It’s a quiet day here. The most drama we’ve had is that my little Henry is demanding to be fed, and if you look closely you can see that he brought Mr. Bear along for backup!
But Henry is clearly the front line.
I’m about to eat lunch. What’s going on for all of you today?
Old Dan and Little Ann
Bachelor time for me. My wife is off to Salt Lake City to grade AP exams for a week.
Mel
Henry is irresistible!
How is sweet Mr. Bear doing?
CaseyL
Not a whole lot today: the weather is typical Seattle spring, meaning “wet and chilly.”
Yesterday was lovely, and I did get out onto the trails. Did one of my favorite hikes (Twin Falls, out by North Bend). Had a great conversation with a couple who are new to hiking here, told them about my favorite spots. She took notes on her phone, so I hope they get out to some of them.
I was in and out early; started the hike around 8:30, back in the trailhead parking lot by 10:00 AM. Twin Falls is a wildly popular trail, but that early in the day, this early in the season, there weren’t too many people and the trail was blessedly quiet.
As I was leaving, a whole gaggle of youngsters – high schoolers, on a field trip – showed up to do the hike. I like seeing young people get introduced to hiking.. but I was glad to be leaving just as they arrived, since 20-kids-plus-Moms is going to be noisy.
Today, I am sporadically doing housework. Ugh.
lowtechcyclist
I’m sitting on the back deck, enjoying this very pleasant afternoon.
WaterGirl
@Mel: Mr. Bear is doing much better! We battled the issue with his face for the better part of 6 months, but he is finally back to normal. The hair on that side of his face has grown in and now he seems to feel good and he looks like my sweet boy again.
Spanky
Bah! I’ve gotta go mow before the rain comes in tonight. At least my procrastination means that it’s now cloudy and not too warm.
Later!
Cathie from Canada
Our Molly dog was diagnosed with lymphoma on her intestine this week so we started chemo and it’s been rough. She is finally eating again – it’s surprising how the littlest things can make you happy!
A cure is very unlikely but we are just hoping we can have a good summer with her anyway.
Steeplejack
It’s beautiful here in Threadkill Lane—sunny, low humidity, 80°. Windows are open to let in the fresh air and the birdsong. I’m having a beer and a bit of mozzarella wrapped in ham as I continue my binge-watch of Grimm (on Prime). Things are (finally) heating up in the middle of Season 4 after a bit of a lull.
Had to pause reading blogs and the news because my rage-o-meter was pegging out. Might have a siesta after the current Grimm episode. A good lazy Sunday.
Mel
@WaterGirl: What a relief, for him and for you! I’m so glad that he’s feeling better!
Mel
@Cathie from Canada: Sending big hugs to you and Molly.
dmsilev
Earthquake an hour or so ago. Only a 3.5, but I was maybe four miles from epicenter, so definitely felt it. That close, it’s a short sharp shock, rather than the several seconds of shaking you get further away.
Anyway, that’s why all of a sudden I’m at work on a previously-slow Sunday… No damage that I could see, but we had to check.
Mousebumples
@Cathie from Canada: good luck to you all, and all the scritches to Molly!
If anyone is looking to do some #PostcardsToVoters this lazy Sunday… They are writing for a Congressional seat in Ohio – pretty red one, I think, supporting Michael Kripchak, if any locals are in the thread to let us know what’s up there.
eclare
Not much going on, I had insomnia last night so I’m taking it easy today, doing the bare minimum. My dog and I split leftover French fries for lunch.
eclare
@Cathie from Canada:
Best of luck to Molly.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
Went to the church my wife has been attending this morning, as they were honoring grads and she just got her umpteenth academic achievement, a grad certificate from Columbia. Actual commencement exercises at Columbia have been cancelled due to student protests.
Anybody ever hear of the custom called a Sabbath Goy? That’s a practice some orthodox Jews have adopted to do an end run around the rules prohibiting certain activities on the Sabbath: get somebody less observant to do them for you.
Well the reading was from Deuteronomy and I just realized on hearing that, that God said using Sabbath Goys is against the rules.
Went to the cafe after church and had too many carbs, as one does. Now relaxing at home and thinking about all the urgent yardwork. But hey, it’s the Sabbath.
Ksmiami
@Old Dan and Little Ann: this brings back my high school ptsd
Nukular Biskits
Sitting on the back porch, watching/listening to it rain.
trollhattan
@Old Dan and Little Ann:
Hat’s off to her. We used to have an SAT essay review sweatshop that every technical editor and writer in the five-county area did their penance at. Recession? Go grade essays. IIRC they ran three shifts.
realbtl
I got a vote postcard for the first time which was kind of cool. Tester of course though the card came from CA,
Soprano2
It’s been a good day here so far. I was able to get hubby to take a shower without any fuss, and now we’re going for a late breakfast.
trollhattan
@Cathie from Canada: Best of luck! We’re scheduling an ultrasound for ours this week to diagnose a lump that isn’t an infection, following his antibiotic course. Similarly concerned for Rocco puppy.
