I can't believe there's a politician named Zephyr Teachout and she's not the Green Party nominee for Oregon Secretary of Grooviness.
— Michael Schaub (@michaelschaub) September 9, 2014
Other than the election results, I’ve got Sons of Anarchy on my schedule. You?
Elizabelle
Local PBS has a special Pioneers of Television with Robin Williams at 9, and then Frontline on Ebola at 10.
And election results from NYS!
Corner Stone
Shouldn’t she be leading a drum circle, Cole? Or washing her feet in a patchouli tub?
Corner Stone
I plan to make the perfect pizza using fresh garlic naan bread as the base.
Corner Stone
Also, Tim Geithner. The best Sec Treas, or the best Sec Treas of all time?
Discuss.
Howard Beale IV
It would amuse me to no end to see Cuomo lose. But somehow, I don’t see that happening.
OTOH, if it did happen, then maybe we do stand a chance of scaring the ever living shit out of the powers that be and go all-in in creating a veto-proof house that isn’t wed to either the D or R side of the ledger.
Corner Stone
Wendy Davis is on Maddow tonight.
Corner Stone
@Howard Beale IV:
Say what now?
ruemara
Getting prepared to get the sack. Although, the our corporate ruler has not been able to delineate if, & when of the sackitude, since she doesn’t have a real plan for her plan. And they’re still asking me for how to do my job as they thought one of the behavior types could do it with minimal effort but it’s not as simple as they thought. oops.
PurpleGirl
@Corner Stone: That sounds interesting. Let us know how it turns out.
PurpleGirl
@Howard Beale IV: I want her to receive enough votes to put Cuomo into the vulnerable category and make him untenable as a presidential candidate.
Corner Stone
@PurpleGirl: It hasn’t been easy but I’ve been sacrificing myself and my girlish figure to find out what combos work.
I think I’m winnowing it down to the essence of personal pizza fusion.
scav
Laughing like a demented loon at the symbolic saltire satire over Downing Street and then gifted with this gem of techjargon unleashed with insufficient thought:
guard again, but you’ve seen the only interesting part, this is just documentation
beth
Just had two kids from the local high school chorus come to the door selling candles as a fundraiser. Last week I bought wrapping paper from the band fundraiser. Wouldn’t it be a nice world if the arts were fully funded in our schools and the athletes had to go door to door fof once? Just one time please?
steve
“Zephyr Teachout” does sound like a Portlandia character.
Anoniminous
I’d like to see Teachout get the nomination which is unlikely BUT the low turnout is actually bad for Cuomo as a relatively small number of voters can swing the thing.
Where are you getting your NY results?
Corner Stone
@beth:
IMO it would be nice if schools, period, were fully funded for a change.
BlueDWarrior
@beth: I think the arts are even more divisive than sports when it comes to funding discussions.
Look at how most people talk about pop music in general.
Geeno
@PurpleGirl: We do naan pizza’s all the time. We each make our own to our own desires. I like to go with a pesto sauce base. Anyway – yes, they’re delicious and easy, and you must add them to your dinner line up.
Cacti
@scav:
Poor Harry.
Every time his SIL craps out another kid, he gets knocked further down the line.
Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)
@Cacti: He is probably thrilled by it. Why on earth would he want to be king?
Schlemazel [was Schlemizel till NotMax taught me proper yiddish!]
@Corner Stone:
At the HS level the athletes beg also. Our kids did car washed cars for hockey, bagged groceries for soccer, sold cand for baseball and gift wrap for softball and probably a couple of things I am forgetting. But I get your point, the public has abandoned school funding for everything.
beth
@Geeno: Made a mashed cauliflower crust pizza the other night for the vegetarian, carb watching child. It was surprisingly good.
scav
@Cacti: Are you crazy!? Spare all the way!
Howard Beale IV
@Corner Stone:
We need the ratfucking of ratfuckings. The current crop of Democraps are nothing more than Neoliberals who let Slick Willie sell out to the banksters who damn near destroyed the global economic system and the current crop of GOPers and nothing more than neo-Feudalisic whores for the Koch’s.
Voting to keep either the D or R in place says – hey, we got this, no need to worry.
Voting to neither the D or R commands any significance? Now then you put the fear into government.
Your choice.
Alison
@Corner Stone: Professor at Hogwarts?
