FlaSoxxJim

Garcia's was never great pizza, but their brand of soft doughy, tomato sauce-soaked pizza did grow on me. When I was down there I worked at Zorba's gyro joint on Green St. next to Mabel's before it turned into Z's or whatever it turned into. Is that place still around?

Good stuff

QUOTE (Pants Rowland @ Oct 5, 2009 -> 12:34 PM) Best pay attention next time Corn, eh? D'oh!

QUOTE (CanOfCorn @ Oct 5, 2009 -> 12:32 PM) A nice cup of Tim Horton's coffee sounds really good right about now. Couldn't top a Stan Mikita Donut.

Are we taking any bets on who gets post #2,000?

The Horned One. . . good player but not much on making saves.

Quality autumn days down here weather-wise are rare, that is true.

October in the Northeast is nice as well — certainly better than what we have down here.

QUOTE (bmags @ Oct 5, 2009 -> 11:39 AM) LOL god I love that Larry Flint set an important precedent for our country hahaha. You mean other than setting the standard for meat curtain photography in monthly men's entertainment magazines?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 5, 2009 -> 11:31 AM) Last place I would ever want to be is in the Valley in August...Moon Zappa made the Valley sound sorta nice.

QUOTE (Tex @ Oct 5, 2009 -> 11:19 AM) January will bring cooling down to the 50s. Kelvin equivalent for that range would be around 283-288 K.

Great Thinkers need a place in which to congregate. And the rest of us come here.

Winter of my discontent will be long indeed.

Until next year then. . .

Quietly and meekly, the 2009 White Sox Campaign is coming to a close.

I cracked the Sierra Southern Hemisphere Harvest Ale on Friday night, and split it with Mrs. Flaxx. It was drinkable and balanced with interesting hop flavors, but it was not nearly as in-you-face with the fresh aroma hops as I thought it was going to be. Overall body and character is on par with Celebration, and in a couple of weeks when my beer shop blows these out at $4 a bottle I'm sure I'll pick up a few. Overall though, I expected more from this one. Haven't had either of the pumpkin ales yet, but out at a city art festival yesterday I worked up the courage to try one of the Jack's Pumpkin Spice Ales for the sake of comparison. Pumpkin and spice were understated and my wife and I were actually able to get through this one without to much grumbling, even going as far as following it with a Michelob Marzen. I'm grading both of these AB beers on a very generous curve (any port in a storm, etc., they were the best of the bad choices at the festival), but they weren't entirely awful. Weak body and adjunct flavors dominate the middle and finish, but that's to be expected in from AB beers. Glad there are much better beers out there, but we survived a couple of these. On the tiki front, while out at the art fair I picked up a tin of Lyle's Golden Syrup from the downtown UK import shop (also picked up scones and clotted cream which we had for breakfast along with steel-cut Irish oatmeal and Earl Gray tea — yum!). Lyle's Golden Syrup is a British iinvert sugar cane juice and is a perfectly workable substitution for pressed cane syrup in cocktails like Martinique 'Ti Punch. I have two very good Martinique rhum agricoles on hand (including Depaz Blue Cane agricole which I got at a steal for $19 last month from a store who didn't realize it usually sells for about twice that). So last night we finally got around to watching our first episode of Mad Men while enjoying a couple of 'Ti Punches made roughly according to Trader Tiki's recipe below and with the lime reduced to a squeeze of the end slice which is then dropped in as a garnish: This drink has been interesting for me because I have altered the amount of syrup and lime I use over the last year as my taste for rhum agricole has matured. With my first agricoles I used a lot of syrup and lime to stand up to the distinctive earthy harsh (in a good way) flavors characteristic of this style of rum. As I have come to crave those flavors, I use much less sugar and lime, and although I'm very content to drink these neat without anything the interplay of rhum, lime and sugar in the 'Ti Punch is brilliant. Seeing as this is how they do it in Martinique, I figure it's good enough for me.

The brain tacos were most definitely "I dare you" drunk food. But when they first opened ('86-87) they were outstanding and the only thing close to Chicago taqueria and burrito joint.

QUOTE (son of a rude @ Oct 3, 2009 -> 05:48 PM) ugh, la bamba is complete trash. i would rather have taco bell. that sucks. Back in the day nobody did chorizo burritos and brain tacos like Labamba.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Oct 3, 2009 -> 10:27 AM) Flash, that girl sounds like a major tease. In the end, would she be worth it? In the end? Hell yeah if she was into that sort of thing!

QUOTE (CanOfCorn @ Oct 2, 2009 -> 10:55 PM) Wait...you mean...you're NOT gay? I am if it gets me into the good clubs and parties.

Corrupting allure of Absolute Power will get the best of you eventually.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 2, 2009 -> 06:37 PM) Needing viagra? OK, that's why I didn't get the reference.

Admin, hun? Pretty fancy there.

QUOTE (knightni @ Oct 2, 2009 -> 06:25 PM) If I was a dead car, maybe. What the hell is that a euphemism for?

QUOTE (Tex @ Oct 2, 2009 -> 05:44 PM) romance movie in Jim's future . . . That would be my birthday present.