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  1. So much to process here, but:
    1. Huggy Bear has mad skate game
    2. Braless, perky roller skating Cindy Williams is making me rethink my previously held and utterly misguided opinion on her attractiveness.
    Along those same lines per the first video, Mrs. C would get it.

    I always had a thing for Cindy Williams as a high school buddy’s sister was a spitting image including the bralessness.

    I’m not doing the research of the roll call of celebs but I’d like to see which ones died in Hollywood stories of OD’s, murders, etc.

    Most shows back then were an endless parade of bouncing braless boobs whether battle of network stars, nighttime soaps, daytime soaps, carson, etc. we knew by 1990 network tv would be full blown nudity and fucking.
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  2. Just finished Hit Man. I’m in for any Linklater. Love how he evidently just flips open Texas Monthly every few years and finds a weird story to film. Our boy Glen Powell was really good, as was the female lead. Highly recommended. 

    I thought it was good for a Friday night movie. It ain’t Bernie but few are. I want to dig up the original article from Texas monthly
  3. The Nazi exterminations were horrible and they addressed the issue as an engineering problem, which in some ways is even more horrific. Firing squads were inefficient, they tried carbon monoxide in vehicles, until they figured out Zyclon-B and crematories. It wasn’t just 6 million Jews but gypsies, Slavs, poles, Russians, totaling about 13 million.

    I’m not dismissing the evils of Hitler Germany but often glossed over is Stalin’s murder of 23 to 50 million and Mao’s 40 to 70 million.

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  4. Every season has an event or two that is silly or nuts. The two I thought were terrible this season was the chaos cooking and the fish boil. They should have scrapped chaos and used the great Christina Tosi for a dairy episode, and found something else for fish boil. Both showed an overreliance on free shit or promo tie ins. Even the finale, in Curacao, on a docked cruise ship, was a Holland America commercial. I was fine with the supper club, the FLW episode, miller beer, whatever. And I think kristin knocked the skin off the ball. The best parts of the season was LCK and Dish with Kish.

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  5. But it wasn’t a uniform “medium rare” lobster. Tails went from overcooked to raw.

    Gail is now stating that the finale wasn’t close, that Dan’s tuna was horrible, though she called it “absolutely delicious.” They had months to fix the editing if that’s the case.

  6. You haven’t answered my question, but sure as hell giving up evidence to my suspicions. 
     
    (Olive Garden)

    Any place that had a “martini menu” of cocktails just sold me a beer. But then again that’s all I drank was beer.
  7. Watched it again. Savannah was a mess and spent no time in her unemployment actually preparing. I don’t get the recent infatuation with plantains, especially for folks not familiar with them. She picked out ones that won’t be ripe for a month. All three had questionable sous chef choices picking buddies .

    Dan had some odd choices but seemed to have better execution. He also seemed less prepared. Missed on salt on his first dish. As much as they harp on seasoning every dish should get a toss of coarse salt at the end.

    Danny’s mousse in the qualifier should have whacked him. The raw lobster should have killed him along with the weird stacked cabbage dish. Where did he win? His story. Tom is a sucker for personal stories about food and cooking careers. And Danny’s stories resonated with Tom especially the final one where he talked about getting a Puerto Rican ice from a street vendor with his grandfather and made a fancy dessert echoing that. Tom nearly started crying.

    There was no extended discussion at judges table. It was like they had to get off the boat. So Danny won it there.

  8. So as we lead up to the finale, with everyone bitching all season (and seemingly most recent seasons) about how bad it all is, here is my question:
     
    If I give you the assumption that the talent level is lower than the previous 20 years, what is your theory?
    Do yall think Top Chef is no longer looked at by legitimate chefs as something to strive for?  Did it jump the shark in the chef community?  I don’t think it has, as the visibility alone could make your career. 
     
    Otherwise, do y’all think it’s just a casting problem?  Do yall think they are going for people that are better for the camera and not the stove?  
     
    I ask because I don’t see the massive drop off that y’all seem to see. No, every season isn't better than the last, necessarily, but i think that’s a tall fucking order.  
     
    I'm willing to learn if y’all can give me some actual logic and reason other than “I want every season to be the Voltaggios vs Tom vs Morimoto” or some shit. 


    I think if there is one thing in the actual
    show I’d like to see it’s blind judging. I think what we see with women dominating ToC is because of blind judging and the domination of men on TC emanates from Tom. Maybe as kristin grows in the show she can push back more than Padma.

    The show is not what it was in its hey day. Mainly from the level of contestants. On peacock is every episode of TC plus the spinoffs : masters, desserts, duels, amateurs, kids. Bravo doesn’t do those shows anymore and there’s not as much hype for the show. Plus Food Network now embraces a lot of top chef talent. Lots of dilution.
    The constant is Gail’s magnificent rack. Just get better.

    I think the primary issue for attracting chefs is the time commitment. It’s a long commitment with no guarantee of a payday. Look at the folks here. Dan owns a restaurant but Danny is “planning a seafood place” and Shannan is unemployed having quit her exec chef job. Times are tough for restaurants these days and it’s probably a challenge for a working cook to quit a gig, vs the early days when the economy was better.

    And I think the winner is very flawed. The cabbage dish looked like a barnyard. Raw pumpkin. Gross. Candied fried seaweed. No thank you. Raw lobster. Raw fucking lobster! That’s as inexcusable as Savannah’s overcooked lobster if not worse. “Medium rare lobster” my ass. It’s obvious he was anointed by Tom for some reason after that shitty mousse. Savanah had zero chance; she could have cooked like escofier and would have lost. So there’s Dan. He outcooked Danny. But he’s not a New Yorker; Tom always goes nyc.
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  9. Where the fuck are you going that they call an Old Fashioned, a Moscow Mule, a Mai Tai, or a Gin & Tonic a Martini?

    Is it a Bahama Bucks? Or is it an Olive Garden?

    This was common in the martini renaissance 15 or so years ago. Some pretty spiffy joints would have a martini menu which was just cocktails. I didn’t like it then.
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  10. It’s obvious Tom has a hard on for Danny. I don’t like that shithead. He should have been in the bottom two and possibly gone. Actually Tom should have sent them all home in Wisconsin and said no top chef this season.

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  11. Chicken or shrimp "fajitas"
    Sausage kolache
    Vodka vs gin martini
     

    While I agree on the martini deal (yes I’m a vodka martini person, dry, blue cheese olives) I hate joints that basically call any mixed drink a martini. An old fashioned, Moscow mule, mai tai, daiquiri, G&T is not a fucking Martin.
  12. Had to go to S. Texas last week.  Landed just before lunch time at HRL.  So, obviously, took the wife to Las Vegas Cafe for lunch.  Combo plate with enchiladas and carne guisada, real-deal flour tortillas in foil in the middle.  This is the way.

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    Oh hell yes!
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  13. I never said all cops were perfect, and douchenozzles like the Louisville pike should be relegated to knobsuckibg a Paul Blart somewhere. Bad LEOs need to be weeded out by their own.

    But strapping on a gun when your shift starts everyday is a tough deal and few of us could do it. The biggest problem with the blue line is that it’s set up as an inclusive career that doesn’t welcome older entrants. Same with teaching. Both professions would benefit from encouraging retirees or middle age folks to enter the profession bringing some different perspectives and life earned wisdom into the occupations.

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