PurpleGirl
@Geeno:
@Corner Stone:
I love naan. I often have it for a mid-afternoon snack with spice/cinnamon tea. I could get into making it the base for pizza easily.
Steeplejack (tablet)
Going to eat dinner at Ventano’s, allegedly good Italian restaurant in Vegas (Henderson).
Finally blew up at my mom today—unfortunate confluence of ongoing medical snafu (getting her injured back seen to), overexposure to Fox News and maternal channeling thereof. I doubted whether I could maintain my Zen-like calm for three whole weeks, but I still feel bad that it happened. I think the trigger was watching Boehner’s orange puss begging to be smacked while she said that she thinks Harry Reid is senile.
RobinOz
Grow up, America! We don’t choose our names (usually). Gov Cuomo’s name shouldn’t bias you in favor of him, and Prof. Teachout’s name shouldn’t do the opposite. But I get it, hippies, ha ha ha… We gotta change the culture, and this isn’t helping.
Corner Stone
@Schlemazel [was Schlemizel till NotMax taught me proper yiddish!]: It’s awful. It used to be for special activities or clubs when I was a student. Now it’s mandatory for everything, including if you do not do any extracurricular groups or activities.
The PTO is like a newly turned vampire, just desperate to suck the blood out of any captive target.
Schlemazel [was Schlemizel till NotMax taught me proper yiddish!]
@Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name):
I’m with you, he has the best job in the world! He has a multi-million dollar trust fund so he never has to work, will have no real duties other than to occasionally appear on a balcony and wave and generally is not expected to amount to much. If he stays mostly sober & does not whore around publicly he his home free. Meanwhile his poor brother is forever in the fish bowl with a thousand pointless duties.
Geeno
@Cacti: Actually the line of succession is just a suggestion, the Council of State can override it and name anyone of royal blood as monarch. When Edward VIII was deposed*, there was serious consideration given to making Prince George – the 4th son of George V – king, because he already had a son. Prince Albert, the Heir Presumptive, had two daughters. Eventually they went with Albert, who was crowned as George VI.
* Yes, technically, he abdicated, but only because the Council was about to depose him.
Mike J
@Elizabelle: PBS here is just infomercials 24 hours a day. The world would be a better place if they burned to the ground.
Just double checked. One of them is sandwiching in the ebola show in between two infomercials at 10.
BGinCHI
I hope Cuomo at least get a scare. I can’t stand that mook.
PsiFighter37
Voted for Wu and undervoted the governor’s race. Go ahead, flame away. I don’t care; frankly too tired to (and I bothered to take time out of moving today to go vote in that race).
Now off to get some goddamn food.
shelley
@Howard Beale IV: Well, at least let it be close.
Schlemazel [was Schlemizel till NotMax taught me proper yiddish!]
@Corner Stone:
Yup! It’s every little thing. I really don’t mind when it comes to the sports stuff as I view that as truly EXTRA-curricular but there were many things that I would classify as curricular or at least curricular-enhancing that they have to beg for too.
Mike in NC
Netflix has the first 6 seasons of “Sons of Anarchy” streaming. Never seen it but will try it. They also have just added the entire run (6 or 7 seasons) of “Californication”. After watching the first several episodes, the formula for each seems to be: watch Hollywood bad boy David Duchovny get wasted, watch him wisecrack, watch him have sex with 4 or 5 much younger women that he just met. Masterpiece Theater it ain’t. The British cop show “Happy Valley” is pretty good, though.
WaterGirl
@ruemara: Am I getting this right? There has been some indication that you will be fired? Because of finances or some other crazy reason? And they have asked you to train the remaining people to do you job because they aren’t going to keep you or hire someone to do your job?
Aren’t you doing more work than one person can do? What’s going on?
Schlemazel [was Schlemizel till NotMax taught me proper yiddish!]
@PsiFighter37:
I think I need some clarification here. You stopped what you were doing to vote for a Lt. Gov race but were too busy/tired to fill in the circle/pull the handle/punch the chad for one other race? What am I missing here?
dmsilev
A thrilling evening checking page-proofs lies ahead. Urgh. Opened up the PDF file and discovered right off the bat that the journal’s production staff thought it would be fun to change the naming style of the authors for all but one of us. Wonder what other surprises I’m going to find.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
@ruemara: Good luck.
shelley
@Schlemazel [was Schlemizel till NotMax taught me proper yiddish!]:
Yeah, but he did serve a bit of time in the military, serving two tours in Afghanistan. Not too shabby.
