I’m making home made pizza. Some with fresh muzz, homegrown tomatoes and prosciutto. Who’s in?
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Violet
Thanks for the Open Thread, Kay!
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Corner Stone
Thank goodness we can finally get away from all those icky people, with all their nasty lying.
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Violet
@Corner Stone: Well, I had Ben & Jerry’s and coffee for an afternoon snack so I’m not hungry. But that sounds really good. It’s leftovers for dinner tonight. It hasn’t cooled down much but the shade is making it slightly less miserable to be outside so I’m headed out to do yard work for an hour or so. Then a quick dinner.
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Violet
Can I just say how much I dislike summer. My entire life it has been something to endure not something to enjoy. By the time August rolls around I’m just counting down the days until the first cold front that rarely shows up until October. It’s still July so that means two more months of misery.
I was supposed to go see Hercules today, but for some reason all the showtimes in my area was either for 3D or IMAX 3D. There were barely any times for regular showing. I know what the studio tried to do. More 3D/IMAX showings more money per ticket. Too bad, the movie still was not the number one movie this weekend.
It wasn’t all that far back when people were kvetching left and right about wanting the cold temps to end.
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Helen
@Violet: I’m with you. I spend the whole summer waiting for fall. So far NYC hasn’t had a heat wave and we’re going to get to the end of July without one. Here’s hoping that August is the same.
I cannot wait until retirement; in a city where the temps rarely go over 80. Seriously thinking of leaving before retirement age, and the summer is one of the reasons why.
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lamh36
So for some reason, I’ve been watching Vine videos for the last hour. Found this one on Facebook so I don’t know if this will work, so someone let me know if it does but this video is hilarious. How many moms would react the same way?
I’m heading to NYC middle to late September so, with my luck, expect the record breaking heat wave then.
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Suffern ACE
Yeah, it’s a Florida Man kind of crime. Betty, be on the lookout for two naked college men carrying hamburgers with hot peppers. Actually, it sounds like the type of petty thieves that Sara PT would capture.
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Keith P
@Corner Stone: I just pulled a store-bought pizza out of the oven that I had hopped up with a little shaved pancetta and PR cheese. Not quite the same, but it’ll definitely do.
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SiubhanDuinne
I actually have nothing to say, but I am super happy (knocking wood, though) that this site finally, after months and months, finally remembers/autofills my nym and email. If this keeps up (again tapping wood), I may start commenting more frequently. I had pulled way back because it’s always such a PITA to type all that stuff in every time.
I guess I’ll cross my fingers, too. Just on principle.
I lived in NYC for about four years, ages ago, and I always dreaded summers. Just beastly with all the heat rising from the concrete straight through the soles of one’s shoes. I have fond memories of several of us — four couples who were all good friends — renting a house on Fire Island for a week or two and getting away a little bit from the city heat. I doubt that would even be affordable now.
Haha. That last frame is priceless. I see a future in Democratic politics for her.
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Jay C
To move along onto matters of international import: I found this article via another blog: I think we’ve either uncovered Bob in Portland’s RL identity, or found a major source for his crib-sheet gibberings about the Awful Oppressions of the Ukrainian Fascists and the Atrocities suffered by those Brave Freedom-Fighters in the Donbass. Oh, and how, somehow, it’s mainly Obama’s fault – although that last bit is fairly de rigeur for most “contrarian”* FP analyses….
* “contrarian” in this case, is a euphemism for “simpleminded crank ideologue”
Latest attack ad against Sen. Hagan includes a clip of her parroting the BS NeoConfederate line on debt and not burdening our children with it. Wonder if she’s figured out that playing to the rubes ain’t gonna help her.
Betty, be on the lookout for two naked college men carrying hamburgers with hot peppers. Actually, it sounds like the type of petty thieves that Sara PT would capture.
Are we sure at this point it’s not Cole and a co-conspirator busted out of The Hab?
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WaterGirl
Thanks, Kay!
@jeffreyw: Looks like he is getting a stern talking to!
