Useless Conversation

[Paelos]

Sorry but I doubt the restaurant is anything but a crude attempt to cash in on Guy's Food network fame. It deserves any beating it gets even if the people delivering the beating are horrible.

Yep, it's a money grab. The restaurant is probably complete shit. Overpriced shit at that. Guy Fieri is generally considered a raging douchenozzle even from the people who worked closely with him on Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives.

[Rasix]

I really like good food.  I do a lot of cooking myself, and love the "beret" type restaurants typically.  Looking at that review, however, it is obviously a hit piece.  It's like going to Applebee's or Texas Road House and writing a shitty review. 

Well, they'd write a shitty review because it's shitty food.  I'm no food critic, but on the odd chance I get dragged to a place like that, I'll start looking over the menu and just fucking despair.  "That'll give me the shits.  That'll taste like sugar coated shoe leather.  How the fuck does someone find that edible? Hmm.. chicken tenders; how bad can that be? (usually pretty bad)"

If someone's paid to write about food and they go to a shitty restaurant propped up by some idiot's reputation, I hope they fucking tear it apart, so I can save myself a miserable meal if I happen across it.  Of course, I don't see how that place would ever past muster.  Donkey sauce.  FFS, I see that on a menu, and I'm not sitting down unless I'm starving.

[cmlancas]

Donkey sauce is completely unappetizing.  It just sounds so much like a donkey show that the cooks in the back have to snicker when they serve it.

I might've tried donkey punch if it were on the menu though.   

[Paelos]

Donkey sauce is just a stupid name for a mustard-mayo sauce.

We make a variant of it for chicken when we grill them at the lake. I like a cup of mayo, two cups mustard, half a cup of worsteshire, lots of fresh crack pepper. We brush that on the chicken with a basting brush as it grills. It's actually awesome and doesn't burn like a sugar base sauce.

[Nebu]

Donkey sauce is just a stupid name for a mustard-mayo sauce.

Maybe the chef was inspired by something he saw during a trip to Tijuana. 

[RhyssaFireheart]

Random sight on the way to work - a herd of bison (? buffalo?) grazing in a field, with a few white deer of some sort around as well.  Someone's got an exotic farm or something around here.

[IainC]

Random sight on the way to work - a herd of bison (? buffalo?) grazing in a field, with a few white deer of some sort around as well.  Someone's got an exotic farm or something around here.

The difference between a buffalo and a bison is that you can't wash your hands in a buffalo.

[Lantyssa]

The white deer are probably Fallow Deer.

When we had some property next to the YO, we'd get Fallow, Axis, Sika, one herd of Red, and other exotics wandering through.  Annual floods would knock down fences, so they're all over parts of West Texas now.

[rattran]

There used to be a domestic herd of albinoish white tail deer up on hwy 173 somewhere near Harvard, it disappeared about when both bison farms did, so perhaps they moved down toward you. I used to pass it on my commute a few years back.

[RhyssaFireheart]

Fallow deer sound about right, especially since I did see a buck with moose-looking antlers like that one day before this.  Didn't realize they were around N. Illinois though.  

Fake edit for rattran - Really?  This place is right by Rt 60 and Fairfield Rd, just north of Wacaunda so it wouldn't be too much of a stretch to think they moved here from Harvard.

[Lantyssa]

You could take a picture and let us dissect the attributes of the ungulates.

[Minvaren]

Note to self: get that whole-house water filter installed.  After the fridge filter fiasco, it's painfully obvious how much better water tastes, especially without chlorine.

[Yegolev]

Opted for the cheaper undersink version.

[Minvaren]

Thinking of doing a RO setup under the sink myself - will cut down on the need for distilled water for brewing here in Houston, where we eat our tap water with a fork.   

[Bunk]

Fridge died last night. Thought it seemed kind of odd that it wasn't making any noise for a while, looked down to see the nice pool of water around it. Light's still on inside, just no activity from the compressor or the fan.

Of course, I discover this after having spent $25 on far more Chinese food than I could eat in one sitting. Thought I would be brilliant and put the Chinese out on the patio over night to keep it cool. Got up at 5:00 AM this morning for work and checked the weather report: 9c (48 F). So much for the dry garlic pork and house special fu yung.

Now I get to write the owners of the apartment to explain how their crappy contractor's fridge just died. At least I have a bar fridge sitting beside me here at work that I can take home in the short term.

[ghost]

What does it say about my childhood that I was read the first line there and immediately though, "Crap, the Fridge can't be dead" and googled William "The Refrigerator" Perry to make sure?

[Sky]

What does it say about my childhood that I was read the first line there and immediately though, "Crap, the Fridge can't be dead" and googled William "The Refrigerator" Perry to make sure?

Will he Superbowl Shuffle off this mortal coil?