Corner Stone
@Howard Beale IV: I have to admit. This made me want to subscribe to your newsletter.
Schlemazel [was Schlemizel till NotMax taught me proper yiddish!]
@ruemara:
Sorry if I missed the story, WTF?
Any chance of your moving on & walking away from them before they are ready to dump you?
Geez we need to find a way to turn this countries employer/employee dynamic on it’s head.
Corner Stone
@Alison: A little too Dickensian to be an actual teacher somewhere. But otherwise, I like where you’re going with that!
Elizabelle
@ruemara:
Oh ruemara. What needless drama. I wish the behavior types (?) would wise up.
Watching Kill Bill Vol. 2 on IFC, but it’s got commercials … have seen flick so much I can echo the dialogue.
Commercials, though …
@Mike J: Feel your pain re your local PBS station. Sounds like it’s pledge week every week. Yecch.
Schlemazel [was Schlemizel till NotMax taught me proper yiddish!]
@shelley:
You have to give the European royalty their due, at least they understand noblesse oblige. They may serve no useful purpose to the society but they are not the sort of wasterial zombies American wealth and power craps out all to frequently.
leeleeFL
@PurpleGirl: that ship has sailed. He ain’t a patch on the old man and Mario couldn’t get there.
catclub
@beth: Take half of what you would spend on the crap candles and give it to the kids, without the rest going to the candle scammers. Probably less than 50% of the spending gets back as funds raised, plus you will have fewer stinky candles in the house.
Mnemosyne
@ruemara:
If you can work yourself up to it, this might be a good time for the old classic, You can’t fire me, I quit. If you’re feeing super-duper generous, you can give one (1) weeks’ notice.
Iowa Old Lady
@ruemara: Well that sucks.
ruemara
Actually, under my direction, sales and marketing outreach has hit a best ever high. Unfortunately, the cost effective outsourcing and a very poorly planned massive project planned with the sycophantic former assistant has upped business costs. So the answer to that is-turn marketing over to med intern who is the next sycophantic assistant in training. And still be somehow responsible and train them but with 50% less time. That puts me below minimal survival funding. And this was not happening last week, but we came in this week and POOF suddenly she’s revamping the entire company to ditch the whole media part and … we don’t know because there’s not so much a plan as a wing it. I’m a touch wung out. I have no idea how this will play out, that decision could be reversed by the end of the week or next week. There’s also the issue of my dunning, since I was not seen to be taking this with good grace.I just wanted to get a kiss before I got screwed hard.
beth
@catclub: they were wine bottle candles and they were ugly as sin. I gave them $20 because one of the kids is a neighbor and told him to keep the candle.
OzarkHillbilly
Waiting for the waters to drop. 2 and 1/2″ in 45 mins. Supposed to get showers and thunderstorms tonight, tomorrow, and tomorrow night. Meanwhile, the wife is supposed to fly in from Spain tomorrow night. I can wade the waters and make it up to STL, can she land at Lambert? Only time will tell.
PsiFighter37
@Schlemazel [was Schlemizel till NotMax taught me proper yiddish!]: I dislike Cuomo but Zephyr Teachout is not a serious candidate. The fact people think that she might hit 30% is laughable (she’ll be extremely lucky to break 20, IMO). I’ve spoken to people who are in the know, and her ‘campaign’ is disorganized as all hell and has literally no money.
No way she gets a meaningful percentage, and she shouldn’t – she’s a joke of a candidate, and the fact that she’s the best that NY progressives could find to run against Cuomo is pretty fucking pathetic.
Betty Cracker
Sounds like Ruemara needs to go Kill Bill on somebody’s ass. Watching the Rays kick the shit outta the Yanks. Always a pleasure!
Eric U.
I really don’t want to move, it would mean living separately from my family. I’m on reduced hours right now and being pressured to work free on projects that don’t have funding. Just worked over 40 hours for free in August because I was promised pay and then it all fell through. That’s even worse because I could use some time off and I can’t get it because of the projects I’m on. I have known that I was on borrowed time for a while, but the way this has played out has been rather unpleasant.
Kay
@catclub:
I do that but it takes a long time to explain. I don’t know but I think they hate it too, because it messes up the record-keeping.
