Anthony Bonner

We have one out here. Its....not great.

You mean I can't magically turn short-term gains into long-term gains? Who could have known. Sneak the 1200 compares to like 300k for Buffett

This is....a tough thread. My best hopes for all.

Lunch with him was an auction item for my kids Nursery School. A parent much have been affiliated with one of his math organizations. It used to kill me that it would go for like 1200 bucks. But I never wanted to bid on the grounds of "wtf do I have to talk with him about" The description said something like "after you eat Jim will light up a cigarette and offer you half of a roll of Oreos"

The "Call her Daddy" podcaster is featured in Architectural Digest. Can Portnoy in "World of Interiors" be next? Or maybe" Fine Gardening?" For his cape house? For reference this woman owes her fame to being attractive and willing to talk about her casual sex life on a podcast.

Oof. Bummer I am def in the pro camp. I'd guess this style of food prepared sloppily and w/o great ingredients can be pretty dire.

Getting old sucks in weird ways

Going with the Fam to the Southwest this summer. Into out of Toulouse. Any places in a relatively wide driving distance you see as a can't miss. Especially food and accomodations. I spent a lot of time in region as a kid but the last time I was there was 1991 so I'm sure nothing has changed. My cousins lived in Revel so I know that area east of Toulouse reasonably well. Also always looking for good ways to find places to stay. Like years ago I recall Ori talking up Hegia which no longer exists but I would love to find places like that. Or a good resource for renting a house somewhere. Have not booked any stays other than the first few nights in Toulouse to get the kids over Jet Lag. Biarritz? Dordogne? Is Carcassonne even worth it or so overwhelmed with tourists it's not fun? Also any French language planning resources that are really obvious?

Sadly they are "The Fighters" sponsored by Nippon Ham...

In Richmond I had an awesome time at an indie record store with AB^2 explaining to him what Vinyl is and the idea of buying an "album" and how we would go and buy used "CDs" after practice in high school. It was a revelation for him. Then he told me "no that Pavement shirt you want me to wear isn't cool"

Isn't Chapel Hill the most interesting of the triangle towns? I mostly spent my time down there college/post-college so been a long time. I was in Richmond for a soccer tournament early last month - and yeah I agree 100% with Steve. Def worth the visit.

I love Fuchsia Dunlop's Cookbooks. I bought her recent book on the history of Chinese Cooking. I am now absolutely convinced she is a PLA asset. Its like 700 pages of "let me tell you why Chinese methods of cooking and eating are superior to all other cultures" with insane assertions about non-chinese traditions that show a real lack of knowledge. I'm also pretty amazed it is a finalist for the KAL Cookbook of the Year award. I couldn't finish reading it.

in true Florida style - not remotely Frostproof.

Is hockey Sabbath friendly? I have an orthodox friend whose kid had to bail on club lacrosse because he was going to miss 80% of the games.

weird. I don't think of Viognier as having punishing acidity, but I also don't think of chile has having underripeness issues.

were there seeds on the bun?

And a Cuozzo rave.

Not this crowd. He needed a rack of ribs and martinis with the leftovers in a carafe.

he was betting that he could replicate empellon as a "realistic price point" finance entertaining spot. Food was too weird. He forgot Mexican isn't weird to people. He should have added another 10% Houston's to the mix (the place this replaced) and it would have worked.

its the smartest thing the giants have done in years. The eagles are in win now mode - it might might make sense for them. there is no way it makes sense for the Giants whose current team is at best third in the division and a marginal wild card team when they have a third place schedule.

Pino's usually has veal.

Very little difference from my pre-covid trips

The midtown food courts were much more "grab and bring back to office"

Urbanspace is a particular chain of food courts. Midtown mon-th is pretty normal.

The midtown urbanspaces are also dying. And the issue is once the traffic starts to decline it just accelerates the process