Movie night tonight. Avoiding turkey like the plague and eating chicago dogs, chips, and baked beans while tussling with Steve, who is needier than usual.
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by John Cole| 78 Comments
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Movie night tonight. Avoiding turkey like the plague and eating chicago dogs, chips, and baked beans while tussling with Steve, who is needier than usual.
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BGinCHI
If I didn’t know it was the cat’s name that might be the most intriguing sentence I have read all day.
BGinCHI
KKK cross-burning genius.
Name and hometown? Dinkle of Skipperville. Alabama.
You just can’t make that shit up.
Comrade Jake
I assume many of you have already seen this:
http://storify.com/EliLanger/this-man-is-hilariously-live-tweeting-his-flight-n
Some dude live tweeted his fight with a lady who got a bit cranky on a flight back home for Thanksgiving.
I laughed. Wife thought it started out funny but that the guy was kind of a dick in the end.
Steeplejack
Quiet evening at home. I’ve been trying to shake off a cold for the last week, and I’ve got it down to a scratchy throat, a congested cough and a lot of tiredness. Really enjoyed Thanksgiving yesterday, but I was exhausted when it was all over. Slept in this morning and haven’t done much of anything today. Now letting Grimm buffer on the DVR for commercial-free viewing. Yee-haw.
Svensker
No no no, yer doin’ it wrong. Leftover turkey with taters, gravy, stuffing, sweet potatoes and peas all cooked in one big pan and smooshed together. Delicious. And then a piece of pecan pie with whipped cream while standing over the sink so it had no calories.
MikeJ
@BGinCHI: And the burning was May 8, 2009. Certainly took long enough
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
I moved a story to the Done pile this afternoon and I’m looking at another one and contemplating doing more editing. We’ll see if it happens.
NotMax
Finishing off Black Friday with a combination almost guaranteed to bring on a Blue Saturday?
Southern Beale
We had some of Nashville’s infamous hot chicken today. If you don’t know what that is, well, it’s a Nashville specialty. It’s fried chicken but it’s super duper spicy. And not just the skin, to be real Nashville hot chicken it has to be marinated in a way that the spice soaks into the meat. And when I say spicy, I DO mean incendiary. It’s served with pickles on a slice of Wonder bread. The spicy grease soaks into the bread. It’s incredibly sinful and delicious. I can’t eat it more than once or twice a year.
Prince’s Hot Chicken, a Nashville institution and located in the “bad” part of town, is the originator of this delicacy, but we ate a place in midtown called Hattie B’s. Place was packed, line out the door.
If any of y’all come to Nashville you must try the hot chicken.
BGinCHI
@MikeJ: Today’s KKK has really perfected the slow burn. The cross comes out a lot more tender that way.
/should not be joking about this, I know, but these fucking hayseeds are so pathetic
Southern Beale
@efgoldman:
I know it sounds gross but trust me, it’s incredible. Trust me, I wouldn’t normally eat Wonder bread. I think it’s part of the dish’s soul food roots.
Nashville hot chicken is quite an institution. It even has a Wikipedia entry.
BGinCHI
@Southern Beale: OMG I want this now please drive up here with some buckets of it!
I have beer and wine and cable.
SiubhanDuinne
@Southern Beale: Had it a few years ago at Prince’s. Memorable. Delicious, but I think once per lifetime was enough for me.
ETA: On sober second thought (like the Canadian Senate!!), I might have it again in another two-three years. It was very tasty, for sure.
Southern Beale
@BGinCHI:
Don’tcha wonder how they come up with crap like “Exalted Cyclops”?
Shana
So John, what’s the movie?
I’ve been dipping in and out of the Harry Potter weekend on ABC Family. Older daughter’s in the other room working on law school homework, Hubby’s visiting his mom (I refused to share Thanksgiving with his disfunctional brother and sister-in-law and brood for the third year in a row), younger daughter’s in Vienna on her quarter abroad.
kc
@Comrade Jake:
The initial tweets were funny, but he lost me when he started antagonizing her deliberately. And then kept escalating.
BGinCHI
@Southern Beale: Sounds like a giant, inflated dick. Maybe with sequins.
kc
I require a picture of Steve.
