Well, hopefully this weekend will be a bit more low key than my previous week. The fridge has been cleaned out of all the items that were in through the outage (so many condiments and sauces that will never be used). Most people in the neighborhood continue the tradition of prepping for the last disaster, as they get generators installed and trees removed. This weekend my fantasy league has the draft scheduled (for which I am woefully underprepared), as we’re converting to a legacy league (12 teams, 29 round draft). But you’ve heard enough about this, and want to get to some links for snark, and a cocktail recipe.
In local news, things got really serious in the restaurant world.
Of course, we can’t just stick with Cleveland, there are other places in Ohio. What aren’t our resident Daytonians telling us?
At this point, the press tour will probably be more entertaining than the movie.
Remember back when we were all laughing at lemonade stands being shut down? Well, at least some things never change.
Now, I’m no economist, but I don’t think this is how inflation works.
Can we just call it Hanson’s Disease?
While the original release was a bit before my time, I did play several variations of this (and recall copying at least one out of a magazine/book for my TRS-80 back in the day).
MORE NOSTALGIA! At least it isn’t a remake/reboot (and honestly, I’ll probably be buying one of those sets).
Only if I could move the house and leave the property behind.
The app is still garbage, the workaround that tech support gave me for my system was to send a replacement (which I’ve set up, and barely used since I shifted over to using a bluetooth speaker already).
So I have finished reading through the Cocktail Codex, and while I have some opinions on the writing and the taxonomy they used, there were some good things I picked up from the book. In honor of that, I’m going to lean into one of their 6 families of cocktails.
The Sidecar (Chapter 4) – Classic recipe
- 6 parts Cognac (1.5 ounces)
- 4 parts Cointreau (1 ounce)
- 3 parts fresh lemon juice (0.75 ounces)
Fill your shaker with ice, shake, and strain into a chilled coupe glass. Garnish for this is an orange twist, which gets twisted over the glass, and then the peel gently rubbed around the rim of the glass. If you would like, you can also do a sugar rim on the glass.
Here’s a final song to lead you into your weekend.
I believe your first link is FUBAR.
https://nypost.com/2024/08/13/us-news/ohio-businessman-bobby-george-arrested-for-attempted-murder-rape-kidnapping/
Thanks for that. It’s been corrected.
Massholes.
My first thought.
The Poltergeist house link has a ghost in the machine.
Hey. I messed up one link. But both of the Poltergeist house movie links work for me (just tested them both twice).
Now it works…
/eyes Neph suspiciously
MikeS:
I own up to my mistakes. It sounds like user error to me.
@Neph.
Yeah, I must have clicked wrong. 😜
It is amusing in so many ways to see how the woke mob at Disney destroyed the Snow White movie only to have the Palestinian mob attack the film.
How did Disney fuck up Snow White? Let me guess, the dwarves are all trannies now? Snow White is gay? It is set in a carbon neutral world?
Links: I guess all we are missing now are the oven camps. Because we are the nazis dontchaknow.
No matter how big or how small an operation is the cartel is gonna get their fuckin’ beak wet.
No, that is not how inflation works nor does the word inflation mean what all of the ‘experts’ mean when they say it.
Inflation refers to the money supply. When one inflates the money supply but not the amount of wealth that money is measuring the money is worth less per unit. No matter how many inches are on your tape measure you still have the same board feet of lumber.
STOP. PRINTING. MONEY. What’s that. you say? If you stop printing worthless dollars you cant float your socialist programs? I wonder what the answer is.
Wisdom begins with calling things by their proper names.Wash your hands, dont pick your nose. Leprosy is spread by contact with mucous producing tissue. It also wouldn’t hurt to get vaccinated…yes this is a legit vaccine.
Vampires in Dayton? That’s not nearly as sexy as New Orleans or Paris.
One thing about living in Santa Carla I never could stomach; all the damn vampires.
+1000
/Lost boy
Yeah. A vampire smoking Camel studs at a dive bar and telling everyone in earshot how much better they are than Toledo doesn’t sound compelling.
Instead of Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt they’ll get Kevin James and Rob Schneider.
Hey. I’m working on a middle-aged housewife vampire. Think Melissa McCarthy.
Think Melissa McCarthy.
I think not.
Heavy Melissa? Or after she had the lap band?
I saw a vampire drinking beer at the Applebee’s
His toupee was perfect
Ah-oh! Vampires of Dayton. Ah-oo!
💗
Dude…if you have ever been to New Orleans sexy is the last word that comes to mind.
