Here’s an objet d’art that adorns a column of our tiki bar, wreathed in springtime’s fragrant Confederate jasmine:
It’s Friday, thank merciful dog, and the second season of “The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” has dropped on Netflix, so I’ve got that going for me. Any plans this weekend?
Open thread!
PaulWartenberg2016
I got to finish a novella for use in an upcoming class I’m teaching on “How to E-Publish” that I’m teaching this Monday.
Also, my parents need me to look at their computer on Sunday when I go over for dinner. It’s their 50th anniversary coming up, I’m searching for ideas for a nice gift that has gold involved.
rikyrah
Jackie Robinson – Race Man – through and through
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Jackie Robinson: Militant Black Republican
“I’m a black man first, an American second, and then I will support a political party—third,” said Robinson in 1968.
BY: LEAH WRIGHT RIGUEUR
Posted: April 13 2016 3:00 AM
On a Saturday evening in February of 1966, over a thousand mostly white Republican men and women crowded into a Cleveland hotel banquet hall, eager to hear Jackie Robinson’s opening keynote for the annual Ohio Republican Conference. The baseball icon-turned-political activist did not disappoint.
“I am not what is known as a good Republican,” Robinson declared upon taking the stage. “I am certainly not a safe Republican. I am weary of the black man going hat in hand, shoulders hunched and knee pads worn, to ‘Uncle Tom’ to the enemies of our progress.”
In the context of today’s political chaos, Jackie Robinson’s militant pronouncements feel alien, especially when one surveys the racial wreckage of the modern GOP. The Republican Party’s approach to race right now can best be described as anarchy, as Donald Trump gleefully turns dog-whistle politics into full-blown nuclear alarm.
As party leaders scramble to address the Trump invasion, they’ve sidestepped accountability for the GOP’s role in creating the current climate. Largely absent in all of this are the voices of the party’s racial minorities. A few scattered examples have emerged as critiques of both Trump and the GOP at large, but none have done it with the comprehensive ferocity that rivals that of Jackie Robinson.
For years, conservatives have tried to claim the political legacy of Robinson without acknowledging his actual complicated “militant” politics. Although he campaigned as an independent for Richard Nixon in 1960, later changing his affiliation to Republican, and forged a close working relationship with New York Republican Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, Robinson was always cagey about his GOP identification.
“I’m a black man first,” he once calmly stated, while appearing on a 1968 television program, “an American second, and then I will support a political party—third.”
Trollhattan
@PaulWartenberg2016:
Please tell me you’re teaching “How to E-Publish” in a standard classroom, so that I may wallow in the irony. :-)
Brachiator
@PaulWartenberg2016:
Sounds like fun. Good luck.
A quick question. What software do you use to compose your work? I’ve heard good things about Scrivener. Also, do you work primarily from any particular device (laptop, tablet, etc) or use different devices as the mood and necessity take you?
rikyrah
THE WORST PART OF BUZZFEED’S SHOCKINGLY SELF-LOATHING “27 QUESTIONS BLACK PEOPLE HAVE FOR BLACK PEOPLE”
Damon Young, 4/13/16
It’s been a little over 12 hours since I first saw Buzzfeed’s “27 Questions Black People Have For Black People.” It was shared on the timelines of quite a few of my friends yesterday afternoon, but I didn’t get a chance to actually watch it until last night. And still, 12 hours later, I’m shocked by how bad it is.
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But mostly, I’m shocked by the level of GFA (Gotdamn Fucking Awful) this was. It was so abjectly GFA that I watched a second time to verify how GFA it happened to be, and a third time just to make sure there wasn’t any satire I missed. Like maybe this was one of those meta jokes within a jokes about the type of Black people who think and say shit like this. But it wasn’t that. It was a video curation of every space on the self-loathing Black person bingo card.
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Also, it actually makes me sad that there are so many seemingly smart and witty and successful Black people so firmly ensconced in anti-Blackness. People either hurt so badly they’ve internalized everything negative they’ve seen about Black people or in possession of such a jaundiced view of Black culture that they feel the need to distance themselves from it. (Or both.) I already knew they existed, but I don’t know. Watching this was like peeking into a hot dog factory. You already know they use all types of pig toenails and pigeon beaks to make them, but actually seeing it happen with your own eyes turns your stomach. It’s fucking depressing, man.
