I’m not on vacation yet, but I was off the grid part of this weekend, traveling backroads like this one:
I’m back home now watching the Bills thrash the Dolphins. It’s not the outcome I was hoping for. The Texans beat the Bucs earlier too.
But after the Gators’ miraculous come-from-behind victory over the Vols yesterday, I’m not complaining about football scores this weekend.
It’s raining hard here right now. There’s a butt-load of stormy weather blowing in off the Gulf. Looks like we won’t get to see the Blood Moon tonight. Boo!
What are y’all up to this evening? Anything good for dinner?
redshirt
No one cares about the Bucs, Betty.
And welcome back!
TaMara (BHF)
Back from house hunting. I’m putting an offer on one and ready to be disappointed when I’m out bid. But things have really slowed down. Early in the summer open houses were wall to wall people. Now there were a two couples who looked and left while we were still discussing possibilities.
Time will tell.
Dinner will be something simple, probably grilled chicken and potatoes.
ETA: To say, welcome back and love that photo.
A guy
Meat loaf, baked potatoes and wilted lettuce salad.
mainmata
All heavy overcast in the DC Metro so no Blood Moon views for us either. This after many weeks of cloudless skies and drought.
shell
Here in NJ it looks like itll be too overcast to get a good look at the eclipse. Pah!
Sunday dinner is usually trying to use up whats already in the fridge, i.e. as little cooking as possible. Chicken and pasta salad with a spicy garlic vinaigrette.
Looking forward to ‘Indian Summer’ on PBS tonight. But it sometimes seems like we cant get any program/movie about India that isnt about the British Raj
Mike in NC
Photo reminds me of one of the places we were at last week: Boone Hall Plantation outside of Charleston. Lots of 200 year old live oak trees.
redshirt
@mainmata:
I missed the Venusian occultation of the sun in 2012 due to clouds. And spotty clouds, but plenty enough to cover the sun. It made me sad. I know it’s just luck but don’t it feel personal when a cloud is there, directly for you?
But hooray for me, at least theoretically: No clouds in my forecast tonight and a perfect night to watch outside.
dedc79
Think the Nationals regret signing Papelbon?
Corner Stone
Fuck yeah!
*Coughs* I mean, errum how about those delightful scones, young lady?
Keith G
@Corner Stone: We beat somebody?
Betty Cracker
@TaMara (BHF): Are you using Zillow to house hunt? We’re considering a move eventually once the kiddo goes off to college next year. Nothing for certain, but Zillow has become a major hobby for both of us, and it’s fun to consider the possibilities and get a feel for market pricing.
@shell: Do you make your own vinaigrette? I’ve started playing around with that lately. I’ve made one with orange and garlic that has become a favorite.
CM copeland
RAIN? what is that??? I live in Nevada…xplain…………
Mary G
We just ordered pizza. Late September/early October is my least favorite time of year in SoCal. Feels like it’s been hot forever.
Corner Stone
@TaMara (BHF): I’ve been making plans to move to Austin from the Greater Houston Metro Area for the last couple years. Currently working an opportunity to make that happen and if I do, downsize city here I come! Something like 1250sqft or so as compared to the 2300sqft one story I currently have.
NotMax
Having cup of coffee #1 (first in a series, collect ’em all), preparing to inch toward starting the day.
Corner Stone
@Keith G: Hells to the yeah, baby!
They did their best to give it up but for once our running game with Blue came thru.
Corner Stone
@TaMara (BHF):
As I’m sure you know, school’s back in. The next six months are the best time to find a deal in most locations, depending on what you want.
Betty Cracker
@Corner Stone: Clowney harassed the crap outta Winston. I was rooting for Clowney in that match-up.
And, the Bills just got a pick-six. Le sigh…
Keith G
@Corner Stone: Be sure to pack some water.
Corner Stone
We’ve had an off and on drizzle all day here and supposed to get t-storms overnight. Wonder if it’s part of the same system or just rando.
redshirt
@Betty Cracker: Miami doesn’t seem like a good team.
Totally surprising with that roster. The coaching staff should be replaced.
Corner Stone
@Betty Cracker: I’ve seen Clowney make two plays in two games now. He is going to have to show up sooner rather than later since they’re all triple teaming JJ.
TaMara (BHF)
@Betty Cracker: Zillow was my go-to when I was considering making the jump. Gave me a good idea of what was out there and what prices were like in neighborhoods I liked.
Once I got serious, I used my real estate agents website, I have saved settings and they update hourly, so I know when a house is under contract or immediately when a new one comes up. Zillow’s information isn’t nearly that up-to-date. Sometimes it takes days before it shows a house I’ve already looked at up for sale.
Corner Stone
@Keith G: They’ve actually caught up a lot on the water recharge issue over the summer. But we’ll see what longer term trends come up with.
Corner Stone
Man, the Fish are getting it taken to them early.
CapnMubbers
Not the same, I know, but NASA will livestream the eclipse tonight.
dp
Your Gators really pulled one out of their hat. My Tigers got out of their own way long enough to let Leonard Fournette beat Syracuse by himself!
Coq au vin tonight.
Gene108
I am going to do something other than lying about this evening. I will clean the kitchen and sort the mail that has been sitting for a few weeks.
