Anthony Bonner

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

That looks excellent.

Even by their low standards this screamed advertorial

That reminds me I need to figure out where to eat before that ballet tonight. N.b. I just live Chatham adjacent. Those people are monsters.

What do they make kosher Italian sausage out of?

You obviously know why. It's still a Stulman place. Occasionally style over substance. Really what it tells you is what scenesters from 2010 are aging into. Same with Taavo Sommer having (a very nice looking!) Golf and Spa resort in the Catskills.

lol. sometimes teams choke. sometimes bounces go the other teams way. That doesn't actually change if the right decisions were made...

usually adjusted for road vs home. The team specific stuff doesn't actually matter much statistically (the NFL is a pretty high parity league - especially in the playoffs. Most teams that have their own tables will be making team specific adjustments - but they won't be huge) It was the fifth ranked offense against the 4th ranked defense. If you look at DVOA its basically a defense that is about 10% better than league average at getting the stop vs an offense that was about 14% better at getting a successful play than the league average. So statistically not much in it. But to the extent there was it suggests the lions were more likely to be successful Just to put that in context the best offense (which was by historic standards very good) was only about 32% better than the league average and the best defense was about 23% better than the league average). Those aren't huge numbers.