Second Fish Fry-Day of Lent Afternoon Links

by | Mar 14, 2025 | Cocktails, Daily Links, I Am Lame | 111 comments

The girlfriend and I survived our first tiki weekender (as many people explained to the girlfriend, Viva Las Vegas was just tiki adjacent). She already wants to do it again next year, as well as go to some of the other ones. One of the big ones that was pitched by several people I met over the weekend is Ohana – Luau at the Lake. I’ll likely put together a small write up of the event to fill some space here. We also learned of a Midcentury Barware Show (look, mock the name of the company all you want, but the glasses are fabulous!) down in central Ohio that we may need to go to.

A local entry in the pizza wars.

A buttery sauce topped with pierogies, sautéed onions, a blend of cheddar-jack, white cheddar, provolone & mozzarella cheeses.Served with a side of sour cream. 

Pierogi Pizza

In local news, buggy manufacturer blames automobiles for decline. They’re playing really fast and loose with their definition of “West side”.

Blessed are the cheesemakers.

But allow me to remind you that we up north have nothing to do with this.

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Man, even their trolls are weak. Moosehead? And only one a day?

Yes, global politics can impact small businesses. As an aside, the Irish whiskey industry was almost completely wiped out due to America deciding to be retarded and listen to the Progressives.

“You’re soaking in it!”

I thought it was crazy that people were paying for pre-release games, this completely baffles me.

Maybe, just maybe, if you’re destroying someone’s property (regardless if it’s personal or private), you’re the asshole.

Today, in everyone who disagrees with me is a Nazi.

Likely already mentioned in the comments at some point, but it is 3.14 today.

Fear our AI LLM overlords!

I could go back to the Irish Coffee, or provide you the recipe for the Mai Tai again, but what’s the fun in that? Let’s stick with another tiki drink for a week:

The Fog Cutter

  • 3 part (1.5 oz) light rum
  • 2 part (1 oz) cognac
  • 1 part (0.5 oz) London Dry gin
  • 4 part (2 oz) lemon juice
  • 2 part (1 oz) orange juice
  • 1 part (0.5 oz) orgeat
  • 1 part (0.5 oz) sherry

If you don’t have the sherry, don’t worry about it too much. To make this drink, put everything except the sherry into a shaker filled with ice, and shake until chilled. After that, pour it into a collins glass that’s filled with crushed or pebble ice, and float the sherry on top. Bruise up a sprig of fresh mint (slap it between your hands) and garnish with that, and slide a straw down into the ice.

With that, I leave you to this St. Patrick’s day weekend. Keep in mind that we’re running short on content, so more grist for the mills would be appreciated.

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111 Comments

  1. SDF-7

    Blessed are the cheesemakers.

    This is the whey.

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      If that show is tomorrow, Barware the Ides of March!

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Well, THATS not supposed to be there. I guess it’s Opposite Brooks Day.

    • bacon-magic

      Curd you repeat that?

    • pistoffnick (370HSSV)

      Sweet dreams are made of cheese
      Who am I to diss a Brie?
      I travel the world and seven seas
      Everybody’s looking for Halloumi

      • Evan from Evansville

        Gotta say. Ya win. Biggly. No bother trying, now. Well-played.

      • pistoffnick (370HSSV)

        Itsa Gouda, no?

  2. SDF-7

    As an aside, the Irish whiskey industry was almost completely wiped out due to America deciding to be retarded and listen to the Progressives.

    We did get Capone and the Chicago mobs out of it, though.

    Which then paid off in spades….

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      And WWII got everyone to buy Scotch as the Irish were officially neutral.

      And that is the real crime of Hitler.

  3. JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

    I thought Roger Ebert was dead.

    • SDF-7

      Roger Ebert was dead. This you must remember… or nothing that follows will seem miraculous.

    • Nephilium

      You think they’d let the brand die with the man? That’s crazy talk!

    • EvilSheldon

      Progressives don’t have a monopoly on simpering hero worship, but they certainly have elevated to the highest possible level.

      It’s fun to hear them squirm around and get pissed when they deny it, too. Just bring up Opie’s perfectly creased trouser leg…

    • Mojeaux

      I’ve been watching some deep-dives into beloved/cult movies. Every. Single. One. There he is panning it.

      He knows/knew nothing about people.

      • Nephilium

        There was at least one cult movie that’s he loved, Dark City.