@Violet: When I lived in northern lower Michigan, it wasn’t unusual to have a white Halloween.
South Florida in summer isn’t hot — Miami’s never hit 100F temp-wise — but the humidity is thick. It’s like this from the middle of May to the middle of October. It’s the inverse of being up north; we stay inside and hope the A/C doesn’t crap out the same way we did in Michigan with the furnace from October to May.
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Corner Stone
@Roger Moore: I just can’t do goat cheese on a pizza. A little too unctuous.
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Corner Stone
@NotMax: Not this guy. And I’m pretty sure no one in TX.
Really mild winter in this area of TX.
I’m the opposite of y’all….LOVE summer, HATE cold. Actually been a little pissed off that it’s been a cooler than usual July, with evening temps falling into the low ’60s….even upper ’50s the next few days….wtf??
Takes all kinds.
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Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
@Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant): If I get home in time tomorrow, I might know. I was just invited to a telephone town hall with her.
Naked Florida Man Breaks Into Restaurant, Steals 60 Hamburgers, 3 lbs of Bacon, 3 Red Peppers and a Paddleboard | http://t.co/QALkRgyi9W— Florida Man (@_FloridaMan) July 23, 2014
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Violet
@Mustang Bobby: Same where I live. Miserable fucking summer. It’s indoor time. Closed windows and blinds.Hunker down and avoid the sun. Go from air conditioned house to air conditioned car to air conditioned office/shop/wherever. It’s kind of funny when the first cool front arrives in October. Suddenly all the windows open, neighbors go outside and there’s lot’s of, “How have you been? Haven’t seen you in months!”
As a kid I had no idea what the news was talking about when they’d talk about heating oil and winter. Heat? Why would you need that? Winter was cheap. Summer is where the costs go up. I remember being yelled at to keep the door closed and not let the a/c out.
@Corner Stone:
I don’t do exclusively goat cheese; I use about the normal amount of mozzarella or maybe a bit less and then crumbled goat cheese as a topping.
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Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
Also, I have finally seen one of the autoplaying ads. The video is playing through JW Player. I wonder if our hosts have knowingly installed the JW Player plugin, and if disabling the plugin would kill the ads.
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Violet
@eemom: With those temps for summer temps it’s clear you don’t live far enough south to really learn to hate summer. I do know people who love the miserable summer we’ve got but most people just endure it. What other choice is there. It’s not like it’s pleasant.
I remember working in Chicago one August. They were having some kind of heat wave (for there) and the local news was cautioning everyone to stay in the shade, drink plenty of water, keep out of the sun. High temps were going to get up to 93! Woo! I about fell out of my chair laughing. We often hit 93 in May and we’re lucky if it gets below 80 some nights. Plus humidity and mosquitoes.
Where I grew up in Ohio we had very humid summers, and our house was not air-conditioned, so the hum of fans was a constant in our lives. When I came to Miami to go to college in 1971, they warned me that my dorm was not air conditioned, and I thought “So?” Soon found out what it meant. But after being back for 13 years now, I’ve gotten used to it, and best of all, I don’t have to shovel it out of the driveway.
ETA: I do miss the sound of cicadas and katy-dids. We don’t have them here. That along with the fans lulled me to sleep many a summer.
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Suffern ACE
The Russians have regained control over the gecko space sex experiment, giving us one less item to worry about.
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Corner Stone
@Roger Moore: I’ve been doing pizzettes, making 3in or so discs, pre-baking them and then schmearing a bit of different toppings on them, to bake at 400F for 10 or so minutes more.
Roasted garlic paste, mozzarella, prosciutto, in the oven and then topped at the end with fresh basil, fresh tomato and a schpritz of EVOO.
Others get tomato sauce, pepperoni and/or pancetta with roasted onion.
Couple other things, but those are my current favs.
