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I did a home study, got an apap, and concur with Lat 22. If you need it, it will change your life.

my uncle kicked Sy Sperling's ass when they were kids. But Sy Sperling kicked my uncle's ass a couple of weeks later

Downhouse recently retired the kimchi burger, but I am here to say that the Barback burger that took its place is, in a word, highly smashable

Badass, Jimbo. I'll get to work on a new hashtag

Russ and Daughters instead of Katz's. Walk around Central Park. Walk over the Brooklyn Bridge and back

Don't forget, Starbucks isn't a coffee company, it's a milk company

I learned to love mezcal at La Botica

one of everything and ask for Allie as a server

+1 for the Stihl farm boss also +1 for a handy electric. Use them both at the tree farm with a generator in the truck bed

yawn. In my estimation the biggest problems is drivers killing bicyclists with virtual impunity in this city

I'm not the demographic for it, but that Alba location needs a playscape, an ice cream window, a fence, and booze

they gon' flood

We did a trip in '10 to Madrid. Stayed in the Roommate Hotel Plaza Santa Ana. Used Madrid as the base of operations and did several day trips - El Escorial, Segovia, Toledo. Went to the bullfights, watched a lot of futbol (it was during the Mundial), and hit up all of the major museums in the city. One of the lesser-trafficked museums is the Museo de las Americas, where they keep the plunder of the empire. It's up to you whether you want to do the cross-country adventure or keep it local and live like a Madrileno for a bit. We chose the latter, and while I'd still like to see Granada, it worked out great for us.

since I made that post I went last night and had meatballs. $6 per meatball and it's worth it

next time add a meatball or two. Step the game up. It took me years to figure that out. Also, a couple of visits ago we were seated next to a young couple who were arguing because the girl had checked a text from some other guy during dinner and the dude was raging at her throughout the meal. I was completely oblivious to the whole thing until numnuts slammed his wine glass down on the table hard enough to break the stem. What was really funny though was that the waitstaff very coolly and professionally appeared within moments with a replacement glass. When numnuts stormed off, we tried to ask the girl if she was okay, or needed help, but she noped off and went and caught an uber with the dude. /csb

if anyone you know needs a blue watch

enjoy it while it lasts, amigos. May your ownership never tire of pretending it's about the football Sincerely, The Houston Dynamo

Not going to read through the thread yet, but Mrs. Laz and I are currently watching for the first time. We're about halfway through season 2. I intentionally stayed away in the early days so that we'd be able to go through it all once the series finished, and just didn't get around to it until now. With this much distance, it's fairly easy to avoid spoilers, but every time I get the urge to look up one of the actors, I run a real risk.

the new sushi spot on ella is serviceable. /Laz

Thought it was good. Took me about two weeks to get through it, including one night when I fell asleep and had to go back to my previous stopping point. And if you're looking to read the film as Scorsese's mea culpa for all the mob glamorizing over the years, one need only contrast the prison scenes at the end with those in Goodfellas

Went to MAD last weekend for our anniversary. Like the Madrilenos do, we booked a 10:30 dinner reservation. Place is unholy bananas of a scene, and the food was outstanding. Good enough that I got over the ridiculousness of the place. Will be back. Suckling pig rice for the win.

I'm old enough to remember when General Abbott did some employment sleight-of-hand so that he could hire his campaign manager to be his 1st Lieutenant AG who would be placed in charge of what was essentially a 700-lawyer litigation department and who had never tried a case in the scant years since graduating law school

if you're looking for colorado-like skiing, don't bother with NE. If you just want to strap boards to your feet and slide down a mountain, it will suffice. Killington, Stowe are decent

yeah this shit is a beating. I'll believe the cooler temps when they get here. I bought a hydration vest from Orange Mud about a month ago and it's been a life saver. I'm going out for long runs with 2L in the bladder, a 600ml hydrapak with tailwind, and another 600ml in the bag with tailwind preloaded when the first one runs out. 20 miler this saturday. No matter how early I get up and on the road, I'm still gonna be taking a beating for an hour or two of sunlight since I'm slow. 3.5 weeks out from MCM. Been reading up on what an overcrowded, disorganized, shitshow I'm in for. Bring it on. On a different note, I've always been a shorts-with-liner kind of guy. A buddy of mine in Hong Kong is obsessed with the T8 Sherpa Shorts and sent me a pair along with their Commando underwear. I tried them out on a 5 mile run yesterday, and preliminary results are holy shit. The shorts have a built-in stretchy belt are great for carrying a bottle, towel, keys and phone, and the commandos are very breathable, snug the junk, and hit right at that sweet spot on the inner thigh that always gets a chafed at high mileage. I'll probably put both in the kit for MCM. As much as regular running shorts are these days, the sherpas + commandos are only moderately more expensive.