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QUOTE (SoxAce @ May 20, 2009 -> 01:50 AM) Look at Big Jim hangin.. Would love to have a few beers with the "veteran". "Veteran" is code for "old as dirt", isn't it? Started the evening with my first love, beer. A gorgeous Wyerbacher Belgian style "Quad" that in and of itself justifies the existence of Pennsylvania. Realizing that I didn't have any other chiled beers that could follow that opener, I moved on to Zaya neat, Martinique rhum 'ti punch, and then the Sidewinder. Currently it's a tossup between bed and a Cruzan Blackstrap corn 'N oil. I think rum is going to win by a nose. I just hosted a well-attended charity (cancer research) beer tasting last Friday, and now feel sort of guilty soaking in so much rum when I'm supposed to be "da beer guy". Viva la diversity!

Can't drink more than a couple 'ti punch in a night, so on to the Sidewinder's Fang. Lime, orange, and passionfruit, Coruba and aged Demerara rums. . . best one this side of Alameda Island. Hey Tex, Jeff Berry is going to come take his book back if you don't start mixing up some yummy rum drinks!

TI POONNNSCH! (say it loud!) St. Clement VSOP makes it happen. Now where is that tin of Lyle's Golden Syrup??

My kids have dragged me out to a few awful movies where the RunVomit spot would pretty much cover the entire film.

lostfan's point about asking the self-proclained pro-life pastor about the death penalty is in important one — one worth my temporarily breaking my self-imposed Filibuster exile to chime in on. Using the pastor's own words: Someone writing these words has to logically conclude that the death penalty is also immoral because it similarly depends on man "outrank[ing] God and can end[ing] life whenever we choose". AHB, I agree it's easier to keep your mouth shut most of the time just to keep from going nuts. But if you take your pastor to task on this, let us know how he responds. If he sees capital punishment as equally morally unjustifiable as abortion, then I will respect him for being consistent regarding his position on the sanctity of life whether I agree with him or not.

QUOTE (santo=dorf @ May 16, 2009 -> 05:33 PM) Just watched The Fisher King for the first time and wasn't very moved by it. It was very cricially acclaimed (although it did get two thumbs down) but I just wasn't feeling it. I loved Fisher King when it came out but I need to see it again and see if my opinion has changed. Mostly, at the time I thought it represented a highly accessible Gilliam film that might bring him a larger audience. Twelve Monkeys and possibly Fear and Loathing probably did more for him on that score at any rate.

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:headbang Hope it's a good one!

QUOTE (BobDylan @ May 18, 2009 -> 05:25 PM) If you feel up to it, give these two albums a try: Suspicious Activity? Radiolarians II (this one is admittedly different, but still very good.) From the Amazon audio clips, I can tell I'd like both of those. Thanks. My jazz education has been very haphazard, and as a result my style preferences are all over the map. I really like the pre- Kind of Blue hard bop Miles and other bebop stuff immensely, and didn't care for the modal stuff originally when I first heard it. In time I came to appreciate the significance of that departure from the overcomplex chord progressions in hard bop. On a given day when I'm in a jazz mood, I may just as easily listen to early New Orleans jazz, or Charley Christian, or Art Blakeley, or anything with Lionel Hampton playing vibes. A big jazzhead friend just turned me on to a lot of early Wes Montgomery which had somehow eluded me and is unbelievably good. Like I said, all over the map with no rhyme or reason other than holding onto the accidental exposures that I've really liked.

QUOTE (LosMediasBlancas @ May 18, 2009 -> 01:38 AM) I'm going to South Beach, Fl. next week for 5 days. It just kinda fell into my lap. Any 'must do' tips? If you have any interest in Tiki culture, urban anthropology, or crazy good rum drinks, Mai Kai in Ft. Lauderdale is a most-do. It is the last of the great Tiki Palaces in the entire country from the 1950s-1960s heyday.

QUOTE (Texsox @ May 18, 2009 -> 04:04 PM) Nice of you to let him wear it that day. Come to think of it, I don't think he ever even asked to borrow it.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ May 18, 2009 -> 04:04 PM) That's interesting - in that case, drop Card from my list. Keep Clarke and Dick, though neither are quite properly stylists. One guy who is a sylist of sorts is Heinlein, but that is a whole different can of worms. His stuff reads like a great author who is forced at gun point to write soft core space porn. Its an interesting effect, and his better known stuff like Stranger in a Strange Land is fun to read. But its fluffy as hell. I like soft core space porn description on Heinlein — it's especially apt for his later stuff. I have no problems with the "fluffiness" of Stranger, though. The originally released version of was nowhere near as bloated as the posthumous re-release, but I much prefer the re-release.