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Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
@Jay C: Stephen Cohen isn’t a simple minded ideologue. He’s a simple minded and deeply wrong historian who became hopelessly overinvested in Gorbachev. His complete inability to ever admit that he was wrong about anything led him to become a hopeless Putin apologist. (Because Putin got rid of Boris Yeltsin, who toppled his hero and therefore Putin must be awesome.) And he gets to spew all of the at The Nation because his wife is the publisher.
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dexwood
@Corner Stone:
Home made pizza on the grill two nights ago. Tomatoes, garlic, kale, eggplant from the garden. Hot Italian sausage from our neighborhood butcher.
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Corner Stone
@Suffern ACE: Sure. That’s what “they” want you to think. But what does the Ukrainian speaking Gin & Tonic have to say about it?
Hmmm? HMMM?!
hit 101 in my part of Florida today. fortunately we were in a magnitude 1 spring at the time, so sweet sweet relief.
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Glidwrith
Homemade banana nut bread for breakfast that I made with my kids yesterday. Horseplay in the community pool that we had all to ourselves. A quiet afternoon with my family that is as rare as hen’s teeth. Life is good.
Homemade banana nut bread for breakfast that I made with my kids yesterday.
Interesting recipe. I’ve always just used bananas.
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Mnemosyne
I have a pork tenderloin in the crockpot with some liquid smoke and shredded cabbage — it’s supposed to be a reasonable facsimile of kalua pork. I should have made low-fat macaroni salad from scratch but, damn it, I rode my bike 20 miles today. A little extra mayo isn’t going to kill me.
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SiubhanDuinne
Question (of the rhetorical variety, I expect): It’s been in the high 80s/low 90s today, yet I’ve seen several young men out and about wearing knit caps (along with shorts and light t-shirts). Don’t know if they are wool or acrylic or what, but they look mighty hot. My question: WHY??
(I have a vague memory of asking the BJ hive mind in a previous summer a few years ago what would possess a young woman to wear knee-high leather boots, possibly one of the most heat-inducing garments on record, with shorts or a mini-skirt in high summer. It all just strikes me as counterproductive and more than slightly ridiculous.)
@Jay C: That was…something. And odd how I recall seeing every single incident mentioned in that article mentioned in the media. And nothing in that article was newer than July 2nd. Interesting, that.
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Gvg
and I love summer and hate winter. Florida 2nd generation. Grandpa from Massachusetts was stationed here and decided the ancestors had immigrated to far north and relocated. we don’t have much winter relative to most of you but I hate it. I will say summer in concreted cities is much worse than in a nice tree preserving town. big live oaks cool 10 degrees at least.
When I lived in northern lower Michigan, it wasn’t unusual to have a white Halloween.
I remember one year in the late 1970s driving from Hamilton, Ontario back home to Flint, Michigan in a blinding snowstorm.
It was October 18th.
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raven
Just watched “The Immigrant” with Joaquin Phoenix and Marion Cotillard. Sad film but very good.
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raven
@SiubhanDuinne: I was hitchiking from Sault Ste Marie to Champaign in August, 71. I got a ride from a guy in a 63 Pontiac and, after about 10 bar stops, I decided to bolt and find another ride. It was so cold I had to keep walking all night until I got picked up by a trucker at dawn.
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SiubhanDuinne
@raven: people don’t realize how wicked cold it can get in those parts, at quite unexpected times of year.
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Schlemizel
Here is an interesting tidbit worthy of more attention from behind the Financial Times paywall:
The big four global accounting companies have taken out press advertisements in Hong Kong stating they are “opposed” to the territory’s democracy movement, warning that their multinational clients may quit the city if activists carry out threats to disrupt business with street protests. In an unusual joint statement published in three Chinese-language newspapers on Friday, the Hong Kong entities of EY, KPMG, Deloitte and PwC said the Occupy Central movement, which is calling for electoral reform in the former British colony, posed a threat to the territory’s rule of law.The group of pro-democracy activists is calling for 10,000 people to block traffic in the central business district as part of a campaign to put pressure on the Hong Kong government, although if and when this will happen is still under discussion. In the advert, the big four firms warned that protests would disrupt the Hong Kong stock exchange, banks and the headquarters of financial and professional services firms causing “inestimable losses in the economy”. It added that clients of the four firms had reflected further concerns about the wider impact of the protests: “We are worried that multinational companies and investors would consider moving their regional headquarters from Hong Kong, or indeed leave the city entirely. This would have a long-term impact on Hong Kong’s status as a global financial centre,” the joint statement said.
