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Yes, but it’s still open. I’m 99% sure it was ESCB.

Anyone remember a cocktail bar on the LES that would make bespoke cocktails - you'd tell them your preferred spirit, and your preferences, and they would make you something? It's been closed probably ten years already. I feel like it was East Side Company Bar on Essex south of Grand.

Broiled perch with thyme and lemon. Curried cauliflower and potatoes.

It is. I went there about five years ago for the Sunflower River Blues and Gospel Festival. We heard a ton of great music (mostly in the bars rather than at the festival itself), met some amazing people and ate a lot of fried food. I also got to tell a story that began "So Gail and I were down at Red's, dancing to Bad Mama Jama with Ellis and the Iceman..."

Throw in a delivery fee, go full Door Dash.

I'd go if it were here and cost $150.00.

Wait, what? Oh, not a Kmart. Okay.

I started listening to this prepared to have to lie down after, and unexpectedly, I said to myself, Sylvia (because that's what I call myself), 60 years later, we're still here. So. That's good, I guess?

My little bite-y beacon of hope.

I'll watch a few more episodes and decide whether to continue. Medium H has trouble with the grossness, which is hilarious since the grossness in Fallout doesn't bother him at all.

Here, have a picture of my cat sleeping on his face. It's what we're feeling right now.

We watched the first episode last night (yes, very late to the game), and thus far, I don't see why it's so lauded. It's a hospital show, grittier than most, but not really "better" than ER or Chicago Hope or even Gray's Anatomy. Yeah, it does the real time thing, more or less, but so did 24. Does it get better? There was also a pretty glaring bit of illogic in this episode: the mother faking gastric distress in order to get her possibly murderous teenage son some sort of help. From an ER. Where she had no plan to talk to any doctor or social worker alone - she just kind of lucked into that. And then when a social worker appears, she talks to the kid in a public space. I do not think any of this would happen!

It does, and I "curate" my doctors to avoid it. I was sent to a pulmonologist once who literally had three patients scheduled for every 10:00 block of time. I did not return to him. NYU is usually very efficient, NY Presbyterian less so. And that's where I'm going today, alas.

Stuffed squid over sourdough discard pasta. I thought I'd take on a project tonight.

This guy - who looks like the guy who would play your hand doctor in the movie - is very good, but his time management is shit, and there are too many doctors in the sea for me to wait an hour past my appointment time. https://nyulangone.org/doctors/1407098163/jacques-h-hacquebord Thanks for the recommendations - I will look into them.

I feel you. My hand surgeon went and procreated also, and now my fucking wrist is fucking killing me. Come back, Jaydie! I need to get stuck.

Disagree. Shows I think are better: The Last of Us, Yellowjackets, The Bear, Severance, Shrinking, The Studio, The White Lotus. I like Fallout a lot, but I think it's just a fun ride with pretensions of *something more*.

I've seen a couple of episodes of Breaking Bad and pretty much all of X-Files and The Lone Gunmen. Those all seemed a lot busier.

Oh, wow! It's like looking in a mirror.

I feel that way about cold.

Oh, lemme know what you think.

Finished Frankenstein - absolutely stunning to look at (and not just the cast), a lot more gory than I was expecting, very solid over all. I haven't seen the original in so long that I can't even make much of a comparison. I remember Young Frankenstein a lot better. 🤣 Started Train Dreams. I'm not really sure what to make of this yet, although we're more than an hour in. Its pace and the somewhat meandering narrative put me in mind of Reichardt. And it's also beautifully shot. I'm getting very spoiled by art direction these past few days.

The third Knives Out. Did not really hold my interest. And we started Frankenstein, which is so stylish! Those HATS. Also a surprising amount of shirtlessness.

I felt similarly. Went there for lunch, got the soondubu jigae, it was fine. I did appreciate the free drinks, though - do they still have the barley tea and something else machine by the door?