Scout211
It’s fire season in California and we have our first big one, or actually a moderate one because the big ones now are mega fires. The grass fire that started yesterday, The Corral Fire in the Central Valley, started at 2:30 yesterday and was whipped by winds. By midnight it was 12,000 acres. This morning it is 12,500 and 15% contained. Ugh. I hope this is not a portent of fire season 2024.
frosty
We’re on the second day of our 4th Sort-of-Annual National Park Road Trip. Gonna be three months in our trailer – Michigan, Canadian Rockies, Washington and the northern tier states. Should be seven new parks this time. And the last of the easy to reach ones.
NotMax
Just bout to tuck into the first cuppa java of the day. Except for succeeding cups afterward, no plans.
Unseasonably cool last night, dropped down into the mid-50s.
MagdaInBlack
@NotMax: I’m a wee bit ahead of you on the caffeine intake, but my plans are the same.
Stuart Frasier
@dmsilev: The epicenter according to the USGS was in El Sereno, which is just over the hill from me. Was really just one hard bump. Freaked the cats out.
eclare
@Soprano2:
That is a good day.
scav
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: Never heard of a Sabbath Goy, but the Amish and Mennonite often find the English very useful in similar ways. My great uncle’s tools and trucks had all sorts of workouts, usually with many pies in return, a more than adequate return in his eyes.
Parfigliano
Hoping TC beats the Astro’s
Parfigliano
Hoping TC beats the Astro’s
Jeffg166
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: I had a friend whose father was Jewish and his mother was not. He was the Shabbat goy in his mixed neighborhood.
Chet Murthy
@scav: https://www.thejc.com/lets-talk/barack-obama-shabbos-goy-uyxrbii6
“Barack Obama, Shabbos goy”
WaterGirl
@Mel: Thank you! 6 months is a long time. After while you wonder if it will ever be better.
WaterGirl
@Scout211: For some reason, I had never pegged that you are in California. It’s true, learn something new every day.
zhena gogolia
@WaterGirl: Glad to hear that. I like the way he’s providing shadow backup for Henry.
zhena gogolia
@Cathie from Canada: I’m sorry, that’s tough.
jonas
@Scout211: Unfortunately two wet winters has meant tons of grass and brush growth, which = fire fuel.
Abnormal Hiker
@scav: Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto has a Sabbath elevator- stops at every floor.
mrmoshpotato
Oops! Deleted my comment!
“I have some demands, and I brought attorney, Mr. Bear, with me.”
Gonna make lunch here too.
Nukular Biskits
@NotMax:
You’re on Kauai, right?
scav
@Abnormal Hiker: Those I’ve heard of, plus the fact that some fridges have a remarkably easy to get into Sabbath mode (frantic phone calls from mother).
lowtechcyclist
@Soprano2:
Yay! I know getting him to take showers has been quite a challenge.
JMG
Played golf this morning, and now am prepping for grilling dinner tonight. Have two pork chops marinating. I checked the supermarket aisle full of bbq sauces and their “marinades” of all flavors and not one didn’t list sugar as its number one ingredient, so I rolled my own with soy sauce, garlic powder, a great deal of ginger, and olive oil. Am also gonna try and grill pineapple rings as a side. That’s a big experiment for me.
Perfect June day on the Cape. Low 70s, low humidity, pure blue sky. Summer may be driving out our chill, damp, windy spring.
Miki
Sundays are for watching previously recorded PBS and/or YouTube cooking shows. Today’s favorite was The Anti-Chef’s latest cake making effort.
As someone who cannot and does not bake I totally get his frustrations.
Phylllis
Binging on sports. Watched the Gamecocks get bounced from the NCAA baseball tourney; now watching the Braves doing their damnedest to lose another one to the A’s. Later tonight, the Indiana Fever are at the NY Liberty. Defense for the Fever has really gelled in the last couple of games.
MomSense
Went for a couple nice walks today and stopped to chat with the neighbors who are here weekends and vacations. Otherwise packing the last stuff up and cleaning. Should be at the new house this evening. No renters at the cottage for a week so boys and I may spend next weekend at the lake.
Why is there always so much more stuff?
Scout211
LOL. That might be because I live in a rural area in a very red county and complain about that a lot. It doesn’t seem like the California that everyone thinks of when they think of California.
I’ve lived in California since 1976, but only in this rural area for about 16 years.
Sure Lurkalot
@Ceci n est pas mon nym:
At my niece’s wedding, my sis and BIL booked a subpar room on the 2nd floor so they could take the stairs to the wedding on the main floor. But BIL is hobbled by stenosis and that turned out not prudent or possible. So they stood at the elevator until a hotel employee happened by and pushed the elevator buttons for them. So…they could ride the elevator, just not do “the work” of pressing the buttons.
They have several workarounds like that…they turn on a TV before sundown Friday night to a desired channel and as long as they don’t press any buttons on the remote, totally cool to watch TV on the Sabbath.
I don’t say anything, if they would just make light of their personal accommodations to modernity, it would be better but my BIL thinks he’s as pious as a rabbi.
MomSense
@Cathie from Canada:
Sorry to bear about Molly. Wishing you a beautiful summer with her.
eclare
@Sure Lurkalot:
Wow, that is devout.
