Good evening to you! I missed the hoops last night as I was working at the restaurant. It was a very strange evening but ended up being lucrative as it seems to be the way in this place. I feel in my old age my experiences have made me far better at this gig and the money I am taking home shows it. Here is a conversation between busboys* last night who are both 18ish and one is going to McGill University next year so I really don’t know where this came from.
Bboy 1 “Man, I want to be a server here”
Bboy 2 “Dude, you need at least 5 years experience, like the two new guys.”
Bboy 1 to me “5 years? Hey how long have you guys worked in restaurants?”
Me “Since I was 18 and I am 45″
Scotty ” Since I was 18 and I am 38″
Bboy 1 “Shit! That’s a long time.”
Me “Yeah lads, you started off at the top of the mountain instead of at a place where you could gain experience then come to a place like this. However you boys do alright tips wise so it would be comparable to a server at a family restaurant.”
Bboy 2 “If you have a real job then why are you here?”
Me “You see 3 of the 5 us working tonight? We are older, been doing it a while and treat is as a hobby that pays because we love the game. If I did it full time I would be a murderous drunk.”
*Note, they do not bus tables, seem to just polish cutlery, reset tables and polish glass ware.
I am a huge fan of Foals from Oxford and they have a new album coming out in June. This is the second single and I really like it.
Dumb travel story time. (Short one today)
I slept in a cemetery in Venice due to me getting back to the hostel too late as it was at a seminary you see and I did not know it had hours of operation.
However the next night I was sure to be back in time and a whole gang of backpackers were smoking Amsterdam’s finest in the common area when I decided to head off to bed. Well, about 20 minutes later the monks came in and kicked everyone out and as they were all leaving I informed them that the benches at said cemetery could easily hold someone over 6 feet tall. One guy from Cinci (I remember like Pepperidge farms does) tried to NARC me out and the monk was having none of it. I was in bed when it went down and the monk thought that I had learnt my lesson from missing the entry time the night prior.
Wine lesson time
Today we head to Sicily! Why? I have no idea as this is somewhat of a Karen Carpenter job.
What do we know about Sicily? Warmer climate than up north where we have delved into on earlier. Sicily has always been famous for their Marsala sweet wines and I even think Yeah Right did a Chicken Marsala back in the day but we wont get into that today.
Due to this climate one of the first wines you should think of is the white dessert wine Malvasia. This is a large group of grapes that we’ve probably never heard of that are white or very light red who do not get much skin contact in the fermentation. This is a sweeter wine that pairs well with desserts which has a very high sugar content due to the heat and grapes used. This style of wine is grown all over the Mediterranean and its roots are from Greece. You’ll also find Malvasia in Slovenia, Spain, Croatia, Greece, Portugal the country, and the United States. Predominantly though it is produced in Italy and Portugal at 44% and 42% of the worlds output respectively.
On to the red that you should be looking for from down on Sicily.
Nero d’Avola grows fantastically in that hot maritime climate. It isn’t the best that they have on offer for reds but it certainly is what you will find at your local liquor store and will not be nearly as expensive as its brothers from up north. If you love big Cabernets and Syrahs then this is the affordable Italian grape for you. You get licorice, ripe plums, black cherry and a hint of tobacco from most of them from Sicily. At the restaurant I serve this as an alternative to the big American and Canadian reds that people are accustomed to and it works out quite well. Pair with meats, bbq, ripe cheeses or drink alone as the tannins on this one are not too overpowering.
If you dive deep in to this affordable stuff you will notice there seems to be 2 different ways that the mafia local wineries make them and it really has to do with how long they rest in oak. You get very fruit forward cherry tasting wines when they aren’t in oak and deeper chocolate flavoUrs when they are aged.
Sports tonight!
There is some hockey, some professional basketball but more importantly it s the Women’s NCAA final! The ‘Cocks against the Fightin Horatios! The game is at 7 pm DFO time which is Central and I believe that is due to Internet Dad being in St. Louis. Home of the most delicious pizza in America!
Be well and next week I may give a BOTG from the Canadia game last weekend that was absolute heaven. (I did get to meet our keeper who was a beauty)
Balls or Don T brought this comedienne Eleanor Morton up a week or so ago and I went down a rabbit hole of her humoUr. Quite funny, mostly it is Scottish tour guides who don’t give a fuck but this one is good too.
WWE on Twitter: “STUNNER! STUNNER! STUNNER! #WrestleMania @steveaustinBSR @austintheory1 https://t.co/FAMEvH3jxr” / Twitter
WWE on Twitter: “A STUNNER FOR @PatMcAfeeShow!!! 🍻 #WrestleMania @steveaustinBSR https://t.co/omCC2cmvvl” / Twitter
Two of the best Stunner sells I’ve ever seen (non-Rock category). Based on reports, Mr. McMahon took his stunner like shit.
