The OKC Thunder are currently up 86-66 in the third quarter over the LA Clippers. UPDATE: The Clippers won, 122 to 105.
We had a record high of 97 degrees today. In early May. This summer is going to suck.
We have an uncontrolled wild fire in Logan County, just north of the city of Edmond on the north end of the OKC metro. One fatality, and 30+ structures destroyed. Half the state is under a burn ban. We have less than 10% of our seasonal or yearly average of rainfall, and a third of the state is listed as experiencing an “exceptional” drought. We expect another record high tomorrow, with severe weather approaching a 50% probability tomorrow through Thursday.
I just got home from the first 14-hour workday of the week as we work to install new WiFi access points in the OKC VA Medical Center. I feel like hammered shit, but I am looking forward to the over time pay.
There was an amber alert last night for an 8-year-old girl from Tulsa. The biggest topic of discussion on local news boards is the impending installation of the Church of Satan monument on the state capitol grounds near the 10 Commandments. This is followed closely by the news that some pastafarians are raising money for a monument to the FSM. The little girl was found later, and a person of interest was taken into custody.
Ronnie P
Anybody see (or care) what happened to Liverpool today? Wow.
Yatsuno
Wow. Not even a missing white girl can stop teh ebil Satanists from infecting the news!
Omnes Omnibus
You live in OK; summer will suck. I used to come out of the BOQ at 6:00 a.m. for PT and it would be 90 degrees. there is a reason it is the last state we stole from the Native Americans. No offense intended.
Sctrojan90
What game are you watching?? Go to sleep
Diana
because meaningless nonesense like climate change could never be as important as making the christianists happy.
JCJ
Um, I thunk you have inverted the score. OKC is getting thumped by the Toenail Clippers
dww44
Golly, Soonergrunt, we had 91 here in my part of Georgia, but coming off a year of the most precip ever recorded and a winter with many freezes. There’ve been wild flowers blooming this year that I don’t recall ever having seen. Have often thought that there’s only so much rain to go around and we in the east have been getting the West’s fair share of late. As my daughter said, it’s either too much rain or far too little which was the case just a couple or 3 years ago. Maybe the gods will be forgiving and generous and send some rain and a cool spell to Oklahoma soon.
Roger Moore
How terrible that we have to respect the religion of Those People.
Bob In Portland
But then Robert Parry is full of shit because he thinks that American history applies to what America does.
? Martin
Hmm. Can’t say I’ve ever tried to hammer shit. Sounds more messy than painful.
Omnes Omnibus
@Bob In Portland: Post shit in random threads much? You have a conversation happening in another thread.
Geoduck
As a Seattle-area resident, even one who doesn’t particularly enjoy basketball..
“OKC Thunder”. Grump.
As for weather.. as is usually the case, our geographical layout is sparing us the worst of climate changes, but yes, we’re currently getting more rain than in past decades, or at least more at the same time than used to be typical, quick-moving torrential downpours instead of day-long drizzle. Plus more thunderstorms; those used to be quite rare.
gratuitous
Watching the Clippers-Thunder game, there are still a lot of fans sitting there as the Clippers walk the dog on the home team. The only thing I can conclude is that the good people of Oklahoma really like watching public executions.
ON EDIT: Oops, I spoke too soon. Coming back from the commercial break, I can see lots of empty seats. The Chesapeake Arena must have really good egress.
scav
@Omnes Omnibus: Quantity, not Quality is his banner.
Mnemosyne
ETA: Moving this comment to the thread below so this thread doesn’t get completely overrun by troll crap.
trollhattan
@Bob In Portland:
Hodor!
Gin & Tonic
@Omnes Omnibus: But if he doesn’t shit on *every fucking thread*, how can he succeed in convincing you that you are wrong and he is right?
PurpleGirl
Soonergrunt — I’m very glad the little girl was found. Holding a person of interest is good. But I’m more concerned about the little girl being home and hoping she is okay and not physically hurt.
In other areas of life: There’s another rescued momcat about to give birth in Fort Langley (Vancouver area). I’m keeping the computer on over night so I can follow what’s happening, especially if she starts birthing tonight.
http://new.livestream.com/tinykittens/events/2950275
ETA: Watching kittens and relaxing and keeping my blood pressure low is one of my prime concerns.
Omnes Omnibus
@Gin & Tonic: Fuck. We are talking with him about his topic on the other thread. Monomania is annoying.
Suffern ACE
Someday, we’ll eat this when watching basketball, if the Canadians don’t protect the idea through the state secres act.
coin operated
@gratuitous
You owe me a new beer!!!
PurpleGirl
@Suffern ACE: I thought you were going to refer to poutine.