Quinerly
Piddling in the yard. Still didn’t do what I need to bite the bullet and do re this damn fishpond (that was here when I bought). Now too hot to mess with it this time of the day. Did fill all the bird feeders and hummingbird feeders, mulched some areas I forgot. Deadheaded my Joseph’s Coat Climbers.
JoJo asked to siesta on the bed under the ceiling fan about an hr ago. Spoiled Covid Times Puppy. I may join him or drink a PBR or both. (Canned PBR is my Sunday yard beer. Don’t judge.)
Quinerly
@Cathie from Canada:
So sorry.
lowtechcyclist
@Ceci n est pas mon nym:
My father was the world’s least observant Jew, he married a Gentile, and my father’s side of the family is in California while I’ve spent my life since the age of four in Atlantic coast states.
So not only am I a Gentile myself, but I’m not much of an authority on Judaism in general, let alone on the custom of the Shabbos goy. But my understanding is that the observant Jew can’t just tell the goy what he’s supposed to do; that would be in violation of the Law, AIUI. It all has to be done by hints and indirection. Like “it’s kinda dark in here” if you want the goy to turn the lights on for you.
Of course, if you’ve got a regular Shabbos goy, he just knows what he’s supposed to do so you don’t even need to hint anymore for the most part.
Redshift
Heading home on the train from my 40th reunion. A good time was had by all! (Or at least all who I talked to.)
mrmoshpotato
@Nukular Biskits: On the porch so definitely not looking out your back door.
Quinerly
Willie’s most recent album just dropped. Official video for “The Border” has been out a couple of months.
“The Border is a brand new studio album out May 31 that captures 10 newly recorded Willie Nelson studio performances including four new Willie Nelson/Buddy Cannon compositions. The Border will be available digitally, on CD and black vinyl. Meanwhile Barnes & Noble will be offering an exclusive LP edition of The Border, pressed on orange vinyl and there will be an exclusive vinyl version offered on Willie’s D2C store that includes a 12” x 12” designed lyric book featuring the gorgeous album artwork with extensive listening notes by noted writer Mikal Gilmore and photos by Pamela Springsteen. The title track and first single was co-written by Rodney Crowell and Allen Shamblin and appeared on Crowell’s 2019 Texas album and describes the inner life and outer reality of a border guard (‘I work on the border, I see what I see’) with Crowell’s composition described in Rolling Stone as ‘more humanist than political, but no less tragic because of it.’ Willie’s wise worldly take on the provocative song taps into an urgent universal relevancy that defines the album.”
(I adore Rodney Crowell)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8b3ckldWoX8&pp=ygURbmV3IHdpbGxpZSBuZWxzb24%3D
divF
I’m sitting in a hotel room in Zurich, where it is 9:40 PM. I’m here at a conference, to chair a minisymposium session and otherwise hobnob with my fellow wizards.
Quinerly
New Willie. Such a great voice on this one.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Vysyan6AhQA&pp=ygUfd2lsbGllIG5lbHNvbiB0aGUgYm9yZGVyIGFsYnVtIA%3D%3D
Almost Retired
I am sitting at LAX for a flight that leaves a long time from now because Mrs. Almost Retired is psycho paranoid about being at the airport early. It’s easier for me just to bring books and snacks rather than argue with her. We found our gate but the monitor doesn’t reflect our flight because THERE ARE TWO FLIGHTS DEPARTING FROM THIS GATE BEFORE OURS (sorry to shout). But I choose my battles and this one isn’t it.
eclare
@Quinerly:
That melody reminds me a little of the theme song to season one of True Detective.
The show’s music director was T Bone Burnett.
narya
Made a batch of oat bran and cranberry muffins (they’re my camping breakfast, as an alternative to the less-than-stellar donuts at the Kwik Trip on the way to the track), a batch of oatmeal cranberry cookies, and a batch of chocolate chocolate chip cookies. In a few minutes, I’m going to shape the sourdough burger buns that are rising in the kitchen. (We’re having grilled venison beef burgers for dinner one night.) Dinner tonight is wild turkey (the meat, not the beverage) and . . . I found some potato skins in the freezer from the last gnocchi-making festival, so I’ll probably make them with some cheese or something. Oh, and a lemon butter sauce for the turkey, because I have a half a lemon that needs using. I might make some frosting for the chocolate cookies; they’re the tiniest bit not-sweet-enough. The cookies are also going camping, and both will pair nicely with some of the big beers we’ll be sharing.
NotMax
@scav
Never made use of it but according to the instruction manual my stove’s electronics include a sabbath setting.
@Nukular Biskits
Maui.
@Sure Lurkalot
In some devout households, sabbath means cholent which has been quietly simmering since the day before.
Scout211
Are you implying there’s something wrong with that?!
eclare
@Quinerly:
Very pretty. And his voice sounds as strong as ever.
Nukular Biskits
@mrmoshpotato:
Is that a Creedence Clearwater Revival reference?
Nukular Biskits
@NotMax:
That is kinda cool for there.
TheronWare
Hello 👋 Henry 🐕!
eclare
@narya:
Where are you going camping?