Guys, it’s time for my spoiler-less review of The Batman. The movie began with typical intro, bad things happening in Gotham. Then more bad things. Big names from the Batman comics make appearances.
Unlike the Justice League movies or Batman Vs Superman or WW84 or Aquaman, this didn’t make you want to leave the theater. However, it dragged. The story telling was good. Good acting. Like, nothing was offensive to the senses, but not much in the movie made you root for anyone.
Worth seeing, but only once, maybe twice if you like the details of the movie which are on point.
I still have to see it, but from what I could read, its what Spider-Man: Homecoming was and what Man of Steel should’ve been. You see them in the costume and you see them in action, but its about them become the hero they are supposed to be.
Man of Steel’s problem is he started as Superman. I would’ve had him show up in Kryptonian clothes (as Kal-El). That way when he kills Zod at the end, it doesn’t seem completely out of character. He’s not a hero yet, he’s just an alien refugee. And I would’ve ended it with after he shows up at the Daily Planet as Clark Kent, have a disaster appears and narration dialogue set him up as his other persona, Superman, in the traditional costume.
WHERE’S THE BALLS OF STEEL BIOPIC???
If it’ll make you feel any better, I can put in my The Men Who Built America DVD in and pretend they say “Balls” when they get to “Andrew Carnegie”.
I see Balls as more of a bon vivant robber baron than Carnegie. Who were the ones in that Girl in a Swing scandal? Thaw and White? And the girl was Evelyn Nesbit. I need to look that up!
Well, yeah but I was going for something for his full name. Andrew Carnegie was the master of steel and parlayed that to retire as one of the richest persons in the world.
Bon vivant robber baron sounds pretty good to me!
Ok, but not either of those guys- Thaw was completely nuts, and White was a total creep. A NICE bon vivant robber baron. I’m sure there had to be one!
Back from UConn Twitter. The good news is that we’re not blaming the officials.
The bad news is that we’re blaming Geno, because he doesn’t recruit the right kind of players anymore.
The guy went 30-5 and played for the national championship after losing his star player for 19 games due to a knee injury, and he’s made the Final Four 14 years IN A ROW!!!
Yeah, fuck that guy. Fire his dead ass.
That reminds me of an NFL GM game I downloaded on iPhone. I built my team from nothing to winning 5 Super Bowls in a row with going undefeated twice. My team loses in next conference championship game and the owner in the end of season message goes “I see you failed to meet your goal of making it to the Super Bowl. I am getting tired of all the false promises and failed seasons.”
I think I set a record for ragequiting and ragedeleting a game.
Geno is a national treasure.
Found a funny;
the best part of Morbius was when he said “IT’S MORBIN’ TIME” and morbed all over those guys
Another gently used fleshlight for Litre! Thanks Cocks!
Are you thanking the team or those who made the prize “gently used”?
So much yes.
Now, now. At least they allowed them on the court until they went to their Debutante Ball and was betrothed to their future husband. Then they went into the kitchen to learned where they’d be spending the rest of their lives.
My dear sweet summer child, debutantes only go into the kitchen to give instructions to The Help.
Great season for the UConn women. Came up a game short, but the better team won.
Now off to UConn Twitter, where I’ll be told that it was the refs’ fault.
That’s such a bullshit excu….
(repressed memories of Rams Super Bowl winning TD drive emerges)
Comment withdrawn.
This was highly enjoyable. I now want to watch more women’s basketball announced by Sue Bird and Diana Taurasi.
I got curious, so I looked it up. Here’s a list of the best wings in CT
https://bestthingsct.com/wings/
There are a couple of points here I’d like to make. Point the first: The Dew Drop Inn may be run by lovely people, but if you are coating your wings with Reese’s Pieces and the like, you are not making wings, you are using wings as a delivery vehicle for condiments, and you are a criminal.
Point the Second: Archie Moore’s is OK, but like Pepe’s did with pizza, they went and expanded, and some of the franchises, (glares at Wallingford), are dragging them down.
Point the Third: The one in New London does have a big rep, but my brother went there, and while his opinion on many things can, (and should) be ignored, (how the fuck do you have an MFA and hate ‘Moby Dick’?), his opinion on food and drink should be given great weight, and his opinion of them was not high.
Point the Fourth: My favorite place is not on here, and I am pretty damn happy about it.
Point the Fifth: Wings Over Storrs is ten minutes from me. They’re good, but let’s not get carried away here.
.1st: Reese’s Pieces on Wings? That’s a greater sin that putting ketchup on a Coney Dog.
