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Apropos of nothing, this was a great burn on Tom Morello:

All I can think about is a bunch of these guys in maple leaf hats.

I’m with this take. Though TBF London Breed has basically said the mask mandate is BS but doesn’t have any authority to remove it.

Yeah patio bars were not much of a thing in NOLA until recently. Downtown, Bacchanal remains the king, though Parleaux, Bratz and Junction have become great additions. Uptown used to really just be the Bulldog and Delachaise, but now there are a ton of breweries spanning from Courtyard to Port Orleans. Not a whole lot in Mid-City, but Bayou Wine and Beer Garden is our personal favorite spot in town, particularly during crawfish season. Edit: Forgot to mention Val’s, from the Cure guys, which is a newish patio bar and restaurant on Freret. Cure itself actually has a nice patio.

NYT just had a great article on them

If it’s nice outside I like Cafe Degas. Looking forward to trying out the Mister Mao Sunday brunch in a few weeks. Of course if you’re there on Friday morning Galatoire’s’ Friday lunch is an epic experience.

Healdsburg is our go-to wine country town to stay in. It’s just a cool town to walk around. Probably our favorite Dry Creek spot is Unti, since it’s an easy drive and near Dry Creek General Store. We’ll usually grab a bottle and enjoy the view on the patio. Preston Farm and Reeve are fantastic too but more of a drive. Ridge is obviously widely distributed, but they are iconic and there Lytton property has fantastic views. For Pinot, we enjoy Ryme and Joseph Swan down in Forestville. Copain is widely distributed but they have a great property. In town, our favorites are Cartograph, which focuses on Burgundian-styled Pinots, and Idlewild. Natural wine label Jolie-Laide just opened a tasting room in Idlewild’s space. Marine Layer just opened a really cool new tasting room. For restaurants, SingleThread is of course the big one, and Valette and Dry Creek Kitchen are great as well for higher end. We usually go more casual and hit up Campo Fina, Healdsburg Bar & Grill and Bravas Bar de Tapas (which has great cocktails if you are tired of wine). I have never been to Barn Diva because of the ridiculous name, but they just got a Michelin star so we’ll need to check them out soon. Also, in the very odd chance you want to get some physical activity in, I just hiked the Taylor Mountain Park outside Santa Rosa and highly recommend it. Very leisurely 1,400 foot climb for 360 degree views of Sonoma County. Stuck out in my mind as one of the best Bay Area hikes in recent memory, and it’s just a few minutes from a Pliny at Russian River after.

Lol pre-K NOPD was an active player in the drug trade.

I think issuer’s side associates would gladly tell UW counsel that 🙂

Expect? No, but broadly speaking the purging of associates in the recession, the decline in law school attendance, and the nonstop dealmaking over the past decade have led to high demand for legal advice (especially the past two years). I was generally 2400-2600 over seven years, but it wasn’t the hours that were the true difference about going in house. It was getting agency over my life again. I’ve pulled more than a few all nighters in house, but I don’t get that existential dread when my phone buzzes on a Friday night and it’s probably a new deal coming in. @Gale Snoats, I’ve certainly seen litigators as GCs, but in my experience they are generally out of their element at acquisitive companies, especially public ones, and effective ones understand how to delegate and trust others with the experience.

Well that’s just fucked up.

It’s solid. Think it suffered some fire damage a while back, glad they are back. Markey’s, one of the best neighborhood bars in the city, is around the corner.

What’s the nature of your practice now, and what would your title/role be? Public or private? How big is the legal department? Feel free to PM.

I thought NY had a pretty good vaccine passport app? CA’s has a QR code you can scan to verify, and overall it’s worked pretty well - my booster was uploaded into the system in a few hours. My understanding is France has an even better app that allows for contact tracing. I have no idea why folks are in a position where they have to carry their CDC cards (well I do but you know what I mean).

That’s fair, but I was arguing that the zero-covid/prohibitionist wings had his ear (and I took his quote from a month ago as dithering on any firm direction forward). In particular, I’d point out Dr. Tomas Aragon, head of CA Public Health, who led SF through a prohibitionist approach, easily the strictest in the nation, and was often at odds with Monica Gandhi. I can’t speak for NYC/DC/etc, but while the idea of approaching COVID as endemic gains traction among public officials in CA, I have a hard time seeing that actually play out without difficulty.

“I took the shitty vaccine and still had mild disease, so I don’t see any point in the vaccines - especially the stronger ones.”

Yeah I saw Monica Gandhi retweet that article earlier. Monica Gandhi is head of UCSF’s AIDS research center and since May 2020 has been publicly pushing for a harm reduction approach to live with the pandemic rather than zero COVID because, well, one disease that should not take a back seat to COVID is AIDS (especially is SF). She’s pushed for a very pragmatic approach but in California is basically Greg Abbott. Anyways, she recently published a 2022 COVID plan in TIME for the Biden administration which sent a prominent progressive UCSF faculty member and others apoplectic. To your point, there’s an influential chunk of the progressive wing that has dug its heels in on zero COVID because they argue that the end of this thing is not vaccines but solving structural inequality in healthcare . That’s obviously laudable but a quixotic near-term goal. This isn’t a fringe school of thought. In CA, progressives were able to push through a health equity metric for reopening that arguably unnecessarily delayed the process, and Gavin Newsom continues to speak in terms of zero COVID. There definitely needs to be a reorientation in the thinking of many public health authorities but I think it will be a uphill battle with the progressive wing.

Seriously? Remember those MoveOn.org bumper stickers that read, “If you aren’t appalled, you haven’t been paying attention”? We need to revive them: “If you aren’t appalled, you’re a fucking moron.”

Diamond is basically half as “salty” as Morton’s so there’s more room for error. That’s really it. They’re the same price so might as well go for the one that makes it harder to screw up a recipe.

More than you ever wanted to know about kosher salt. I’ve converted to team Diamond since discovering how much more forgiving it is.

Was about to hike to Alamere Falls in Point Reyes when I got the advisory. Sheesh, that was close.

This is the most New Orleans thing ever.

Seriously? We had an outdoor mask mandate until May 2021. I don’t know how you got around that but all the more power to you. I ended up spending $30 on a spiffy Under Armour mask to go running and hiking.