I will then cook a little bit.
Caught the Popes homily. Think something got lost in the real time translation. Seemed to ramble a bit.
Impressive showing on the TV, with regards to the turn out and pomp.
Aunt Kathy
I work on my feet during the week. If I don’t already have dinner ready to go on a weekday, it’d be drive-thru every day. So Sunday is cooking day, and I eat from that all week. This week’s dinner is spaghetti squash and meatballs, seriously delish.
shell
@Betty Cracker: I do a lot of pickling and find the brine, once said pickles have been devoured, make a great base for a salad dressing. This one is from the spicy garlic dills.
Keith G
@Corner Stone: A bit ago, I heard a hydrologist say that the rains we (Texas) got in May were of an amount that, if completely captured, would satisfy all the state’s needs for a few years. Of course, most of it ended up in the Gulf.
Guess we need to start digging.
redshirt
@efgoldman: I’m not turning on my heat till 10/15 at the earliest.
This will be my ice-bucket challenge.
34 here last night.
Corner Stone
Sausage links, sauerkraut and roasted potatoes from a local German place. I had leftovers but when offered this was too good to say no to.
Betty Cracker
@shell: That’s a good idea, for pickle-eaters, anyway. I can’t abide pickles, so it wouldn’t work for me.
@redshirt: Ha! I’m hoping I’ll be able to turn the a/c off and open the windows by 10/15. I think the low here tonight is 80.
Betty Cracker
@Corner Stone: They are just awful.
Steeplejack
Ordered pizza this afternoon to go along with two surprisingly good football games (Falcons-Cowboys, Bengals-Ravens), so I’ll probably nosh on another piece later.
Got a text to engage the U-Steep car service tonight. Picking up a friend’s daughter and her boyfriend at Dulles about 9:00 and ferrying them to their grad-student apartment in southeast D.C. Happy to do it, and it’s nice to get out and run the roads for a bit. The traffic shouldn’t be bad.
Weather has been overcast and cool, but in a pleasant, seasonally appropriate way. Supposed to be somewhat warmer tomorrow—high around 79°—but then way down into the 60s on Wednesday et seq. Some rain, which is fine. Seasonally appropriate, as I said.
ruemara
That looks really beautiful, Betty. Well, I’m debating heading off to kickboxing and seeing what’s filmable for my shoot dates based on audition results. Or, heading to Whole Foods, buying some sushi, a macaroon as large as my head, dipped in chocolate and a liter of vodka and curling up on my sofa to watch my roommate burn something in the kitchen. The vodka and sushi sound awesome. Or maybe a beer or 27.
Steeplejack
@Corner Stone:
1. I love Austin. Used to travel there a lot, and at two separate points in my life I thought seriously about moving there. Didn’t work out.
2. With you on the house size, especially for one person or a couple. My last place in Atlanta was a 1,200 sq. ft. townhouse, and it felt perfect. Open plan downstairs, with a semi-separate kitchen, and upstairs a big bedroom and a huge bedroom. Used the merely big bedroom as my office/den/gentlemen’s lounge. The hugeness of the huge bedroom was surprising in how much I liked it. Enough room to put in a small sofa for a sitting area without feeling cramped. Something to remember for the dream house.
rikyrah
dinner – crock pot pork roast
white rice
sauteed zucchini and onions
gogol's wife
@efgoldman:
We turned it on today. It’s on a low setting, but I just have to take that chill off at night.
Stacy
Western New Yorker here. Go Bills!
Tommy
@dp: Leonard Fournette is, as one of the announcers said late in the game yesterday, “a man playing with boys.” As a fellow Tiger fan and grad for so many years we’ve heard about this back or that back being a once in a lifetime player. Can win the Heisman.
Of course that has not come to pass so when I heard all the stuff about Fournette last year I took it all with a grain of salt. But this year he is everything they said he was going to be and a lot more, which is kind of saying a lot because they said he’d be a very, very special player.
dexwood
Quiche for dinner, made with fresh eggs from our girls, early Fall spinach from the garden, bacon from a local source, and a good IPA from our neighborhood brewery. Dexter Dog will have some too.
Tommy
@rikyrah:
That is what I have been eating the last two days and will eat for dinner tonight with some green beans, mash potatoes, and a tomato or two from the garden.
gogol's wife
@shell:
I’m going to try Indian Summers, but the previews don’t look too promising. I couldn’t watch Arthur and George, the pacing was so sludgy. But supposedly one of the writers of Indian Summers is a writer for Lewis, which we love. I’ll give it a try, but I’m not hopeful. It looks pretty heavy-handed.
gogol's wife
We have borshch made by a real Russian for dinner. But he’s very whimsical with his borshch. It has cauliflower and zucchini in it.
Omnes Omnibus
@dexwood:
What are you, Planned Parenthood? Don’t let Carly get any video.
debbie
@efgoldman:
How’d they cheat this time?
Betty Cracker
@efgoldman: I figure three to four months of crappy weather vs eight to nine months of great weather is a pretty good ratio. I lived in Boston for a few years and couldn’t stand the winters. If money wasn’t an object, I’d have a summer cabin in Vermont and a house down here for the best of both worlds.
the Conster
@debbie:
By making their opponents look like high school kids, and scoring on every possession.
dexwood
@Omnes Omnibus:
She is not welcome here. No worries, no one wants chicken harvested for anything but the grill.