There is an idealized version of Nawlins that is sexy… the idealized version of Dayton is about as sexy as pleated chinos.
Besides, you dont have to go anywhere to see vampires. Just turn on the TV news.
That boycott might be the best press Snow White gets. The trailer is getting ripped on. They went from 7 otherkins to 7 very badly done CGI dwarfs. No sign of the prince. Instead of Snow White cleaning the house, she makes the dwarfs do it. They cast Gal Gadot as the evil queen who’s jealous of Snow White’s beauty. They need to just cut their losses.
The Critical Drinker trashed the trailer mercilessly yesterday.
Disney should just disappear the movie ala Bat Girl.
I’m actually pretty surprised that Batgirl hasn’t been leaked yet.
The Drinker is the one I saw. It just looks really bad.
lol I didn’t know that, I remember the otherkins
This is normal. 🙄
Somehow we’re supposed to buy that one of the most beautiful movie stars is jealous of Rachel Zegler’s beauty.
Had to look Zegler up. Ok, cute enough, sure but somehow someone missed the point of the name ‘Snow White’.
Whenever I look at her, I can’t not think of Sid the Sloth.
Good news is they can blame it on anti-Israel sentiment and Gadot.
Yeah, I don’t know why they’re calling these remakes “live action” since they’re, at best, “horrible uncanny valley CGI with a few live actors thrown in when absolutely necessary”.
Huh. IFLA is early this week.
From the MONKEYpox story:
We’re all gonna die!!11
The Pox spreads through activity engaged in primarily by only about 1.5% of the population, and will stay in that group.
Shut up and be afraid!
Huh, a pox on both their states.
It’s not that it’s still garbage; it’s gotten progressively worse.
It’s election season. Time to stir up racial tensions. “White woman convicted in fatal shooting of her Black neighbor”. https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/jury-begins-deliberations-in-trial-of-white-19660720.php
By an all-white jury, we are for some reason required to know.
Today is national rum day.
RUM RUNNER
1 oz/30 ml White Rum
1 oz/30 ml Dark Rum
1 oz/30 ml Pineapple Juice
1 oz/30 ml Banana Liqueur
1 oz/30 ml Creme de Cassis
1 oz/30 ml Orange Juice
.5 oz/5 ml Grenadine
.5 oz/15 ml 151 Proof Rum
Method
1. Build in glass in order of ingredients except for 151 Proof Rum.
2. Stir.
3. Float 151 Proof rum on top.
4. Garnish with an Orange Slice.
I had some 40% blackberry liquor I didn’t know what to do with, saw this video and was interested.
I bought some banana liqueur and made it.
It’s really really good, but it is dangerous.
My wife likes it without the 151.
That looks like one of those drinks you could light on fire.
The guy says you can, but I never tried to.
Any drink with a 151 float can be flamed. Those also allow the drinker the preference of allowing the 151 to burn off (lowering the proof and modifying the flavor of the drink) or blow it out (keeping the higher proof). While I don’t have any blackberry liquor in the house, I do have some mulberry liquor that I need to take off the berries and backsweeten.
When we visited St. Thomas we visited a little bar and they had “The Volcano”. A drink for two that they lit on fire, and the played a rumble sound effect and flashed the lights when they brought it out.
I’m still laughing about your Pearl Harbor story.
But I ain’t drinking that.
I do not understand why the Sidecar gets a rep as a girly drink. They’re quite dangerous.
As for National Rum Day, I have limes, homemade demerara syrup, and Plantation Three Stars white rum. You know what that means…Daiquiri night!
Per the Cocktail Codex, the Daiquiri is Chapter 3, and the Margarita is a variant of the Sidecar.
There’s a joke. Too lazy to look it up.
But the punch line is
“it’s a hickory Daiquiri, Doc”
The Poltergeist house is kind of icky. I’ll bet it smells of old people.
And I would always be waiting for that fucking clown to appear from beneath the bed.
Can I substitute with cheap whiskey and triple sec? I’m on a budget.
Far be it from me to stand between someone and their drink of choice, but I’d ask that you don’t call it a Sidecar.
Yes.
I’m really broke, can I use double Sec?
Just give it a sec and it’ll work just fine.
Looks like Kamala already put her foot in her mouth. Her price fixing plan went over like a fart in church. Somebody already made a Trump ad from her listing all the price increases that happed under Biden/Harris. And CNN said her plan will make us like Venezuela. Ouch.