CaseyL
@Cathie from Canada:
I am so sorry to hear Molly has lymphoma. I hope the chemo treatment is successful for the summer, and longer than that.
KayInMD (formerly Kay (not the front-pager))
I saw on Bluesky that 7/11 is wear jumpsuit orange day. I love the idea! Seems to me that selling orange tee shirts would be a great fundraiser for some campaign or another. ;-)
Quinerly
@eclare:
It’s a song written by Rodney Crowell from 2019. Here’s the original version.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5E4Q1SQU8og&pp=ygUZcm9kbmV5IGNyb3dlbGwgdGhlIGJvcmRlcg%3D%3D
Quinerly
@eclare:
I have been listening to new Willie all morning.
This might be my favorite off of his new album. (It’s his 75th solo studio album. Incredible.)
“Hank’s Guitar”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac-WMCO_NEA&pp=ygUaV0lMTElFIG5lbHNvbiBoYW5rcyBndWl0YXI%3D
Soprano2
@eclare: If you had told me two years ago that this would be my life, I wouldn’t have believed you. I just realized it’s been two years since my husband’s son died on May 30th, 2022. Hard to believe it’s been that long, he could still handle his own affairs then
Eta I think the iron treatment helped, he seems more alert and has more energy. He has another treatment in 2 weeks, I hope it helps even more.
Scout211
Rodney Crowell is an amazing songwriter. He’s penned so many hit songs for himself and other artists.
Soprano2
@lowtechcyclist: It’s getting easier, I don’t know why but I’m glad for it.
eclare
@Soprano2:
Here’s hoping for more improvement from the iron treatment.
I can’t believe that was two years ago.
Mousebumples
@realbtl: awesome! I love to hear about people getting postcards. 🤩
Soprano2
@Sure Lurkalot: Could they use voice activation to change channels and turn it on/off?
RSA
A few years ago I visited my father in the hospital on a Saturday, in a part of town with a significant Jewish population. If I remember correctly, one of the elevators was running continuously, programmed to stop automatically on every floor. There were just three or four floors, so it wasn’t too much slower than any other day. I thought it was a clever workaround.
Soprano2
@eclare: I know, time sure flies.
loyallurker
Hi all, I’m a frequent lurker.
While back I bought 100 preprinted postcards and 100 postcard stamps. I have since realized I can’t do the post carding.
Would there be a way I could pass these materials along to some of you? Perhaps WaterGirl can help.
wjca
Nice try. But just not good enough to overcome the A’s ability to lose games. Especially when it means losing a series. Hey, we may not be the White Sox, but we’ve got a tradition to uphold.
Almost Retired
@Scout211: No it’s probably all for the best. We’re flying Allegiant. I think their tagline is “If buses had wings.”
evodevo
@Almost Retired: Luckily Mr. Evodevo is equally paranoid about flight times/security/etc. Who we DO have a fight with is our son whom we just visited in Vegas, who just CAN’T understand why we want to leave his house at 7:30 for an 11 pm flight…we argue about this every year LOL He lives 27 miles north of the airport.
Quinerly
@Scout211: very underappreciated imo. I have seen him live 4 times. Great shows.
prostratedragon
Got some good extra sleep, and now Steeplejack has reminded me that I have some apples and havarti around for when my digestion wakes up.
Have a song by Florence Price and Langston Hughes, sung by Lunga Eric Hallam: “Hold Fast to Dreams”
Feed Henry!
NeenerNeener
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: One of my former co-workers talked about living in Boston in an apartment in a house owned by Orthodox Jews. He said he got a break on his rent in return for doing all that stuff that was considered “work” on the Sabbath.
Argiope
Lazy day today—recuperating from my first century ride. 100.1 miles from Amish country to Cleveland. The beginning was 10 miles of protected trail for buggies and bikes. A friend joined me for almost 30 in the middle. Mr. Argiope was my SAG driver and met me at the end with the best tasting bacon cheeseburger and soggy fries I’ve ever tasted. During the hours he was unsupervised, he bought himself a bike. Rack was already on the car…
BeautifulPlumage
Sorry to hear about Molly. Good news for Mr. Bear. Glad Mr. Soprano is better.
Just finished the first Scalzi book, Old Man’s War, and very much looking forward to reading his others. My “no mow May” patch of lawn is impressively overgrown but we have another atmospheric river coming through, so no dry days until Wed.
BeautifulPlumage
@CaseyL:
if you see this, can I ask which Cubbie bra models you like? I think we’re a similar build. How is the sizing? Thanks
Soprano2
Went to see about hubby getting the latest Covid shot, and found out he already did because it came out in October. I could have sworn a new booster came out in the spring, guess I imagined that. Off to clean the living room because I didn’t get to it yesterday.
Chet Murthy
@Soprano2: There was a shot in Oct, but you can get a re-up now if you’re in any of the vulnerable categories (I asked my doc when I saw him in Mar (Apr?) and he was “sure, roll up the sleeve!”: no argument at all, and I’m 59).