Germy
I find the Writer Beware blog a valuable resource.
http://accrispin.blogspot.com
Lots of scam artists out there preying on aspiring writers, trying to sell all sorts of overpriced editing and representation services. There was one outfit advertising itself as a “translation” service (so that writers could expand into international markets) and it turns out the outfit was merely one lady in her home office using google translate, and charging hundreds of dollars per page for the privilege.
Germy
“How I Create” by Robert Benchley
http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2010/01/benchley-tonight-how-i-create.html
(One writer’s method)
Brachiator
@rikyrah:
Wow. How times have changed. I had no idea that Robinson had been a Republican.
Davebo
@Germy:
I know a guy who self published two books, ironically one a children’s book and the other on legal minutia (he’s a retired fed judge) and the entire thing was a total scam. Smart, but very gullible guy.
An ex girlfriend (also retired judge) considered it but hopefully I’ve talked her out of it. I think it’s just a vanity thing after leaving a fairly prominent position that encourages them.
redshirt
It’s the perfect weather and day here in Gondolin. 62 degrees and crystal clear skies. Mt. Washington just pops right now.
This is my favorite time of the year because you get the neat sensation of coolish temps and warm sun. Plus all the plants are getting ready to flower.
Gooodbye Winter!
cleek
watch some Vikings, drink some Manhattans
Percysowner
After his outreach to the Jewish community, John Kasich has decided to bring women to his side. John Kasich Tells Woman Asking About Sexual Assault To Avoid Parties With Alcohol.
What can you say?
Germy
@Davebo: I have a friend who keeps submitting poems to these contest/anthology things (for a fee). Everyone wins apparently, as long as they pay a fee for each poem submitted. The poetry gets collected in a “limited edition” anthology that is then sold to the poets, who are the only people who actually read the book. She’s been doing this for years, and includes these anthologies in her resume.
Trollhattan
@Percysowner:
Christ, this guy….
/Tony Soprano voice
A treat to see “the moderate one” out being so moderate and all.
piratedan
@Percysowner: that’s the awesome thing about Johnny K., he’s quietly loathsome.
Jerry
What am I doing this weekend? Feeling the sadness and despair that I felt by the end of this week’s “The Americans” episode. That and keep on reading, “Why I Am A Salafi” by MIchael Muhammad Knight. Oh and keep on getting more people to read “The Three-Body Problem” and “The Dark Forest” by Liu Cixin. Best damn sci-fi in a damn long time.
FlyingToaster
Bostonians who make the mistake of turning on the radio are being subjected to “One Boston Day” tributes. Which I DO NOT NEED. Since I drove through the intersection of Laurel and Dexter in Watertown 15 minutes ago (driving WarriorGirl home from school), I do not need any reminders at all.
And enough with the freaking black helicopters already.
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WarriorGirl has classes tomorrow morning; then we pack and fly out Sunday dawn to my ancestral homeland. HerrDoktor’s office is closed Monday, being far too close to the Marathon route to be allowed to open (plus I suspect they gate the lot and sell overflow parking). There is really no point in being in town this week if you don’t have to.
A Ghost To Most
It’s getting hard to tell the players without a scorecard
bystander
Betty clearly posted that pic as a slur on Hillary. The closed eyes symbolize either Clinton’s refusal to acknowledge poverty in America or the blind eye she plans on giving Big Banks and King Pharma.
Trollhattan
@cleek:
Vikings? Did I hit my head and suddenly it’s fall?
Iowa Old Lady
We went to a United Fund dinner last evening. There were seven people at our table including a young woman who was from Brazil. It turned out every single person at that table had been to Brazil, which is not necessarily what you’d expect from a random group of people in Iowa.
The woman recently married one of Mr IOL’s co-workers which is how she wound up in Iowa, but she’s apparently a well known singer in Brazil. Her name is Bruna Melo and there were a ton of listings for her online.
JAFD
Hello, friends,
Last week was not one of the better weeks of my life. Woke up Sunday before last with sore foot, which kept feeling worse. Wondered if I’d dropped something and broken bone, finally got taken to emergency room, MD came in, took one look, said ‘Gout’. Which don’t kill you, but it Hurts Like HELL.