I say “may” because, as much as I bitch about autocorrect, it does provide a healthy dose of amusement now and then.
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Sandia Blanca
So, I’ve checked his twitter feed and this blog, and don’t see any recent updates from our host. Do you think that means he’s safely in a hospital somewhere?
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WaterGirl
@Sandia Blanca: I hope so, but I wouldn’t assume anything at this point.
I’ll believe that Cole has been admitted into rehab when one of three things happen: a front pager tells us it is so, one of John’s siblings who occasionally comment here make a comment to that effect, or I see another thread from TBogg.
(I don’t believe TBogg will post again until Cole is actually in rehab.)
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Sandia Blanca
@WaterGirl: Okay, I hope one of those things happens soon!
@Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name): yep. It’s not just any company. Even when I lived there and Allis Chalmers and AMC were closing, Trek was seen as the sign of hope. The only thing sillier would be to attack Harley Davidson or Leinenkugel.
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WaterGirl
@Suffern ACE: I predict that it’s the arrogance of these republican governors that gets them in the end.
Which of the republican governors am I talking about? Almost all of them, Katie.
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mclaren
Or how about
HILLARY CLINTON FOR PRESIDENT: WE NEED TO BURN MORE BROWN BABIES IN THIRD-WORLD COUNTRIES
or maybe
HILLARY 2016 – BECAUSE HANNIBAL LECTER IS A FICTIONAL CHARACTER AND BOSS TWEED IS DEAD
I wonder if Burke will be able to turn it around on Walker and point out that he actually sent jobs away from the state when he refused high-speed rail. But the average voter has the attention span of a goldfish, so they may have already forgotten all about it.
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Corner Stone
I’m making home made pizza. Some with fresh muzz, homegrown tomatoes and prosciutto. Who’s in?
Violet
Thanks for the Open Thread, Kay!
Corner Stone
Thank goodness we can finally get away from all those icky people, with all their nasty lying.
Violet
@Corner Stone: Well, I had Ben & Jerry’s and coffee for an afternoon snack so I’m not hungry. But that sounds really good. It’s leftovers for dinner tonight. It hasn’t cooled down much but the shade is making it slightly less miserable to be outside so I’m headed out to do yard work for an hour or so. Then a quick dinner.
Violet
Can I just say how much I dislike summer. My entire life it has been something to endure not something to enjoy. By the time August rolls around I’m just counting down the days until the first cold front that rarely shows up until October. It’s still July so that means two more months of misery.
Scamp Dog
Waiting for the concert to start at Denver’s City Park Jazz. I’ll be drawing the band and posting the results on my Tumblr page.
Corner Stone
@Violet: It’s lucky, and rare, when we have a cool Halloween to enjoy, anymore.
We used to have a few in a row when I was a lad.
jeffreyw
Mmm… Moroccan chicken with preserved lemons and olives
jeffreyw
Oh my! The missus caught him drinking, again!
Violet
@Corner Stone: I just remember Halloween being hot and humid.
Violet
@jeffreyw: Wow. That is an amazing photo.
lamh36
Been home most of the day except I had to pick up my sister from work and bring her by my moms.
Spent sometime talking to my mom and hanging with Maddie, my moms watches on weekends when my aunt works.
So I figured I’d take my first selfie with Maddie
https://twitter.com/psddluva4evah/status/493503467764211712
I was supposed to go see Hercules today, but for some reason all the showtimes in my area was either for 3D or IMAX 3D. There were barely any times for regular showing. I know what the studio tried to do. More 3D/IMAX showings more money per ticket. Too bad, the movie still was not the number one movie this weekend.