.2nd: I agree. I went to LaRosas Pizza in Knoxville, TN, but it wasn’t as good as ones at home. The pizza sauce was watered down. I have never ran out of a check before, but I was serious considering it as a matter of honour.
.3rd: I can understand not liking “Moby Dick” but outright hating it?
.4th: All those places on the list spent money to be on the list. If you want to know the best place to eat, you don’t ask a list; you ask a local.
We used to go to some little hole in the wall place in either Groton or Mystic that had righteous wings, but I can’t remember the name. Grouchy old bitch ran the place, it was kind of awesome! But not as awesome as the Chinese place in Groton. Those people were straight up murdering each other in the kitchen, and then they’d come out all wild eyed with metric shit-tons of great food. Dinner and a show! This was 30 years ago, but I bet they’re both still open. Things don’t change much in CT!
Uber Eats popped up with an ad for wings from a place called Cosmic Wings. I was looking for the location, because I didn’t know about this place.
Yeah, turns out it is just wings from AppleBees. Fuck that.
Sue Bird shouting out “Tidwell Rocks & Wings” touched my very soul.
Bidwell Tavern is a restaurant in Coventry that used to have the best wings in the State. You could get a pail of Rolling Rock with them, although I never understood why you’d do that.
I think they came under new management, expanded, and lost something, but Bidwell used to be great.
They lost their wing title? That’s a shame. It’s a big drop from top-end wings to second tier. Real shame.
I don’t think it was ever official, one of those “if you know, you know” things.
Best wings in CT are publicized as being J. Timothy’s, and they’re no joke. Bidwell still has very good wings, I’m down on them for other reasons. If you want to know the best wings in CT, because you are in CT and want to eat them, DM me and I will tell you the spot to go to, because I’ll be double-goddamned if I give that away and get the place more crowded.
A friend’s son may be going to college in New London. I may hit you up for that info if he does.
Connecticut College or Middlesex?
If it’s the Coast Guard Academy don’t even bother, because the Academy will let him know where to go and when to be there.
Ha ha! I guess he’s got no choice.
Oh shit, yeah, if he’s going to the Academy my understanding is that, at least for your first year, your free time is when you catch up on sleep.
I know the Coast Guard gets shit on as like a Navy, Jr., but the Academy is no joke academically. Athletically, however, pretty much a joke. Probably because they have to go to class.
We always went to their medical. It was soooooo much better than the one at the sub base.
Oh of course. You don’t advertise when you find a prime wing. I don’t travel much but if I do I’ll be taking you up on the the wings.
FXM is three-fourths into a Die Hard marathon in honor of Bruce Willis. Here’s an abridged version (including a hypothetical 5th movie that never happened)
Honest Action – Die Hard – YouTube
Honest Action – Die Hard 2-5 – YouTube
Thank you for cluing me in to the Bird and Taurasi Show. They’re great!!
Rapinoe’s bombed and it’s great.
Red Solo Cup!
All celebrities must appear drunk once in their careers. That way you can tell the true assholes who can be shunned and the nice guys who should be celebrated. Also, sometimes a guy like Drunk Tom Brady shows up who you can suddenly relate with.
Diana Taurasi: “It’s a game of inches. Just ask the cocks.”
If that was off the cuff, it’s even better
She’s been making cock jokes since last night.
Hahaha
UConn game is going about how I expected, so I see no need to jinx them by doing anything other than what I did yesterday.
Best part of this game is watching ESPN2, where Sue Bird and Diana Taurasi are doing a Manning brothers announcing thing, while quite obviously getting a good buzz on.
That should be the new norm for all sports.
EDIT: And State of the Unions. Just imagine a SotU with Obama and Dubya snarking their way through it.
“Oh, that’s a cheap pop for another gimme Standing O.”
“Looks like someone bet the over.”
I’ve long thought this.
They started making ‘they’re giving the cocks too much credit’ jokes now. Megan Rapinoe referred to UConn as we and Sue Bird said “we?” as only a wife can.
Planeta Lumbago sounds like a happenin’ nursing home. But it’s a total sausagefest compared to The Lupus Loft
She is very funny. I wish I could take credit for discovering her but I think it was another commentist that posted a link to her work.
Miss Morton is delightful and funny. The credit is unimportant.
/updates 2022slights.xls
I’m pretty sure Redshirt apologizes for said person from Cincinnati and ensures us that this person that tried to narc you is not representative of the general Cincinnati community.
Because left, right, or centre, we all agree – snitches get stitches
Huh, must have been from the uptight rich part of town.
/ found a funny
Genie: “You may three wishes and only three wishes.”
“I wish I could have four wishes.”
Genie: “Your wish is granted! You now have three wishes remaining.”