Tommy
@Betty Cracker: Oh I hear that. We had a very mild summer here for the most part in southern Illinois and now the weather is one of the reasons I love living here. Fall and spring can just be close to perfect. Not had the A/C on in about three or four weeks. Have I told anybody here how much I flat out love my attic fan :)! Maybe the best $200 I ever spent. And my little pootie, she loves it just as much as I do, with all the fresh air being pulled through my house.
Betty Cracker
@gogol’s wife: My late father-in-law always made borscht for Easter, and he put unexpected things in it too, like apples and zucchini. Always very tasty. He had a way with soups.
Betty Cracker
@the Conster: It was the Jaguars. It WAS high school kids.
Punchy
Just arrived in Sydney. Spawn’s already asking to go to THAT address from Finding Nemo. Gunna be a great time.
Omnes Omnibus
The Bears are not a very good football team.
Schlemazel
@Steeplejack:
I went to bed last night before seeing your post but I will get you the recipe for the blue cheese cheesecake with walnuts.
My Chromebook died and I am working with a7″ tablet which is a pain to type on so bear with me, I promise I’ll get it to you
Edit: let me know when you are most likely to see it.
I am grilling lamb ribs, not a lot of meat but very tasty
JPL
@gogol’s wife: I love borscht and when we first moved to the Atlanta area, there was a place owned by Russians, that we frequented often. The restaurant burned down and they relocated. The new restaurant just wasn’t as convenient for us.
Tommy
@Omnes Omnibus: No, no they are not. That is one of the two games I am getting and switched to the other and found the 49ners are not a very good team either.
JPL
@efgoldman: I’m waiting for ESPN to tell me how they cheated today. We didn’t get the Pats game but the Atlanta game was pretty good. Went out for lunch with my family and we only saw the second half of the Falcons game.
Omnes Omnibus
@efgoldman: I am not complaining, of course.
Lamh36
I finally watched The Muppets. I enjoyed it. all the folks upset about the more “adult” muppets should feel really stupid right now.
now onto Scream Queens. I’ve already heard not so great things about it, but I still like to make my own decisions bout new shows.
tonight it mainly just returning shows, but I’ve decided to give that new FBI recruit show Quantico a go tonight.
how is everybody’s Sunday so far?
JPL
@efgoldman: I mentioned this yesterday but my son’s fiance has Brady and Wilson for q.b.’s on her fantasy football team. She has been so busy that she has forgotten to update, so Brady hasn’t played yet. My son checked today and both her receivers she had in, were out with injuries.
redshirt
@efgoldman:
And Belichick. He is the greatest coach ever. On a completely different level than other coaching staffs.
If that involves aggressive intelligence services, well, so be it.
Tommy
@Lamh36: I really didn’t enjoy many of the new shows, other than The Player, which I thought was flat out amazing. I am hoping with everything I got that Heroes will be good, but the first two hours, well they kind of just introduced everybody and nothing IMHO really happened.
JPL
@Betty Cracker: They looked okay against Miami.
Omnes Omnibus
@efgoldman: I am knocking on every wooden thing in the house, including my head.
Mike in NC
@Lamh36: We like AHS a lot but Scream Queens must be closer in pacing to Glee. Too campy. It was hard to make it through the two hour premier and still stay awake.
Thor Heyerdahl
Trying my hand at homemade pho.
dexwood
Bring on the Super Moon. Approaching 5 here with a clear sky ahead. I recently inherited a small, 1950s Bausch & Lomb telescope, I plan to set up. Focusing the instrument has been shifty. Don’t know if it’s the telescope, old eyes or a combination.
the Conster
@redshirt:
It actually is all about the coaching. Brady can’t play both sides of the ball. The commentators were commenting today on how the special teams had practiced the fake punt end around that the Jags tried, and Slater sniffed out and stuffed. Every possibility in every possible situation is accounted for and practiced for, which is why Malcolm Butler knew where Wilson’s ball was going on that last SB play. Which is why the other coaches hate BB so much. He makes them look stupid and lazy.
Tommy
Well for all you pro football fans that might not be happy with your team keep in mind you could be me. I don’t even want to type the name of my team from the nation’s capital. Got about half a closet of their gear I don’t wear anymore. Oh and worse of all I live in St. Louis so I get to hear all the time about the young talent the Rams got with all the draft picks we sent them for a player that is sitting on the bench.
The only upside for me is I think Cousins can be a good QB. I recall listening to an interview with him before a bowl game his senior year on ESPN radio. He is breaking down the defense. Talking about his team. At first I thought they were interviewing the head coach of MSU. I thought to myself this young man is both very smart and well put together. Somebody is going to draft him late in the 3rd or 4th rounds and get very lucky.
JPL
@dexwood: It’s cloudy and dreary so I’m depending on pictures that are posted online.
Steeplejack
@gogol’s wife:
A few days ago I caught a couple of episodes of Lewis that I had missed, and I was reminded of how much I have come to like the show. As a Morse fan I was predisposed to like it anyway, but it has really blossomed into a satisfying, “deep” show (given the genre limitations). Right up there with Foyle’s War.