        If you’re going to watch it for the first time, go through the added difficulty and get the director’s cut.

  4. SDF-7

    I thought it was crazy that people were paying for pre-release games, this completely baffles me.

    I can see it up to a point — being an Alpha… and being EA we have to assume the digital store is an important part of “the experience”… yeah, they should test actual users actually using it. That makes sense.

    But they should have provided accounts with “gift card” money or something usable only in the shop (not just points in the shop since I assume they want to verify the purchase system… but virtual credit cards locked to the shop and user should be doable). As it is… yeah — the users likely will end up with the point value eventually… but that’s a lot of faith that they’ll care and is just sinking in money early.

    A fool and his video game skater gurl girlfriend are soon parted, I suppose… I wouldn’t do it — but I suppose I can see why some crazy fans of a game would. And definitely why EA would.

    • Nephilium

      Yeah, I get testing the purchasing but I would think you’d give credit of some kind for that. There’s also the point that the game may never be released.

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      I thought it was crazy that people paid for games once they hit puberty.

  5. Shpip

    March 14 is commonly referred to as Pi Day

    Anyone else have an irrational affection for Pi Day?

    And for anyone who declares it a “fake holiday,” keep in mind that there are historical events that the day commemorates.

    For instance, on March 14, 1592 a conclave of knights had a huge schism owing to the antics of a novice tattoo artist.

    It marked the first time that a sir conference was divided by a dye amateur.

    • SDF-7

      I take it as a sine that those who lack affection for it get ratio’ed, Shpip.

      • The Other Kevin

        We better watch it cos Swiss will be along to give us a narrow gaze.

      • Shpip

        Don’t worry about Swiss. He’s off on a tangent.

        Earlier, I told him that he couldn’t eat all the cake he wanted today because gluttony was still a sin.

        But he could have all the pie he desired, since the sin of pi is zero.

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      And tomorrow, Barware the Ides of March!

    • Rat on a train

      It’s only 3.14 day in the US. For Europeans it’s 14.3 day.

      • Nephilium

        So you want Pie to not have his day? Unless he’s got the calendar with Smarch and Second Smarch on it.

      • Ted S.

        He celebrates on July 22.

      • SDF-7

        I thought he celebrated more on the 23rd… When 22 is over month 7.

  6. SDF-7

    Fear our AI LLM overlords!

    Well to be fair… that looked like a very different world. The poor AI was only trying to help!

    • Rat on a train

      Maybe they can AI Cosby to replace Cosby.

  7. Shpip

    Second Fish Fry-Day of Lent

    Given the date, shouldn’t the catch of the day be pi-ke?

    (I’m going to quit now before Swiss makes a musky lunge at me through the internets.)

    • Nephilium

      Look, I was going to see how long I could get away with the Fish Fry-Days before Swiss sicced STEVE on me.

      • Shpip

        STEVE SMITH MAKE YOUR FISH FRY FEZ-TIVE FOR FREE.

        NO PERCHES NECESSARY!!

  8. The Late P Brooks

    Steak ‘n Shake is not alone in its bootlicking behavior—a list of corporations going Vichy for Trump can be found here—but it’s among the more surreal examples of “pick me!” cravenness by U.S. companies during Trump II.

    The sight of Roger’s favorite fast-food chain adding neofascism to its menu would have appalled him. It appalled the editors of RogerEbert.com, of which I am one.

    One of the chain’s posts read, “Steak ‘n Shake is proud to support MAHA [ed: this is Kennedy’s branding acronym “Make America Healthy Again”] and Secretary Kennedy! Your days are numbered seed oil. We want to lead the way and make a difference!”

    Be vewwy vewwy quiet. We’we hunting witches.

    • SDF-7

      OT rant: I’m obviously not a girl/woman nor do I frequent their social media locales — but from what I’ve observed on the periphery and via mocking of TikTok videos — the whole “pick me!” slur has to be one of the most intellectually lazy attempts to dismiss all argument I’ve ever seen. Identify a “problem” group then flatly state with no evidence that anyone who is defending said group is solely doing it to ingratiate themselves to the group…. and any attempted defense by them or anyone else… is simply *more* attempted ingratiation.

      Intellectual lightweights.

      • rhywun

        Intellectual lightweights.