The whole thing just seems so crazily inefficient I can’t stand it. The selling, the truck bringing the crap, the unloading and distribution, the pick-up of the orders, the delivery. Can’t I just give them the money and cut out all these middlemen?
Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)
@Mnemosyne: If a person doesn’t have another job lined up, being discharged is often better than quitting (emotional catharsis aside). Questions of eligibility for unemployment usually start with “quit or discharged” and the road to benefits is much easier if the answer is discharged.
scottinnj
I’m always getting Zephyr Teachout and Zaphod Beeblebrox confused.
JPL
Early returns has Coakley ahead of Grossman by two percent. I am no longer that familiar with MA politics but is this a good thing? A friend likes Grossman so maybe it is.
Kay
Good. Here’s the law on that in Missouri if you want to check the judge’s work.
Corner Stone
@PsiFighter37:
Well she certainly won’t this way.
Nicely done.
ruemara
I’d like to point out that I would vote for Zephyr Teachout and Zaphod Beeblebrox. Having seen many serious candidates be wicked stupid & disorganized, I’d be happy to go with the progressive flake who’s an honest flake.
WaterGirl
@ruemara: It sounds like a pretty insane environment there, which can’t be good for your health or your sanity.
If she can’t afford you full-time, which part of your job would you want to keep? Could you pitch yourself to her as a part-time worker doing the media stuff (or whatever it is that furthers your career) and ditch the extra crap assignments they are always throwing your way? Crap assignments are what interns are for anyway, right?
On the other hand, Omnes makes a good point. Have you been there long enough to be eligible for unemployment?
May I just state for the record that I’d really like to see some things go your way for an extended period of time?
HinTN
@Betty Cracker: Anybody kicking the Yankees is a great thing.
tybee
@Corner Stone:
pizza with a naan base has been a staple around here for years.
everyone gets to make a personal pie and we run it through the toaster oven to “bake” it.
damn fine stuff.
ETA: and now i see that geeno practices the same…
Corner Stone
Wendy Davis! All up in this TRMS Hizzy!
Mnemosyne
@Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name):
In California, it sounds as though she’s better off quitting than being fired (though being officially “laid off” is of course best of all).
ETA: Doubleplus points if she can get a doctor’s note saying that this job is bad for her high blood pressure.
Belafon
@beth: The arts aren’t fully funded here where I live, but the athletes go around selling cards that get you discounts at restaurants and other stores.
WaterGirl
@tybee: So where do you guys get your naan? The only decent naan here in IL is in the frozen section of the health food store.
debit
@tybee: I make mine with Thai peanut sauce and some chicken breast, topped with some fresh cilantro. Some say it’s not technically pizza. Screw ’em.
Corner Stone
@tybee: I pan fry it in a tiny bit of oil in a pan for 1 minute per side. Then put on some toppings and/or seasonings and then put it in the oven at 400F for a few minutes depending on how I want it to turn out.
I recently browned some 90/10 ground beef and then mixed in sweet onions thinly sliced, roasted cherry tomatoes, and sliced jalapeno stuffed green olives that had been in vermouth.
Spread that very thin on the naan bread, drop some sliced fresh mozzarella spaced out on the top and bake until cheese is molten.
OzarkHillbilly
@Eric U.: Tell them they pay you or you walk, now, with all the pertinent info. (not sure what you do, so take with a ton of salt) Worked for a guy for years who was notorious for not paying people on time. Why? Because he always paid me every Friday. Why? Simple, I was the one guy that wouldn’t put up with that sh!t. I couldn’t afford to.
My point is only that you have leverage, use it. Or as a buddy of mine always liked to say, “Employers can fvck with their employees, but their employees can fvck them“.
Mnemosyne
@WaterGirl:
Do you have Trader Joe’s in your part of the state? They make a tasty frozen naan.
Schlemazel [was Schlemizel till NotMax taught me proper yiddish!]
@ruemara:
I’d vote Beeblebrox! He is more than qualified:
He was voted “Worst Dressed Sentient Being in the Known Universe” seven consecutive times. He’s been described as “the best Bang since the Big One” by Eccentrica Gallumbits (the triple brested whor of Eroticon 5), and as “one hoopy frood” by others and the “owner of the hippest place in the universe” (his own left cranium), as voted on in a poll of the readers of the magazine “Playbeing”.
ruemara
@WaterGirl:
You, me, every friend I have, including the ones who have had to pick me up from hospital way too many times. I’m at peace on things. Obviously, I’m Hitler. It’s the only karmic debt load I can think of. Or Pol Pot which would explain my affinity for asian foods.
