Before I get going on what I’ve got to say, I must add my two cents to Yeah Right’s immaculate post on deep dish pizza. I too have been working on my pizza game during these dark times. Everything he said I have also done. My twist on the whole venture has been this: use the barbecue.

I have found, via experimentation, that using the ‘cue helps dry out the air a bit more for cooking the dough, resulting in a browner crust. The flame also gets the skillet hotter quicker. (Remember to oil.) The end result is that I found it takes about 3-5 minutes off oven-cooking time. Also, as you might note, I am not using a skillet in that shot because Lodge also makes a 12″ pizza pan. WineWife likes thin crust, and sometimes her wishes must be accommodated (so BeerGuy’s wishes can eventually be as well).

I have a skillet, and have used it to make slices I used to dream about having to travel to get.

Ham, regular bacon, back bacon, pineapple & love. It was like eating an Italian luau. To paraphrase an old Gravy maxim, if you can perfect five dishes across a spectrum as your go-to options, the rest will come easy.


Riga leg update:

She’s already eager to get back to life. After one day, she can stand at her food station & eat, which is a very good sign.

The one shaved leg makes her look like she got drunk at a country bar & the electric bull ripped off her pants. She’s walking with purpose, because she wants to be a part of everything. That’s what the vet warned about – she will push too hard, too soon. She has to be leashed even in the back yard. Plus, we have to remember to ice her after every walking session, or she’ll end up like Earl Campbell. But – so far, so good.


Tonight’s sports:

  • NHL:
    • Columbus vs. Toronto – 8:00PM | NBCSN / Sportsnet
      • Game Five – winner gets to move on; loser gets into the draw for Alexis Lafrenière, the kid who is going to kick so much ass once he gets his pro legs.
        • Because there is no God, Mario will get him.
      • I will forgive John Tortorella everything he did as Canucks coach if he can beat the Leafs.
        • Not everything he ever did. Just the shit he pulled in Vancouver. /tips hat to Gratliff.
  • MLB:
    • Chicago Cubs at St. Louis Cardinals – 7:00PM | ESPN / TSN2
  • NBA:
    • Rockets vs. Kings – 8:00PM | TSN5
    • Nets vs. Clippers – 10:00PM | TSN / NBATV
  • WNBA:
    • Washington Mystics vs. Indiana Fever – 7:00PM | ESPN2

Plus, the PGA Championship will be ongoing from early in the afternoon. (CBS – Jim Nantz) Paulina Gretzky’s husband had a one-shot lead going into the final round. By the time this post goes live, he ought to be on the 12th hole.

Tomorrow brings a day of respite, as the NHL gears up for the first round, and the NBA sorts its playoff seeds for its tourney starting on the weekend. Dog days of summer my ass!

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A Canadian man-child of indeterminate age, he stays young by selling alcohol at sporting events and yelling at the patrons he serves. Their rage nourishes his soul, and their tips pay for his numerous trips to various sporting events.
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Doktor Zymm

Holy crap or perhaps yeet! I forgot there was a Get Smart Fugitive parody!

Gratliff

Say goodbye to that tight postseason hockey scheduling from this week. Round 1 goes from 8/11-8/23.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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ballsofsteelandfury

I’m going to miss morning mid-work hockey…

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Viva La Tabula Raza

Kegels, maybe?

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Sharkbait

Every fuck ass in DC who thought covid was a hoax, as well as people who aren’t taking this shit seriously can go eat a bag of dicks

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Indeed.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Viva La Tabula Raza

I’m glad I got to live in this country for a while when it was relatively sane. Too bad what has happened, but I guess I should be glad that I did not procreate.

Unsurprised

When was it relatively sane?

Viva La Tabula Raza

I guess the answer is “back before I achieved full consciousness.”

Doktor Zymm

Hey, don’t slander people from DC. Those infected smegma clots aren’t from DC, they just pretend to work there a couple months out of the year.

Sharkbait

Good point. DC politicians and leeches that hang on to them are the ones that can get fucked.

Doktor Zymm

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Doktor Zymm

Looking at pictures from Sturgis, amazingly, bikers who give zero shits about their own health do not age well. Pretty much all of them look about 20 years above their age, I’ll be curious to find out if Covid hits them like their chronological age or their appearance age?

Viva La Tabula Raza

Fingers crossed!!!

