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Loving Life! Go 2006 White Sox!!

QUOTE(Rex Kickass @ Apr 21, 2006 -> 05:38 PM) The Bottleneck is usually where the good shows are. Good coffee and drinks at the Bourgeois Pig. Yellow Submarine has a kick ass Chicken Parm sub. A friend of mine was a barmaid at the Bourgeois Pig. Never made it to Laweance while she was there. I'll second hanging out at Barbary Coast, pretty much because itt IS kind of seedy and dive-like. It's like being in one of the old downtown Vegas casinos without the expense of the cab ride from the strip. They also have $1 shrimp coctails t the bar, and you can't beat that. Monte Carlo has a brewpub on site. The beer was marginal when I went but I'd give it another try. There were a couple of other good brewpubs in Vegas, the always excellent Gordon-Biersch (the original brewery is in Palo Alto), and a great quirky place called Holy Cow. I've heard Holy Cow closed and then reopened as the Big Dog Brewery but I've not been back. The Triple 7 brewpub, in the Main Street complex downtown, is pretty marrginal, but it still beats the hell out of a Bud or a Miller.

QUOTE(hammerhead johnson @ Apr 21, 2006 -> 03:24 PM) But on a serious note, people need to realize that there are no search options on this site. Unless it's recent news, don't be that dumbass who says some s*** like "It's been posted before". Uhm, yeah, that's been said here before . . .

Ach, at least somebody got a good nap out of the visit. . . And at least he lost the sunglasses.

I'm not a Trekkie, merely a casual fan, but the linked story talked about there being six TV series. Star Trek, Next Gen, Deep Space 9, Voyager, and Enterprise make five. Am I missing one, or are they counting the Filmation animated series from the 70s as the sixth one?

QUOTE(Rex Kickass @ Apr 21, 2006 -> 01:19 PM) Isn't Cinci chili a marriage between Texas/Southwest Chili (no beans) and Boston/Northeast Chili (beans, no tomato) No it isn't in terms of its actual origins, though there may be similarities due to convergent evolution of the styles. http://whatscookingamerica.net/Beef/CincinnatiChili.htm

Olbermann’s (Countdown) and David Shuster (MSNBC) now also report report "signs" that Fitzgerald has now focused on a Turd Blossom indictment. I know prosecutors often send a lettter to a target ahead of a pending indictment to alert them. I wonder if Karl got a letter like that and it played into his change of White House duties.

Cool promo. So who are the "participating retailers"?? Time to get on the horn to my Bro and tell him he'd better pick those up for me!

Don't you just love having an off day and STILL picking up a half-game with a TRIBE LOSS!!!

All hopped up, definately!

QUOTE(Texsox @ Apr 20, 2006 -> 06:45 PM) There we go, that was easy :rolly That is how rumors get started.

Jason Leopold has got some things right and some other tthings wrong before, but he says Fitz presented new evidence against Turd Blossom to the Grand Jury this week will soon be seeking an indictment. Here's hoping it comes before he can throw himself full into 2006 GOP campaign gear. http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042006Z.shtml

QUOTE(LosMediasBlancas @ Apr 20, 2006 -> 04:36 PM) where was yours from? It's an old Jimmy Buffet song.

QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Apr 20, 2006 -> 04:50 PM) My buddy just got back from Arizona today. I watched his cat for him. He brought me a bomber of Stone Arrogant Bastard, a bomber of Stone Pale Ale, and a 12 oz. Stone IPA. I think I made out like a bandit. Stone!!

There you go. Having long given up on making better beer, Miller is going to worry solely about making a better can.

Nobody is going to go into that job and have an easy time of it. If anything, the press corp is going to be way harder on the next guy. Scotty was kind of the likable liar who everybody knew was just doing the job Ari had dumped in his lap, everybody knew he was shilling for the president, but his demeanor was such that he was a sympathetic character. he also took over the press gig before the president had squandered every last bit of public trust and good faith. The next guy is in for a hell of a ride, no matter who it is.

QUOTE(LosMediasBlancas @ Apr 20, 2006 -> 01:40 PM) I'm cold, I'm wet and I'm just plain scared. How do you do? I see you've met my. . . faithful handyman. Ace ref

QUOTE(LosMediasBlancas @ Apr 20, 2006 -> 12:24 PM) I'm a congested, sneezy, runny nose, red watery eyed mess. My Head Hurts, My Feet Stink, and I Don't Love Jesus.

At the same time, there is something exciting about the synthesis of very different cuisines into something new. Creole and cajun cuisines, tapas, even so-called New American cuisine are all more than the sum of their parts. Not that indiginous cuisines shoudl not be respected and preserved. But being catch-as-can by nature, they may not have all the right components to make them world class. Comfort food versus high epicurean culture, I guess.

QUOTE(The Critic @ Apr 20, 2006 -> 12:01 PM) Nahhhh, you just know what ORIGINALLY went into chili..... A few of those recipes sound real good.....as long as I throw some beans in there....and some mushrooms..... Chili without beans, at least for me, just means spicy beef soup. OK, expanding this conversation about what should go into chili . . . A good friend has a family chili recipe that includes GREEN OLIVES in it. I give him s*** about it all the time, but secretly I adore his chili. It's unique and really quite outstanding. I think if the origins of his chili can be traced, it is probably derived from the Cincinatti chili line and not the Texas chili line. Cincy chili had a completely different origin, apparently by a couple of Greek immigrant brothers with a hot dog vending cart. Their version used all kinds of Mediterranean spices in it, so the olive thing seems like it could have legitimately come down that way.

QUOTE(Soxy @ Apr 20, 2006 -> 11:48 AM) So, I'm guessing I can't get a good vegetarian chilli in Texas? Apparently, that is not true. Vegans in Texas, who'da thunkit?

QUOTE(LosMediasBlancas @ Apr 20, 2006 -> 11:40 AM) Ooooh, see now that's a horse of another color. Yes, I bet if beef is not available, horse would be a fine substitute. . .

QUOTE(Texsox @ Apr 20, 2006 -> 11:42 AM) Now if you are going to slow cook your chili, with fresh herbs and spices, along with some dried. Use a good chuck of meat, filet wouldn't be unheard of, and finely cube it. Time your seasoning "dumps" throughout the all day cooking process to achieve a depth of flavors, add several chilis and peppers to again, broaden the range and depth of your chili. Then you will see why beans would be an insult to the dish. So when do you put the ketchup in again?

QUOTE(LosMediasBlancas @ Apr 20, 2006 -> 11:31 AM) Well, if you Texans take that beanless so called 'chilli' and put it in a tortilla, you get your standard ground beef taco. Ah, but the best Texas-style chilis that I have had use fine cubed beef and not ground.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Apr 20, 2006 -> 11:30 AM) A couple options would be corn tortilla, slightly to moderatly greasy with bistek (chopped steak) onions and cilantro. Definately "Tex-Mex" flour tortilla with scrambled eggs, and whatever makes a good omlette. How about some Texas BBQ? Pit smoked, (pecan or mesquit) Brisket with beans, rice or potato sales, raw onion, pickle, jalepenos, and a couple slices of white bread and some sweeeeeeeet tea. That would be my first choice. If you could get some BBQ sauce from Millers or Rudy's that would be almost perfect. Ach, I was trying to gget her to do something easy, since I'll be the one doing the cooking. Texas sheet cake or corn bread or something. barring that, a one-pot meal like chili would be better for a bunch of gradeschoolers than something like tacos that need some assembly. But noooooo, Little Miss Stubborn now wants to make tacos. . .