. His Girl Friday. On the Waterfront. The Great Escape. The Godfather and Godfather part 2.
The Apartment.
Stand By Me
Rocky IV
perhaps controversial, but i watched it the other day and it was still good.
the Cold War is of course over, but it felt fine w/ the perspective that it was the going premise at the time
Doctor
J
Father of Cal basketball player Jules Irving.
https://calbears.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/jules-erving/16329
Detroit...
Dan Aykroyd baby.
Zhivago
A good movie, but the hairstyles are firmly stuck in the mid 1960s
Pepper
Potts
Playing -. Baseball drill for bat control.
Robot
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepper_(robot)
A movie that has aged poorly
Short Circuit. Acting in Brown Face is no longer acceptable.
true, but the Gandhi movie seems ok.
Gladiator. or maybe I'm just older and don't tolerate violence as well as I used to.
Eh, it was never really great if you asked me then. Just good.
Most 80s and 90s comedies. Seem incredibly sexist and often racist and homophobic today.
Revenge of the Nerds...wrong in so many ways!
I watched Cannonball Run a few months back and while I was expecting the usual sexist / homophobic / xenophobic jokes, what was really strikingly different was how much drunk driving was just played for gags throughout the film. Looks like it was a lot of fun to film though.
At the time I watched Cannonball Run, I had never heard of Jackie Chan. When I first saw a movie with him in it a couple of years later, I was like, hey, the guy from Cannonball Run that drove with Jaws.
DBD logistics
I'll be in the greater PHX area for about a week to watch Spring Training. I have DBDs lined up, but don't wait for me to post topics because I'll be hung over.
What week are you there? I'm there the week of 3/13.
Starting tomorrow.
Going to USA Mexica WBC, USA Columbia WBC, Dodgers Rangers on Thurs. Still need to find a game for Sat afternoon before I fly out.
The 2 year old pup Jonesy is getting the snip tomorrow and I’m preparing to be confined to the house through the weekend, at the least, so I am trying to account for all the reasons that would cause me to have to run errands this weekend….grocery store, pharmacy, dry cleaners, etc.
Firmly convinced he’s on the spectrum so I need to keep him doped up so he doesn’t chase shadows and schitt like normal and rip his stitches. This little mf’er could very well be a canine junkie after this week….
RIP to the Jonesy boyos
Weather
This is how family members end up getting eaten.
https://twitter.com/CHP_Truckee/status/1630667469391290369
Most beautiful winter day in Los Angeles that I can remember. It was cold and windy, but the air was as clear as I've ever seen and the snow level dropped to 1,500ft overnight (for the second time in the past week). Everything over 3,000 got at least a foot leading to the most snow capped mountains bordering L.A. that I've ever seen here. Look for some really fantastic photography to be coming out in the next few days.
When I went to bed last night it was raining. It was also very cold. Woke up this morning and it was still cold. After breakfast, I unlocked the pickup. Tried to open the door; wouldn't budge. Looked again at the door. Realized that the window had ice on it. The door was frozen shut. I had to body slam the door to break the ice and get it open.
no snow and 86 today in Austin
mostly nice today. we got about 3-4 inches of snow overnight on Monday and i enjoyed shoveling snow for a bit on Tuesday morning. it was the first real snow of the season in NYC that lasted more than a few hours on the ground.
it is still rather cold and the snow has not melted
https://photos.app.goo.gl/oisC2Pc8dSV9kqKEA
A nephew and his girlfriend decided they'd like to live at Tahoe for a while so are renting a place. I think he may be regretting that decision based on all the shoveling he's been having to do. Probably doesn't have time to go snowboarding since he's too busy shoveling and clearing snow.
This would be a rough winter for that experiment. I'm hoping maybe it will drive away some of the people who moved up there during the panorama to ease the housing crunch a bit.
that would be my dream. free exercise every day from shoveling snow and chopping and stacking firewood. skiing would be a bonus, of course ..
a few weeks ago i noticed that a neighbor had a giant pile of firewood, so i volunteered to stack it for him.
we were getting pictures from my older daughter of Vassar getting covered with snow, very pretty (although tbh she's not that big a fan now that she's not a kid)
If it's clear where you're at tonight, Jupiter and Venus appear next to each other not long after sunset in the western sky.
exactly where to look >> https://photos.app.goo.gl/fSMjbWfhhfey4eSb9
PRO
NFL to relook at the rugby scrum rule, which was removed in 2005.