Phylllis
@wjca: As a lifelong Braves fan, including during the rotten years, I can relate.
karen marie
@Miki: The Anti-Chef is pretty good, although I get a bit irritated at his lackadaisical attitude when making a white sauce. It’s not hard but you do have to take it slow!
My current favorite cooking channel on youtube is Pasta Grammar. It’s an Italian woman – Eva – and her American husband – Harper. She does wonderful, mostly fairly simple dishes. She’s from Calabria, they both now live in Tucson, Arizona, but they’ve been spending more time in Italy, going so far as to buy a building in Eva’s small Calabrian hometown. It formerly housed a small restaurant but was in very bad condition. The town helped them renovate it, and it’s used for “cooking tourism” as well as a gathering place for the town to make and share food.
Scout211
You are correct. But sometimes the staff at the pharmacies have to be convinced. Print this out from the CDC site and bring it with you. Once we were turned back but I insisted that we were eligible for another shot and the staff person called his regional office and was corrected. We got the COVID shot.
From February 28, 2024:
ETA: It’s not a new booster, it’s an additional shot of the updated vaccine that came out last fall.
frosty
I call that a lawnmower beer. Around here we have three choices: Yuengleng (no fucken way, the owner put Trump signs on his building), Rolling Rock if you’re thinking PA, and Natty Boh* if you want to be a Marylander. All drinkable when almost frozen, and pissy when slightly warm.
Which is why Rolling Rock is best because you can by 7 oz ponies (Little Rocks) which are finished before they get warm.
*National Bohemian. “From the land of Pleasant Living, we bring you National beer!”
Jeffro
Heading out to go watch the ACC Regionals (baseball) – GO HOOS!
CaseyL
@BeautifulPlumage:
Still here :)
Just want to be sure we’re talking about the same brand: I wear Coobies. Copycats may try a similar-sounding brand name.
Coobie bras are meant to be pulled over one’s head and slid into place. They have no clasps, but are all in one piece.
At the link, the ones I buy are the Comfort Bras, the Lace Comfort, and Lace Lover, and that’s about it. They have more styles than I realized (I buy them from stores, so it depends on which ones the stores stock.)
What I avoid: bras with adjustable straps. The straps inevitably lose elasticity and constantly need to be re-adjusted.
I also don’t use strapless bras/bandeaus – whether by Coobie or anyone else – because they never stay up on me, and/or have a charming tendency for the cups to fold over entirely and bunch up under my boobs.
One thing that can be a bit of a bother is: Coobie bras are padded (at least, the ones I use are), and the pads are not sewn into place in the cups. They can and do move around, esp after laundering. There are slits for you to poke your fingers into and wrestle the pads back into place. It’s not a problem with all my Coobies – the slightly more robust models are better about the padding staying where it belongs – but one I feel I should mention.
lowtechcyclist
@Jeffro: Wahoowa!!
frosty
@Argiope: Congratulations! That’s a real accomplishment. I did my first (and last) century on a long bike tour in 2022. I was knackered!!
ETA You beat me! Mine was 100.48. It was about 95 miles when I got to the state park we were staying in so I just went back and forth on the park roads until I hit the century. That’s why it’s so exact.
Ruckus
@dmsilev:
What general area are you in?
I’m in eastern LA county and didn’t feel a thing. And having been born here a bit of a while ago I’ve been through a few quakes. Like Northridge….
Sheila in nc
@Jeffro: You mean NCAA, right? Chapel Hill regional Game 6 also about to get underway.
dmsilev
@Ruckus: Pasadena. The epicenter was apparently in El Sereno, just south of South Pasadena.
Another Scott
One for Betty Cracker and Albatrossity – Bird-Watchers’ Karma
[ rofl ]
(via https://mastodon.social/@VeroniqueB99 )
Cheers,
Scott.
Quinerly
@Scout211:
I always thought this Rodney song was neat….plus, cool video.
https://youtu.be/tjbqMy3g46E?si=AA4j4uRe726_rgPg
Harrison Wesley
Dupe
Harrison Wesley
@frosty: Any chance you could get your hands on any of Troeg’s different brews? I think they make some of the best beer around – unfortunately, they don’t sell it here in Florida.
Miki
@prostratedragon: I just learned about Florence Price today from watching Gianandrea Noseda (National Symphony Orchestra conductor) rave about her on one of Lidia Bastianich’s PBS shows. What an amazingly talented woman.
Another BJ-related coincidence today was reading the article in WAPO this morning about making bacon grease into soap.
There was a third BJ-related coinkidink today but I can’t pull it up from my mental bowels right now but it was another “things I never knew but looky here – it’s somewhere in BJ World.”
Weird.
Jackie
@Quinerly: OMG! So plaintive, so Willie! And steel guitars!♥️
Quinerly
@frosty: My mom used to love those ponies. Beach drinking beer.