Anyway, Mayo Clinic website suggests that coffee drinking can ameliorate gout. As I’ve never been good at making coffee from ground beans (descendent of tea-drinking Irish), wondering yf you’ve any advice for beginner, on coffee varieties and bean sources (there is a well-regarded specialty coffee bean seller a few blocks from my home), equipment and procedures, etc, or if you know of books or websites…
Have reasonable budget for getting started, but quite small kitchen to play in, no excess counter space to dedicate to coffee brewing. Live by myself, so only one or two cups at a time.
Thanks for any advice you can give me about this. (Thoughts on making a pitcher of iced coffee for the summer, and on the merits and failings of various artificial sweeteners are also welcome.)
gene108
@redshirt:
Good to know the weather’s good in the Tumladen valley, and one of the peaks of the Encircling Mountains is named Mt. Washington…I did not know that…
Trollhattan
@Iowa Old Lady:
How fun! Month ago went to a wedding–neighbor girl and her Scottish beau–and at the reception sat with a Scots friend of the groom and a gal from Bulgaria, who had her Bulgarian-Russian mother in tow. Best evening I’ve had in ages!
A tonic, to hear someone so effusive about how great to live here compared to back in, well, Bulgaria.
Roger Moore
@Brachiator:
He was for a time. He was fiscally conservative- back when that meant looking after money closely and favoring enough taxes to pay for government spending- and fairly socially conservative, which meant he fit in well with the Rockefeller wing of the party. And he was justifiably suspicious of JFK for choosing LBJ as his VP. But he turned against the Republican party and specifically against Nixon after the Southern Strategy.
gex
@Percysowner: Why just parties? All bars. Most restaurants. Most sporting events. Many theaters. Amusment parks. Barbecues and parks in general. Alcohol is very pervasive at social events. And apparently if women don’t want to get raped they should avoid participating in society. Hey ladies, if you aren’t at work, you better be sitting at home or you are asking to be raped!
Iowa Old Lady
@Trollhattan: It was fun, though this woman did not talk about how great it was to live in Cedar Falls, Iowa, compared to Rio.
Mustang Bobby
Going to a Saturday matinee of a new play written and directed by the guy I hope will produce my new full-length (pander much?), then doing a charity car show on Sunday in support for a family with a child with cystic fibrosis, and at some point put my scholarly paper for the 35th annual William Inge Theatre Festival and Scholars Conference to bed.
Davebo
@JAFD:
Budget is everything. I like Tanzanian Peaberry beans but haven’t bought any in a while. Around $11 a pound. I use a Jura super auto but we’re talking about over a grand (my late wife bought it) but there’s something to be said for a simple French press which I use mostly now.
I freaking love Jamaica blue mountain but honestly crack cocaine is probably cheaper.
Iowa Old Lady
@Mustang Bobby: I’m always jealous when I read about the interesting events you go to.
Trollhattan
@JAFD:
Wow, no fun. Did not know coffee could help with gout but as an addict it’s looking good I won’t be getting that anytime soon.
Do you like or dislike the flavor? Brewing method affects the strength and flavor of coffee, so would need to know your general opinion of the stuff. Simplest is a pour-over filter arrangement (hot water goes into a filter cone containing ground (preferably fresh) coffee directly into the cup). Tiny initial cost and a good way to try different beans and roasts.
Gin & Tonic
I’ve heard the seals have invaded Monomoy in very large numbers. The missus and I may head out there tomorrow to take a look.
gvg
@JAFD: I managed to switch to diet coke after years of trying and failing when my attempt happened to coincide with a cold that lasted over a week. Apparently my tastebuds/sense of smell were dulled enough that I got past my usual trial period. It would taste fine for one week, then all at once I couldn’t stand it about one week in each time. Now I don’t really like real coke. Everyine is a bit different on which sweetener they tolerate, you will have to try them, however if you do have trouble, I recommend looking forward to your next cold and using it.
Some of the sweeteners cannot be stored in the fridge so read the labels. I basically just use it in my soda because that is my weakness and therefore I don’t know much about the manually added stuff. I do wish they would invent a sugar free sweetener Lucky ‘charms cereal.
Major Major Major Major
I just publish online. Nobody reads it. Read iiiiiit.
Anywho, I’m off to the rent board hearing. Whee.