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/35755956/eagles-others-defend-qb-push-tactic-nfl-reconsider-rule
This is how you can tell that the MLB Umpires are unionized.
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/35755087/no-umps-orioles-pirates-play-unneeded-bottom-9th
Mavs down by 2, Kyrie dribbles to the top of the key with 4 seconds left. Justin Holiday is open beyond the arc because the Pacers are doubling Doncic. Kleber sets a pick for Irving in the paint. Hardaway is on the right wing as an option. Of all the things he can do, he chooses to waste time and then heave a contested step-back 3 pointer and ensures that he and Luka go 1-4 together.
https://twitter.com/BleacherReport/status/1630781702632255490
not new news, but the western conf standings remain incredibly tight.
less than 5 games separating 4th-13th place .. a whole bunch of teams slightly above or below .500 record for the season.
Browns trying to restructure D Watson's contract after having buyer's remorse
https://sports.yahoo.com/browns-gm-says-restructuring-deshaun-watsons-market-shifting-contract-could-be-on-the-table-192555342.html
haha...Browns gonna Browns.
And they hired Bill Musgrave. That franchise is a fucking joke
England batting and only behind NZ by one run with 9 wickets lost. And then this happens
https://twitter.com/ThePapareSports/status/1630412123368206336
Zion Williamson getting an MRI next week. New Orleans are paying him a lot of money to not play basketball.
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/35755499/pels-zion-williamson-hamstring-progressing-set-more-imaging
KD to debut for PHX tonight
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/35753950/kevin-durant-debut-suns-wednesday-vs-hornets
Athletes exist on a spectrum from Mark Prior (perennially injured) to Justin Verlander (amazing longevity/health). Zion seems much more like Prior than Verlander, and at this point almost certainly always will be, sad to say
Oh whoops, meant this to be a reply re Zion. But obviously health is key re KD too!
LA County - or more accurately, the taxpayers of LA county - settle with Vanessa Bryant for shared crash photos
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/35756719/vanessa-bryant-settles-crash-photos-suit-2885-million
LeBron injured foot. He may be out for a bit.
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/35753722/sources-lakers-expect-reassess-lebron-james-2-weeks
Warriors come back BIG for a good home win vs Portland
i almost turned this game off at halftime since Ws were down 15-20 pts. i only watched the first part of the 3rd q because i got bisy doing some work stuff.
next thing you know, Ws erase a 23 pt deficit and end up winning comfortably. i would say that Portland sort gave this one away by playing terrible in the 2nd half, but i guess they are not known for their defense ...
2023 NFL free agency: Every team's QB situation ahead of offseason, ranked 1-32 in tiers
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2023-nfl-free-agency-every-teams-qb-situation-ahead-of-offseason-ranked-1-32-in-tiers/
Raiders are in real trouble. Stidham may be a free agent and well, there's Chase.
Mayfield, Darnold or Wentz: Which way do you want to die?
Golden Opportunity for an UFA.
OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY
Under pressure from the government, Eli Lilly lowers the price of insulin to $35/month.
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/eli-lilly-caps-cost-insulin-35-month-rcna72713
Every US president if they had a mullet.
https://twitter.com/hamcarless/status/1630765933768724483
Some are awesome, so not so much. But well done to the creator.
ELSEWHERE IN COLLEGE
Louisville is 4-25 (beat Western Kentucky, Florida A&M, GA Tech, and Clemson). They were down 35-27 to Virginia Tech at half. Let's check in to see how halftime went:
https://twitter.com/pmtsportsbiz/status/1630773168389365760
Arrest warrant issued for Georgia Jalen Carter - an expected top 3 pick in the draft - in connection with the car accident that killed his teammate Devin Willock and recruiting staffer Chandler LeCroy
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/35760585/warrants-arrest-jalen-carter-ex-georgia-star-nfl-draft-prospect
That’s a bummer.
CAL
Cal's Daniel Scott ranked 115th in the mock draft by CBS Sports, 4th round or so.
Gonna be a solid pro.
Go Bears!!!
Happy Birthday to HeyAlumniGo!!
HBD HAG
Thanks SGBear
old
yup
beats the alternative tho
HeyAlumniGo - many happy returns of the day! May you have many more trips around the sun and a happy, healthy life!
Thanks Fiat.
Happy Birthday!
Thanks
Thanks HSB
Happy Birthday. And many more trips around the Sun.
