97 thoughts on “Picture This”

  6. Some years ago:   I got a job in the WHITE HOUSE!!
    Now:    I (cough) um, I work downtown (cough cough) well, it’s across the street from a big hotel…..it’s nothing much, really….just spend all day pushing papers around, y’know?

  7. I love that Hopper painting because I’ve been in it myself in so many different cities and towns.   

  9. Originally Answered: what is the meaning of ”the bottomless cup of coffee”? … It means that the restaurant will continue to refill your coffee cupindefinitely and you will pay for only one cup of coffee, no matter how much you drink.

  10. Here’s a stay-at-home drinking game for you:  Chronologically list every mixed drink which figured into your life at some particular period of time in your life. Not just some drink you may have had here or there, but one which was your “go to” cocktail for a space of time and place.

  11. Sturgeone – while I try to remember everything for the last sixty years I do know one I never consumed more than once Harvey Wallbanger, that in 1971.
     
    Picture is showing Cat treats and Human treats.  What was not captured is human reaction to cat treat in mouth.

  12. I was ruminizing about how a certain drink can become part of the story, like in Ft Walton Beach in  82-83 for a period of time it was a sweetish drink called a “JellyBean”, mostly because everybody just liked saying it and it was one of those that you set on fire before you drink it.

  13. Yeah, I couldn’t do the wallbanger thing, mostly cause I felt like it was pretty uncool (dreadfully unhip) to even say such a thing……
    “Gimme a HARVEY WALLBANGER! Har-har-har!”
    You’ve all seen em.

  15. Also avoided ordering a Tequila Sunrise because it sounded just a tad too mellow for, you know—drinking tequila.

  16. One drink that had the most dramatic and lasting effect on me was vodka and cranberry juice. First time I ever drank liquor, and it was a tasty drink- right up to the point I was puking my guts out after one, OK, three too many. I didn’t have that drink again for twenty years. 

  17. from misspent days of youth, the pink lady

    wiki:

    The exact ingredients for the pink lady vary, but all variations have the use of gin, grenadine, and egg white in common. In its most basic form, the pink lady consists of just these three ingredients. According to the Royal Cafe Cocktail Book of 1937, it is made with a glass of gin, a tablespoon of grenadine, and the white of one egg, shaken and strained into a glass.
    Often lemon juice is added to the basic form as well, and in that case, the Pink Lady is identical to another cocktail called Clover Club. Some authors argue that the “real” or “original” pink lady differs from the Clover Club by adding applejack to mix, which provides the Pink Lady with its own distinct flavour.
    Another creamier version of the Pink Lady that has been around at least since the 1920s adds sweet cream to the basic form. In New Orleans, this version was also known as Pink Shimmy. In some recipes, the cream is not added to the basic form, but simply replaces the egg white, and sometimes lemon juice is added as well.
    Usually the ingredients for any of the versions are shaken over ice, and after straining it into a glass, the cocktail might be garnished with a cherry
    […]
    The popularity of the Pink Lady might partially be explained by the frequently poor quality of gin during the prohibition era, due to which there was a need to mask the gin’s bad taste.

  19. Pog……actually vodka and cranberry is on the current playlist with myself and Cap’n Bumpsie whenever we decide to escape the surly bonds of beer.   
    We had sometimes used Bloody Mary mix until that one time I found a bottle of local mix in the Catskills and brought it home thinking we were in for a treat—“Hit were AWFUL!” Aw-Full. Kinda hadn’t used it since then…..
    It was so bad, we gave it to Roger. Told him it was $50 a quart.

  20. not so fond memories also for the barf brigade – white russian, brandy alexander, grasshopper, et al

  22. WaPo editorial staff notes a bit of a gap in the SFB reopening PowerPoint presentation. 

     
    THE WHITE HOUSE guidance titled “Opening Up America Again” released Thursday evening comes with a reasonable aspiration for a phased recovery that does not ignite a fresh outbreak of the novel coronavirus. President Trump wisely didn’t repeat his misguided assertion of total authority. But this new guidance has a glaring gap: Who will address the enormous bottleneck of diagnostic testing, which remains far below what is needed to reopen the country?