Doktor Zymm

We’re all terrible dancers.comment image/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/340?cb=20170329030638

herodotus450

Toronto Canadian media trying to compare the Leafos comeback the other night to the 2004 Red Sox

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Doktor Zymm

THE GROOVY GURU!comment image

Gratliff

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herodotus450

Toronto’s top line makes something like $35 Million a year, which comes out to UNDEF dollars per goal scored so far this game.

Gratliff

#DIV/0!

montythisseemsstrangetome

MLB in 2020 is stupid and doesn’t matter but I like the White Sox uniforms tonight.

Horatio Cornblower

Don’t have the Sox game readily available; which ones are they wearing?

My son played for an AAU team called the Sox, and they modeled their unis after Chicago, as is natural for a team out of eastern CT with no other team with “Sox” in their name readily available.

Anyway, the White Sox did have a cool throwback, and not the one with the shorts.comment image

montythisseemsstrangetome

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Horatio Cornblower

Classics. Our favoUrite of the Sox options.

Dunstan

Don’t forget the matching shorts

Dunstan

This is what happens when I forget to scroll up first.

Horatio Cornblower

Also, deep dish pizza, while delicious, is a casserole, not a pizza.

Discuss.

Gratliff

The best deep dish pizza in the world wouldn’t crack the top ten of real pizza

Doktor Zymm

There’s no such thing as a consistent food definition, pizza is whatever the majority agrees that pizza is. I’ll agree with you the day you can give me a definition of salad to which I cannot name an exception.

Horatio Cornblower

A salad is a vegetarian deep dish pizza.

Duh,

Gratliff

Is spaghetti a deep dish pizza?
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Doktor Zymm

It’s definitely a salad

Viva La Tabula Raza

Some of us have lower standards.comment image

Viva La Tabula Raza

If I had kids, I would probably have those lower standards.

herodotus450

Salad: “a dish with different stuff that you eat”
checkmate saladtheists

Mr. Ayo

Is a Chicago dog a salad?

Doktor Zymm

Only if you eat it

Gratliff

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Gratliff

<blockquote class=”twitter-tweet” data-partner=”tweetdeck”><p lang=”en” dir=”ltr”>The Leafs roll out four all stars and also make sure Ceci is on the ice for some reason. I’m not an NHL coach but the guy who fucks it up constantly is Ceci I dunno maybe try not playing him a lot.</p>&mdash; Chemmy (@felixpotvin) <a href=”https://twitter.com/felixpotvin/status/1292623191584550913?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>August 10, 2020</a></blockquote>

Gratliff

The complete history of America in one simple photo
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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST.

Gratliff

https://www.flickr.com/photos/rwolf/6366435337/in/photostream

This pictograph is in Rasmussen Cave, on private land only 30 feet beyond BLM land. The cave, which was occupied by native people for many hundreds of years, has often been pillaged in modern times by relic hunters. In the late 1960s, the land owner told teenagers working for him to post some “no trespassing” signs around the cave. This is what they did — to the great regret of the property owner.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

I’m seeing that people expect all of college football to be called off in the next 72 hours. I wonder how the NFL is going to react when that happens.

montythisseemsstrangetome

In an unsurprisingly inept way that still somehow manages to surprise.

Dunstan

“Can we buy some of these guys off you? We’re going to need replacements for all the players we kill.”

montythisseemsstrangetome

Chicago Cubs at St. Louis Cardinals – 7:00PM | ESPN / TSN2

Ummm…

montythisseemsstrangetome

Nothing matters anyway.

Gratliff

The wrestler Kamala, who was from Uganda, (James Harris, born and raised as a sharecropper in Mississippi) died today at 70. While that’s about as old as you can reasonably expect a wrestler of WWF fame to get, he had a brutal last 10 years. He wrestled until he was 60, even getting a win over ROH champ Daniel Bryan in 2006. Within a few years, he’d be a double amputee due to diabetes complications, living off disability checks, though he did get a book published with funding from Kickstarter, which probably made things a bit easier after that. He was also part of the class action suit against WWE a while back that alleged they should be held responsible for the damage done to their wrestlers, which was of course dismissed by a Connecticut court a few years later. Still, he took a racist as fuck gimmick Jerry Lawler developed for him and turned it into a 30+ year career, including multiple programs against peak Hulk Hogan, is known by almost every kid from the 80’s and 90’s, and is a published author and musician. Not a bad legacy for a poor Black kid from Jim Crow Mississippi. RIP, Ugandan Giant.
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Viva La Tabula Raza

It’s gonna get really brutal for him if Joe Biden accidentally chooses this particular Kamala Harris as his VP running mate. Or maybe not!