Me and the Prez own the same jacket. Too cool!

How do you do? I See you've met my Faithful handyman. He's just a little brought down Because when you knocked, He thought you were the candyman

QUOTE (BobDylan @ May 17, 2009 -> 06:04 PM) The Black Saint & The Sinner Lady (Charles Mingus), so f***ing good. :headbang Unbelievable album. A Love Supreme and Kind of Blue are the only two other jazz albums that are up there on par with Black Saint in my (admittedly limited) book.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ May 8, 2009 -> 11:36 AM) So I woke up next to a girl I have no recollection of ever seeing like ever. And I'm still f***ing hammered and it's 10AM the next morning. I'm going to go rethink my life over. I have to live vicariously through people with stories like that. I made some questionable choices in some of the girls I brought home on drunk college nights, but I always knew who they were when I woke up. It's embarrassing to admit, I know.

Will have to do this for sure this summer. Hopefully before the name change, because it's going to be lame telling people about going to the top of the big willie.

QUOTE (shipps @ May 1, 2009 -> 10:18 AM) How big of a money hit do they expect the Wolverine movie is gonna take with the leak of the directors cut bootleg dvd that got out. It seems like everyone has seen it like a month ago. The cgi sequences in the leaked version were supposed to be extreme rough cuts, so anybody going for the cgi wouldn't be spoiled. The way it sounds like they fokked up the origin I don't have much desire to see it.

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Apr 30, 2009 -> 09:29 AM) Yeah, but they look cool!! If you like that Michael Jackson look. I think the US and global public health infrastructure responses have been measured and appropriate so far. If media response to the emerging pandemic is overblown. . . well that is par for the course for the media. CDC will have a cultured reference virus by next week and vaccine production facilities will be able to begin mass production of vaccine within a month. Even if widespread vaccination is not called for down the line, effort and money have to be put into ramping up for that potential now.

QUOTE (LosMediasBlancas @ Apr 29, 2009 -> 02:23 AM) Chorizo usually flies through me and has a meaner sting on the way out..... but it is tasty with eggs. You have to respect food that fights back, especially food that fights back coming and going. Good Thai panang curry prepared "Thai hot" is my Achilles heel. I order it so hot I sweat and get an endorphin rush that is euphoric to the point of being nearly hallucinogenic. But boy do I pay the price for it the next day.

QUOTE (LosMediasBlancas @ Apr 29, 2009 -> 02:19 AM) Results from a poll in a men's magazine show that 26% of women are thinking about THEIR WEIGHT during sex. By the way, that was the highest %. I found that very interesting. I'm sure follow-on research would also show that the women who have these thoughts typically do so when they are on top.

The point is that fluorescence is obvious tangible proof that the chimeric gene was successfully inserted and is coding for protein products in the animals. Critical initial work prior to using animals like this for the Parkinson's research noted in the article and scads of other work to follow. Good stuff.

QUOTE (CanOfCorn @ Apr 28, 2009 -> 11:55 AM) Drivers in Massachusetts aren't called Massholes for nuthin'. I wouldn't drive in Boston in you paid me. Awful drivers.

QUOTE (The Human Borch @ Apr 26, 2009 -> 05:40 PM) i'm sure none of you remember this, but sometime last summer i came here saying i was starting a band and we were gonna try out some rhcp stuff. well, i figured i'd give an update, and do some shameless advertising of some videos we put up... last weekend we played a show outside a hotel here in downtown columbus. we got lucky because our bassist's dad is in a local cover band, and they said they'd let us open for them. We ended up playing three songs, starting with "purple stain" by rhcp, then we played an original called "ain't my scene", then we closed with "give it away". it was a lot of fun and we think it went well, so here's the videos... (i'm the singer, be gentle... haha) "Ain't my Scene": "Give it Away": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4BeiJhkd5Y Thanks for any input! Not bad, not bad at all.

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Apr 27, 2009 -> 05:58 PM) A properly louched absinthe is incredible. Ouzo, Pernod, Herbsaint I think, and some other anise liqueurs will louche with water as well - there's some pretty neat chemistry going on there for sure. The wormwood as hallucinogen and/or or destroyer of Victorian-Age gentlemen was always overblown to mythical proportions, but damn, between the slotted spoon and the dissolving the sugar with cold water poured from a specialty decanter, etc., it's definitely a ritualized preparation on par with something you'd expect from an opium den.