    Mr. Trump’s guidance to governors and local officials envisions robust testing that does not yet exist.

    (Continues)

    Of course WV is among the 1st 4 states ID’d as ready to try it out. With our governor (dumb sack of shit billionaire coal baron Jim Justice) what could go wrong?  

    Even my RW best friend Kentuckian said this, “Have you caught any of our Governor’s press conferences? He comes across as a buffoon.” To put it in context, aside from being a RW Republican, he is a lawyer who represents coal companies in labor and employment suits.

  24. Patd, I can’t find any reliable figures. Nursing home staff and residents have been ordered tested and there is testing by the WVANG and I see notifications of drive through testing sites (one was set up a couple miles from our house) but with the population patterns in WV and skepticism of WV folks it’s something less than it seems. In short, not enough.

  25. I could be wrong, and the south IS the south, after all, “things going south” didn’t just pop up outa no where;  but there is a chance this election will see the south come alive.  Jamie Harrison, and Amy McGrath are solidly in play and elsewhere in the south there are seismic rumblings of discontent with gop machinations.  It’s been a long time coming.

  26. So what is the testing capacity number?  I keep hearing this phrase thrown about but I haven’t heard anbody come out with hard numbers. I would say if you can’t test 100 people for every new case you find then you aren’t ready. Oh and get the results back in a reasonable time, like less than a day.
    There is too much, “we have testing capacity” “no you don’t” crap.
    To be properly informed we need real numbers not vague statements.
    Jack

  27. I would further add, that any opinion piece on the subject of testing capacity that doesn’t use real verifiable numbers should be ignored. This includes opinions from anybody with doctor in front of their names.
    If you can’t give numbers then you then you don’t know what the f*ck you are talking about and are just making a swinging wild ass guess.
    Even if you are an “expert”
    Jack

  28. What we have here is odd, because we have a political party attempting to push the populace into a pandemic. It’ll be good to see some hard numbers of how many Michigan stay-at-home deniers who visited their capital will soon present with the virus. I do figure it’s jolly good of them to volunteer for this hazardous mission.   And if they’re all ok, Hey, maybe we can all go out and play again. 

  30. And armed guys in the streets—who the hell are they gonna shoot?  Everybody else is at home. I’ll tell ya one michigander who WASN’T there…..lol……Ted Nugent.

  31. I would say that we wait until all the snow birds come home to the great Republican north. This virus spreads by travelers. It was no accident that Johnson county had the first cases in this area. They are the well off suburbs where more people travel for business. The hard core rural areas don’t travel as much except to load up the RV for the winter and go south.
    Jack

  32. The drinks that I’ve had lasting relationships with are scotch on the rocks, dirty martini (vodka), and while I was younger and in the south Screwdrivers and Bloody Mary’s. I had a Fuzzy Navel once and could only get through half of it. It was disgusting – that day I had 2 fuzzy navels. 

  33. Jack your comments about testing bloviation without solid numbers are exactly right. And those Michigan nitwits are in an even higher class of idiot than the morons on Jacksonville beaches. (Of course I’m headed to the post office, Lowes and Walmart (great sea of the unwashed) so what the f*ck do I know?)

  34. I’ve never been to fond of super sweet mixed drinks.  The exception being Irish coffee. Even then only one at a time.
    I did create my own version of a margarita from scratch that wasn’t very sweet.  But it was for 2 people so I haven’t drank it in a while. 
     
    Jack
     

  35. At the Servicemen’s Lounge, outside the main gate of the Naval Shipyard 64-65, it became Singapore Slings and Sloe Gin fizzes for awhile but then devolved into shot of whiskey.  The mgr. tells me: “No cut rate for the band’s drinks.  You don’t come here to drink, you come here to work.  You drink after work. You wouldn’t drink while you’re running a drill press would ya? You wanna drink, you pay full price and drink all you want but if ya get sloppy ya get fired. And when a fight breaks out, cut on the dance floor light and play a FAST song.” Our hours were midnight to 5am, 7 nights. All sailors, all the time. B-girls, the whole works. I was in high school so I’d get off, eat in a Hopper painting on the way out and go to school, and thence home to my Dracula room to sleep till 10. Fridays I could even go to the football game.
    Weekends were a breeze. 125 a week apiece for the 4 of us.