NotMax
@Corner Stone
It wasn’t all that far back when people were kvetching left and right about wanting the cold temps to end.
Helen
@Violet: I’m with you. I spend the whole summer waiting for fall. So far NYC hasn’t had a heat wave and we’re going to get to the end of July without one. Here’s hoping that August is the same.
I cannot wait until retirement; in a city where the temps rarely go over 80. Seriously thinking of leaving before retirement age, and the summer is one of the reasons why.
lamh36
So for some reason, I’ve been watching Vine videos for the last hour. Found this one on Facebook so I don’t know if this will work, so someone let me know if it does but this video is hilarious. How many moms would react the same way?
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10202493368444555&fref=nf
NotMax
@Helen
I’m heading to NYC middle to late September so, with my luck, expect the record breaking heat wave then.
Suffern ACE
Yeah, it’s a Florida Man kind of crime. Betty, be on the lookout for two naked college men carrying hamburgers with hot peppers. Actually, it sounds like the type of petty thieves that Sara PT would capture.
Keith P
@Corner Stone: I just pulled a store-bought pizza out of the oven that I had hopped up with a little shaved pancetta and PR cheese. Not quite the same, but it’ll definitely do.
SiubhanDuinne
I actually have nothing to say, but I am super happy (knocking wood, though) that this site finally, after months and months, finally remembers/autofills my nym and email. If this keeps up (again tapping wood), I may start commenting more frequently. I had pulled way back because it’s always such a PITA to type all that stuff in every time.
I guess I’ll cross my fingers, too. Just on principle.
ranchandsyrup
Pic of my daughter own-goaling her eye With her headband at breakfast.
Baud
@SiubhanDuinne:
Yeah, the mobile site wouldn’t save my nym for about a week. I wouldn’t wish that hell on my worst enemy. ;-)
SiubhanDuinne
@Helen:
I lived in NYC for about four years, ages ago, and I always dreaded summers. Just beastly with all the heat rising from the concrete straight through the soles of one’s shoes. I have fond memories of several of us — four couples who were all good friends — renting a house on Fire Island for a week or two and getting away a little bit from the city heat. I doubt that would even be affordable now.
Baud
@ranchandsyrup:
Haha. That last frame is priceless. I see a future in Democratic politics for her.
Jay C
To move along onto matters of international import: I found this article via another blog: I think we’ve either uncovered Bob in Portland’s RL identity, or found a major source for his crib-sheet gibberings about the Awful Oppressions of the Ukrainian Fascists and the Atrocities suffered by those Brave Freedom-Fighters in the Donbass. Oh, and how, somehow, it’s mainly Obama’s fault – although that last bit is fairly de rigeur for most “contrarian”* FP analyses….
* “contrarian” in this case, is a euphemism for “simpleminded crank ideologue”
Corner Stone
@Keith P: Puerto Rican cheese?!
Racist!
SiubhanDuinne
@Baud: for me it’s been going on since about March. I really hope it’s a permanent fix, and I do thank whoever* is responsible for taking care of it.
*I know it’s “whomever,” but that just sounds so stupid. Sorry.
Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)
Latest attack ad against Sen. Hagan includes a clip of her parroting the BS NeoConfederate line on debt and not burdening our children with it. Wonder if she’s figured out that playing to the rubes ain’t gonna help her.
Roger Moore
@Corner Stone:
Sorry, I have to save some space for my homemade pizza, which will come with Kalamata olives and goat cheese.
Corner Stone
@Suffern ACE:
Are we sure at this point it’s not Cole and a co-conspirator busted out of The Hab?
WaterGirl
Thanks, Kay!
@jeffreyw: Looks like he is getting a stern talking to!
Mustang Bobby
@Violet: When I lived in northern lower Michigan, it wasn’t unusual to have a white Halloween.
South Florida in summer isn’t hot — Miami’s never hit 100F temp-wise — but the humidity is thick. It’s like this from the middle of May to the middle of October. It’s the inverse of being up north; we stay inside and hope the A/C doesn’t crap out the same way we did in Michigan with the furnace from October to May.