Trollhattan
@Iowa Old Lady:
I’ll bet, although you could probably brag on Iowa’s zika-free status. :-)
Does she have an arrangement for “Girl from Osceola”?
redshirt
@gene108: And Adams and Jefferson and even Carter, but probably not that Carter.
Roger Moore
@JAFD:
My advice is not to go crazy at first. If you’re not sure you’ll continue coffee drinking over the long term, you can buy ground beans so you don’t have to get a fancy grinder. I personally make coffee (decaf, actually) with an Aeropress, which combines the virtues of small size, reasonable cost, simplicity, and making good coffee. It uses hot water from the stove and requires no permanent counter space, so it’s a good choice for a small kitchen. If you stick to coffee making, you can invest in a quality burr grinder.
Iowa Old Lady
@Trollhattan: I don’t know what all she has. Pretty much everything I saw was in Portugese.
Brachiator
@Roger Moore:
I don’t think that the choice of LBJ had much to do with it. And the GOP up to Nixon, had always attracted black votes. And there is this.
RE: But he turned against the Republican party and specifically against Nixon after the Southern Strategy.
Apparently, Robinson had a newspaper article published under his name that furiously blasted the racism among the Goldwater GOP. This was before Nixon and the Southern Strategy. And there is this.
I’m catching up on Robinson’s story, and didn’t see the recent PBS biography, but there is lots of good information available about him. I’m curious about his time in Canada.
Poopyman
@Iowa Old Lady: Much talk about impeachment? I’m no longer surprised that something like that gets no notice from the msm.
Eric S.
Plans. I’m about to walk out of the office. I hope to find a patio to have a quick beer. Then stop at the grocery story and buy what I need to cook the The Lady and her mother dinner.
Tomorrow is the first softball game of the spring season. I haven’t played since November 2014 because of shoulder surgery. It should be interesting.
Poopyman
@gene108: George came from a long line, apparently Numenorean.
Iowa Old Lady
@Poopyman: None at all. The Americans there probably weren’t interested in Brazilian politics. Most of them traveled there on business. (Mr IOL and I rode a river boat 1000 miles up the Amazon on vacation.)
Mnemosyne
@JAFD:
My husband converted to the Church of the Pour-Over and now he won’t do anything else if he can help it. That’s probably the best way to start off if you only drink 1-2 cups a day. You may want to also invest in an electric kettle — they are surprisingly handy and use less energy than boiling one on the stove.
Calouste
@Percysowner: Talking about Jewish community outreach:
Sanders Campaign Suspends Staffer Over Comments About Netanyahu
Vetting is apparently a corrupt establishment thing and not something revolutionaries need to concern themselves with.
Major Major Major Major
@Mnemosyne: I do a liter of french press in the morning and drink that. Once it gets lukewarm I toss it in the fridge for iced coffee!
Gelfling545
@Germy: PG Wodehpuse said that he generally would just sit down at the typewriter and curse a bit. Seems quite likely to me.
gwangung
@Mustang Bobby:
I thought we called it networking? (My circles are small enough that we all go to each other’s shows as a matter of course…we save the real pandering for the bar afterwards…)
Oh, me? Just loading into the theatre….
redshirt
Speaking of coffee, I realized last year I am horribly addicted to caffeine, and its a real addiction.
I’ve been fasting twice a year for 15 years and it was always brutal. By 6pm I’d get this headache that would get worse and worse until I could nothing but lay down and ride it out. Then I heard someone discussing how painful it was to give up caffeine and I was like, “Can that be it?”.
So the last two times I’ve fasted I’ve had some green tea in the morning and voila! No headaches at all. In fact I felt so good I’ve fasted for 48 hours just because I could. So it was the lack of my usual coffee which was causing the headaches, not the lack of food. It’s shocking how powerful that addiction is. My body needs it now.
I’ve been weaning myself off caffeine ever since, because I don’t dare go cold turkey.
Mnemosyne
I need to settle in and do more research for my novel. I may wander off to a coffee place with my book. I’m hoping my Better World Books shipment arrives today or tomorrow with additional research books.
Oh, and I got tickets to tour the Japanese Teahouse at the Huntington on Sunday. My local niece was supposed to go with me, but her mom decided to pitch a fit about not being asked soon enough. Gah!
ETA: Corrected above — tomorrow is Shakespeare day at the Huntington, Sunday is the Teahouse tour.