Gratliff

That’s who he thinks he’s inviting to Wilmington right now. “Hello, young lady! Is your dad coming?”

Viva La Tabula Raza

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Viva La Tabula Raza

What’s LPD? “Lapping Pudenda Diligently”?

Dunstan

I see that the Astros don’t have a problem with beanball when they’re the perpetrators.

Horatio Cornblower

Just an absolute trash organization, and I say that rooting for a team that has Randy Levine as a president.

Gratliff

Might be a good night for some Chrono Trigger. I wonder if the success of FF7R will make them finally give their best game proper remake treatment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HleU_FiQFa0

rockingdog

found a funny:

Doctor: I have your test results

Me: did I pass hahaha

Doctor: hahaha you will soon

Me: haha what

rockingdog

chaser:

[nodding my head to the beat] kinda catchy isn’t it
[doctor taking stethoscope off my chest] it shouldn’t be

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Now SEVEN tied.

Horatio Cornblower

“A tie is like kissing your sister”

“Boy is today your lucky day!”comment image

Doktor Zymm

World Cup: “We’ve got ties!”
Golf: “Hold my beer”

Gratliff

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Unsurprised

Beats the two guys running now

Unsurprised

He also has a much more compelling and logical system of achieving fully-automated (arachnomated?) luxury gay space communism than anyone else does.

rockingdog

gooooo PADRES!
tatis goin lonnnnnggggg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lE4lx6EVc4w

Gratliff

My two shepherds are forever getting banged up and limping around. I gave up taking them to the vet after the fourth time I got laughed at while being handed a bill. Still, all the horror stories I hear about shepherds jumping around and hurting their ACLs makes me super paranoid about it. They never stop jumping, though. They both like to jump up on us when we come home, which is the gf’s fault for encouraging it when they were younger. The boy will actually insist on walking closer to you and giving a sort of hug every time.

Doktor Zymm

Jumping on people as a greeting is one of those bad habits that will get them in a heap of trouble if they ever accidentally change bodies with people

Viva La Tabula Raza

They’re just pissed because they are shepherds and have no sheep to herd.

Doktor Zymm

I just found out there’s a company that’s like AirBNB for private pools. I can pay a fee then go swim for a couple hours, and some of these also have BBQs and water slides and shit. Although going by myself I really just want to chill in the water

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly
Unsurprised

The only website that consistently has maintained the original version with Van Halen’s “Beautiful Girls” rather than the royalty-free knockoff dreck in every subsequent airing and official release is GLAAD’s website. You have to download it because it’s a .flv file and it looks like it was transferred from a VCR directly into VLC 15 years ago (because it was), but it still feels good to appreciate the ad the way it was supposed to be enjoyed.

https://www.glaad.org/advertising/library/schmitts-beer-parody

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Five way tie at -10 with less than 9 holes left to go at the PGA Championship.

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Fronkenshteen

Whoa! What happened to Riga?

Fronkenshteen

You’re a good dad. Look forward to many more years of pics of her and Lambeau’s exploits. Cheers!?

Doktor Zymm

Detroit-style pizza is my favorite thick pizza, Neapolitan my favorite thin. Onions are my favorite topping.

ballsofsteelandfury

Is Detroit pizza topped with bullets and served with a side of despair?

ballsofsteelandfury

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rockingdog

pizza yum

Doktor Zymm

It’s similar to Sicilian, so it’s the hospitality between the despair and the bullets

rockingdog
yeah right

There it is! Thanks for getting my back Beer Guy. Pizza experimentation is the best experimentation.

Gumbygirl

2nd best, after fun recreational drugs! Maybe that’s just me…
Poor Riga! Sbe’s so pretty, hope she feels better soon. Speaking of that, how is your shoulder Rob?

yeah right

I miss LSD. A lot.

herodotus450

Leafs losing the lottery would be great, but adding another offensive forward to their lineup and it not helping them win a cup might be even greater.

Game Time Decision

And then that person gets traded and does much better with the new team