Suzanne
We had an Amber Alert last week that sent me a deafening text message at about 2AM. It convinced me that I have to disable those things on my phone. I hate to do it, but I woke up at a ridiculously fast pace, thinking it was the fire alarm, and was halfway up the stairs to get my girls before I realized it was my phone. FUCK.
In other news, I was finally feeling well enough to take the dog out for a walk tonight, and she got jumped by the neighbor’s dog (who is NOT socialized or trained) AND she got attached by a fucking tomcat who followed us for three hundred feet. Poor puppeh.
Suffern ACE
@PurpleGirl: nope. it appears that America is no longer the home of Pizza innovation. We’re falling behind. Again. Friedman will have a column on it this Thursday.
Omnes Omnibus
@PurpleGirl: I am objectively pro-poutine. OTOH, one quarter of of my ancestry is French-Canadian.
Roger Moore
@Omnes Omnibus:
Have you actually tried the stuff? I much prefer chili cheese fries, which you might think of as Southwestern poutine.
Yatsuno
@PurpleGirl: Uhh…that’s a thing.
Omnes Omnibus
@Roger Moore: Of course, I have tried the stuff. What do you take me for?
@Yatsuno: That is just fucking wrong.
Roger Moore
@Omnes Omnibus:
A person of
goodrefined taste. I withdraw the assumption.Suffern ACE
@Yatsuno: oh goodness. They put gravy on pizza. Which I suppose is better than ketchup or mayo on pizza (looking at you, Japan). But still. Escoffier weeps for Canada. They were mostly French, once.
Omnes Omnibus
@Roger Moore: I don’t defend lutefisk although that that consumption is also in my ancestry. Okay, no one can really defend lutefisk except as an “I just need to survive until the goats give birth” option.
Soonergrunt
@Suffern ACE: In Croatia, I had the experience of Heinz “Pizza Ketchup,”
Essentially pizza sauce with more sugar in it to squirt on the vaguely pizza-like disk of flat bread with a little cheese and a little ham.
I’m pretty sure that 10% of my PTSD rating comes from that.
PurpleGirl
@Roger Moore: I’ve never tried poutine but a Canadian knitter who I follow has talked about eating it and the beer she drinks with it.
Suffern ACE
@Soonergrunt: yeah, but at least the Croatians realized that the crust of a pizza is kinda supposed to be made of dough, something our pizza engineers may have forgotten.
I think I need to change the subject.
Betty Cracker
I wrenched my back yesterday when I stupidly moved some heavy furniture by myself instead of waiting for help. It’s been bugging the crap out of me all day. After work, I had to go sit through a 3-hour awards ceremony for my kiddo’s school. Now I’m self medicating with a neat bourbon. Just one so far!
Suzanne
@Yatsuno: That looks fucking disgusting.
Greek fries, however, are absolutely AWESOME. Feta makes everything better.
Roger Moore
@Suffern ACE:
What’s wrong with gravy on pizza? I’ve seen people serve pizzas with barbecue sauce, curry, chile verde, guacamole, nutella, apple sauce, and sauerkraut in place of the more traditional tomato sauce. (That’s pizzas with each of those, not one with all.) As long as it’s being used with ingredients that match it, gravy doesn’t sound completely out there.
Perhaps the country that thinks snails drenched in garlic butter is fancy eating shouldn’t be so quit to throw culinary stones.
The Dangerman
@Roger Moore:
For the LA residents:
Tommy’s
You’re welcome.
True, you don’t want to have any before a long drive, but Tommy’s CCF are killer (yes, perhaps literally).
ETA: Or a short drive if you’re attempting the I15 tonight; there’s a lot of people in Vegas that said, fuck it, we’ll stay another night or two…
gian
@Omnes Omnibus:
I’m convinced many of the cultural “delicacies” were born of food shortages and creative marketing.
I even think the uber-processed sausages are a result of the same thing, waste not want not with the scraps.
but then the amount of butter needed to make snails palatable proves me wrong at least once, that much butter means the cows are fed, which means there’s grain, and with grain you can make bread, which is probably a better use for butter than snails.
Yatsuno
@Roger Moore:
Those suckers are actually quite delicious TYVM.
@Suzanne: Had turkey meatballs last night. Not bad. Then put feta on them. Improvement factor +1000.
Anoniminous
@trollhattan:
Thread needs better Hodor.
Omnes Omnibus
@gian: Anthony Bourdain points out that many culinary traditions of complex dishes originate in poor regions and involve either cooking the whole animal or doing the best with what one has left. A good steak is easy – just don’t fuck it up. A few bits of entrails and some rice? That takes some creativity to make palatable.
Mnemosyne
@gian:
Why else do you think someone would look into a ditch at a bullfrog and think, I could eat that thing.
Also, cows don’t need grain — they can live quite happily on grass. So it’s plausible that someone would have butter but not bread.
Mnemosyne
@Yatsuno:
As G always says, you can eat anything if you soak it in enough garlic and butter.