MazeDancer
@JAFD:
There are endless, highly debated, “best” ways to brew coffee. Ditto varieties to buy. You are not going to know which methods and coffee kinds you like without some experimenting.
The two most important variables you can control are grinder and water temp. Burr grinders do make a difference. But are pricey. Water temp is usually around 205 F, no higher.
But if you really don’t like coffee, there is no point to buying a pour over kettle witn a thermometer. Or a burr grinder. So start small. Go to a nice coffee store. Tell them what you’re doing.
Get a Hario drip cone with filters. Or a french press. Or an aero-press. (or view and read about those online and order at Amazon. Warning you will find a million You Tube how-to’s on all). Have them grind two different half pounds for you with their lovely grinder to fit whatever maker you get. And start your testing. Then try two more varieties based on what you did or did not like about the first two.
Then you will see if you really want to deal with futzing with stuff, or you do not have that sensitive a palate, and just want a nice, temp sensitive brewer with a carafe that is easy to use. Or the gout has resolved.
redshirt
@Major Major Major Major: I make coffee at night then put it in the fridge for iced coffee in the morning.
PST
If you haven’t read Krugman’s blog entry for today yet, take a look. He really captures what has been bugging me about Sanders. I another one of those who have gone from “not my first choice” to “please make it stop,” largely for reasons that have to do with attitude rather than positions. Krugman says:
In other words, simplistic, and then uncompromising and self-righteous about it. To me, Krugman has been a reliable guide for decades through thick and thin. He’s hardly soft on Clinton or Obama when he disagrees. I can’t believe some of the contempt I’ve seen heaped on him these days by certain Sanders supporters. (Obviously not everyone is to blame for the actions of some.) I think he has Bernie’s number.
Brachiator
@Calouste:
Too bad Sanders fired the employee. Sounds like a raise would have been more in order.
Wag
Here on the Colorado Front Rage we get to see the second coming of Spring Snowpocolypse. Should be loads of fun. Just glad I haven’t put in my tomatoes this year.
MattF
@JAFD: I’ve slowly worked my way into a pretty good coffee habit. From a height, there’s two kinds of beans, ‘regular’ (e.g., Colombian) and darker ‘roast’ (e.g., French Roast, Italian Roast). The roasts have a stronger flavor, but somewhat oddly, regular beans have more caffeine than the roasts. FWIW, I keep a canister of a mixture of regular and roast whole beans in the freezer, and grind them just before brewing.
If you ask a restaurant person about how to make good coffee, there’s one rule– ‘Keep it clean’. Generally speaking, keep your coffee-grinding and coffee-brewing stuff clean and you will make good coffee. The hand-waving explanation is that the oils in in the ground beans will turn rancid after a while.
I do recommend buying whole beans and grinding it yourself. I’ll horrify the gourmets and say that you should use an inexpensive blade grinder– they are cheap, they last forever and they’re easy to clean. Later, when you become a fanatic, you can get a burr grinder, which is expensive, fragile, and hard to clean.
You can find a lot of baseline information about how much coffee and water and whatever to mix together– and if you don’t like the result just try something else. It’s your coffee.
StellaB
@JAFD: Ouch! I’m glad to know that I’m preventing gout every day. I use an inexpensive, old fashioned, electric percolator. Best coffee ever (if I weren’t so lazy, I’d type a quote from Umberto Eco on the subject). I first tried it because Megan McArdle said that percolator coffee is outmoded and bad. Since she’s always wrong, I gave it a try and loved it. You can pick a percolator up at Target.
Wag
@JAFD:
@MazeDancer:
I agree 100% with the points made, and would suggest getting a Chemex coffee maker if you are pursuing pour over coffee making. I’ve been using one for 20+ years, and always come back. Smoothest coffee anywhere.
Trollhattan
@redshirt:
I don’t believe I’m there, but haven’t cold-quit either so who knows? Adopted a half-caff blend for the morning espressos, which seems to have ameliorated the two-a.m. popping open of the eyes and feel with that I could probably kick it entirely w/o making myself sick if I needed to. But I don’t know for sure. Oh, very rarely have any after about ten in the morning.
Calouste
@Brachiator: I don’t say I disagree with the sentiment expressed by Ms. Zimmerman. I do question the Sanders campaign’s decision to hire a community outreach coordinator without looking at their Facebook page. That’s a Republican level of competence.