BethanyAnne
Just ordered Chinese to have a break from turkey. I moved to a new apartment 3 weeks ago, so all the places here are new to me. I ordered “spicy Szechuan dumplings” which are normally served with a side of dipping sauce. This place musta said “to hell with it” and served them in a soup bowl of sauce. They were damn good, too :)
Southern Beale
@BGinCHI:
;-)
BGinCHI
@Southern Beale: Somehow it’s also easy to imagine Trent Lott dressed up as one.
Ash Can
I kept a nice little 5″ bowl beside me all day, which I would periodically take into the kitchen and fill with various Thanksgiving meal leftovers and zap in the microwave. Yum.
So make with the treats, monkey boy.
SiubhanDuinne
@BethanyAnne:
Can’t this blog ever take a break from geopolitics??
Suzanne
I totally just ate some chicken. It was awesome.
Southern Beale
@BGinCHI:
I love the story of Stetson Kennedy who infiltrated the KKK back in the ’40s and found out all the silly ritualistic crap, and got the writers of Superman to use the material in the radio show.
kc
@Southern Beale:
Sounds a little like Chic Fil A (or however it’s spelled), only with more spice & less hate …
Fergus Wooster
To follow up on a lost cat bleg from 11/24: My kitty came home safe and sound today, after 8 nights (three of them freezing). He was shacked up with some lady tabby and her three kittens under a house around the corner. Smug bastard never once meowed when I walked by calling his name.
Many thanks to BruceFromOhio, Sandia Blanca, gogol’s wife, Max, Schroedinger’s Cat, jl and everyone else for the advice and encouragement. If not for the push to stay in town and canvass rather than travel for Thanksgiving, I might not have gotten the call tonight.
Thanks to everyone. My year is made.
ruemara
Pretty pleased with the latest article, which I wrote while riding the bus. Funny, it only took me 35 minutes. Usually, I know what to write and wrassle with the words longer. This time, I had no idea what to write exactly, but managed to blather in a coherent fashion long enough to make a decent article. Time to relax and jawb hunt. Ugh, more writing, but cover letters. Boooo. Maybe just coffee instead.
SiubhanDuinne
@Suzanne:
Today the poultry, tomorrow the bacon. SunsMeat Marches On.
Steeplejack
@kc:
Yeah, agree.
BethanyAnne
@SiubhanDuinne: I blame Canada.
Southern Beale
Last week I wrote about a TN state trooper who refused to allow the state’s only African American appellate judge into the state supreme court building. He was a repeat offender, who had previously been disciplined for forwarding “be proud to be white!” emails around. You’d think either offense would be enough to get him fired but no, he’ decided to take early retirement. This is Tennessee when the Republicans are in charge.
SiubhanDuinne
@Suzanne:
Today the chick, tomorrow the bacon. SunsMeat Marches On.
Steeplejack
@Fergus Wooster:
Good news! Hope the tabby and her kittens have a home too, or found one.
Southern Beale
Whoa!
Cayman Islands signs deal to report U.S. citizens’ assets in bid to fight offshore tax evasion.
The Romneys are going to have to move their money.
Alison
@kc: Yeah. Telling her to “eat my dick” was….not okay at all. If someone is being an asshole, you don’t win by being an even bigger asshole.
Ash Can
@Fergus Wooster: That’s wonderful news! Thanks for letting us know.
Southern Beale
@efgoldman:
I think the rich assholes are running out of places to put their money, even the Swiss are starting to play along.
Guess they’ll have to transfer their wealth into Bitcoin.
Southern Beale
@kc:
I have never eaten an actual Chik-fil-A sandwich but these use breast and leg quarters — i.e.., you get the bones. My understanding is that Chik-fil-A is boneless, yes?
aimai
Took the soon to be 15 year old and two of her giggling friends to see the new Hunger Games. Mr. Aimai and I turned to each other and said, afterwards “This generation!” I mean: thats some scary stuff. And we had Day of the Triffids and The City of Gold and Lead.
Fergus Wooster
@Steeplejack: I’m going to find out more about them tomorrow. I’ve seen the mom and kittens around, even while my fat bastard was hiding nearby.
He’s trying to call them from my house anyway.