  38.  

    Berkeley Breathed did his take on the painting when there was a limit on the number of people in one place.  The little guy in the alley is looking on  to see if there’s room for one more.

     

  39. Margaritas, how did I forget margaritas?  They have been a sustaining force for the last 25 years, we lol, until 6 weeks ago. 

  41. Back in my beach days it was Long Island Iced Tea at the Whale’s Tail restaurant.  I guess everyone was pretending they weren’t actually “drinking” when they ordered by driving the boat up to the dock to place their dinner orders.

     

  42. Maher has a point about headlines.  I don’t like the sensationalism.
     
    Over the decades I’ve tasted everything alcoholic. The end result is, I just don’t drink.  It’s not a religious thang. I apparently am lacking an enzyme to process it or something.  Anyhow, after a mouthful or two, I feel terrible not wonderful so I just don’t do it. The one I love that doesn’t even like me is Spanish cream sherry.

  44. back in my hard drinking youth, it was mountain dew and cheap Canadian blended whiskey, Lord Calvert.
    I’ve improved my tastes since then but back then, high on caffeine and alcohol and  party to dawn. Everybody else passed out and me going damn, I’m still ready to party.  It never made me sick either. 
    Hang over tho.
    Jack

  45. Thanks BiD for the heads up.  “The event, a collaboration between the World Health Organization and Global Citizen, is meant to encourage people to take action against the spread of coronavirus, through things like staying home and calling on elected officials.”   YES!!!

  47. Sturg…  I used to love Sloe Gin Fizzes…   haven’t had one in 40 yrs.  Of course… my go to drink now is mostly wine….  the redder the better.
     
    Yeah…  the pic of those crazy trumpers and trumpettes….    there are some in every state.  There was a protest here the other day too.  I’m with y’all….  hope the crazy fuckers get sick.

  48. And Ripple.  Thunderbird & Ripple while eating Cherrios & watching cartoons, or so they say.

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    “I know Ripple best as a song by the Grateful Dead, but apparently there is nostalgia for the wine as well. The fortified and fizzy sweet wine concoction was produced by E & J. Gallo between 1960 and 1984. And, according to The Drinks Report, “Surviving bottles are extremely rare with unopened bottles, originally sold for $1, valued at between $150 and $200.”

  52. Yep the wines had a good run….Boone’s Farm, Mad Dog, Richard’s Wild Irish RosĂ©, Thunderbird, Ripple, Chianti, Mateus RosĂ©, Blue Nun, Whadda headache wit dem boy.

  53. Mateus.  It was all about the bottle 
    RR
    Thanks for thinking of Mr C and me when you were drinking DeLoach.  It was started by a sf firefighter and is now owed by a French vintner.  lovely wines We drive by it all the time on our way to Santa Rosa
    The original owners now make wine under the name Hook and Ladder

  55. [ramt]  T he more I think about it, the more pissed I get. Those pro-dictator morons with their ugly mouths open…being all stupid & cavalier while my son’s risking his health and life  & working 12 hour shifts x 6 days to save people who DON’T want to have the virus. Hospitals in those cities should take those various pictures of the morons, match them to the moron when they come to the hospital for treatment & oxygen and tell them NO! Go home and continue being cavalier. We have folks here who didn’t want to get it. There’s NO room at the inn for you!
    They wont, of course, because they’re humane. But the morons should be FORCED to pay their bill and even pay their FULL bill for taking up space that others deserve! [/end rant]

  57. I believe that Ted is in Texas. Just as Kid Rock is probably in Tennessee. 4 lawsuits were filed against Michigan’s governor on Thursday. Including one by a man who can’t see his girlfriend of 14 years because under our latest stay at home order we are not allowed to visit people who do not live with us. Why they don’t live together after 14 years and his lawsuit probably opens him up to a lot of jokes.