People I know thought I was joking or being hyperbolic when I called her a commie. I was not.
https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2024/07/25/revisiting-the-work-of-donald-harris-father-of-kamala
https://archive.fo/xI9dU
It’s not too late to sub in Buttigieg. At least his dad wasn’t a commie. Oh wait, never mind.
And pieces of shit like him immigrate to this country, not an actual commie shithole.
It’s not too late to deport him.
I’d say fascist.
Industry is still owned privately, but they want to put so many controls on industrial policy that the means of production might as well be owned by the State.
Yep Fatty, she is a pure old fashioned soviet marxist. No difference in policy whatever.
Low info and ignorant voters will catch a snatch of Harris’ plan and go “that’s just what we need.”
Of course they would. There’s a reason why greed, envy, and theft are show up in the seven deadly sins and Ten Commandments. Natural state of man and all that.
And CNN said her plan will make us like Venezuela.
They meant it approvingly I assume.
Elasticity of demand is a myth. People will just pay any greedflation premium because they re in thrall to the capitalist crooks.
So I made beef stroganoff for hubby (although I like it too). I don’t measure. This practice made me put in too much garlic and too much pepper, so husband gets a stock pot full of it.
Unicorns in the mist
Jo Anne Price wears a button that says, “You find it offensive. I find it funny. That’s why I’m happier than you.” Price is a Black woman who runs a store selling pro-Trump merchandise in Christiansburg, Virginia. She’s 72, wears black-rimmed glasses and her gray hair swept back, and has been lifting weights for 20 years. She says, “racism is a made-up word,” and “I don’t know what it is, because it doesn’t exist,” and “if I don’t accept it, it doesn’t apply to me.” By the register, she sells credit card-like objects, one of which says, “WHITE PRIVILEGE CARD.”
“When you give it to a state trooper, he’ll let you go. Won’t write you a ticket,” Sebriam Vannoy said of the cards, with a laugh. Vannoy, an older Black gentleman, wore a head-to-toe camo print outfit with “Trump was right” and three Christian crosses printed on the chest. He said the card had worked for him. “He laughed at it and did not write me a ticket,” he said of a law enforcement officer who stopped him. (There has been at least one similar incident: in Alaska in 2022, a woman showed a police officer a “white privilege card” instead of her driver’s license, and she said he let her go.)
Vannoy and Price are all in for former President Donald Trump and his reelection bid. They know it’s unusual to be Black and a supporter of Trump’s Make America Great Again movement, though both the Republican and Democratic campaigns are trying to shore up or gain support in communities of color.
Those poor ignorant misguided people. Somebody should take them by the hand and lead them back to the plantation.
I love her. I’m quite certain she isn’t looking at it like Mel Brooks was, but they’re in the same ballpark. About Hitler+, one of my favorite quotes. From Mel Brooks: “…so what can I do about it? If I get on the soapbox and wax eloquently, it’ll be blown away in the wind, but if I do Springtime for Hitler it’ll never be forgotten. I think you can bring down totalitarian governments faster by using ridicule than you can with invective.”
Blue Acolytes with constant DEI/IED/DIE! on their mind.. seething over it.. constantly in their thoughts.. GUESS WHAT, YA FUCK: That’s what makes YOU racist. (<– They never grasp that.) Making fun of things is an incredibly healthy way to ridicule society and get one's opinion out.)
@CPRM +others on zoom a week or so ago. I have no idea where my mind was that night where I took "Kill [stupid dog owners]!" joke so literally. Bothered me about a day later. Perhaps we were in a serious mood and a swift segue? Meh. My
badweird. Dismiss.Yeah, I am thinking that is a big steaming pile.
HireRite expectedly called about testing positive for amphetamine, due to my Aderrall. It says “Amphetamine Combo 20mg) on the damn bottle. But that was taken care of w an Rx number. I await further developments. As of now, nothing has furthered, so I await further news. It would be interesting, and semi-shocking, if Octapharma called me re: my schedule for Monday. If I have a schedule on Monday. I will prepare as if I do.
Re politics: I (kinda) don’t see how people can see Team Blue’s ‘best’ delusions they can throw at the wall, and still think Blue’s a) a good idea in any way, and b) how they can still believe in the brainwashing after feeling its effects, w/o open threats against them. (Answers: a) they’re brainwashed and only see OMB=EVIL. b) Social circles, including employment, are highly restrictive, especially re: Diversity of Opinion. Social primates gonna be social.
“The health department is just doing their job. They’re responding to a complaint,” Doherty said. “I was more disappointed and kind of shocked that somebody thought that this was something worth complaining about, a little ice cream stand serving 20 people that we know.”