I’m looking forward to the new season (October 6, according to IMDB), with Lewis semi-retired and comfortable in his relationship with Dr. Hobbs and with Hathaway stepping up and having his own issues as the lead investigator. I particularly hope the addition of D.S. Lizzie Maddox is a good thing and not just a cheap plot device (diversity!).
Also have to mention that Endeavour has been a great prequel.
dexwood
@JPL:
Ain’t gonna happen, I can barely focus an old telescope. The internet is your friend for pics.
redshirt
@the Conster: Yep. And you’d think other professional football coaches could implement this mentality, but, no, not really, apparently. The Dolphins have been a mess with this current staff for years, and yet here we are, observing their product.
Mediocre.
That Giants-Cowboys game in week 1 was hilarious. Watching Eli and the Giants unmanage the clock was amazing. Made me appreciate the Pats so much more.
Steeplejack
@Betty Cracker:
Yup. My friend in Las Vegas jokes about hitting the lottery and getting a place near Lake Tahoe for June-September. I do too, since there is a non-zero chance I might need to move to Las Vegas as my mother gets older (hopefully more than a few years from now). But from October to May Las Vegas has awesome weather.
gogol's wife
@Steeplejack:
Have you missed the three episodes with Lizzie Maddox? That was the whole last season. I think there’ll be one more season and that’s it. Lizzie is good — very good actress playing her. We just watched “Entry Wounds” (for about the third time) last night and really enjoyed it.
We adore Endeavour.
TaMara (BHF)
@Corner Stone: We had the big push in the spring, crazy, 25+ bids on even crappy houses.
I’m upsizing a bit – I downsized from about 3000 to a tiny apartment, now want about 1500 for home and office.
redshirt
@Tommy: There are plenty of assets on the Washington Football Team to make a good/great NFL team. However, all the dissension and controversy that swirls around this team will prevent any sustained success from occurring.
They need to do two things:
1. Change the name from the Redskins to something else. How about the Warriors?
2. Get Dan Snyder to sell the team.
MomSense
Watching the Great British Bake Off and eating a salad with grilled romaine and lots of veggies.
Took the best walk today with the pup. if I had my swim suit I would have gone swimming with her. The water was warm.
Josie
Lazy man’s (or woman’s) posole, using ground pork instead of the usual pork shoulder. I used a poblano pepper plus some green salsa in it – spicy but really good.
Schlemazel
@Thor Heyerdahl:
If you can get marrow bones roast they really make a difference in pho. If you have the time and inclination roast the bones in the oven first but do it in a container so you capture all the juices.
TaMara (BHF)
@Lamh36: I thought the people worried about adult content were remembering muppets with a foggy memory. They were always joking at an over your kid’s head level. Even their Christmas classic, Muppets Christmas Carol was dark with lots of adult jokes.
Tommy
@redshirt: I can’t stand the Pats nor BB, but it isn’t because of Inflatgate or this or that. It is because they have sustained excellence that I am jealous of and my football team has the exact opposite.
It is like what my St. Louis Cardinals have. We don’t win the World Series every year, but every year we are good. We make the playoffs. We just win. Like this year with the best record in baseball for pretty much the entire year.
MazeDancer
Apparently, Bobby Jindal is not dropping out. Twitter was in error. Apologies for mentioning in thread below. It was a deluge of tweets, from all kinds of sources. Usually, I try to research things completely, but research failed this time. Sorry about that.
Of course, Jindal saying “I’m not dropping out” is not getting the same Twitterama.
dp
@Tommy: He’s everything they said and more. He’s ruined me for watching other running backs.
Steeplejack
@Schlemazel:
Thanks for the follow-up. I try to take at least a look at every thread, but I’m here in real time mostly in the evening and late night (Eastern time).
No desperate hurry, so don’t inconvenience yourself, but I really like savory recipes like that and always prefer getting recipes from “real” people instead of some website fronting for the Blue Cheese Council or whatever.
schrodinger's cat
Is anyone going to check out the lunar eclipse tonight?
@shell: The trailer that PBS has been showing seems a tad over dramatic and the Indians seem a bit fake, kinda like Downton Abbey, 21st century Brits playing dress up.
Tommy
@redshirt: Synder will never sell the team nor change the name. I was a season ticket holder when he bought the team. I worked in the industry where he made his billions, by selling his ad agency to a French holding company.
It seemed to me at this point it was a perfect time to change the name and also make money. We are pretty rabid fans and if he had changed the name we all would have gone out and bought out gear a second time.
But that didn’t happen and now he is dug in and will refuse, even if you put an actual gun to his head, to make any changes …. well that isn’t correct, we might have like our 7th coach in 12 years later this year.
Betty Cracker
@JPL: Miami sucks too. But they’re coming back against the Bills! Only 20 points to make up seven minutes!
Betty Cracker
@Betty Cracker: Oops, make that 27!