        Pretty much a given with the everything is “fascist” and everyone is a “Nazi” crowd.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        What drives me nuts/amuses me completely, is that they have no idea what fascism is, and they are really complaining about totalitarianism. But fascism sounds so much worse, even though it really isn’t applicable here.

  9. EvilSheldon

    Skyline chili sucks ass. That is all.

  10. Sensei

    What happens when DEI becomes DOA in the aerospace industry?

    “Ten years ago this was embraced by everyone, and seen as a win-win for all,” said Lori Garver, a former deputy administrator of NASA and co-founder of the Brooke Owens Fellowship.

    She and I must have a different definition of “all”.

    TW – ArsTechnica – where TopMen errr TopPeople got to pontificate how awful the uniformed masses are.

    https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/03/popular-program-to-promote-women-becoming-aerospace-engineers-is-at-risk/

    • SDF-7

      And “everyone”, yes… I’m assuming I could rewrite the question to: “What happens when I have to compete on merit?”

      Doesn’t sound as good that way — does it Lori?

      • Sensei

        Door plugs don’t eject themselves mid flight on new aircraft?

      • Ted S.

        What about butt plugs?

      • Sensei

        Different kind of DEI.

    • EvilSheldon

      Diversity in mission-focused groups is nothing short of maliciously destructive stupidity. Or as my country ex-neighbor would say, “What that boy don’t fuck up, he takes a shit on…”

      • Suthenboy

        This. The goal is to destroy institutions, rot the culture and it is done with malice.

    • rhywun

      Ten years from now:

      “Ten years ago sterilizing your child with hormones was embraced by everyone, and seen as a win-win for all.”

    • Suthenboy

      Remind me again, how long have the astronauts been stranded in orbit?

  11. The Late P Brooks

    The Supreme Court notoriously decided in 2010 that in certain circumstances, corporations should be considered people. If that’s true, Steak ‘n Shake wears a brown shirt and swastika armband.

    Whoa.

    -Maybe Freddy’s will jump on the tallow bundwagen.

    • SDF-7

      Isn’t that skirting awfully close to libel? Maybe Steak n’ Shake could use the Ebert domain….

      • pistoffnick (370HSSV)

        skirting

        a Tri-Tip of my hat for what you did there.

    • The Other Kevin

      The Tweets in the article were favorable to MAHA and Tesla. Maybe the juicy stuff was buried and I didn’t notice them.

      • Nephilium

        First you start frying in tallow, next thing you know you’re rounding up minorities, it just happens.

    • Ted S.

      Remember, the issue in Citizens United v. FEC is that the FEC wanted to ban the showing of a movie.

  12. rhywun

    e)you’re the asshole

    “from the you-knew-what-you-were-getting-into dept”

    Actually, I didn’t but it became obvious in the first paragraph so I could bail quite early.

  13. Ted S.

    One of the big ones that was pitched by several people I met over the weekend is Ohana – Luau at the Lake.

    Lake George is a tourist trap.

    • Nephilium

      I don’t doubt it, but it’s on the girlfriend’s radar now. She had a good time at Mai Tai Mayhem, and is looking to do more tiki events.

  14. rhywun

    Sorry, “unelected co-president of the United States of America” gets an immediate bail.

    JFC you’re really into assholes, today.

    • Nephilium

      There’s a real doozy I found just a bit ago, if it doesn’t make its way into someone else’s links this weekend, I’ll share it either in a comment or next week’s post (I can post out of date links if I want to, they’re my links.).

  15. Evan from Evansville

    Goddammit. I clicked on the pizza war and saw what contended, copied the text, and then…. you had already included it.

    I suppose this is what happens when one happens to read the links! Such premeditated fingers of nimble-ness…

    • Nephilium

      I’ve been playing around with the formatting for the links, and didn’t want to leave it to chance.

      The real question, yea or nay on the pierogi pizza?

      • Sean

        If I was gonna eat some carbs, it wouldn’t be that.

      • Evan from Evansville

        Pierogi is just a kind of dumpling. They’re fine. But why would I want a dumpling on my pizza?

        People are the strangest creatures. I just used some Hubba Bubba for flavor and to floss my teeth of the criminally delicious double -stuffed golden Oreos I scarfed down. I also have salt n vinegar pistachios on my desk, joined with a massive box of individual Fun-Dips. The stick is by far the best part of the confection. The rest is just Pixi Stick dust. (Fine, but not the main attraction.)