Corner Stone
@Roger Moore: I just can’t do goat cheese on a pizza. A little too unctuous.
Corner Stone
@NotMax: Not this guy. And I’m pretty sure no one in TX.
Really mild winter in this area of TX.
eemom
@Violet:
@Helen:
I’m the opposite of y’all….LOVE summer, HATE cold. Actually been a little pissed off that it’s been a cooler than usual July, with evening temps falling into the low ’60s….even upper ’50s the next few days….wtf??
Takes all kinds.
Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
@Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant): If I get home in time tomorrow, I might know. I was just invited to a telephone town hall with her.
Roger Moore
@Suffern ACE:
It’s not just a Florida Man kind of crime; Florida Man has already reported on it:
Violet
@Mustang Bobby: Same where I live. Miserable fucking summer. It’s indoor time. Closed windows and blinds.Hunker down and avoid the sun. Go from air conditioned house to air conditioned car to air conditioned office/shop/wherever. It’s kind of funny when the first cool front arrives in October. Suddenly all the windows open, neighbors go outside and there’s lot’s of, “How have you been? Haven’t seen you in months!”
As a kid I had no idea what the news was talking about when they’d talk about heating oil and winter. Heat? Why would you need that? Winter was cheap. Summer is where the costs go up. I remember being yelled at to keep the door closed and not let the a/c out.
SiubhanDuinne
@ranchandsyrup:
She is a cutie-patootie! How convenient that you had the camera right there at that very moment :-)
Roger Moore
@Corner Stone:
I don’t do exclusively goat cheese; I use about the normal amount of mozzarella or maybe a bit less and then crumbled goat cheese as a topping.
Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
Also, I have finally seen one of the autoplaying ads. The video is playing through JW Player. I wonder if our hosts have knowingly installed the JW Player plugin, and if disabling the plugin would kill the ads.
Violet
@eemom: With those temps for summer temps it’s clear you don’t live far enough south to really learn to hate summer. I do know people who love the miserable summer we’ve got but most people just endure it. What other choice is there. It’s not like it’s pleasant.
I remember working in Chicago one August. They were having some kind of heat wave (for there) and the local news was cautioning everyone to stay in the shade, drink plenty of water, keep out of the sun. High temps were going to get up to 93! Woo! I about fell out of my chair laughing. We often hit 93 in May and we’re lucky if it gets below 80 some nights. Plus humidity and mosquitoes.
ranchandsyrup
@Baud: Ha!
@SiubhanDuinne: thanks. We made sure to get the shot. Didn’t do much to prevent it and then laughed. She laughed too, after a minute or so.
Mustang Bobby
@Violet: Howdy, neighbor!
Where I grew up in Ohio we had very humid summers, and our house was not air-conditioned, so the hum of fans was a constant in our lives. When I came to Miami to go to college in 1971, they warned me that my dorm was not air conditioned, and I thought “So?” Soon found out what it meant. But after being back for 13 years now, I’ve gotten used to it, and best of all, I don’t have to shovel it out of the driveway.
ETA: I do miss the sound of cicadas and katy-dids. We don’t have them here. That along with the fans lulled me to sleep many a summer.
Suffern ACE
The Russians have regained control over the gecko space sex experiment, giving us one less item to worry about.
Corner Stone
@Roger Moore: I’ve been doing pizzettes, making 3in or so discs, pre-baking them and then schmearing a bit of different toppings on them, to bake at 400F for 10 or so minutes more.
Roasted garlic paste, mozzarella, prosciutto, in the oven and then topped at the end with fresh basil, fresh tomato and a schpritz of EVOO.
Others get tomato sauce, pepperoni and/or pancetta with roasted onion.