[ghost]

One can only hope, as opposed to going like the pathetic pile of shit that he is now.

[Cheddar]

Finally saw the Gangam style video thingy all the kids are talking about these days.

Either I am old or my funny is broken.  This entire craze is over my head and I just don't get it.  Found it mildly amusing at best.

What is wrong with me?

[ezrast]

It's not that it's OMG hilarious, it's just that particular brand of east-Asian crazy that tends to enthrall geeks, plus the song is actually kind of catchy, plus it doesn't come with the creepy pedo vibe that most of us are conditioned to expect from that sort of thing thanks to Japan being the main exporter of east-Asian crazy.

[Samwise]

If you hadn't seen it already, there's no way you were not going to be disappointed.  It's a cool video but it's been WAY overexposed/hyped at this point.

[Evildrider]

Finally saw the Gangam style video thingy all the kids are talking about these days.

Either I am old or my funny is broken.  This entire craze is over my head and I just don't get it.  Found it mildly amusing at best.

What is wrong with me?

it doesn't help that, even if people can't understand wtf he is saying, it's better than what is being churned out here in the U.S.

[Sky]

You shouldn't listen to what the churn factory churns out. There is some amazing music coming out right now. Some of my favorite albums have been released in the last couple years.

I unwittingly opened the door to discussion of a new tv. We were talking about moving a few things around the house to facilitate her mom, who has macular degeneration (she don't see so well). So the old lady suddenly pipes up with 'She's going to LOVE your tv.' And I said I wish she had thought of that a couple years ago when I sold my old one, DLPs are big and bright, perfect for her mom. 

"You know...a 73" tv costs what this 65" cost me two years ago, and we could give this tv to your mom..."

 

[Paelos]

You shouldn't listen to what the churn factory churns out. There is some amazing music coming out right now. Some of my favorite albums have been released in the last couple years.

Can you provide a quick list please? With the bands names?

[murdoc]

We did some Christmas shopping on the weekend and one of the stores was playing Gangnam Style, the twins SPRINTED into the store so they could dance to it.

They're 2 though, so it can be excused.

[Signe]

What CAN'T be excused, however, is that you didn't include a video with this post!!!

[Sky]

Mastodon - Crack the Skye (a bit old but such a great album) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po7bmJv7nvU
Gillian Welch - The Harrow and the Harvest http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiS37_EULj8 (I love this album so much)
Mumford & Sons - Babel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uc4NvjzdHZ8
Chris Cornell - Songbook http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AJShOLlJyk
Tedeschi Trucks Band - Revelator https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZOBUcnNp04
Zac Brown Band - Uncaged http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPEyRIy81CA
Buddy Guy - Living Proof http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZWAmxNtDQU
Civil Wars - Barton Hollow http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODOOo-R6kg8 (been listening to this a lot lately)

Just a few recent awesome albums. Gangnam is a decent track, but I don't really listen to that kind of music.

[Lantyssa]

Mumford & Sons doesn't do it for me.  They're close to a sound I should like, but something is very off on most everything on that album, and it just grates on me.

Granted I'm not exactly known for my taste in music.

[Merusk]

Tried any other albums, Lant?  I've found I'm hit or miss on the albums but like individual songs quite a bit. (Little Lion Man being one of my favorites)

Heard Volbeat and have any thoughts on them, Sky?  I guess further discussion should move to the music thread, this isn't nearly useless enough.

[Lantyssa]

Little Lion Man makes me want to stab unsharpened pencils into my ears...

I think it's the guy's voice, but I'm not sure.  I'm too discomforted to want to figure it out.

[Viin]

Not that this is the music thread, but Black Rebel Motorcycle Gang's latest is great

[Ingmar]

Mumford & Sons doesn't do it for me.  They're close to a sound I should like, but something is very off on most everything on that album, and it just grates on me.

Granted I'm not exactly known for my taste in music.

I don't like them either. It's basically taking traditional music and sucking every ounce of life out of it. It's completely overproduced and bland-ified.

[Samwise]

Mumford & Sons doesn't do it for me.  They're close to a sound I should like, but something is very off on most everything on that album, and it just grates on me.

Granted I'm not exactly known for my taste in music.

I don't like them either. It's basically taking traditional music and sucking every ounce of life out of it. It's completely overproduced and bland-ified.

Thank you.

I come from a strong folk music background (my dad's a professional banjo player/teacher), and I liked M&S at first because they kind of reminded me of that, but like Lant said, there's something "off", and now I kind of hate them.  Your description of them as "blandified" is good.

[RhyssaFireheart]

I'm soulless then because I love Mumford & Sons.

But then again, I've also bought albums from Linkin Park and Nickleback, so what do I know?

[Engels]