Bonnie
I know where you can get a cashew pizza. Delicious. Also, I am a Seattle fan who enjoyed the beating OKC’s stolen team took tonight a whole lot.
Roger Moore
@gian:
Not necessarily. Feeding cattle on grain is by no means a universal practice; it’s far more common to graze them in areas that are unsuited to farming. It’s an excellent way of extracting food from otherwise unusable areas.
Roger Moore
@Yatsuno:
Lots of people love poutine, too. Neither of them is exactly what you’d call refined cuisine, though.
Omnes Omnibus
@Roger Moore: One does not always need to dine on haute cuisine.
gian
@Roger Moore:
if there was rain for pastures I’d expect rain for nearby farms.
but point taken nonetheless
Roger Moore
@Omnes Omnibus:
Sure, and many French people eat ordinary food most of the time. That’s why it doesn’t make sense for the French to look down their noses at Canadians for eating poutine; they have plenty of their own cuisine paysanne. Not to mention an embarrassing fondness for McDonald’s.
Cliven Bundy manages to raise cattle in an area that’s unsuitable for growing grain, and he’s far from the only one. Southern California was once famous for its cattle, and it’s not an area where you’d think about growing grain without heavy irrigation.
Suzanne
@Yatsuno: When I was knocked up, my OBGYN said I couldn’t eat feta. I think I told him to fuck off.
I should be more careful with OBGYNs. I called the first one “Dr. Mengele”. I don’t think she liked that.
scav
If it weren’t for storage and monotony, I can’t really imagine the bright idea of “Hey! All those little seeds we keep having to eat when there aren’t any fruit or larger veggie options? Let’s bang on those suckers with rocks for a long time and see we what we can do with the even teenier bits!” would have taken off. Maybe getting the whole things stuck in one’s teeth was more burdensome than I think. And then, who thought of “Let’s taste the inner bark of that tree and put ground up bits of it on our flattened grainy breakfast bits!”
Yatsuno
@Suzanne: My SIL’s OB/GYN is pretty awesome so far. But she’s really early in the pregnancy and right now her major complaint is morning sickness. Which the poor dear has pretty badly I must admit.
BTW DID I MENTION I’M GONNA BE AN UNCLE???
Suzanne
@Yatsuno: LOL, you mentioned on Book of Faces and I congratulated you there. Wasn’t sure if it was BJ-OK to discuss here. That’s so exciting. All of the baby fun, but you can hand them back for the smelly parts.
I feel badly for your SIL with the barf. I never had it with either pregnancy, and I feel like I dodged a major bullet.
Roger Moore
@scav:
I suspect the main reason for grinding seeds before cooking was to make them cook faster. Cooking quickly is a big deal when fuel is at a premium, like when you have to collect it all yourself.
Mnemosyne
@Yatsuno:
Yay! I can tell you from experience that it’s very fun to be the cool aunt/uncle, plus I think I only changed a diaper when actually babysitting. Otherwise, it was, Here, I think your kid dropped one.
YellowJournalism
@Yatsuno: Permit me to “Squeee!” Congratulations! I bet you can’t wait to be the cool uncle who lets the kid do all the things mom won’t let him/her.
scav
@Roger Moore: Alas, reality is indeed dull, if nourishing. (although that may be more a benefit of doing it than a motivation for thinking it up. Maybe I can still hope for a bored kid pounding on stuff in the larder, Mom using it nevertheless and noticing all the extra firewood or fire dung she had afterwards.). Still, at least Bread and Beer are running neck and neck for the earliest use of grain, aren’t they?
scav
@Yatsuno: Congrats indeed! But, be forewarned, even the most excellent of nefarious uncles and aunts nevertheless find themselves suddenly yelling (or repressing) “Stop at the corner!” at random unaccompanied kids when they zoom past on busy streets.
A Humble Lurker
@Yatsuno: I think this thread’s dead but congrats.
Oh! Does your fake wifie know she’s going to be an auntie?
NotMax
@Betty Cracker
One is the loneliest number…
mainmata
@Mnemosyne: Yes, e.g. Mongolians. High desert. Lots of yak butter but not much grain.
zzyzx
Another Seattlite who is amused that the “Thunder” got destroyed.
Ever since I got an Amber Alert for a kidnapping in California, I turned those things off. I don’t care that much about custody battles, which is what most of them are.
Paul in KY
It will surprise me if that Satan monument is ever placed where it is supposed to be. I would think they would remove all the monuments & discontinue the policy, rather than place it there.
taylormattd
Fairly positive that was completely wrong. I have a feeling it was the other way around. According to the box score, the Thunder had a total of 78 points *at the end* of the third quarter.
Jebediah, RBG
@Omnes Omnibus:
No, because there is always this stuff.