April! God… DAMMIT – Offseason Sunday Open Thread

These are despairing times. The present has become anticipating the worst possible outcome in the foreseeable future. Or, for Jets fans, on draft day in a couple of weeks. We’re into Month #3 of the offseason. Delaying the draft has proven to create an unbearable vacuum of news and rumors after

Sunday Gravy LIII with yeah right: Going Crazy with the Italian again. Scratch made Chicken Parmesan.

Good morning DFO! Welcome back to Sunday Gravy, also known as the place where I attempt culinary suicide by working my lunatic ass off. That LIII thing in the title was a surprise to me too. When doing research - is it research if you're referencing your own recipes? - for next

Your “Saturday Night Cucker” Saturday Evening Open Thread

Yep, I know.  That title's gonna need some 'splaining. For now let's just say things got weird(er than normal) around the poker table last night.  But holy shit that was funny.  Also, Steve Bannon would have felt right at home.  Or is that Kuschner who would have felt at home?  Meh,

Commentist Beer Barrel: From Russia With Care

From the outside, looking in, this beer review might appear to be two weeks late. The reality is that this review is much, much later than that. That's because it's a review of a beer from Jester King Brewery, a farmhouse brewing outfit located in the countryside southwest of Austin, and

In Search of a Goddess – Episode 7c

Editor's Note:  Welcome to the 3rd and final installment of NOGALES WEEK!!!!!!  Yeah, yeah, don't worry....this is it.  Well at least for Nogales, anyway.  Next week, balls and tWBS start fucking shit up in Arizona.  Now that's something you don't want to miss.  Well, maybe you do...but go here if

TGISF…aka Your “The Pimp is Too Apathetic to Think of a Theme This Week” Sexy Friday Open Thread

OK, so for the first time in like....wait, how long have I been the Pimp of [DFO] again???? ....  Anyway, I'm too lazy to go check, but let's call it six months.  Close enough. But yeah, for the first time in six-ish months, I've begun typing out this week's TGISF without

The Bachelor: NFL Edition

                  CHRIS HARRISON: Good evening, and welcome to a very special episode of The Bachelor. I'm your host, Chris Harrison, and thank you for tuning in to see if some lucky lads and ladies can find love. And our contestants are very lucky indeed, as they will be vying for the love,

Your “Dull Sideshow Full of Quacks and Clowns and Philistines” Thursday Evening Open Thread

Reminder: the Draft is three weeks today. NFL News: Beastmode will become a Raider, probably sometime before the draft. John Schneider says his relationship with Raiders GM Reggie McKenzie - from their collective time in Green Bay - will ensure things are handled "in a smooth manner," either by release or minimally-invasive