In any event, A certain 5-year-old girl will arrive home to a nice surprise tomorrow. I has a happy.
tofubo
last night:
wife: what do you want, cherry or pumpkin pie
me: pumpkin
wife: don’t you like cherry ??
me: i like both, but like pumpkin more, will have some cherry later
tonight:
me: there’s no cherry pie left ??
wife: [silent]
son: [silent]
aimai
@Comrade Jake: It started out funny but, as you say, it got beyond mean spirited. She sounds awful but its important to remember that people are under pressure that you can’t always see or understand–they can be coming back from a funeral, they can have received horrible news, they can be uncertain of their welcome at home, they can have just lost their job, they can be recovering alcoholics who take the offer of the drink as both a threat and an insult. You just don’t know. This Elan guy escalated the incident way past anything that anyone appreciated–if he wanted to “make it up” to the stewards and stewardesses he could have written them a nice note, or offered to buy them a drink at the airport. I think they would have appreciated that much more than his pretending to “take their side” and really just making it more difficult.
Alison
@efgoldman: To quote myself from Twitter, I’ve rechristened this game the Sharpie Highlighter Bowl.
Redshift
@Fergus Wooster: Yay!
SiubhanDuinne
@BethanyAnne:
Heh. The meme going around in Canadian FB, email, Twitters, etc. Is “Blame Nigel,” in honour of PM Harper’s disgraced former chief of staff. He’s getting blamed for EVERYTHING!! — snow, Rob Ford, you name it.
aimai
@efgoldman: She could be. But what of it? He is too and its not like he meted out some karmic justice to her.
BethanyAnne
@SiubhanDuinne: man, blamed for Ford? that’s low :)
fidelio
@Southern Beale: A friend and her co-workers cycle through the hot chicken places for Friday lunch, a different one every week. There are signs of boutique hot chicken restaurants becoming a thing. We view this with alarm.
As I understand it, the grease in the skillets at Prince’s is saturated with hot pepper, so much so that they need a different skillet for each level of heat.
Paddy
Fifth or sixth (who knows) Annual Cool Things 2013 is up including submissions from BJ’rs. Check it out, send it around, and if you have anything to contribute, send ’em along!
Annual Holiday Cool Things 2013 Is Here!
I’ll be adding stuff every day.
Redshift
@Southern Beale: I was reading yesterday that one of the Mittlings was tweeting about his own heroics after witnessing a car hitting a house. He was “the first on the scene,”and “lifted for people to safety.” Sure hope none of them had spinal cord injuries…
Paddy
@Fergus Wooster:
Very glad he tired of his adventure and came home.
schrodinger's cat
@Fergus Wooster: I am glad kitteh is back home safe and sound!
Say hi! to cousin Bertie from me.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
Looks like the Fashion Nightmares won’t have to worry about sullying themselves by playing in the Rose Bowl for anything less than the national championship.
kc
@Southern Beale:
It is boneless, yes. I haven’t had one since the chain became a beacon for anti-gay types, but I used to like those sammiches. Something about the combo of fried chicken, soft white bun, & pickle slices . . . yum. The Nashville version sounds even better, though.
kc
@Fergus Wooster:
Glad you found your kitty!
dan
Garth!
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
@efgoldman: Eat Mor Duck!
gogol's wife
@Fergus Wooster:
Oh, good news! I have to say I was a little worried, having lost three cats (in broad daylight) myself. But sometimes they do turn up — and they definitely can take the cold better than we think they do. That is really so nice to hear.
kc
@aimai:
I have the impression the response to his initial tweets (which were kinda funny) went to his head. It stopped being funny for me the minute he started baiting her on purpose.
Anyway, hope he enjoys his 15 minutes.
Violet
Speaking of Chik-Fil-A, does anyone remember the movie “Chicken Run”? When I went to see it, it was being “sponsored” by Chick-Fil-A. They had a booth in the lobby and some game where you spun the arrow and won a coupon for a free chicken sandwich or drink or something.
So here are all these families with kids who have just seen a movie about chickens trying to escape being turned into pies, and they’re all coming out of the theater right past a table staffed by smiling Chick-Fil-A workers trying to convince everyone to…Eat Mor Chikin. FAIL.