She can. We’re not broke. But perception and reality are not meshing. And since I am not a medical intern, I am very stupid plus I have a cost. An intern can do it for free and since they are much smarter than anyone who is not studying what she does, it’s a win-win. The desired model of employment is the old fashioned apprenticeship model where the young person is kept at the home and business, worked and possibly given something after a few years, but the only mandatory thing is a title.
beth
@Kay: Eric Holder obviously got to the judge!
Belafon
Watching from Texas, for all of you who didn’t vote for Teachout even though you weren’t going to vote for Cuomo: FUCK YOU!
The primary is when you scare the Democrats, and what do you do, absolutely jack shit.
Corner Stone
@debit: Hey!
WaterGirl
@Mnemosyne: Nope. No trader joe’s. No Whole Foods. I buy the frozen naan (made by Tandoor Chef) in the frozen food section of the health food section of the grocery store.
tybee
@WaterGirl:
find an indian grocery store.
Corner Stone
@Belafon: Hey but Bill White wasn’t a “serious” candidate for governor so we shouldn’t have voted for him according to some.
Corner Stone
@tybee: That’s what I have right on the edge of my neighborhood. Grocery store and takeout only kitchen.
Very good, all fresh and even though they seem to hate whitey, they always take my money and give me my order.
schrodinger's cat
@tybee: Loaded with butter, delicious but with elebenty calories.
@WaterGirl: The best naan I have eaten in this country was at an Afghan takeout place that had a tandoor.
WaterGirl
@ruemara: The thing is, it seems like she’s not just asking you to show someone the ropes or bring them up to speed on your current projects before you leave.
She is asking you to actually teach someone a new profession, your profession, and that seems very wrong to me. I will cross my fingers that you can come up with some simple or elegant way to finesse this situation in a way that keep you employed there until you find something else less crazy.
OzarkHillbilly
@Kay: Well acquainted with juvenile law in MO (lonnnnnnnngggggggg story) and yeah, that sh!t is locked up tighter than a gnats ass at midnight.
Suffern ACE
We’re not gonna have Scott Brown to kick around any more.
rikyrah
Kansas Senate Nom Sues Kobach To Get Himself Taken Off Ballot
ByDylan Scott
PublishedSeptember 9, 2014, 5:48 PM EDT
Chad Taylor, the Democratic Senate nominee in Kansas, has sued Secretary of State Kris Kobach (R) to get his name removed from the ballot in November.
Kobach ruled last week that Taylor’s name would not be removed from the ballot in November despite his announcement that he would withdraw from the race. Taylor had previously said that he would challenge Kobach’s decision, and the Associated Press reported Tuesday that he had filed a petition in the Kansas Supreme Court naming Kobach as the defendant.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/taylor-sues-kobach-kansas-senate-race
Botsplainer
@Corner Stone:
So wrong. Garlic naan is made to be drenched in butter and loved on its own terms.
debit
@Corner Stone: Hey!!
Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)
@Mnemosyne: I used the word discharged for a reason. If you scroll up, you will see that one of the first requirements is being unemployed through no fault of your own. That is generally interpreted as including being laid off, a company going out of business, and even being let go for incompetence as long as you gave it your best efforts. The term fired often conjures up thoughts of misconduct which tend to make one ineligible.
BTW, reading one section of an FAQ and making a legal judgment on it is very similar to what the majority of judge on the panel did in the Halbig case. That being said, I am not licensed in CA and do not know the exact ins and outs of its UI regs.
rikyrah
Georgia GOPer Complains About Early Voting, Excessive Black Voting
ByDaniel StraussPublishedSeptember 9, 2014, 1:27 PM EDT 19195 views
A Republican state senator in Georgia has vowed to end Sunday balloting in DeKalb County due to the fact that the area is “dominated by African American shoppers and it is near several large African American mega churches.”
The news was flagged by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. In a longwinded email state Sen. Frank Millar (pictured) rants that Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal “appointee Interim CEO Lee May has disappointed those of us that hoped he could help bring the county together.”