“Just doing their job”. Fuck. I hate everyone except the little kid.
Didn’t work at Nuremberg. Works in MA.
You’re right, of course. But I still hate the informers more than the King’s Men.
OH MY GOD It’s been reduced for the LAST time!
Cocktails are for vacations and open bars at weddings. It’s rarely ever worth it at home. An old fashioned is pushing the limits complexity vs payoff.
I had multiple Manhattans whilst on vacation.
I wouldn’t order a cocktail at most wedding open bars on a bet (experience has taught me even ordering a two part drink can result in questionable results). It depends on the cocktail, some (like the Champagne Cocktail) I’ve never ordered at a bar because they’re too damn simple (sugar cube, bitters, sparkling wine).
I also enjoy the craft of taking disparate ingredients and making something good come of it. Of course, having the tools (most importantly, the little 2 ounce measuring cups), makes things much easier.
It’s getting to the time of year where daylight loss is accelerating, and I just now thought it was ~7pm. It’s 5:30. Not that I mind – I like the dark time of year. It’s gonna start getting tough to walk the dog on his normal schedule, though, because he’s a pussy and balks at pissing in the dark.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87821224358?pwd=eW55MTRDbDNtQkh2aHd3M1Nmenlzdz09
Here you go!
As a Dayton-area Glib, I had no idea there were vampires around here. My wife was born and raised in the Dayton area. I’ll check with her after she gets up from her nap in her special wooden bed.
My husband claims to combat vampires. “You don’t see any vampires around, do you?” “Well, no.” “You’re welcome.”
“Only in the mirrors”
Hehe.
If you don’t know who the vampires are in town, then the vampire is you.
You know who else had secret vampires?
Our guy Pie?
Me, back when I was single and dating?
Dayton vampire experts.
https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/1823878805812806030
“If you don’t own a rifle, your opinion is mostly irrelevant. “
I dig it.
Can we just call it Hanson’s Disease?
No, that’s MMMBop Pox
Mbappé Pox
As a reference… Hansen’s Disease.
I LOVE a Sidecar. So good.
And then I have to take a nap.
I just caught up on my futbol post and am pleased as punch regarding the resultant discourse
thanks all
I’m surprised I missed it! “It’s too much to go into, but I’ll just say that baseball’s bringing the designated hitter into the game destroyed for me a full half of the intellectual nuance of the game.”
*Solemn nod* Baseball is still a passion of mine. It irks me people don’t see how the DH destroyed an important dynamic to games. Example: 0-0 after six innings; then a runner in scoring position, maybe an out or two, and the pitcher’s spot comes up… Um. Do ya pinch hit, go for a better at bat, and leave it up to the bullpen? Or do you see what the pitcher can do so he can continue his dominance so far on the mound? (Not important in life, but little things that are in the game. Positive Distraction Dust.)
Talked to my old best friend in Korea. Born in Iran and lived there seven years before moving to Canada. Fascinating personal story about how he dove into sports to fit into culture, language, and everything about life. Still hate he chose the Yankees, but I can get it. (There was *a* reason for not the Blue Jays or Expos, but meh.)
There are solid reasons I’m a born- and- converted Cubs fan since childhood, w Coach Dad always picking “Cubs” or blue unis.
While I don’t care much for the DH either I think that the decision to pull a pitcher can be just as tricky with the DH, you have to watch your pitcher even more carefully because you don’t have a convenient spot to take him out. Think about the manager on the other side of the situation you gave. If his pitcher is coming up to bat he probably just leaves him in to finish that inning rather than being forced to double-switch if he pulls him mid-inning. But if he’s not batting at all then the manager has to know/decide whether or not the guy on the mound is actually the best guy to get that last out (or two) and get out of the trouble.
Senator Tester regrets to inform the Committee he is extremely busy, and will be unable to attend their gathering in Chicago. He wishes them luck in their endeavors.
I looked at the polls for Tester, how in the world are they that close? Does Missoula carry that much weight?
The front page picture is a perfect followup to The Daily Stoicism.
NBC right now running a big story on how great the border is.
Illegal crossings down to 2,000 per day. That’s from 4,000 per day a couple of months ago and 8,000 per day in December.
Administration is doing a great job!!!
Since local TV for me is Albany, they covered the story about the Secret Service screwing over the salon owner in Pittsfield. Except that their angle was, “The Trump campaign runs up security bills too!”
IIRC Joe remembered to “do something” down there just in time for the election.
And in other news, our chocolate ration has been increased to 12 grams!