Actually, I love all beer except for the perfumy, flavored ones (ran into some sort of watermelon enhanced one yesterday that a guy was ordering in front of me at the Santa Fe Spring Fest. I almost laughed at him), wheat based beers, and the nut browns. The latter I can tolerant in a pinch. I am the Queen of Cheap Beer a/k/a Garage Refrigerator Beer at home when just hanging out. Right now, I am out of PBR so it’s the Champagne of Beers a/k/a Miller “Heavy.” I miss all those old ones from years ago, Red, White, and Blue; Meister Brau; Falstaff; Lemp; Maxx (used to be a buck a six pack…great for boiling shrimp and crabs); Old Style; Carling Black Label; Olympia; etc…. I was thrilled to drink $2.00 Hamm’s in February for my birthday in a bar in Bisbee, AZ. I didn’t even know it was made anymore. And…a $2.00 beer in a bar nowadays! Was like finding a unicorn.
Quinerly
@Jackie: really special, isn’t it?
Scout211
@Quinerly: @Jackie:
Yeah, that was fun!
Miki
@karen marie: Yeah, I can understand thinking he’s lackadaisical about a lot of things, but that’s consistent with his not knowing how to cook and trying to learn. He’s pretty good about reading comments and incorporating things, fwiw.
I can really identify with his frustrations as he learns (although I don’t think I would ever start over mid-cook when it becomes obvious I’ve fucked up). His video on making Julia Child’s Orange Cake is one of my favorites.
Ohio Mom
@Abnormal Hiker: A high school friend lived in a downtown Brooklyn apartment building with a similar set up, with one of the elevators set to stop on every floor of the 14 story building automatically. We were careful not to take that elevator Friday through Saturday nights.
There have been a number of famous Shabbos goys, yes, Obama, also Elvis Presley, Colin Powell, and some others that don’t come immediately to mind but I am sure are only a Google away.
It’s a ridiculous custom, as are an awful lot of Orthodox traditions. I get the idea of taking a day a week off, to be free to be fully human, to appreciate that we are not what we do or accomplish, it is enough for us to just be. To commune with others and maybe nature, too, to enjoy a foretaste of paradise. Because in paradise, we are certainly not doing chores!
But the rules around observing the Sabbath grew into a straight jacket as confining as the everyday world of work and labor.
Maybe there’s a moral there, that this is an unredeemed world and hoping for more than the occasional moment of being unencumbered by responsibilities is just not possible; just enjoy those moments when they happen and stop trying to engineer them as a 24-hour weekly experience.
Because that turns into what you are trying to escape, an onerous set of responsibilities that overwhelm and prevent you from the satisfaction of just being.
Chacal Charles Calthrop
@Scout211: If you never miss a plane, you’re spending too much time at the airport.
@narya: I read this &thought, who does this much cooking outside of Thanksgiving? Then I recognized your nym and thought, oh, yeah, a professional chef. I will aspire to that much cooking on a regular basis someday – but it’ll more likely be in my next reincarnation.
Im doing laundry & catching up on emails. Lazy Sunday.
frosty
@Harrison Wesley: Oh yeah, I can get Troeg’s and a dozen other different craft brews. There are three breweries within a couple miles of my house. But these are good! They aren’t LAWNMOWER BEERS, which are not to be savored but to be downed fast and cold when you’re sweaty and tired.
frosty
@Quinerly:Cheap beer: I remember the grocery store beers from when I lived in California in the 70s. Golden Crown from Vons, etc. My favorite was “Keg Brand Natural Flavor Beer”. I could set one of those down at a party and it would be untouched when I got back. $2.87 a case!
ETA for real beer? Rheinheitsgebot for me. Four ingredients: water, barley malt, hops, and yeast. Fruit flavored beers are an abomination.
Chacal Charles Calthrop
And in the category of “least surprising news ever”:
https://www.axios.com/2024/06/01/same-sex-marriage-us-20-years-pride-month?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3LJdI3iIKy5Etf74oc3J00Y2UaRMTDFqPqGgAjuJ93mu8zroC7YfXby84_aem_AfQbjxrXuUEhTt0q8LNPB-5lhM3yV-AmFVju3fukql0QCzgF0_sOG6tuCV8gfb7AhnTvBGue0BqOyp4iIBhn9QVR
Cathie from Canada
@trollhattan: hope things go well for you!
And thanks, everyone, for your support. Cancer really is a journey, isn’t is, not a destination.
Harrison Wesley
@frosty: True. Hard to savor if you’re busy quenching thirst. Shame about Yuengling politics, although there’s something weird about the fact that a friend and I couldn’t get draft Lagers in a Pottsville bar right down the hill from the brewery.
Andrya
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: According to Wikipedia, people who worked as Sabbath Goys (mostly when young) include Harry Truman, Colin Powell, and Elvis Presley.
Quinerly
@frosty: you get it. If you know, you know.
I’m obviously not a beer snob. I love the craft beers on site at the tap rooms/breweries. I tend to the IPAs, especially in the winter. I miss my old Schlafly in St. Louis. Founder and attorney, Tom Schlafly, is a great guy, revered in the industry. Moreover, he told relative by marriage, Phyllis, where to stick it with her lawsuit years ago. And the judge agreed. I’ll crawl over glass just to support what he his done for the craft beers industry in less than 35 years.
But, when I am at Santa Fe’s “Cowgirl” sitting at the bar on a Sunday for noon music you will find me with a tall boy PBR.