Millar goes on to note that DeKalb county happens to include a number of African American mega churches.
“Now we are to have Sunday voting at South DeKalb Mall just prior to the election,” Millar wrote in the email. “Per Jim Galloway of the AJC, this location is dominated by African American shoppers and it is near several large African American mega churches such as New Birth Missionary Baptist. Galloway also points out the Democratic Party thinks this is a wonderful idea – what a surprise. I’m sure Michelle Nunn and Jason Carter are delighted with this blatantly partisan move in DeKalb.”
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/fran-millar-dekalb-county-sunday-balloting?utm_content=buffer932ea&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
Kay
@beth:
I think juvenile records should be locked in a vault, on the moon.
“Sorry. We launched those into orbit, as is our customary record retention practice”
schrodinger's cat
@Corner Stone: May be they are just jealous that you are Fair and Lovely without using any product.
WaterGirl
I am going to go watch some mindless TV, which is less stressful than the shitty stuff that is going on in the world. Somebody wake me when something good happens in NY or some other primary spot from today.
Corner Stone
@Botsplainer: I’m with that, but I know no boundaries in my desecration of genuinely gorgeous hand held edible culinary implementations.
Alce_y_Ardilla
@Belafon: I voted for Teachout, and for Wu. My wife says that his name make her think of Steely Dan.
Corner Stone
@schrodinger’s cat: The gentleman that recently helped me either had a medical condition that spontaneously causes ones eyes to roll back into their head, or he was trying to tell me something by rolling his eyes at me three times in less than 45 seconds while I checked out my $14 order.
ETA, but WTS, I do have the most appealingly non pasty skin. I recently spent quite a bit of time outdoors in San Diego and then at Barton Springs Pool in Austin, TX.
Highly recommended!
PurpleGirl
@Mnemosyne: I buy the Trader Joe’s naan and like it a lot. I’m going to have to go back through the thread and write down the pizza ideas.
schrodinger's cat
@Corner Stone: How was San Diego? My best friend from grade school has moved there and she keeps inviting me to visit.
ETA: Indian/Pakistani grocery stores have a captive clientele so they usually don’t bother with niceties like customer service, no matter who darkens their threshold. Although I have found that the Patel Brothers grocery stores to be an exception to that rule.
Kay
Someone has to say “the Cuomo precincts come in first” so I’ll just go ahead and do that.
ruemara
@WaterGirl:
That’s truly it in a nutshell. I have no idea how you teach someone without any skill or desire how to pick a photo, craft copy and deduce where the mind of the customer and the vagaries of the commercial B2C market is leading for infotainment companies. I’ve had what passes for a temper tantrum (not seeming happy), now I will move forward with grace the goddess gave me and wish that people find what they’ve earned here.
Kropadope
OMG, who is voting for Coakley? Why would you do that? Ever?
I’ve never heard a positive word about her from a single person in real life. Come to think of it, not on the internet either.
raven
Back from a great boiled shrimp dinner on a great place somewhere on a river in Savannah. Last night I got to see the tybee’s and tonight I saw folks that I have been friends with for 35 years. I spent the day in a session with a fellow from the e Center for Deployment Psychology looking at how to help vets and military students. Great day.
tybee
@raven:
which river?
tybee
@PurpleGirl:
Konto’s “pocket less pita” brand naan.
6.99 for 20 pieces. freezes well.
raven
@tybee: Pearl’s Saltwater Grille. My friend’s wife grew up playing in the river right there. Herb River.
Corner Stone
@schrodinger’s cat: SD was totes fab! We stayed on the beach about 1.5 miles from Sea World. Went to SW and also 7+ hours at the SD Zoo.
Spent an unGodly amount of money. Just disgusting but it was part work and part vacation for my son who’s turning 10 shortly.
Unfortunately we were so blitzed from beach/pool/tourist crap that we didn’t explore very many culinary options. My son turned down a brownie/ice cream dessert for his third course one night, that’s how bushed he was. And that’s saying something when he didn’t even want to wait for them to pack it up to go. Toast!
tybee
used to be “Pearl’s elegant pelican”. i do believe we mentioned that monday eve when we talked about the restaurant on LaRoche that tried to expand and went under.
if they managed to resurrect themselves with the same group, it’ll be the best damn seafood in town and i’m fairly critical about seafood.
may have to wander down towards Isle of Hope and see what’s happened.
did you notice the building just to the left of the restaurant? what a strange structure on a beautiful stretch of the marsh.
schrodinger's cat
@Corner Stone: Sounds like a lot of fun. I has a jealous!