I am gonna reckon that the Litres and Dicks’ Thanksgiving table is an absolute riot. Even if y’all gets the day wrong smh
We usually hide in the basement, watch sports, drink and smoke weed.
Sounds like the best Thanksgiving ever.
And forcing a certain fella to down aquavit shots and pickled herring.
So you might say the Prior made an a priori judgement of your innocence based on the night prior!!!!
-Sorry. I’ll see myself out.
Hungary election: Viktor Orban declares victory – CNN
I told them they should’ve used “Vote for a Free Hungary or being Putin’s Bitch”, but they said it was too wordy.
BUT POOTINS A REEL MURICKAN LEIK TRUMP!!!1!!!1 MAGA!!111!!!!!!!!!!!!
— MGT’s voter base
Good news, the boy competed his 28 days in rehab and was able to get into Intensive outpatient while staying at a recovery home for the next two months, meaning I don’t have to worry about him for a bit!
That’s greats news. Tell him your imaginary internet friends are still pulling for him/will kill him if he breaks your heart again.
puts ninjas from Ready Status to Standby Alert
That’s great!
Hope your son gets well and you get some peaceful times.
That’s Rockingggg
According to QAnon’s Presents Fox and Friends, when the Democrats take over, I can no longer call myself “Christian”. The new PC-woke term will be “Oppressive Imaginary Spagetti Monster Worshiper”.
…and I’m too drunk/stupid to reply correctly.
Pretty sure comedienne is offensive. Those broads like to be called, “mirth-inducing beings” now. Shame, shame.
I get enough snark from your sis, DONT NEED IT HERE!
You invited me in. This is your fault.
Also, I’ve been to this man’s home. He has a fridge full of Boone’s farm and works at the worst Olive Garden in town.
I think there is only 1 left in town. The one we went to in Edmonton where I helped the server out was….memorable.
Wine bottles are complicated. I did like the mix of families on the verge of public arguments and surly teens taking advantage of the endless breadsticks.
And my goodness, three entrees on one plate? Where’s that guy’s Nobel prize?
Olive Garden would have been considered a Michelin 5 star restaurant where I grew up, and I as a young lad considered swanky as the lasagna was not made with cottage cheese and Velveeta.
We all could use a little Dick, Litre.
“Eh, I’ve got that covered already.” — Deanna Favre
Has everyone but me seen Brett Favre’s johnson? This is like the girls and the cups all over again
fertility ceremony intensifies
“Broads”!? I think you mean “People of Vaginality”
Innies. Boys are Outies. Duh.
“I’m not qualified to answer that question.” – Presumptive Supreme Court Justice
My issues with my fallen Conservative Patriots are well documented on this website, and even I’ll admit they set bipartisanship and women’s rights back a couple decade with her inquisitioning, but even I was disappointed when Judge Jackson took a “pass” what “What is a woman?”
That was a ridiculous example of the mental gymnastics some people have to perform to get themselves to believe what they think they need to believe. Surely there will be no more difficult question than that for a top court judge.
I just want to be a part of the Brainstorming Meeting to how they decided to ask that question.
“Let’s trick her into admitting she’ll overturn Roe v. Wade by asking her about the 10th Amendment and the principle of Stare Decisis.”
“Oh, I got some sentences she gave out about Child Pornography. Let’s ask her about it over and over again to ruin her reputation.”
“Let’s ask if she know what a woman is!!!”
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…
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“Uh, that’s a good idea. Why don’t you sit in the corner and think of a good question for that one.”
Who am I kidding? They probably carried them across the room like William Jennings Bryan in the ’96 Democratic Convention going “WE DID IT! WE GONNA BORK HER!”
They do seem to go wildly overblown on the meaning of individual cases. From what I’ve read she’s qualified and all that (not that anyone asked me). But the politics of it really jams the whole thing up. The last guy got accused of running gang rapes in college with no evidence and she gets raked over the coals for considering mitigating factors for otherwise reprehensible characters – no doubt because it gets a click on the news sites. It’s a meat grinder down there in the USA but man do I ever respect the way they do things. If you can’t take a grilling you shouldn’t be given the power of that position.
That’s how it should work. That’s why in the Constitution, its written that Justices/Judges hold office in “good behavior”. The threshold for impeaching them is lower than everyone else.
The correct response should have been”Jesus, what an ultramaroon you are!” With dismissive wanking motion.
Why I had to approve this comment is beyond me. Good thing Gumbygirl is my favoUrite.
I think because a maroon is an old time term for an escaped West Indies slave. I’m sure bugs bunny didn’t know that.
Oh, great! Now Bugs Bunny is gonna get cancelled!
That was a little weird! Maybe they thought I was calling Jesus an ultramaroon?
I got banhammered again! Screw you guys, I’m taking a bath!