Just One More Canuck
wow do the Dolphins stink
Steeplejack
@Lamh36:
I have to tell you I watched Rosewood the other night and thought WTF?! Okay, Morris Chestnut is a fine figure of a man, so I can see him drawing the ladies, and I found myself liking the woman cop, but, damn, the show just struck me as awful. Rosewood’s obnoxious, smirking character had me hoping someone would punch him in the neck in every freaking scene. And his mom and his sister and her same-sex fiancée back in the lab? W.T.F. It’s like they took the bad parts of Bones and CSI: Miami and maybe a dash of Elementary and put them in the blender. I might give this show one more look to see if they start to tone it down, but right now it’s a train wreck. IMHO.
Tommy
@dp: I love what he said in a recent interview when asked if he shouldn’t run around people when at times he seems to enjoy running over/through them. He said he is a RB, there is going to be contact. His goal is to just hit them before they hit him.
Elizabelle
@schrodinger’s cat: I fear we’re going to have cloud cover in NoVA. Although I hope to see that bad moon rising.
dedc79
@Tommy: As a Giants fan living in D.C., I so enjoy listening to the Redskins radio broadcast. And the post-game show. And the post-mortem the next morning.
Sonny Jurgenson, Kevin Sheehan, Andy Polin and Doc Walker are hilarious when they’re angry.
Omnes Omnibus
@MomSense: Ruby’s been doing quite well of late after a rather rocky start.
Thor Heyerdahl
@Schlemazel: Thanks for the suggestion. It’s been a bit more involved than I wanted as a recipe, but it’s been simmering for the last couple hours.
schrodinger's cat
@Elizabelle: Skies are clear over here, going to set out the telescope to watch the moon. I think I will watch the first episode of Indian Summers , if for nothing else than to laugh at their bad Hindi.
ETA: To paraphrase Curzon, the British ruled the world as long as they had India, after they lost it they became a second rate power. So its no wonder that the British like to revisit their glory days.
Steeplejack
@gogol’s wife:
No, I saw those episodes. I thought she was a little underutilized, which is the source of my concern. I think a promising line that they sort of hinted at is Hathaway unconsciously wanting to go it alone and Lewis being the one to recognize Maddox’s talent and urging Hathaway to use her more.
But they did all get together for pizza, so that’s got to be a good sign.
Tommy
@dedc79: Sonny plays the “angry old man” very, very well :).
Schlemazel
@Steeplejack:
It’ll be a couple days, thanks.
Recipes have gotten much better, years ago it was not unusual to read a cookbook and see immediately that the author never made the dish. Very frustrating when you don’t know but trust the text only to find out they goofed.
One thing the Internet killed was cookbooks. It’s hard to find good ones but lots of crap from people like Guy Fieri and Rachel Ray. No talent talking heads with a TV show.
Corner Stone
@Steeplejack:
When I was much younger I always told myself I would live in Vegas for at least a year before I had a family. Didn’t work out.
I just love being in Austin. The day to day cost of living is similar to Houston but the initial housing cost (to buy a home, not rent apt or lease) is 2.5 to 3 times as much as similar housing around parts of Houston. Even for a much smaller footprint. For example, to get in a good school district within a 30 minute drive of downtown Austin I’d have to spend roughly twice what my current house costs for a house with 800 less sqft. Then about another $100K for remodeling.
After that though the food trucks are pretty reasonable for dinner.
Steeplejack
@schrodinger’s cat:
I think it will be too cloudy here in NoVA to see the eclipse. I have to go out and drive for about 90 minutes at 8:30, so I’ll take a peek then.
MomSense
@Omnes Omnibus:
Yes and the engineer has floundered badly after a promising start.
Steeplejack
@Elizabelle:
There’s a bathroom on the right.
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
Our server decided to crap out, turning it off and back on didn’t help, and G is at the library taking a practice GRE. Sigh. I suppose I should actually get some chores done or something.
ThresherK
Pancakes and breakfast sausage for dinner.
Usually at the end of September when I stand over the stove like this I end up less sweaty.
Corner Stone
@TaMara (BHF):
When I was recently seriously looking to buy a house in Austin, to rent out for a while until I was ready to move there, there was a contingent from CA buying 5 to 10 houses (each) in the best areas sight unseen. And that’s no joke. You could mark a half dozen potentials on Saturday evening and before you could view them on Sunday some would be closed and others pending. $350+ for teardowns, and in some cases busted out with nothing but studs and framing still standing.
Corner Stone
Not only does Cole have to be around other humans but now Big Ben may be fucked and the Vickster is the new Stillers QB.
Tommy
@ThresherK: Nothing, nothing wrong with that. About every two weeks or so I have a single egg, pancake, hash browns, and breakfast sausage for dinner. I always enjoy it and think to myself why don’t I have this more often?
Steeplejack
@Schlemazel:
I actually like Rachael Ray, although I haven’t watched her show in quite a while. She made “real” food and actually did it in 30 minutes, although she is so skilled and organized that it would take a normal person 45-60 minutes to do the same thing. But props to her for showing the way for (in my mind) overscheduled moms and two-career couples.
The other TV chef/cook who is really good about sticking to the actual 30 minutes, and who does amazing dishes, is Jacques Pépin. I love his shows.
Jeffro
@mainmata: But plenty of views (online) of Bryce Harper and Jonathan Papelborn going at it in the dugout, holy cow.