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Got a good dentist, I hope? 😉

  16. UnCivilServant

    I finally started a test print on my new resin printer. Well past the returns window if it sucks

    🙁

    • Sensei

      You’ve already upgraded?

      Any new hobby is always a learning curve.

      • UnCivilServant

        It’s been years since I got the first resin printer.

        I was looking for improvements over the starter model I’d first purchased.

    • UnCivilServant

      🤬

      Of course the test print failed.

      The resin makers were serious about the 77-95 print temp range.

  17. pistoffnick (370HSSV)

    Karl Marx made his most significant contribution IMO today in 1883.
    .
    .
    .
    He died.

  18. Evan from Evansville

    Nazi article: “Red Meat: Steak ‘n Shake Goes Nazi”

    Written by Matt Zoller Seitz. I legitimately wonder if that’s its real name. Likely not. I also question “Zoller.” Consider my gaze narrowed.

    Two things. Fuck, it is a terrible writer. I waded through ten graf’s and I *still* don’t know what the kermuffin’s about. I tapped out after: “On Friday, the social media account of the fast-food chain Steak ‘n Shake published a series of fascist-pandering posts on X (formerly Twitter), then deleted them after public admonishment by everyone who wasn’t a Nazi. X is owned by Tesla and SpaceX mogul Elon Musk, who is currently the world’s richest man, the unelected co-president of the United States of America, and one of the primary drivers of the executive branch’s aggressive attempts to roll back American history and re-segregate the population.”

    Second, it writes like a girl. Maybe that’s what its’ going for.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      He writes like Mark Morford from the SFGate, the guy who called Obama The Lightbringer. Also, he’s “a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in criticism”. I’m not so sure that’s a positive thing.

    • Muzzled Woodchipper

      the unelected co-president of the United States of America, and one of the primary drivers of the executive branch’s aggressive attempts to roll back American history and re-segregate the population.

      How is it that this much stupidity is not painful? I blame evolutionary biology. Or was it that we used to rightly point and laugh at idiots for being incredibly stupid, leaving them on the outside?

    • grrizzly

      It seems to me the Dem crowd now hates Musk more than Trump. Probably got a bit tired of hating him non-stop for 10 years. A Harris-voter friend of mine badmouths Musk all the time. He is also a registered Libertarian.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        A Harris-voter friend of mine […] is also a registered Libertarian.

        So not really a libertarian, then?

      • grrizzly

        He voted for Jo Jorgensen in 2020. There’s that.

      • rhywun

        To be fair, he’s been a shameless grifter for many years so he deserves criticism for that but of course that is not why the left is going apeshit over him.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        He was their hero when he was only a grifter. Now he’s public enemy #2 since he bought Twitter.

    • rhywun

      I *still* don’t know what the kermuffin’s about.

      It’s about tying the words “Nazi” and “fascist” to Donald and Elon.

      Nothing else.

  19. Gustave Lytton

    After the accession of Canada:

    1) the official flag of the state of Canada will be the Red Ensign

    2) French will no longer be an official language or required to be dual language requirement in any county of Canada, in particular Quebec County.

    3) Cadpat will be the official camouflage pattern of the DoD for all services.

    • juris imprudent

      Wait a minute, why don’t we do a swap with France and Denmark – we get Greenland and they can have Quebec?

      • Gustave Lytton

        They can have the Quebeckis. On Saint Pierre and Miquelon. “Le Grandest Dérangement”.

    • rhywun

      the state of Canada

      Am I the only one recognizing the likely fact that Canada will add ten states and three territories?

      • Gustave Lytton

        I know! I love that it’s being talked about a singular state. Hilariously demeaning.

    • grrizzly

      I’m opposed to annexing Canada. Even as a single state, it will create a permanent Democrat super-majority in the House. And as rhywun correctly noticed, it will be admitting as multiple states.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        We can annex as a nonvoting protectorate.

  20. Timeloose

    TGIF everyone!!! It’s been a barn burner of a week.

    I hope all are well.

    I’m really tired of the Trump’s tariff tirades, but other than that I’m not too disappointed so far.

    Here is what my Sat morning will be like.

    “Trump is a fascist poopy head that is like literally Hitler. Elon is a Hitler, Mao, and Stalin holocaust denier. “

    Pray to Satan for me.