That's the plan!
i wouldnt mind getting launched into outer space, living a long time, but with significantly fewer trips around the sun
in the ideal world and traveling at relativistic speeds, time dilation would be a factor too!
Yes you could return from a voyage lasting just a few years and see that everybody you knew is at a geriatric stage!
Bringing up Albany makes me want to say "SUCK IT, PIEDMONT! YOU SUCK"
We owned Albany.
Complete. Ownage.
Own that you dropped your wrestling team after we obliterated you. Again. Also, I went 4-4 in a baseball game just by dinking fly balls off your stupid right field fence net
Wrestling? Like contact Pilates? Good riddance…rolling around on a mat isn’t a sport.
That fence was admittedly a joke, tho Albany’s field sported a similar short RF IIRC. If we’re being honest, the ESAL was filled with dogschitt ball fields. O’Dowd was nice, Encinal and those St. Mary’s a$$hats had OK ones…everything else ranged from meh to garbage. We played St. Elizabeth’s on some skin infield with busted glass in the hood across from Too Short’s old house. I see fields the HS kids play on now and it pisses me off!
No matter.
I've never heard greco-roman wrestling described as contact Pilates but it makes a weird kind of sense...
haha so true. Your fence was worse than ours but we had the jank center field drop off so it went from 30 feet down to 8 feet in dead center... but that was like 300 feet out. So many cheap HRs
And that St Elizabeth's field. Lawdy. I still tell the story of when we dropped our varsity team off at Skyline and we drove down E 86th to get to their field to play JV. I saw prostitution in action, drug deals, fights... my lily white ass was terrified. So we only beat them 19-0 that day. Damn their program sucked.
Agreed…I remember away games at Richmond and Kennedy HS (Richmond) - seriously eye opening experiences. I think PHS finally got booted out through the Caldecott tunnel to a league with Acalanes, Miramonte and Campo. It was fun watching Jason Kidd twice a year and playing against him in baseball for a couple of years…Newellbany played v him in hoops. That was a drubbing.
we had a week shortly after we expelled 11 of 12 varsity BBall players for receiving oral ministrations from a frosh in the lunch room were we got beat 80-18 by O'Dowd at home and 95-46 at St. Joe's (J Kidd's frosh year). Whomever made that schedule was an asshole
DBD Book Club
"Milk Street Vegetables", by Christopher Kimball. It's an outstanding cookbook that takes great regional dishes from around the world, localizes some of the ingredients for the US, and then simplifies some techniques. I found it as an outstanding way to reinvigorate some of my boring vegetable side dishes. Over 300 pages. Best of all, they are almost all available for free on his website here: https://www.177milkstreet.com/recipes/collection/milk-street-vegetables
Just finished "Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro (who is British). Brilliant book made into a pretty good film starring Anthony Hopkins. Last night started "King Richard: Nixon and Watergate--An American Tragedy" by Michael Dobbs. I've been a Watergate obsessive for decades.
i should read that. i just recently finished _Klara and the Sun_ which i thought was "good, but not his best work." still, pretty interesting premise of a having an artificial friend ..
Never Let Me Go is my favorite thing that i have read by Ishiguro.
that one is a convoluted romantic story of a bunch of kids that are cloned and raised to be organ donors.
The Emissary by Yoko Tawada - currently reading
funny excerpt
"... bodies-birds, say, or octopi. I'd like to see everything from an optical point of view."
"Optical?"
"No, I meant octopi. I want to see through the eyes of an octopus."
I am currently reading Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver. It's apparently based on David Copperfield (which I have never read), but situated in Appalachian Virginia in modern times. It's good.
Don't know if I every thanked you. You once directed me towards several books/femaleauthors that I really liked, especially the The Dutch House by Ann Patchett, brilliant book. Been reading mostly women recently after years of (stupidly) avoiding them.
A friend of mine self-published a novel…
“Chicago Detective Jack Fallon in the Mystery of the Exotic Escort Murders.”
Just started it…I am fascinated by Chicago, detective stories and exotic escorts, so we’ll see…
Try my second self-published novel. I've gotten a lot of good feedback and made a few bucks on it. (Will try to peddle my third -- nearly done -- to a publisher/literary agent.) https://www.amazon.com/Threat-Night-Uhka-Richard-Hourula/dp/B09246432V/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
Will do!!
I might pick up a copy. Good luck finding an agent. That can make all the diference.