  58. A couple of interesting conversations with Trump voters. The white working class guy retired and taking care of his 80 yr old mother. Thinks the shutdown protestors are a bunch of idiots. His solution to the churches that demand to meet. “fine, you just have to stay there for 2 weeks.”
    younger man, holy roller type. He thought it was all exaggerated and that it wasn’t that much of a deal.
    So it might pay to tie these protestors to Trump and just keep repeating it. After all they are just a small group and very much in the minority.
    We just need to change a few votes.
    Jack

  59. about that haunting photo from the guardian:

    Monday was just an ordinary day for Joshua Bickel. A photojournalist for the Columbus Dispatch, he set out to cover a protest outside Ohio governor Mike DeWine’s daily press briefing, where about 100 protesters had gathered. He dutifully took the shots.
    One of them, an image depicting demonstrators pressed up against the glass outside the governor’s office demanding Ohio reopen for business, was quickly taken before Bickel moved on for another angle.
    But within hours, the picture had taken on a life of its own and was shared thousands of times. Commentators forecasted awards in Bickel’s future; others spliced his work up to make memes portraying the protesters as zombies; some even wished death and sickness on them.
    “That part of it was hard for me, to be honest,” says Bickel. “I never want people to die, I never want people to get sick.”

  60. Forget about hoarding toilet paper; wipe that from your memory.
     
    What you need to buy (before the stores run out) is MEAT.
     
    Dozens of meat packing plants in the Midwest (where Republican governors refuse to take any action to slow the spread of the virus) have become “engines of infection.”  Meat packing employees, who work shoulder to shoulder with no protective equipment, first infected each other, then their families, and then they all went to the (crowded) mega-church of their choice, to pray for Trump’s re-election.  
     
    The giant sociopathic corporations that run these meat packing plants are shutting them down, not because they give a damn about their workers or the general public, but because they simply don’t have enough production workers to keep them running.  Their employees are all sick or dead.
     
    The net result of all of this is that very soon, when you go the grocery store, there won’t be any frozen chickens, ground beef, pork sausage, or any of the other wonderful (but unhealthy) meat products that we all love.  Yes, this stuff will probably give you heart disease and kill you (long-term) but wouldn’t you rather die with a pork chop in your mouth rather than a ventilator tube?
     
    So, what you need to do TODAY, is to put on your mask and your gloves, and rush to the grocery store to fill up several shopping carts with meat.  Be psychologically prepared: you may have to get into a wrestling match with another shopper over a ten pound bag of chicken nuggets. 
     
    If you live in an “open-carry” state, you may want to bring your assault rifle … just in case.

  63. Random testing done by Stanford shows there are a lot more carriers in our midst
    So testing to reveal these folks is important Test everyone.   Also they don’t know the longevity of the carriers.  Are they carriers for life?
    Bite the bullet.  Start mass testing and of course a lot of people are going to have to be tested more than once 

  64. Ahhh, Boone’s Farm strawberry, Drank lots of that in college. Blue Nun was the good stuff for dinners and impressing women. My friend in law school was a big fan of Emerald Dry,  which was good if you just for instance got stopped by a slow moving 100 car freight train on the way back home from the liquor store. 

  65. Nash – did that stock up thing.  After filling the freezers I had dump the extra corned beef in a cooler and invest in ice bath for them.  But, I am set for a while. 

  67. Our entire food supply system is in danger because it’s entirely dependent on brown people and trump has closed the borders because of covid-19.  That’s why all those recent pictures of vegetables rotting in the fields…  no one there to pick them.
     
    KGC has a point about buying local…  if you can afford it.

  68. Today our local Saturday “farmers’ market” opened for the first time this season, in a downtown parking lot here in Albany, Oregon.   Albany is in the middle of the Willamette Valley, some of the finest farmland in the USA.  Just about any type of agricultural crop you can think of is grown here, even wine. 
     
    The farmers’ market sellers will all be wearing masks and buyers will be asked to maintain social distancing.  The local people are pretty good about doing that sort of “voluntary compliance” behavior – not too many right wing crazies around here.  The Trump voters mostly live in the Eastern half of Oregon and Albany is in the western half.
     
