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Fred's steaks are awesome, seriously. Curry wurst, not so much. Tonight, Alden made Beef Wellingtons and Claire made her Swiss chard with balsamic/brown sugar reduction. Tasty stuff

Ugh

Good luck cuz. Go Giants!

RIP Uncle Ronnie, and condolences for your family's loss, Todd.

6.5 hours at Toronado because it seemed like if I left the game might be lost. Amazing.

Heading to Hardly Strictly Bluegrass at some point but now watching the live stream of Whograss -- Prairie Prince from the Tubes and others playing Who songs bluegrass style. Should be there live but I was stupidly slow and at first found some band of the same name from Missouri that have no Who connection and suck so I wasn't that excited.

It took a toll on my heart and perhaps a year or two off of my life, but that was a sweet win over Strasburg and the Nats! GO GIANTS!!!

Nice! Hungry all of the sudden

That guy seemed like a douche, but he's not out of line, so to speak. I'd love to be there for the last dog Doug serves. RIP to the Mecca of Encased Meats!

Mikey must have Super Buttocks! It only took him one sit to destroy an S4!

Great post, Wayne. The Royals game was awesome and I'm glad they won. The Giants and MadBum were dominant. The poor Pirates and their fans were silenced early. I haven't had any confidence in these Giants but I liked their performance tonight and appreciated the clear winner. More baseball fun to come.

exactly.

Cowboy pork chop, French cut green beans with garlic, and romaine wedge with blue cheese dressing and cherry tomatoes.

Not translating to online pic all that well, but knowing where you are I am sure it tastes awesome.

Congrat on the award Wayne!

Here's a little greeting from the OG. Merry Birthday Wayne! Cheers:

Have a great day, Steve! Cheers!

This week at SF Jazz, we saw some jazzy classical and some classy classical jazz. On Wednesday we saw the Calder Quartet with Christian McBride, performing Bartok's quartet nos. 1 and 4. The quartet played #1 themselves and it sounded amazing in Miner Auditorium. Then Christian McBride came out and improvised for awhile on his own, which was good as always even if a little incongruous for the program. All five came out for the second half of the show, which featured quartet #4. There are five movements, which were played just by the Calders, but in between each movement the Calders and/or Christian would play an interlude. They were some short early pieces by Bartok called Microcosmos, something by another composer I am spacing, and some improvisations as well. Finally, they all played Bartok' Romanian Dance together. All in all, a really nice program. Last night, we saw The Cookers, and it is hard to imagine another group with this much jazz history on one stage today: Billy Hart (drums), Cecil McBee (bass), Eddie Henderson (trumpet), David Weiss (trumpet), Billy Harper (tenor sax), Donald Harrison (alto sax), and George Cables (piano). They were on fire from rehearsal (according to SF Jazz folks) through their two sets that totaled almost 2.5 hours. They are playing 11 cities in 14 days to promote their new album, which they pulled from for the second set. The first set had amazing renditions of Cecil McBee's Peace Maker, Billy Harper's Croquet Ballet (originally recorded with Lee Morgan), and a Freddie Hubbard tune. Powerful stuff that had some old timers in the audience fleeing due to high decibel levels and the blast of the trumpets and saxes. I was in the fourth row and leaned in most of the time. As an indication that this was a special night, Bobby Hutcherson was in attendance and stayed and clapped with his oxygen canula in place all the way through the incredible encore, Billy Harper's Priestess (with amazing bass intro by Cecil McBee and drum solo by Billy Hart). Seriously good stuff.

My screen looked like that the other night after a couple too many drams of whisky. Sorry Haj

SolidSteel is a good company, but Italians will be Italians...

One of these is in my immediate future to toast your good health, Jimmy the Dean. Have a great one! Cheers!

I don't really care about people dissing Apple and expect that -- as trite as it might be. Crappy has no common sense and and his post was juvenile and obnoxious given that I and others were saying we just bought the thing.

But as you can see from most of the posts on this page, Crappy, I did just buy one.

Fuck you Crappy

Fuck it, they don't deserve the best.