    • The Other Kevin

      It has been quite the week here, too. 10 days ago the woman who was renting space from us at the gym for cardio classes, decided she’s closing her business. As we needed the income to pay rent, we decided to take over her business. We’ve been busting arse to get her customers and trainers into our computer system and untangle the shit show she is leaving. So far Mrs. TOK is doing a great job.

      Meanwhile, the oldest kid is working steadily, but her hygiene and poor health due to her weight are becoming a big issue. She’s showing signs of diabetes on top of everything else. Sigh.

      • Timeloose

        Sounds like a rough one TOK. I’ve been following your challenges with your daughter. I hope she comes to her senses.

      • The Other Kevin

        Mrs. TOK and I had a few long talks over it. I used to listen to Dan Bongino’s show, and during the Biden years he always asked, “Is it bad enough?” for people to change their votes. With my daughter, her health apparently isn’t bad enough yet. She has a food addiction for sure, but hasn’t hit rock bottom yet. This week she sat on a hope chest and broke it, she was really upset about it, but not upset enough. She has an appointment with a GP in 2 weeks, maybe that will help.

  21. Timeloose

    Neph, Flatfoot 54 was a great time live.

    The band has two physically giant members, yes I know what I did there. They were not able to jump without hitting the ceiling of the local venue.

  22. Stinky Wizzleteats

    “everyone who disagrees with me is a Nazi.”

    🎶
    I’m a Nazi.
    You’re a Nazi.
    He’s a Nazi.
    She’s a Nazi.
    Wouldn’t you like to be a Nazi too?
    🎶

      • Timeloose

        My wife turned me on to him. Lots of fun music.

  23. Suthenboy

    Playing catch-up here.

    How to define ‘bad idea’: Needs subsidies.

    Second link: “As a not-for-profit news organization, AP has remained free from corporate and political influence for nearly two centuries.”
    I stopped reading right there. I give ’em points for shamelessness.

    Celebrating St. Paddy’s day is the only kind of acceptable ‘going green’.

    Canadian beer comment.

    American whiskey is going to weather the storm.

    Once again human’s sense of scale is a poor gauge.

    Something something game comment.

    Has anyone yet tried to justify the Tesla vandalism as free speech?

    This Matt Seitz person…xer, xee, xem?

    Ok. It definitely is a different world.

  24. The Late P Brooks

    I just ate a ham sammich on Fish Fry-Day. Am I going to Hell?

  25. Gustave Lytton

    Dipshit down the street is flying his large US flag upside down. I’m getting sick of this progjection after 4+ years of bullshit. Get these assholes exactly what they want, good and hard.

    • Urthona

      Is this a left wing practice? Am unfamiliar.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Ever since Dubya, it seems to have become popular.

    • Suthenboy

      Signifying….? I know a lot of people pissed themselves when a SC justice’s wife did that.

    • Suthenboy

      Does said dipshit work for the FedGov?

      • Gustave Lytton

        No idea. He moved in, fixed up his place really nice from the previous owners but big time Biden fan (flew huge Biden flags in 2020 and 2024). Rural property with nice vehicles out front. Typical leftist hypocrite.

    • Nephilium

      The cops haven’t stopped by to check on him yet?

    • CatchTheCarp

      There was DOGE protest at the local VA hospital today and a few upside down flags were flying. Lots of old grey bearded vets regurgitating the left’s narrative about all the “essential” Fed Gov workers being fired. There was not a big crowd. Tomorrow the Fed Gov union is holding their rally, I would expect to see a few distressed flags flying at that one, too.

    • Muzzled Woodchipper

      Meanwhile flying the flag as it’s meant to be flown might garner vandalism and/or being called a MAGA racist misogynist transphobe who wants to re-segregate America.

  26. Yusef drives a Kia

    Looks like they lost a part when Dragon separated from second stage, hope its not important,

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Ground control told the crew “We hope you enjoyed the flight and thanks for flying spaceX”
      Awesome

    • Muzzled Woodchipper

      A 42-year-old transgender woman who allegedly threw Molotov cocktails at vehicles and spray-painted “Nazi cars” at a Colorado Tesla dealership lives with her mother due to “emotional problems” and calls herself “baby” online.

      Gee. Someone who believes that mutilating your body or cross-dressing actually changes your sex has emotional problems?

      I could never have guessed.

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