    I won’t be going to the farmers’ market, however.  I stocked up on non-perishables so I will be eating pasta with olive oil and grated cheese,  canned salmon, dried fruit, nuts, and Campbell’s vegetable soup.   Yes, it is boring, but I am not going to put my life at risk to buy fresh apples and broccoli.  Which is too bad because the apples are REALLY good in Oregon.

  70. https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/18/us/sec-investigation-request-coronavirus-drug-leak-remdesivir/index.html
    This was not a well-kept secret.  About two weeks ago, local news did a call with a pharmacologist and she mentioned trials for remdesivir.  It’s a very clear memory to me because she came across like an absolute ditz who was chosen to be in air for her looks.    
    I would like to know the following: Why did China announce that they were halting  trials, causing Gilead stock to go down?

  71. The top 2 cash crops here are trees and pot. I’d guess hay is third. Not sure when the farmers market will open, but come late May, maybe early May this year, great local produce and there’s one really good poultry farm (ranch?) that has fresh and fresh frozen chicken and chicken sausage that is just outstanding, and isn’t overly expensive. The only locally sourced meat I know of other than that is sold through a small grocery/butcher shop in the evil sister city to East Bumfuck, and it is god awful expensive. I’ve shopped there twice in 25 years. 

  72. Nash – I wasn’t going to mention hoarding meat since I don’t partake, but a friend of a friend is a cattle broker and he said stock up immediately.  
    Just watched a timely, but sad and depressing movie called, “Downsizing.”
     

  73. I suspect there will be a lot of hunting and fishing, in addition to gardening.  My bell peppers are blooming.   Next trip to the store, I will stock up on dry beans instead of canned, assuming such things still exist on store shelves.   I thought I would wait until May to go to the store, but given that the food supply chain is feeling dicier and I am out of bananas (except what I froze), I may go out soon.   

  75. Those people liberating Michigan…..if they were being actually given decent enough money to stay home they’d probably be ok with it…..but $1200?  What the hell’s that going to cover. And then look what the millionaires get….Oy.
     

  76. The run on hand sanitizer is over as is TP. This week it’s hair care products and scissors. Next week it’ll be meat. What comes next?

  78. Tip…..electricity is my guess.
    No, maybe not….they do want to keep the Netflix bread and circus going on.
    Maybe telephones.

  81. He’s crazy as a loon.
    There ain’t no fox lurking in there….it’s loons all the way down.

  82. Farmers Markets here are mostly year round
    The stalls are at least 10 feet apart and people are wearing masks and standing far apart 
    No paper products but every thing else including meat and fish

  83. Trump can’t help but lie
    Nancy P lives in a very nice house but it doesn’t have an ocean view 

  85. We buy a 1/4 of a cow every year, but our supplier has already put off the delivery from April to May.  He mentioned “fattening up more of his cattle”.  I think he is looking to downsize his herd and waiting for more buyers.  

  86. Wow, Moe, Larry and Curley are doing the comic bullfight routine with moe and Larry in a bull costume, Curley as the fat matador. ….in a real bullring, but then, of course, a real bull gets in.  They spliced in real bullfight footage.
    That was some goofy goin’s on.
     

  88. LOL. I got an email from Wish selling Trump caps for $4 and MAGA caps for $9. What a bargain. Maybe I’ll…nah. 

  89. Gaga & all those celebs on EVERY  channel supporting the WHO.  SFB must be spitting mad.  

  92. I just read the wikipedia entry on Edward Hopper’s painting “Nighthawks.”  Hopper said that that the painting is not about loneliness (which is what most people assume) but about “predators in the night.”   The painting was inspired by Hemingway’s short story, “The Killers.”
     
    This makes it the ideal painting for this pandemic. 
     
    “Nighthawks” is in the Art institute of Chicago, and is considered by many art historians to be the most famous painting ever done by an American artist. 

  95. ” . . . wouldn’t you rather die with a pork chop in your mouth rather than a ventilator tube?”
    – Prof. Nash
     
    Death by laughter. 

  96. BiD

    The Gates Foundation is paying for the research by several different scientists and while there are some promising possibilities, it is nowhere near the stage of testing or broad dissemination of a vaccine.  It is hoped something effective will develop before late next year, but they are simply being realistic as vaccines can take several years, so next year is truly speeding things.

     

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