We were on our way out of Nats Park when it happened, I am guessing…
NotMax
@Schlemazel
Have a small cookbook of Pennsylvania Dutch recipes produced locally for some group or other in the Reading, PA area, dated 1936, which somehow fell into my possession.
Haven’t tried everything in it, but nothing so far has fallen short of anticipation.
Somewhere in the abode is a diary from the mid-19th century which includes a number of handwritten recipes. Hard to read due to fading and the penmanship; the recipes range from rather vague to non-existent as to measurements.
Betty Cracker
Man, I wish I had Draft Kings’ advertising budget. I’d never have to work again.
schrodinger's cat
@Steeplejack: I used to like RR before she was “discovered” by Oprah. Now she is a caricature of her former self.
ETA: Haven’t watched her Food Network show in ages. Doesn’t she have a day time talk show now?
Jeffro
This concerns me – when Chris Cillizza and I come to the same conclusions, I start to wonder where I went wrong:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/ranking-the-top-10-gop-candidates-for-president/2015/09/27/ac8b7da6-6520-11e5-9223-70cb36460919_story.html
Hey, he has Rubio as a top contender, Paul and Huck almost out of it, recognizes that Carson’s support is paper-thin…what is it they say about stopped clocks and all that?
NotMax
@schrodinger’s cat
Am so old can remember when the Food Channel focused on home cooking.
And the History Channel focused on actual history.
schrodinger's cat
@NotMax: Then I am old too! because I remember that bygone era.
Steeplejack
Okay, I just gave the housecat a little wet food as a mid-evening snack, and she did that scratching, “I’m burying this” gesture on the floor beside it. What a bitch!
Eric U.
I’m sitting around enjoying the fact that the Cowboys lost. And Peter Sagan won the UCI world road championships
ruemara
whoa. I’ m so drunk I can’t walk across the room without looking like a monthy python sketch.
Lamh, Scream Queens was fun in many spots but you may get as pissy as I did when the 2 mature black females were portrayed as incompetent cowards a la sterotyping. Can NIecey nash play something besides a cop type, ever? Offensive drag queen humor activeted
Steeplejack
@schrodinger’s cat:
Yes, she has a talk show, which I have never seen.
shell
@schrodinger’s cat: Forget that.I remember when A&E and Bravo actually had Arts and Cultural shows.
Omnes Omnibus
@MomSense: Yea for Kimberley. I am split between her and Ruby as my rooting interests.
shell
‘Anna and the King of Siam’ on TCM at 8. Rex harrison plays asian!
Looks completely socked in. Guess no eclipse here.
schrodinger's cat
@efgoldman: At least we are not on national TV, only on Balloon Juice.
gogol's wife
@Steeplejack:
Oh, I misunderstood your message. I thought you hadn’t seen Maddox yet.
I didn’t really get Hathaway’s personality transformation after his “non-pilgrimage,” but I love him so I don’t care. Bring on all the Foxes!
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
@Lamh36:
I think the people bitching about “The Muppets” never went back and watched “The Muppet Show” as adults to catch all of the jokes they missed the first time around. It’s a family show, not a kids’ show, which means they have jokes that are designed to fly over the kiddies’ heads.
Hell, even as a preteen I realized it was pretty “adult” to have Alice Cooper as the guest star.
gogol's wife
@Tommy:
Every time I read an obituary of a beloved sports figure from the NYTimes to my husband, he says, “Just don’t tell me if it’s Sonny Jurgensen.” He loves him.
Corner Stone
If there’s an FP’er available, any chance we can get a thread to document and ridicule Peyton Manning’s continuing decline into decrepitude coming up shortly?
I am eager to count all of the ducks + Peyton Manning Faces.
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
Also, I haven’t been watching “Project Greenlight,” but G has told me that the director has been a little shocked to discover that Effie Brown is his boss and gets to tell him what he can and can’t do. Which is generally how it works in Hollywood — it’s still relatively rare for a director to be allowed to do what he wants without a producer to tell him “no.” Apparently a fair amount of hilarity is ensuing.
schrodinger's cat
@efgoldman: Really? Have never seen that. You win.
Steeplejack
@gogol’s wife:
Hathaway seems mostly the same to me, although something seems to have happened on his trip. But I think I have seen a few of the recent episodes out of order, so I might be a bit confused.
Schlemazel
@Steeplejack:
Pépin is the real deal but has help with the prep of course.
RR has a lot of prep and she admitted it in her shows when she suggested preping the entire week on the weekend. I never got the feeling she was really cooking and I felt she was just the pretty face doing someone else’s stuff.
Not as bad as many celeb ‘chefs’ but not really someone I want to follow. Different strokes I guess.
JPL
@Corner Stone: I love Brady, but I don’t see him overtaking Manning’s touch down record. Today when Brady, scored his 400th t.d. pass, Danny Amendola gave the ball to the a fan. I guess the Patriots were able to get it back.
redshirt
@JPL: Brady probably doesn’t care. Nor do the Pats.
Winning everything all the time will do that.
JPL
@redshirt: yup
schrodinger's cat
@Schlemazel: She used to do chop the stuff on camera when used to see her show which was more than 10 years ago. Her recipes back then were solid and accessible.