Chief Oshkosh
@Quinerly: I’ve recently gone back to Narragansett as my mowing beer. The new iteration of owners/brewers have gotten it back to where it should be – maybe even better.
Quinerly
@frosty: Purity Law
😎
Who the fuck puts watermelon in beer?
Harrison Wesley
@Quinerly: That IS back-asswards. You’re supposed to inject rum or vodka into the watermelon.
Ohio Mom
I will add that one of the original Sabbath prohibitions is No making a fire. Which was surely an effort in biblical times. For starters, carrying wood for fuel is unarguably work.
It was modern day rabbis who extrapolated from that and declared using electricity was in effect, starting a fire. So no turning on lights or radios, pressing elevator buttons, driving cars, the list goes on.
It is true that most of us can go years without starting a fire, we don’t need one for heat, to cook or for light. In a weird way, I suppose the prohibition on not using electricity gives modern day people a way to follow that rule.
Needless to say, some things don’t transfer over millenium very gracefully. Thus the rise of liberal Judaism.
Quinerly
@Chief Oshkosh: I don’t think I have ever had one. Regional?
Ken
@Ohio Mom: I’ve always been bemused by the use of eruv. The law restricts carrying objects except in a private domain — so put up a symbolic wall making a building (or a large chunk of a city) a private domain. As you can see from the section on disagreements, I’m not the only one bemused.
Chet Murthy
@Miki: Ha! That was a hoot! Makes me wanna make that cake!
Quinerly
@Harrison Wesley: and a big burly guy at a Spring Fest ordering it while 125 lb me was trying to choose between 3 IPAs in the High Desert sun. Just ain’t right. Plus, I was old enough to be his mother.😁
karen marie
@Miki: The wonders of video – he can just cut and start over. I enjoy watching him make things I’d never attempt in a million years. He’s very entertaining. “Bowl, please!”
Scout211
In trivial news, Rupert Murdoch got married again.
Russian money, lots of Russian money.
zhena gogolia
@Scout211: Wow, he married Dasha Zhukova’s mom. This is so weird.
Quinerly
@Harrison Wesley:
Yuengling was hardcore Repug during Obama times. It was a cheap bar beer in my old beach area in NC. I started boycotting it at “The Ruddy Duck” in 2008 when I would be in Carteret County to see my mom. Too bad…it was pretty good beer with seafood.
Chief Oshkosh
@Quinerly: Possibly the most regional imaginable – Rhode Island.
It’s been picked up in larger markets recently, though, as I’ve seen it in Atlanta, Chicago, and (I think) Denver.
Ken
I saw a Julia Child interview where she said one of the big problems on “The French Chef” was they had very little ability to edit, so often had to include stuff that wasn’t all that useful — like every step in boning a chicken, or the full time needed to whip cream.
Dan B
@frosty: I hope you’re doing North Cascades National Park and Mount Baker. Mount Rainier is fantastic and Olympic is okay – better for backpacking than an auto / short hikes tour. North Cascades got higher reviews from every visitor that’s come through our home in Seattle, much greater enthusiasm than for the Canadian Rockies.
Argiope
@frosty: Thanks! Legs feel surprisingly okay today but it’s often at the 36 hour mark these days when the worst comes so tomorrow morning will tell the tale. I bet that last 0.48 that you did was powered by sheer determination. It sure is good to get off the bike when it’s over. Towards the end I kind of lost track of my sense of direction and time so it’s a good thing it was a trail and not roads at that point.
Timill
@Quinerly: People with too much watermelon?
MagdaInBlack
@Scout211: I was just reading about that and thinking how very well connected she is for his “news” biz.
Quinerly
@Chief Oshkosh: wow! RI! One of the few states I haven’t “driven around in, talking to strangers and looking at things with my dog.” (Inside joke).
I checked the website. Looks like it can be ordered on line. Hmmmm…..
Miki
@karen marie: He can be pretty funny. He’s clever and fun, imo.
He went to film school, made a film that didn’t work so well, worked in the industry, and dabbled in video stuff then his wife encouraged him to consider turning his cooking discomfort into a video thing. She was right.
Thing is, he really does love learning to cook, learning about cuisines, learning about and from famous chefs, and eating good food.
Entertaining. Yup.
lowtechcyclist
@Ohio Mom: I remember when Lieberman was the VP nominee, there was a story about him driving and being ~5 miles from his destination as the sun was setting on a Friday, so he pulled over and walked the 5 miles.
The writer presented it as ‘look how seriously he takes his faith’ but I could only think, driving 5 miles is work, but walking 5 miles isn’t? That’s crazy!
When following God correctly comes down to bullshit like that, I don’t care if it’s evangelicals or Orthodox Jews, it’s missing the point IMHO.
Quinerly
@Timill: those flavored beers are just weird. If anything can be worse than a Mic Ultra, it’s a fruity beer. Had the guy been closer to my age, I would have used my line, “I don’t drink anything that smells like cheap perfume.”