Missouri Buckeye
@Brachiator: I’m pretty sure Jesse Owens was also a Republican.
Betty Cracker
@JAFD: My husband has gout — it’s well controlled without meds, just the occasional flare-up (maybe half a dozen in the 20 years we’ve been a pair). Anyway, I never knew coffee was good for gout sufferers, but my husband does drink coffee daily; I’ll have to mention to him that he’s not to give it up!
I second the suggestions from others to check into a French press. It’s not expensive, doesn’t take up much space and makes a nice cup. If you’re near a big supermarket, you may be able to grind beans at the store, and then you can keep your coffee in the freezer to keep it fresh, and you won’t have to bother with a grinder.
Since you’re a coffee novice, maybe you’d be better off drinking it black if you find that at all palatable. I got my start drinking coffee as a child by draining my mother’s cups of creamy, sugary coffee every time she turned her back. As an adult, it wasn’t easy to wean myself off the sugar (I do not like artificial sweeteners), and I’m still unable to give up half-n-half, which isn’t particularly good for me.
Best of luck controlling the gout. It can be just awful. My husband can’t even bear to have a sheet touch his foot when he gets it.
Trollhattan
@StellaB:
Heh. McMegan should open up Underachiever Laboratory and test all the appliances! She’d be the anti-Consumer Reports.
gwangung
I’ve also been told tart cherry juice is good for gout.
Tasty enough for a bedtime drink, so why not?
Trollhattan
@Betty Cracker:
Betty, et al, I too love French press (surrender coffee) but can’t recommend it for someone just starting out, as it has a lot of sediment and also, too, takes a crap-ton of coffee, ground coarse. Also kind of a pain in the ass to clean up afterwards, A great step up from drip coffee, though. (We have nearly every coffee-making device known, short of one of those crazy vacuum things.)
Mingobat f/k/a Karen in GA
@Percysowner: Oh FFS. It doesn’t surprise me, but it’s still sickening.
My plans — photo club tonight, macro photography workshop tomorrow, and all in the same town where an Appalachian music/art festival is going on, so I’m hoping for a fun weekend. And maybe now with another year of experience under my belt, my photos of the festival won’t suck as much as last year’s pictures did.
catclub
@Brachiator: The Jewish voters Sanders is likely to get probably agree with Zimmerman’s sentiment.
I bet Obama also agrees, but is too diplomatic to say so.
LAO
@redshirt: last year I invested $20 in a cold brew pitcher and it is the best iced coffee I’ve ever had. I love coffee! The only negative is it has about twice the caffeine of regularly brewed coffee, so I mix half regular and half decaf grounds to make.
MattF
@catclub: Considering the way Netanyahu has repeatedly disrespected and double-crossed Obama…
redshirt
@LAO: What’s the brand? Asks the caffeine addict.
raven
@Mingobat f/k/a Karen in GA: I hope it’s not downtown. I’m afraid this spring game 93k thing may make for a nutso weekend!
jackie
@JAFD: My cousins make cold brew coffee. Basically put finely ground coffee in with some cold water and stick in fridge for at least overnight. Result is a coffee concentrate. (Google for exact proportions.) Then when you want hot coffee you put a few spoons of the concentrate in a cup and fill with boiling water. For ice coffee just add cold water and a couple of ice cubes. It is tasty and takes essentially no extra space in a kitchen.
JSinLA
Ms. Cracker – Wondered if you have seen this: Tampa Bay farmers markets are lacking in just one thing: Local farmers
Really good series of articles
JAFD
Hello again !
The Mayo Clinic also mentions cherries as beneficial. I love cherries. Friend told me of her friend that drank liquid from jars of maraschino cherries, not sure about that ;-)
OK, I _like_ coffee, but never got into making it for myself and drinking it on a regular basis. Told myself, OK, if it’s good for what ails me, let’s get into _getting the good stuf and making it properly_. So looking for advice on ‘where to start’ and maybe ‘where to start looking for advice’.
Problem, I guess, is that I’ve never gone thru the ‘This Is Good Coffee, And This Is How You Make It’ ‘socialization process’. So have little knowledge of ‘exactly what I like’ or ‘what I like better than that’ or ‘how you get from ground beans to the result you want’.