Couple other things, but those are my current favs.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
@Jay C: Stephen Cohen isn’t a simple minded ideologue. He’s a simple minded and deeply wrong historian who became hopelessly overinvested in Gorbachev. His complete inability to ever admit that he was wrong about anything led him to become a hopeless Putin apologist. (Because Putin got rid of Boris Yeltsin, who toppled his hero and therefore Putin must be awesome.) And he gets to spew all of the at The Nation because his wife is the publisher.
dexwood
@Corner Stone:
Home made pizza on the grill two nights ago. Tomatoes, garlic, kale, eggplant from the garden. Hot Italian sausage from our neighborhood butcher.
Corner Stone
@Suffern ACE: Sure. That’s what “they” want you to think. But what does the Ukrainian speaking Gin & Tonic have to say about it?
Hmmm? HMMM?!
WaterGirl
@Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism: Isn’t it mistermix who does some of the technical stuff around here?
It’s been upsetting a lot of people, and since you have a clue about what might be going on, maybe you could send an email to mistermix?
Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)
@Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism: Hope you make it, I’d love to hear how it goes.
some guy
hit 101 in my part of Florida today. fortunately we were in a magnitude 1 spring at the time, so sweet sweet relief.
Glidwrith
Homemade banana nut bread for breakfast that I made with my kids yesterday. Horseplay in the community pool that we had all to ourselves. A quiet afternoon with my family that is as rare as hen’s teeth. Life is good.
Corner Stone
@some guy: Thought you moved to MA?
some guy
@Corner Stone:
we just visit the ancestral manse for a week or two each summer. North Central Florida is where we live
Shana
@Violet: You dealing with hot flashes too? I’ve been staying inside as much as possible for the last month, and like you, waiting for cooler weather.
SiubhanDuinne
@Glidwrith:
Interesting recipe. I’ve always just used bananas.
Mnemosyne
I have a pork tenderloin in the crockpot with some liquid smoke and shredded cabbage — it’s supposed to be a reasonable facsimile of kalua pork. I should have made low-fat macaroni salad from scratch but, damn it, I rode my bike 20 miles today. A little extra mayo isn’t going to kill me.
SiubhanDuinne
Question (of the rhetorical variety, I expect): It’s been in the high 80s/low 90s today, yet I’ve seen several young men out and about wearing knit caps (along with shorts and light t-shirts). Don’t know if they are wool or acrylic or what, but they look mighty hot. My question: WHY??
(I have a vague memory of asking the BJ hive mind in a previous summer a few years ago what would possess a young woman to wear knee-high leather boots, possibly one of the most heat-inducing garments on record, with shorts or a mini-skirt in high summer. It all just strikes me as counterproductive and more than slightly ridiculous.)
Violet
@SiubhanDuinne: Fashion, fashion, fashion. Nothing else.
Glidwrith
@SiubhanDuinne: Well, Morticia Adams might think that is too young, but they add a sweetness that bananas just won’t do by themselves.
SiubhanDuinne
@Violet:
I hate to tell you how unfashionable it looks! But I guess that’s just me.
Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)
@Glidwrith: Addams, please.
SiubhanDuinne
Is Amir Khalid around? Eid Mubarak, Amir. I hope you had a good Ramadan.
(Same greeting to any other Muslim Juicers, of course.)
WereBear
@Suffern ACE: And a future monster movie has been averted.
tybee
@eemom:
ditto. i don’t even use the a/c in the vehicle in the summer.
Mnemosyne
@SiubhanDuinne:
Fashion.
Glidwrith
@Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name): Urg, can’t even blame FYWP. How embarrassing.
Yatsuno
@Jay C: That was…something. And odd how I recall seeing every single incident mentioned in that article mentioned in the media. And nothing in that article was newer than July 2nd. Interesting, that.
Gvg
and I love summer and hate winter. Florida 2nd generation. Grandpa from Massachusetts was stationed here and decided the ancestors had immigrated to far north and relocated. we don’t have much winter relative to most of you but I hate it. I will say summer in concreted cities is much worse than in a nice tree preserving town. big live oaks cool 10 degrees at least.
Kay
@Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name):
I just read the WI post on kos. Your governor’s race is getting fun.
