For the drunks, insomniacs and shift workers who don’t want to treyf the Holly thread below.
You don’t like my taste, suggest better!
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For the drunks, insomniacs and shift workers who don’t want to treyf the Holly thread below.
You don’t like my taste, suggest better!
by John Cole| 8 Comments
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Got nothing to say, but everyone else is not posting, so I thought I would put up a thread.
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Got off the phone with Holly’s SO, and we chatted for fifteen minutes, and man, the guy is so frazzled from lack of sleep, you could just feel the anxiety and fear and what not in his voice. The whole time I was talking to him all I could think was this poor guy needs a massage and a hockey puck sized xanax and a featherbed with egyptian cotton sheets.
At any rate, according to Greg, their surgeon is a no bullshit guy who does not mince words. For some reason, I thought her surgeon was female, but I guess I got those details wrong. Still do not know his name, but she is in the Long Island Jewish Medical Center (I think). Apparently the guy has 30 years of experience, is a little bit gruff, but very direct. When Greg told me that my reaction was “That’s exactly what you want” and he started to talk about how much everyone loved the guy, even though he was kind of blunt prick. Deep down, they knew he cared. You’ll understand why at the end of this post.
At any rate, after the clipping procedure yesterday, Greg approached the surgeon late last night and asked him what he thought and to just be honest with him. The doctor looked at him and said (and I am paraphrasing) “I didn’t want to do this surgery. It made me uncomfortable. It was a very bad thing in a complicated place, and I was hoping we could handle it with the coiling procedure. Again, I did not want to do this surgery because it would have been much better to have the other procedure work. Again, this is a complicated procedure, and there were complications. There was a lot of bleeding. Her vitals and everything were good, her CT scan was good, but I honestly don’t have anything to say definitively, and I can not tell you whether I feel good or bad about her outcome. I don’t know.”
That was at about ten o’clock last night, and Greg went home and had a restless night, went in at 8 am, and the surgeon had already been there at 6 am. Greg talked to him, and the surgeon basically admitted he couldn’t sleep so came in early to check on her, and her vitals were all solid, and he woke her up and even though she was heavily sedated, was able to give thumbs up and wiggle her toes, and the neurosurgeon said those were both “complex neurological functions” and that for once he felt positive and told Greg that “We’re in the game.”
I think words like that from a guy like that are reason for optimism, as did Greg and everyone else, so I’m in a good mood. Greg went and saw her, and she got super excited and tried to talk, but she was so excited that it was not safe for her, so they upped her sedation for the rest of the day and he stayed away for the rest of the day, sitting in the lobby. What a cruel hoax life can sometimes be- they both want to be together, but it may kill one of them. Her face is apparently very swollen from the surgery, and she had her head shaved, and she is still in really thick, but it looks like things are positive at this point.
My good buddy Tammy worked at a cancer center as a fundraiser and is sending me some links for some super nice scarves, her car is home from the airport, her mail is under control, and now the only thing to do is to cross your fingers.
From our Food Goddess, TaMara:
I’m neck deep in a painting a porch glider before the weekend rains come, so this will be quick tonight. When JeffreyW posted the photo above, I knew I wanted to try the recipe, so it became the featured recipe tonight.
He also posted this delicious recipe this week: Moroccan Spicy Lamb Soup, pictures and recipe here.
And earlier this week, I made one of my favorite pasta dishes, Pasticcio, full dinner menu, recipes and shopping list here.
It’s meager offerings, so spice things up and share some of your favorite recipes in the comments. You know what I’m doing this weekend, what’s on your to-do list? And if I missed a recipe step in my haste, let me know in the comments and I’ll fix it.
For tonight’s featured recipe:
From JeffreyW:
I’m on a chicken recipe spree! At least until I run out of chicken breasts, anyway. This recipe from Emeril Lagasse looked pretty good, with the added bonus of the side dish calling for the truffle oil that rounded out a recent online order I placed a while back and was looking for a place to use.
I didn’t have the proper arborio rice so I used the jasmine variety that I do keep on hand and has worked for me before. Instead of Parmesan I used fresh grated pecorino. The mushrooms were the usual supermarket white buttons, nothing fancy. I think I can take or leave the truffle oil, it not adding any particular enjoyment for me but I’ll wait a while and try it elsewhere before I make up my mind.
The goat cheese filling worked very well, every time I made a cut a little more oozed out and was quickly mopped up. I used a lot more garlic than the recipe wanted.
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by John Cole| 59 Comments
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Always thought those funny parent/son text messages were fake. Until a couple minutes ago when mom returned a phone call with a text asking me what I wanted:
Oops.
by DougJ| 150 Comments
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When the revolution comes, totebaggers may not be the first up against the wall, but they will certainly have to be sent to reeducation camps, at least for long enough that they learn to hate David Brooks. Today’s column is a doozy….you see, the only reason liberals are concerned about oligarchy is that they’re jealous of their Galtian overlords:
The modern left is led by smart professionals — academics, activists, people in the news media, the arts and so on — who tend to live in and around coastal cities.
If you are a young professional in a major city, you experience inequality firsthand. But the inequality you experience most acutely is not inequality down, toward the poor; it’s inequality up, toward the rich.
You go to fund-raisers or school functions and there are always hedge fund managers and private equity people around. You get more attention than them at parties, but your whole apartment could fit in their dining room. You struggle with tuition, but their kids go off on ski weekends. You wait in line at the post office, but they have staff to do it for them.
The modern left is led by people who regularly go to parties with Galtians? I do understand that the big donors of the modern left (as well as the modern right of course) live mostly in coastal cities, but these big donors are Galtians themselves.
I don’t find myself spending anytime being jealous of the super-rich, do you? I just don’t think anybody benefits that much from living in an oligarchy. I think that even the oligarchs themselves would be better off in a country with a strong middle-class and some semblance of representative democracy. I might mention that I first heard the idea of a wealth tax from a one-percenter finance friend (who’s even more concerned about oligarchy than most of us).
Bobo’s serial scapegoating of intellectuals is straight out of the Goebbels playbook (remember what made him reach for his revolver). Why do so many totebaggers like Bobo, when he portrays them as sniveling, jealous agitators? Don’t they know that he’d actually send them to reeducation camps if he could? I just joke about it in hopes of getting another Moore Award nomination.
Update. Steve M thinks Palin and Limbaugh are better comparisons than Goebbels, but I think Palin and Limbaugh are just trying to get ratings and money. Propaganda isn’t their central mission.
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Commenter schrodinger’s cat‘s friend Carolyn Walker has a new record out and here’s the video
Other than distancing yourself from your earlier support for Cliven Bundy, what are you all up to?