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QUOTE (Tony82087 @ Jul 13, 2010 -> 03:02 PM) God I have had some bad nights at Pippens. Good bar, just rough nights. WestEnd is actually having a crazy promo today. If you show up before the All star game tonight, and you have to chose the AL or NL. If your team wins and you stay to the end of the game, they pick up your tab. That seems like easy free drinks. The NL doesn't remember how to win an All Star Game.

QUOTE (maggsmaggs @ Jul 12, 2010 -> 09:00 PM) So last Friday night, me and a few buddies went to a couple of bars in Lincoln Park. The first one was McGee's and for me, it really was not the type of bar I enjoy. Too F'in loud, too collegey even though that's my age range. I prefer a more laid back bar, which is the one across the street whose name I do not know. Anyone got some bar suggestions or just ones you like? That bar across the street is probably Kelly's Pub. Not a huge beer selection but they have Guinness and they've been in business since the year Prohibition was repealed, so it gets high marks from me.

Here's hoping. . .

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jul 12, 2010 -> 01:37 PM) Probably already been discussed, but thoughts on Burton's Alice In Wonderland? Cool visuals, but otherwise pretty meh IMO. Depp was mediocre at best (was the scottish accent to british accent to no accent at all on purpose?), Hellenah Bonham Carter just screamed the whole time, and the award for most awkward out of place scene in a movie goes to . TOTALLY out of place and weird. From a serious, ominous tone of music to funk tones from the 80's? Just brutal. Made my fiance and I cringe. VERY cool effects throughout though. I just got around to seeing the film and I agree the visuals were the strongest part — as tends to be the case with Burton. All in all I thought it was an entertaining film. As far as the dance scene at the end, maybe the dance and music style were an odd selection intended to be strictly humorous, but the scene itself was not out of place. Hatter had been noted earlier at teh Tea Party to be teh best Futterwhaken (sp??) dancer in Underland (I love that name — nice touch by Burton), and Hatter made a point the of saying that he would not Futterwhaken until the Queen of Hearts was unthroned. So it made sense that there woudl be a Hatter dance scene there, even if that particular song and dance don't quite come off.

The First American Splendors I read were the Cancer Year books. What an interesting and far out guy.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jul 12, 2010 -> 11:46 AM) Harvey Pekar How did he die? Did the lymphoma come back?

QUOTE (Felix @ Jul 11, 2010 -> 12:07 PM) If they really wanted to send a message to the entire forum, they wouldn't have hid the initial post in a Catch-All thread in an offtopic forum, where I'd guess the vast majority of PHT readers don't venture. My guess is that friendly notices have been posted in several places and also that folks needing a gentle reining in probably received them via PM. At least I love the fact that it is the Sox tearing it up right now that has folks here acting a bit unruly. That's way better than everybody being dog-kicking mad over the team when it's playing poorly.

QUOTE (ptatc @ Jul 11, 2010 -> 11:43 AM) I asked this in another thread but don't know if you saw it, is that a young Declan MacManus in your avatar? It looks like him but I don't think I've seen it. Indeed it is. On a big Costello kick of late, and he's always been one of my favorites.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jul 10, 2010 -> 10:22 PM) Thanks for that link. We have a bar full of mixers but never know what to do with them. I have some Jack Daniels Single Barrel waiting for me tonight. I've also discovered recently that Buffalo Trace whiskey mixes very, very well with some cola. Buffalo Trace is good stuff, and the distillery makes a lot of very good products. Get adventurous and try the Buffalo Trace with this one from CocktailDB. Don't be put off by the use of maple syrup as a cocktail ingredient, it's a very traditional ingredient that we've just forgotten about in modern days. I think this drink is a winner.