Mnemosyne
@WaterGirl:
Train trip to a more civilized area, like Peoria or Chicago? Though if you go all the way to Chicago for naan, you should track down a local place that bakes it fresh and then freeze it at home.
@ruemara:
K-Town is calling you. Just sayin’.
OzarkHillbilly
@ruemara: Fvck ’em, just say “No.” What are they going to do? Fire you? Hello unemployment!
On the more serious side, whatever you do, don’t help them fvck you. Train somebody else to do your job? SURE…. and then show them how to do it all wrong.
I admit, I was spoiled, I worked in a profession where I really could say, with feeling, “Fvck you and the horse you rode in on.” and come out OK. But you do have leverage. The trick is finding it, and figuring out how to use it.
Poopyman
FWIW, Ravens’ version of how the Ray Rice issue unfolded.
And as an aside, reading the Ravens owner’s name and most of this thread is making me really hungry.
PurpleGirl
@tybee: Thanks. There is an Indian supermarket in the 70s off Roosevelt Avenue that I can go to and see what they have.
raven
@tybee: The road is blocked and there is construction so I’m not sure what gives. I thought you had mentioned it but I was so excited to see them we just yapped all through dinner.
Here’s last night at Pulaski.
gelfling545
Well, really, how dare Ms. Teachout run for office with such a non-serious name. (I assume she named herself at birth?) If this sort of thing is not nipped in the bud, the next thing you know we’ll have candidates with names like Newt Gingrich or something equally silly. Maybe even foreign, Kenyan names. Where will it all end?
Elmo
I had a client once who owned and ran an Indian restaurant. He introduced me to naan, and showed me how he slapped a handful of dough on the inside wall of a tandoori oven to make it fresh.
The oven was probably 700 degrees. His forearm had absolutely no hair at all.
OzarkHillbilly
@Poopyman: What does Raven have to do with Ray Rice and why are you blaming him for it all?
Anne Laurie
@scottinnj:
Hand to goddess, the first time I heard that name I thought she was a tongue-in-cheek Hitchhiker fan!
Mnemosyne
@OzarkHillbilly:
You definitely have a good point here. There’s no reason, karmic or otherwise, to make it easy for them to replace you. At best, you should say, Well, I’m really busy doing X, Y or Z, but if Intern wants to sit with me and watch, she can do that.
Weirdly, this is sounding to sound like litlebritdifferent’s crazy asshole boss, so getting out is probably going to be the best long-term strategy.
OzarkHillbilly
@Poopyman: My bad…. different Raven…
raven
@OzarkHillbilly: Story of my life.
God I hope I can sleep a couple of hours on this torture rack!
raven
@OzarkHillbilly: There’s some other raven that pops up here now and then.
Botsplainer
@raven:
Check this shrimp.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2014/09/05/mantis-shrimp-florida-fish-wildlife-conservation/15114939/
Anne Laurie
@Corner Stone: Gee, thanks, now I have drool all over my keyboard.
(Not for the first time, between you & JeffreyW & TaMara… )
raven
@Botsplainer: That’s funny, I ate and entire lb of steamed at dinner and I’m about to go into shrimp shock, that may have pushed me over the edge!
half glass fool
At 9:50 pm,
Govenor
14.5% of precincts reporting
Andrew Cuomo – 62.7% (44,872)
Zephyr Teachout – 33.2% (23,750)
Randy Credico – 4.1% (2,950)
Lieutenant Governor
14.6% of precincts reporting
Kathy Hochul – 64% (44,698)
Timothy Wu – 36% (25,139)
OzarkHillbilly
@Mnemosyne: I oversimplify of course. As a union carpenter I found myself laid off many times just because somebody didn’t like me. As a union carpenter I always had a way to find the next job. Also as a union carpenter, what they could or could not do was well defined, and I damn well knew what those contractual limits were. Among the many things they could not do is make me work for free. They could say, “Show this cub how it is done.” and I could then make that cub sorry he was ever born.
And I did. More than once, tho not always.