I think it’s a bad idea to attack the bike company.
SiubhanDuinne
@Mustang Bobby:
I remember one year in the late 1970s driving from Hamilton, Ontario back home to Flint, Michigan in a blinding snowstorm.
It was October 18th.
raven
Just watched “The Immigrant” with Joaquin Phoenix and Marion Cotillard. Sad film but very good.
raven
@SiubhanDuinne: I was hitchiking from Sault Ste Marie to Champaign in August, 71. I got a ride from a guy in a 63 Pontiac and, after about 10 bar stops, I decided to bolt and find another ride. It was so cold I had to keep walking all night until I got picked up by a trucker at dawn.
SiubhanDuinne
@raven: people don’t realize how wicked cold it can get in those parts, at quite unexpected times of year.
Schlemizel
Here is an interesting tidbit worthy of more attention from behind the Financial Times paywall:
Cervantes
@SiubhanDuinne: You’re OK, “whoever” is right.
Also, re your auto-incorrect woes: if you are running iOS 7, have you tried this?
Settings > General > Reset > Reset Keyboard Dictionary
(Doing this will, of course, delete words you may have added to your dictionary.)
SiubhanDuinne
@Cervantes:
Thanks. I may try that.
I say “may” because, as much as I bitch about autocorrect, it does provide a healthy dose of amusement now and then.
Sandia Blanca
So, I’ve checked his twitter feed and this blog, and don’t see any recent updates from our host. Do you think that means he’s safely in a hospital somewhere?
WaterGirl
@Sandia Blanca: I hope so, but I wouldn’t assume anything at this point.
I’ll believe that Cole has been admitted into rehab when one of three things happen: a front pager tells us it is so, one of John’s siblings who occasionally comment here make a comment to that effect, or I see another thread from TBogg.
(I don’t believe TBogg will post again until Cole is actually in rehab.)
Sandia Blanca
@WaterGirl: Okay, I hope one of those things happens soon!
WaterGirl
@Sandia Blanca: Me, too.
Karen in GA
@jeffreyw: Wow!
mclaren
So I’m wondering what Hillary’s campaign slogans will be for her 2016 presidential run…
How about
HILLARY 2016: BECAUSE BASHING THE BANKERS ISN’T PRODUCTIVE
Or how about
HILLARY 2016: MORE WAR, MORE CORPORATE BAILOUTS. SHUT UP, HIPPIES!
Or maybe
HILLARY 2016: EVIL AND CORRUPT, BUT THE REPUBLICAN ALTERNATIVE IS SO MONSTROUS IT DOESN’T MATTER
What do you think?
Karen in GA
@lamh36: HA!
Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)
@Kay:
I think it is incredibly bad. TREK is very popular in the state.
Violet
@mclaren: It’s clear you have no experience in politics if you think those are actual slogans that Hillary Clinton will pick for her own campaign.
Suffern ACE
@Schlemizel: ugh. Really accountants? Do they think they have that much influence?
Bob In Portland
@mclaren: The last one.
Suffern ACE
@Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name): yep. It’s not just any company. Even when I lived there and Allis Chalmers and AMC were closing, Trek was seen as the sign of hope. The only thing sillier would be to attack Harley Davidson or Leinenkugel.
WaterGirl
@Suffern ACE: I predict that it’s the arrogance of these republican governors that gets them in the end.
Which of the republican governors am I talking about? Almost all of them, Katie.
mclaren
Or how about
HILLARY CLINTON FOR PRESIDENT: WE NEED TO BURN MORE BROWN BABIES IN THIRD-WORLD COUNTRIES
or maybe
HILLARY 2016 – BECAUSE HANNIBAL LECTER IS A FICTIONAL CHARACTER AND BOSS TWEED IS DEAD
Mnemosyne
@Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name):
I wonder if Burke will be able to turn it around on Walker and point out that he actually sent jobs away from the state when he refused high-speed rail. But the average voter has the attention span of a goldfish, so they may have already forgotten all about it.