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Re: tl;dr: Your Beloved Burger Joint Sucks

mwhybark — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 22:49:30 -0000

Dissin' the Ivar's! OUTRAGE! DRAMA!

My wife can't figure out my love for it either. I put it down to her family fleeing benevolent socialist reform in Cuba. What soreheads!

Hm. New Mexican sushi. yeah. I'll pass too.

Hey, this happened after you split town but there was some sumpin sumpin in the last ten years that made a decent case that American teriyaki actually did originate in Seattle, which makes sense.

Oddly, it also seems that Cincy-style chili (chili with cinnamon and short spaghetti noodles, more or less) may also have originated here but the originator relocated to Cincy and had better luck in that locale. There's an open-since-the-Depression joint called "Mike's Chili Parlor" that seems to serve a version of that paleochili. Oh how I love it. And the surly, cash-only service.

We're off to the movies and are likely to much some 5 Guys. I may just tell my wife that we're gonna eat a bag of Dick's, though. If she hits me, then we actually will.

Re: tl;dr: Your Beloved Burger Joint Sucks

mwhybark — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 21:23:31 -0000

Also, I submit that therefore it is time for Pants to conduct comprehensive consumer testing and reviews of both electronic cigs AND Gardenburgers.

Re: tl;dr: Your Beloved Burger Joint Sucks

mwhybark — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 21:21:35 -0000

5 Guys is a regional Jersey chain that has gone national. We have one in suburban Seattle, for Pete's sake. The place is deliberately designed to be crowed and chaotic, presumably reflecting the original Jersey Shore ambiance, and in all honesty, I dug the theme-park East Coast-ness as I and my fellow socks-sandals-and-fleece tiny-grey-ponytail people stood uncomfortably close to one another, trying not to make eye contact or to bump into anyone.

(I thought the burgers were pretty darn good, for what it's worth.

And Pants, whose surname clearly stems from his drug habits, is obviously wrong about Dick's. Dick's and Ivar's - which is not a burger joint - are poster children for the Northwest's lonely resistance to American corporate employee abuse. MMMM, socialist fast food is GOOD fast food.)

Re: tl;dr: Your Beloved Burger Joint Sucks

mwhybark — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 02:43:59 -0000

dude, you did not even discuss regional gardenburger shacks. tighten up.

Re: tl;dr: My Mac Mini Turned Into a Media Center, and All I Got Was This Lousy Blog Entry

mwhybark — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 00:05:54 -0000

SHUCKS

We have a mini too, BUT IT IS G4 so in sum tl;shr

but it's cool because I have other media center thingies that work just fine. I'm using PlayOn on an anemic Wintel box for net streams to HDMI and some ElGato UPnP thingy for fileservice to a media-stremy-enabled DVD player.

Re: http://buffoonery.org/post/425184687

mwhybark — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:25:22 -0000

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

Re: buffoonery - Sometimes I feel like hearing melancholic piano...

mwhybark — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 22:38:38 -0000

I am free of the Radiohead referent but will suggest you investigate the following on Pandora or hype machine to see if it heads you in the right direction:

Erik Satie (composer), Gymnopedies, any given performance
Thelonius Monk (not needfully melancholy, but utterly worthwhile) - I think "Live at the Blue Note" should get you headed on over

please indicate 'more classical' or 'more jazzy' and the importance of vocals - for jazz there is a metric tonne of excellent melancholy stuff, excluding piano - start with Sinatra / Wee Small Hours and Miles Davis / Kind of Blue and MOPE THE FUCK OUT!

Re: buffoonery - Laptop Steering Wheel Desk Baffles, Delights Amazon Users

mwhybark — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 02:55:38 -0000

yes! the pix are the best.

Re: buffoonery

mwhybark — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 02:49:54 -0000

likey

Re: buffoonery - Spain - On The Road Again I’m in love with this...

mwhybark — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:27:33 -0000

ha, we watched this today too. Batali is from Seattle, his dad runs Salumi, something he pursued after Mario was an established chef and also after he had retired from a career - at Boeing, I think.

Re: buffoonery - Explorer Ernest Shackleton loved his Scotch whisky. And he left a stash at the bottom of the world.

mwhybark — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:53:00 -0000

http://homepages.rootsweb.a...

MacKinely's Jura, apparently

http://www.thewhiskyexchang...

Re: buffoonery - Local News | Ivar’s sign hoisted out of Puget...

mwhybark — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 01:15:51 -0000

that's awesome. wonder how long it's been down there and why/how it ended up there? Storm? Dumpage?

.75 for a cup of chowder should date it solid. I'm thinking late sixties/early seventies.

Re: Weirdsmobile: Happy Thanksgiving

mwhybark — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 16:52:10 -0000

So sorry the interwebs din't bring me to yer comment box at that time, triple-B. you woulda been triple welcome at our table.

Re: Weirdsmobile: Sunshine

mwhybark — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:10:43 -0000

how weird. I woke up thinking about this film this morning. I saw it in the theater and had about the same reaction as you to the poorly-judged third act plot twist (I dismissed the film on leaving the theater by calling it "Freddy Kreuger in space"). However, the transcendant visuals stayed with me much, much longer, and it aslo is clear to me that the scriptists spent a long time looking at the role the Sun has played in human spirituality, from Amon-Ra to Plotinus, and that that is the film's true subject. I also think it's an answer film of sorts to the first "Solaris." Now there's a double feature to drive the family away with and put pals to sleep over!