WereBear
Clear skies. (For a change.) Going for the blood moon eclipse.
JPL
Is anyone watching Trump on 60 Minutes? He is one strange dude.
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
@schrodinger’s cat:
Completely random things I’m finding out now that my spouse is going to be a librarian — the guy who’s considered to be the father of modern librarianship was Indian:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._R._Ranganathan
Betty Cracker
@Corner Stone: I’d rather have that broken down old dinosaur than whiny-ass Winston throwing interceptions and then yammering on about how “blessed” he is in the post-game.
Corner Stone
@JPL: If Peyton quit right now that’s some 3+ years of really consistent TD passes for Brady to catch him. I’m not sure he has that more of a stretch in him, or that the Pats will continue with him that long. They have a pattern of ditching stale meat before it goes rotten, and some speculate the recent contract renegotiation on Brady’s part was to make sure he had a say in what happened to him.
Yeah, Amendola gave it away but they got it back somehow. Brady didn’t seem to care but I bet he’s secretly going to give Amendola the stink eye for a while. How could you not know? At least offer it back to Tom.
NotMax
@efgoldman
And when HBO simply showed one movie after another.
If a film ended at 17 minutes after the hour, the next one began at that oddish time.
ruemara
@Mnemosyne (iPhone): More than Matt Damon ‘splainin things? Also, agreed on the Muppet Show.
Omnes Omnibus
@Betty Cracker: I am perfectly happy with my team’s guy.
Corner Stone
@Betty Cracker: I’m not sure which I enjoy more, the waffling duck at 15+ yards I am tempted to grab my 12 gauge and shoot out of the sky, or the completely lost look Geordi LaForge gives us when he looks to the sidelines for the play call after his sight visor has been taken from him.
Steeplejack
@Schlemazel:
Well, they all do. But Pépin does a very plausible job of showing you how to cook great food in a not daunting amount of time. Probably not the 30 minutes he does it in, but in a short enough period of time that people are willing to give it a shot. Rachael Ray, on her original Thirty-Minute Meals show, did the same thing for merely good food, pitched (I think) toward people who never learned to cook or don’t have good cooking skills.
I haven’t watched her “week in a day” show, because the whole concept is anathema to me. I work at home and cook almost exclusively for one. I’d rather do a little cooking every day instead of a marathon session on one day.
She got her start doing live cooking demos and teaching classes at a gourmet store, so I think she’s got the chops. But anyone who does scores of TV episodes is going to need a lot of help to come up with fresh ideas, etc.
ETA: And, as schrodinger’s cat mentioned, she used to chop/prep all the food on camera.
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
@ruemara:
Apparently the director demanded to speak to Matt and Ben. And Matt and Ben said, “STFU, she’s the boss.”
I didn’t get that worried about Matt’s mansplaining/whitesplaining moment because I knew that the movie producer on that show always ends up as the hero. Effie Brown is going to be the star of the season, and the show is designed to be that way.
Betty Cracker
@Omnes Omnibus: Rodgers? He’s awesome. Was also lucky enough to land in a place that allowed him to develop as an understudy.
Mike J
@JPL: This chrome extension changes every occurrence of “politically correct” to “treating people with respect”. Needed for reading anything Trump says.
Examples:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CL5dkLrUEAATawe.png
J R in WV
@dedc79:
I just made a run to the store/pharmacey to pick up an “I’m out of it” medi-cation for Mrs J, and got a roast chicken, mashed Potatoes and green beans from the hot-line. I’m nearly over our virus, and she’s getting better now.
Also (because I’m feeling so much better) got a 12 pack of Pale Ale and a tray of sushi for halftime, won’t be able to see the rising bad moon at all. Also couldn’t see the last two or three meteor showers. Even though we’ve had the driest summer in 20 or 30 years. Crops weren’t hurt, in fact hay was probably better than usual, often times cut hay gets rained on, then tedded a couple of times to help it dry.
Friend with live stock is relaxed for the first time all summer, has 1200 bales in the hay barn for beef cattle and a couple of horses
That picture is great – I love old Florida, when it isn’t 85 or 95 at sundown. The country roads, deserted banks of sleepy rivers. I wish there were still long islands of deserted beaches. The last time we walked miles down a beach we ran into 2 couples bopping in the shade, then got our legs sand-blasted as we ran back to the car parking by the evening T-storm that snuck in behind us as we walked south.
Betty, Steven King wrote a great novel called Duma Key, Set on am island south of Venice, protagonist was a severely injured construction contractor come to heal a little, picked up art, won’t say any more. It felt pretty real – we spent some months all told visiting with my parents who spent winters in Osprey, south of Sarasota and N of Venice. Back when Ringling Bros circus were still wintering in Venice, and there were still a few coastal islands that weren’t all tall condos.
I recommend it for rainy nights in FL.
Best to all!
JR
Omnes Omnibus
@Betty Cracker:
Probably one of the last 1st round picks to be able to do that.
gelfling545
@Mnemosyne (iPhone): Lot’s of kids shows from my day had a good many “over the heads of the kids” references; Flintstones, Bugs Bunny & Rocky & Bullwinkle to name a few. I mean, how many kids caught the reference made in the name “Boris Badenov”?