QUOTE (G&T @ Jul 10, 2010 -> 08:17 PM) Maybe someone here can help me with this. There is a certain flavor in some beers, usually questionable micros, that immediately gives me a headache and makes me nauseous. And then there is a restaurant here that makes me sick whenever I get a beer on tap. I get sick immediately from only a few sips. I figure the restaurant doesn't clean their lines, but I know immediately that the beer is bad because of a certain flavor that I gues is like cardboardy or licorice. I know that flavors indicate different things but when I taste I know I have to stop. Anyone know what might cause such a fast reaction and fit that flavor profile? You are right about different flavors meaning different things, and you are entirely correct about the iiffy small brewers (especially extract brewpubs) having serious issues. From most of my experience, the cardboard taste in beer is a sign of oxidation. In and of itself, oxidized beer might not make you nauseous although it is pretty revolting for most style (British real ale being an exception in that slight oxidation is part of its traditional flavor profile). Usually though, a pub willing to sell you oxidized beer has been lazy in other aspects of its brewing. I'm not sure what your licorice flavor is, but it maybe the same as my number one least favorite beer off flavor, shich I describe as tasting like you are chewing on rubber tires or burned. I've encountered this in many iffy brewpubs and I don't think it's a beer ingredient per se. Rather, it's either a residual flavor from bad line sanitation, or maybe even some rubber gaskets somewhere along the line degrading, or a preservative or foaming chemical additive. . . I don't know. Whatever it is I hate that flavor and I pretty much write off a pub as a bad idea if I encounter it more than once in a blue moon. Taking a different tack, here's another snippet on beer headaches.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Jul 11, 2010 -> 03:55 AM) OK, I'll start this post off by saying that I am drunk (Tex ) and that I was indeed joking around, but also that I was sort of doing it to be a douche. Like qwerty said, nobody has anything bad to say about Flaxx, he's a great poster. I'll take this opportunity to thank qwerty and Felix because they're awesome. I also understand knight's post because, as I admitted, I said it to be a jerk. I probably deserve to get a suspension of some kind, so I won't dispute it if I get one. I post under the working assumption that everybody is drunk, so I rarely take offense at anything. QUOTE (SoxAce @ Jul 11, 2010 -> 04:45 AM) No you don't. Agreed — as are the mods and admins I would bet. I don't envy the mods and admins here their gig in the least. They have to walk a very fine line sometimes when trying to keep things loose and easy and making sure loose doesn't turn into lawless. Like Felix and Qwerty, I was surprised at first to see Milk's obviously (to us) playful snarkiness get such a heavy-handed response. But given that we were being put on notice (nicely) about keeping our posts civil I can see where the response is coming from. For the record, I still think it is Hall of Justice Cool that we all have a Warn Alert status associated with our profiles.

Keep it going Boys!

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Jul 9, 2010 -> 11:50 PM) I finally got around to watching "X-Files: I Want To Believe". Not good, not good at all. Very disappointing. Extremely lame story line. honestly one of the worst films I ever saw.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 10, 2010 -> 12:29 PM) Lately we have been a little lax around Soxtalk with keeping up the expected posting standards. The amount of personal attacks and the like has been much higher lately that it has been for a while. In response we have dug in a bit and handed out suspensions to about half a dozen different people. The time ranged based on past problems, and the infractions, but a couple of them are going to be for significant amounts of time. Basically all we want to see here is for people to at least be respectful. You make an angry point without making it into a personal attack. Please remember this while posting. Thanks! Somewhere, WARN LEVEL Sirens left and right are screaming in a supersecret sub-basement Soxtalk Fortress of Solitude.

Been to try to diet a bit so I hadn't enjoyed any adult beverages all week until we went out to catch a minor league ballgame last night and I had a couple of beers. After coming home I figured I'd already fallen off the diet cart so I might as well have a rum drink. Not wanting to go too overboard I opted for something on the lower cal side and made something I've wanted to make for a long time. Ron del Barrilito 2-Star PR rum with coconut water is supposedly a traditional and popular way to drink this particular rum in Puerto Rico. Tried it first using unsweetened coconut water but it really didn't cut it. Much better with sweetened coconut water — unfortunate because I was hoping to come up with a sugar-free summer rum drink alternative to all the high-cal tropical drinks I tend toward. The trad PR version uses fresh young coconut water which does have more sweetness to it than the canned unsweet stuff, so I think using the sweetened cans is closer in taste to the authentic drink. It's actually pretty good, and grew on me with each sip. The rum comes through nicely and the coconut water and a twist of lime are a light tropical compliment. I'll definitely take this one out for the upcoming family beachside vacation.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 10, 2010 -> 10:01 AM) Its really Jason's moms basement... That was a little less kick-ass than I was envisioning.

My only parting instructions to my wife is if she finds me dead she needs to make sure it looks like I was doing something cool.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jul 9, 2010 -> 06:35 PM) I don't like suspending people or being "that guy" but someone has to. I happen to like you, Y2HH. Your warn level is 40% if you were curious. There is no "suspend Y2HH" button although maybe I'll talk to Kap about getting one, that'd make it more convenient. "Warn Level"?!? That's too cool! How do we the unwashed Soxtalk masses get to view our warn levels?? I'm now imagining you all operating the website from a secret kick-ass Dr. Strangelove War Room.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Jul 8, 2010 -> 10:22 PM) At the end of it all, doesn't creationism and evolution end up being the same? How do you figure that?

Make it a good one. When the Sox sweep the Angels today, remember that's what I got you for your birthday!

QUOTE (Tex @ Jul 7, 2010 -> 12:59 PM) They think the tar balls are from ship hulls that went through the spill. That is a very likely explanation.

QUOTE (Tex @ Jul 7, 2010 -> 08:48 AM) Tar balls on the Texas beaches. f*** Welcome to the club.

QUOTE (Nunnigan @ Jul 2, 2010 -> 12:32 PM) "Gas, grab some bench" "[player] hit a frozen rope" "[player] hit a screaming mimi" "Get foul, get foul, it will/wont" "COME ON TIMO!" That's my favorite. "I Love email!"

Hope it's a good one!