Speaking of Brazil, leave near a neighborhood largely of Brazilian/Portugese immigrants, have tried coffee at coffeeshops where as much Portugese is spoken, and liked it better than Starbucks. Many brands of coffee imported from Brazil in local markets. Must try some.
Thanks to everyone. Back in touch with you tomorrow.
LAO
@redshirt: it was this one. http://primulaproducts.com/coffeeware/cold-brew-carafe-iced-coffee-cold-brewing/
Don’t remember where I bought it though. There are many types of pitchers. If you are a fan of ice coffee, it’s a must.
Gin & Tonic
@jackie: My mother, ages ago, would make the same basic thing using a French drip pot. Note this is not the same thing as French press – here’s one example. She’d use the concentrate to make hot coffee when it was cold, and iced coffee when it was hot. As a kid I thought iced coffee was odd, as nobody drank it then. I guess she was ahead of her time.
Elie
@Brachiator:
The problem with that (calling BiBi an asshole), while satisfying and likely true, does not allow future president Bernie much negotiating room or credibility/trust to get this guy to a table. Generally calling someone an asshole before asking him to do something tough will not get him to do that. That was why she HAD to be fired and certainly not celebrated. You are smart enough to get that. That was why Hilllary responded as she did during the debate. Wouldn’t do to have Bibi and his staff throwing a more negative response in your face months later when the pressure mounts for the US to restart some sort of peace initiative..
Shana
@Gelfling545: Yay, another PG Wodehouse fan! You should consider coming to DC in the Fall of 2017 for the semi-annual Wodehouse Society convention. I’ve been going for ages and it’s a lot of fun. I’ll be helping to plan next year’s events but not sure in what capacity yet.
Gin & Tonic
@JAFD: If you live in a neighborhood with good Brazilian and/or Portuguese coffee shops, then I think your problems are solved.
Maraschino cherry liquid is sugar water. As somebody mentioned upthread, you can buy 100% tart cherry juice in plenty of places these days (tart cherries are a different variety than sweet cherries.)
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Davebo: Both tales suggest how unrelated gullibility can be to professional success.
You have mentioned some totally fascinating people in your comments. I am impressed and hope things are good in your world.
As for the weekend, I’m resting from our long evening out – to a kickass concert in another state and driving back. Tomorrow – try to not get envious – I will be helping staff the:
I trade staff help for a comped admission to the lectures. I don’t have a license those credits would apply to, so paying would be silly.
I will be wearing my new molecule earrings! I thought it would be clever to make jewelry play on SNRI meds by getting a different molecule for each ear, and now recognize that it will mostly look like I’ve worn earrings from 2 unmatched pairs. Except to those 3 (maybe) research docs who will recognize the molecules and crack up. A sensible smart ass would have bought a pair with each molecule, but I did not.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Percysowner:
He’s an asshole? Yup, that about sums it up.
Those of us who’ve been noting it relentlessly here (based on experience) have been hoping people outside the lower midwest (and the US House, where he’s no doubt remembered warmly) would find out. As of last summer, when i had occasion to get far closer to him ( ~40′ at a conference) live than I’d ever wanted, I noticed he looked really old and haggard. Moreso than our similar close encounter the previous year at the same event.
Betty Cracker
@JSinLA: Bookmarked, and thanks!
Elie
@JAFD:
Hopefully your doc also gave you some dietary guidelines that will also help you avoid future attacks and also gave you a script for a med to help the pain. Coffee is not recommended for gout. Drink plenty of water. Just my two cents.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Davebo: Last price I head it was in fact cheaper.
Please note that I received that information from a local criminal defense attorney pal when we were talking about “back in the day.” I’d tell the rest of the story but I am entirely too talkative today; a hazard of spring for my brain.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Iowa Old Lady: That makes at least two of us! He’s also a delightful lunch companion.
Wyliecoat
@PaulWartenberg2016: a gold IPAD air 2 for each?
the Conster, la Citoyenne
@Gin & Tonic:
Saw that on the news yesterday. Holy shit stay out of the water. Forever.