Some guy
@Betty Cracker:
It’s great
To be
A Florida Gator
Mike J
@gelfling545: I liked the eps in which Boris was trying to steal the ruby yacht or Omar Khayyam.
Betty Cracker
@Some guy: Holy shit, whatta game!
divF
@Mnemosyne (iPhone):
One of my fave examples was Miss Piggy and Raquel Welch singing “I’m a Woman (W-O-M-A-N)”. When they got to the lyrics, “make a dress out of a feedbag, and make a man out of you”, they did a routine about the first line to avoid singing the second line.
But all the adults watching knew the real lyrics, and knew what they were covering up.
PurpleGirl
@efgoldman: Just checked my bedroom radiator and it isn’t warm yet. I expect there to be heat soon though; we have our own power plant and the electricity we generate is co-gen with heat and hot water. Note: NYC’s heat season starts Oct. 15 but we are co-op and follow our own guidelines.
Mike J
@divF:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7wNoATQ8sA
divF
@Mike J: Yep, that’s the one.
Betty Cracker
We just had one of those hilarious synchronicity moments. One of the dogs was in the narrow space between the sofa and coffee table, and the other dog was blocking her path, so she started backing up to get out, and at exactly that moment, the timer on the oven went off, and it made the same sound a truck makes when it backs up. Cracked us all up!
@efgoldman: It’s most likely going to be a tough season for the Gators, with a brand-new coach, freshman QB and all. But they’re off to a good start, and no season that includes the last 10 minutes of Saturday’s game can ever be considered forgettable. They were toast, and they came back and won it, converting three (I think) fourth downs, against a much-loathed rival. Fantastic game!
JPL
@Mike J: I love that!
MomSense
@Omnes Omnibus:
Same here. I would have given up my veggie diet to try Kimberley’s show stopper.
The contest tonight is one I could have killed. Pies, phyllo, and custard tarts are in regular rotation at my house.
J R in WV
@Betty Cracker: I listened to the WVU Maryland game yesterday on the radio – we don’t have access to cable or sat – and was pretty delighted by their near shut-out. That used to be an important game before WVU went to the BIG 12 conference.
45-6 is always a good way to win against a team you’ve been playing for decades.
Just hoping WVU does OK in their Big 12 season! Could be rough, that’s a group of fine football schools.
Omnes Omnibus
This not a good football game.
Betty Cracker
@Omnes Omnibus: You’re right. This is the third shitty game I’ve watched today — Bucs v Texans, Bills v Dolphins and now this battle of the mediocrities.
redshirt
Any NFL football is good football, by definition.
Tenar Darell
Great nerd day out– Met friends in Davis Square for Grandma the movie, Redbones, ice cream. Back home watching eclipse.
redshirt
Did you know the average actual time of action in NFL games is 11:11 minutes?
Corner Stone
@Betty Cracker: The Duck Dynasty QB has yet to attempt a throw beyond 15 yards.
Corner Stone
What is going on with Calvin Johnson?
Corner Stone
Screens and draws for DEN.
Corner Stone
OUCH!
Betty Cracker
@efgoldman: I was away from home most of Saturday, so I didn’t get to see much football except for the Gator game, but there were some crazy scores. I was surprised Texas Tech gave TCU such a fight. And what about that beat-down Utah laid on the Ducks? Jeebus.
Tenar Darell
@efgoldman: Next time there’s a Boston meetup, maybe?
PurpleGirl
@schrodinger’s cat: I wondered what your opinion of the trailer would be. I’m watching the CSI ender.
PurpleGirl
@efgoldman: Do we even know how many takes it took him to get through a narration. Rocky & Bullwinkle and all the stories were great.
schrodinger's cat
@PurpleGirl: The guy playing Afrin Dalal does not look Parsi, at all, and his Hindi enunciation was pretty bad. All the younger Indians felt like they were playing dress up. The show has a soapy feel to it, Downton Abbey set in India, where Indians are the downstairs folk.
Also, I don’t think the foot hills of Himalayas have banana trees, the climate is sub-tropical, almost temperate.
SiubhanDuinne
Just got back to the hotel from a nice evening of eclipse-watching. We had an early dinner in Oak Park with friends — the kid who lived next door to us (who is now 70) and his wife. They’ve become good friends. Restaurant was a Mexican-fusion place owned by a guy from the Gaza Strip.
After dinner, the friends invited us over to watch the eclipse. We sat in lawn chairs in their back yard for a couple of hours, sang every moon song we could think of (in four-part harmony, mind you), and watched the moon gradually disappear, turn rosy, then gradually start to reappear. There were patchy clouds but enough clear spaces that we had a lovely view almost the entire time. During our (rare) quiet moments, we just grooved on the sounds of crickets and tree frogs and night creatures.
Just as we were getting up to leave, a blimp flew directly overhead! I think it’s the one that’s been flying over Wrigley Field the last few days. I tried to grab some pictures, but the iPad camera isn’t good at capturing eclipses and moons and nighttime blimps.
It was a wonderful evening.
Amir Khalid
@schrodinger’s cat:
Indian Summer is shot in Malaysia, hence the banana trees.