Violet
@efgoldman: Must have been one around where I lived, but as far as I knew there weren’t any. There are plenty of them now, but at that time I hadn’t seen any nearby. Certainly none anywhere close to the theater.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
Stupid beavers.
Gin & Tonic
Does anyone here know if there’ll be any way to stream the Rugby League World Cup Final tomorrow from here in the US? Will the BBC live stream work, or do I have to search for alternate means? Any pointers?
Suzanne
@Fergus Wooster: OMG that’s awesome! So glad everything turned out well.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@BGinCHI: For the win.
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
@Fergus Wooster:
This may be a very strong hint by your kitty that he would like a kitty friend, thankyewverymuch. I’m assuming that he’s neutered, but even neutered male cats sometimes like to have a ladyfriend or two in the house.
HinTN
@Southern Beale: @Southern Beale: Tennessee with the Rs in charge is the Legislature overruling Nashville when it gets too liberal. This THP crap flys regardless of who’s in charge, although I do like to think Karl would fire his ass
Origuy
McDonalds has a “Southern Style” chicken sandwich that appears to be a knock off of Chick-Fil-A. It’s sort of like methadone to CFA’s heroin, not as good, but not bad. I haven’t had the real thing for several years. That used to be easy when they weren’t in the SF area, but they are now all over the place.
When I was in England, I ate at a place called Nando’s that has peri-peri chicken. This is a southern African dish made with chilies that originated in Mozambique. Nando’s is a chain, but the only ones in the US are in the DC area. Anyone there tried it? They are also in Vancouver. I was going to find a reason to go up there, but now I find that there is a place in SF that serves peri-peri chicken, I just have to get up there on a weekday.
The Fat Kate Middleton
Slept in the guest bedroom of our son’s house after the most amazingly wonderful Thanksgiving dinner. Grandson (age 8) insisted on sleeping as near as possible to our bed. When I woke up, I walked out to check on him on the couch. He woke up, rubbing his eyes and said, “Grandma,, we’re so lucky you slept with us. I love you. It’s such fun when you’re here.”
Chris
OT: I usually never watch TV news, but back at the Thanksgiving home, the family does.
I stopped watching early enough in life that I don’t know if I ever fully appreciated how badly you want to punch things when watching a group of assholes in suits clinically discussing, shaking their heads in sorrow and tut-tutting about things that affect you as badly as health insurance and student loan debt. All the while tiptoeing carefully around the root cause of things like “government paralysis,” “income inequality,” and offering milquetoast solutions like “our politicians need to start talking to each other.”
No wonder people watch Colbert and Stewart, or even fucking NewsCorp. Anything but those robots.
BGinCHI
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): Finally some recognition!
/pumps fist, Mrs. BG rolls her eyes
moderateindy
Cole, when you say “Chicago dogs” are you actually using a Vienna Beef, (or even in a pinch a Chicago Red Hot)? Because otherwise, just dressing it like they do in Chicago, really doesn’t count. To be absolutely snobbish, unless it’s a Vienna with a natural casing it doesn’t really count either. There is just something about the “snap” that you get when biting into the natural casing that truly helps seperate the experience. Out of towners think that what makes a Chicago style hot dog unique is the toppings. It’s not. It’s all about the meat, the rest, including the neon green relish are just nice touches.
TooManyJens
@moderateindy: I will never not find it hilarious that people get snobbish about hot dogs.
Amir Khalid
@Origuy:
Nando’s is the best-tasting chicken of any chain I’ve eaten at. Especially love their Extra Hot. But they’ve been getting ridiculously expensive in recent years. There used to be another chain, better than KFC but not by that much, called Kenny Roger’s Roasters; it had some chubby bearded country singer’s face in the logo. Whatever happened to that one?
Origuy
@Amir Khalid: I remember seeing a Kenny Rogers years ago. Wikipedia says they closed down in the US, but are expanding in Asia, including Malaysia.
Svensker
@Amir Khalid:
The chubby guy is Kenny Rogers, the country singer.
moderateindy
@TooManyJens: Obviously, you’ve never had an actual Vienna Beef “Chicago dog”. Comparing that, and a hot dog, is like comparing real pizza, be it thick or thin, Chicago or NY style, to Domino’s, or Papa John’s