Anne Laurie
@schrodinger’s cat:
I feel a little guilty sometimes, there’s a lot of Indian groceries/restaurants in our town (and a Satsang Center in what used to be the Congregational church), but living with a Norwegian-bred, Midwestern-born supertaster has completely ruined my tolerance for spicy foods!
Couple times every month, I get a big takeout order of the blander, pasty-person-friendly dishes (biryani, korma, veggie samosas) from the really good restaurant down the block, and chow down for days when the Spousal Unit isn’t around. The nice people who take my order and hand over my food are so conspicuously patient with me, it’s slightly embarrassing…
Anne Laurie
@Kropadope:
Because she’s as good a female candidate as we’re liable to get, until the Old Bhoyos Network drops dead of hypertension.
And because if the race comes down to Grossman versus Baker, once the low-info voters tune in, ugly ole Steve-the-Fixer is gonna lose to that nice Charlie-the-Conman Baker.
PsiFighter37
@half glass fool: Looks like I’m going to be eating my fair share of crow tonight…
JoyfulA
@beth: It isn’t just the arts. The girls were raising money for their field hockey sticks.
(Then the GOP school board cut kindergarten to half days to balance the budget. Now there’s a 100% Dem school board.)
Kropadope
@Anne Laurie:
It’s funny you say that. Last time Coakley won a primary then lost the general, a far superior female candidate ran for that same Senate seat and won.
And you’re seriously gonna point to a dude’s looks as a reason he won’t get elected? Wow.
Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)
@Kropadope: I suppose you have a spare Elizabeth Warren in your pocket?
Ruckus
@ruemara:
When I quit my last job, the CEO said I had to tell them what I was doing so that it could continue. My answer? “No, I don’t. The 2 week notice I gave is a courtesy. Ask my boss, if you can drag him out of the bar.” Of course he had no clue about anything anymore other than how to find the bar and how to fuck with me. The CEO offered to fire me. “Great, I get a weeks pay for each year I’ve been here. That’s a nice chunk of change that I’m not getting now.” He declined. I did eventually sit down and go over with the CEO what I was doing. Took 2 hrs non stop. And of course they didn’t know how I was doing all of it, just that it was all getting done. I don’t feel that I owe any employer my time to train my replacement. If they are firing me, fuck them, let’s get it over with. If I’m leaving on my own I look back and see how much they trained me against how much I had to learn on my own just to get the job done. In the case of this job, they provided none and I wasn’t in much of a mindset to reward them with the experience that I learned and that I brought to the job. They paid me for my time, expertise and how well I did the job. That was my reward. They got a proficient, hard working employee who always went the extra mile. That was their reward. What I also got was a shitty boss and degrading working conditions and I didn’t get anything extra for that.
Kropadope
@Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name): Does the candidate need to be female?
Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)
@Kropadope: Not to me, but that was the candidate to whom you were referring, right? Don’t bitch at me because I understood your reference.
Kropadope
@Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name): Yeah, sorry, I was going back to Anne Laurie’s original comment. Way to go Mass Dems. You did it again.
gene108
@Schlemazel [was Schlemizel till NotMax taught me proper yiddish!]:
Between the Nicholas II and Louis XVI, European nobility understands what happens, when they do not keep the peasants happy.
Corner Stone
@PurpleGirl: It was awesome. I used a little schmear of blue cheese (HT Roger Moore) and I completely just dominated a personal pan pizza fusion.
I’m going to slide sideways into bliss now.
Fuck the Coakley and Teachout haterz!
Purity troll motherfuckers.
JGabriel
I’m having a Pauline Kael moment. I can’t believe Cuomo won. Everyone I know voted for Zephyr Teachout.
catclub
@beth: well done! thanks
PIGL
@Elizabelle: A gargantuan film, as it were. I love that scene….quote it every chance I get, and nobody ever picks up on it.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
so…
John Tierney was the middling Democrat who was upset by the more progressive Seth Mousul in MA-02, who was polling better against the popular Tisei than Tierney… do I have that right?
Elizabelle
@PIGL:
We so rarely have the chance to use it in a sentence.
Origuy
@Botsplainer: Mantis shrimp aren’t in the same order as true shrimp. They’re a couple of levels of taxonomy apart. They’re edible, though; in Japanese they’re called shako.
Gary
I said someone named Zephyr Teachout like some kind of hippie caricature never stood a chance and well here we are. I hate being right. :P