Gin & Tonic
@the Conster, la Citoyenne: It’s mid-April. I won’t be going swimming this weekend, that’s pretty certain.
the Conster, la Citoyenne
@Percysowner:
Time for a woman president.
the Conster, la Citoyenne
@Gin & Tonic:
My ocean swimming are days are over at all times of year now. A shark will have to come to my house to get me.
burnspbesq
Apparently we may be looking at chaos at polling places in New York on Tuesday. The number of potential Samders voters who are going to be turned away because they didn’t change their registration to Democratic in a timely manner (the deadline was last October) appears to be quite large, and they are likely to be pissed.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@burnspbesq: I -> R missed deadline unhappiness expected as well? It could all get very interesting.
redshirt
@the Conster, la Citoyenne: There’s no logical reason to be afraid of sharks, or anything in the ocean. You’re more likely to be shot then attacked by a shark.
marian
@JAFD: I hope you see this…I’ve cured my own and other people’s gout attacks with 1 tbsp black cherry juice concentrate (health food store) and 1 tbsp apple cider vinegar three times a day. It can’t hurt you and it really works for a lot of people.
And then take the meds and follow the dietary guidelines your doctor gives you.
Good luck!
Trollhattan
@the Conster, la Citoyenne:
[ding-dong] “Mrs. Hremphremphel?”
J R in WV
@JAFD:
You will probably want mild roast beans, as the more roasted they are the more bitter it is.
We use stainless thermos-style coffee makers, which you can pre-heat with boiling water, something you are probably used to making tea. Drip style coffee makers seem best to me, french-press make good coffee, but are a pain to clean up after, and you make one cup per press for one drinker, so you’re fooling with it all morning.
We have a Mr Coffee at the camp, which has a reservoir you can take to the sink to fill with as much water as you want coffee. Here at the main home we have a Cuisinart which takes longer. You will want a grinder, which is a little electric gadget which chops beans finer the longer you hold the button down.
There are reviews and such, but I found most of them more stupid than wine reviews. But there are middle-of-the road articles online that can inform you about this stuff. I started drinking coffee about 3 years ago, before we went on a long trip, I find that tea out is usually terrible compared to tea at home. In fancy hotels, coffee is pretty good. Use heavy cream if you like, I’m not sure if that contributes to gout or not.
There are drugs that help with gout, my dad got into it after starting chemo and it (the anti-gout drugs) work well for him. He could probably blame side effects on the chemo drugs!
Good luck.
Brachiator
@Elie:
I was semi-joking.
Still, ya know, I think that Bernie could have got away with it had he pushed hard. Also, it was a staffer, and he is not president yet. I am not seeing this as a big deal. With most political expression, no one should give a rat’s ass what’s on somebody’s Facebook page.
redshirt
@Trollhattan: Candy gram!
burnspbesq
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q):
Certainly a possibility. Trump’s children are unlikely to be the only Trump supporters to have blown the deadline. This is what happens when insurgencies try to hijack parties. I don’t doubt that the rules are what they are for precisely this reason.
J R in WV
@JAFD:
Starbucks is the worst coffee out there. Over roasted, bitter, too strong. A real locally owned and operated coffee shop, our best one is at a locally owned book shop, which sells coffee and wine and fancy desserts and sandwiches, and arts and crafts, and of, yeah, books.
All the other advice is good too. But I would still advise you to stick to light or medium roasts, unless you’re buying Kona or Blue Mountain, which is like $25/lb.
jnfr
Self-publishing resources:
Visit the KBoards Writers Cafe for topics newb to advanced.
Aggregated self-pub news at The Passive Voice.
It’s entirely doable, but watch out for scammers, who are legion.
Captain Goto
@Major Major Major Major: Damn you. I was looking to subject match.com to my lonely ass over breakfast, and that time slot is now shot to hell. I’m up to 1.12, and thoroughly absorbed. Good show!
JAFD
Good afternoon! Beautiful day here, hope same where you are.
Will check out coffee brewing equipment, probably get a cold brew or carafe or an Aeropress at Fante’s when I hit Philly later this month.
Sending this, indeed, from a Brazilian coffeeshop (oneovdezedaze will get ‘net connection installed in my abode – getting info out ol local cable & phone co’s like pulling teeth). But on rainy mornings, to get rolling, you need own supply.
Thanks to every one for your thoughts.
JAFD
Have a prescript for heavy-duty painkiller if necessary, but basically just taking naproxin (generic Aleve) as anti-inflammatory. Told to cut out red meat and beer and whiskey, high living and low company ;-)