Quinerly
@MagdaInBlack: he had that failed engagement with the born again Christian woman after Jerry Hall. I guess I should Google. Seems like her dead husband had some sort of local media empire.
karen marie
@Miki: Similar story arc to Pasta Grammar, although I don’t know about the success or failure of any project ‘Arper (as Eva pronounces his name) worked on but he was a movie cameraman for some period of time. Given his age, it couldn’t have been all that long, but I’m delighted that he’s joined forces with an Italian to bring us not just beautiful food but also general information around the beautiful food.
Quinerly
For the Rodney Crowell fans.
https://youtu.be/KHkl3jNfXQA?si=GorHSZY8JEx8Lp36
MagdaInBlack
@Quinerly: I recall that. I follow the celebrity fuck ups 😉
BeautifulPlumage
@CaseyL:
yes, coobies! Thank you for sharing!
Quinerly
@MagdaInBlack: me too. Oddly, I think Mick’s ex really cared for him. I read how she went thru all these hoops to keep him home and safe during Covid Times. He repaid all her care and good intentions by sending her an email telling her he was divorcing her. I don’t think it has been over 2 years. Maybe 18 months ago.
Miss Bianca
Is Mr Bear your cat? I forgot that, and thought that Henry had brought along a stuffie named Mr Bear!
Quinerly
@MagdaInBlack: yep.
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-65184205
Scout211
@Quinerly: thanks!
Here’s an amazing one from 2017: It Ain’t Over Yet
Jackie
@Scout211: I forwarded to my daughter and she loved it, too. Then she suggested Willie’s son should record it as “Willie’s Guitar.” And, he probably will someday.
Miss Bianca
@Steeplejack: Re: Grimm – might be time for a rewatch on that one. Pal D and I started binge-ing Grimm and Once Upon a Time at the same time – I think Grimm edged out the latter as rewatch potential, altho’ I did love me some Robert Carlyle as Rumpelstiltskin.
Oh, and we still crack each other up with our favorite “Christmas episode” line ever – might be from Season 4 – “Deck the halls, not Santa.”
Quinerly
@Jackie: 🩵💙💚💛🧡🤎💜
Quinerly
@Scout211: he’s a national treasure. I only have seen him twice. Last time around 2006 in St. Louis. I kinda wish now I had gone out to his birthday event at The Hollywood Bowl last summer. Friends went. They are still talking about it.
Miss Bianca
@Scout211: I just find myself wondering…if you’re a 93-year-old man and you’re richer than God and you’ve burned through four marriages already…just *why* in the wide, wide world of fuck are you bothering to do it again?
prostratedragon
@Quinerly: Corona? I prefer dark brews on the rare occasions I drink one, but really enjoyed Corona with a Louisiana fish and crawfish boil.
MagdaInBlack
@Miss Bianca: Can’t stand/afraid to be alone ?
Geminid
@lowtechcyclist: There were a lot of 7th Day Adventists where I lived in the Shenandoah Valley, and they played softball like everyone else. Once, a friend watched an Adventist team play in a tournament championship game. The game went long, and when the sun hit the horizon the Adventists walked off the field mid-inning.
A lot of the Adventists worked at a nearby Little Debbie’s plant. The owners were 7th Day Adventists so they shut the operation down at sunset Friday. I lived close enough I could tell, because it went silent.
They wouldn’t allow anyone, even contractors, work on Saturday. Then at sunset, the semi trucks started streaming out the gate, bringing cakes and pies to America.
Miki
@karen marie: Well fuck – yet another Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon.
The Pasta Grammar has a fabulous video about Nduja. A couple of months ago I ordered some Nduja from a shop in Chicago after having learned about it from Lidia Bastianich. It’s so fucking good.
frosty
@Dan B:
By the time I made reservations I could only get two nights at North Cascades. We’ll do what we can do. But with Ms F’s replacement knees and both our age/decrepitude, long hikes are way in the past. Backpacking with a tent even further.
We’ll see what we can see and enjoy it.
Mousebumples
@loyallurker: No idea if you’ll see this way after the fact, but I would suggest emailing WaterGirl.
Otherwise, not knowing where you’re located, there might be an Indivisible group around that could use them, or a local Dem party? While I appreciate the offer, I have plenty of supplies for myself for the short term. Though WaterGirl may be aware of others more in need of supplies.
Thanks for wanting to postcard!
Quinerly
@prostratedragon: not a Corona fan. Imo, it’s just a beer. I tend to Tecate but mostly Modelo Especial summer, Negra winter, with Mexican foods. It’s funny…a dear friend of mine who was born in Mexico and lives in Albuquerque. He worked here last summer on weekends putting in my dog’s yard. Fake turf and railroad ties. Miguel only drinks Heineken. I offered him a Modelo in a can early on in our friendship/work relationship. He backed away like it was a snake. So while we worked together here last summer I was drinking PBR so my Mexican worker could drink Heineken.
Ohio Mom
@Ken: This thread is long over, I don’t know why I leaving this comment. The arguments among various ultra-Orthodiox sects are probably best understood as feuds rivaling the Hatfields and McCoys. They aren’t fighting about how things should be done, they are fighting each other over every flimsy excuse they can find.
Ruckus
@dmsilev:
I’m a few miles from there – Covina.
frosty
@Ohio Mom: I read it! Good comment on something I don’t know about.