Possibly, although I posted well after the show was done -- at 9:30 on Wednesday nights and 10:15 on Saturday nights in the summer, Navy Pier does a fireworks show. You may have been hearing people setting off their own fireworks after the show, I did see some of that.Â
shy-vi0l3tt3
Your playlist is quite different from mine! Hopefully you don't mind if I check them out-- I'm always on the lookout for songs with high BPM for exercising... đ
I donât mind at all! A lot of those arenât actually high BPM though, fair warning -- theyâre meant to match my running pace, which is rather slow, and some are meant to be timed walk intervals. Also thereâs a couple on there that are bootlegged off podcasts so if you canât find them, thatâs probably why.Â
tzikeh
I ride on the lakefront and people call "on your right/left" all the time. Maybe it's just the folks in the city streets proper?
Thatâs wholly possible. My range is basically from LaSalle to the lake and from Archer to Ohio, generally (occasionally I get out into west loop) and while thereâs a ton of bike traffic, a) itâs still deeply urban and b) it tends to be people who are riding for purpose rather than for leisure/workouts.Â
ferensai
Pretty sure Chicago is just rude
treesah
As a Pittsburgh cyclist who started cycling in Chicago and then stopped to increase my chances of continuing to live, I concur that Chicago is just rude. And itâs not like Pittsburgh has a reputation for being polite or anything, people just know how to act on a bike or around them
Oh my god Iâm having the worst existential âAre we the baddies?â moment. Chicagoans are normally so friendly! But also most Chicagoans I think donât do much bike riding, so the ones who do are....are maybe....
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Hi - can you explain what "Gregory John Sneeb MBE" means? Is it some weird play on Michael Sheen's name? Did it come from an interview or something? I'm SUPER curious. Thanks!
Hi! Yes, Michael Christopher Sheen OBE is fake, Gregory John Sneeb MBE is his real name. Orrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr itâs just a joke between me and @thedeliriumtennants that we came up with at 4 at night after an unhealthy amount of watching this guy. We will never know.
Saw your comments on the Alice's Restaurant reblog - not only is the garbage part true -- the whole song is a true story. Check out this awesome annotated lyrics set: www[.]metafilter[.]com/97904/Alices-Restaurant
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tzikeh replied to your post âIf you didnât have the cats, would you consider going back to your...â
"(baked beans with beef and mushroom, chicken enchiladas, and maybe some kind of noodle soup)" Please please please post recipes for these
Neither really has a recipe at this point, per se, but Iâm happy to share how I make them!Â
Baked beans with beef and mushroom was my ultimate filler food in grad school because it was reasonably cheap to make and lasted for goddamn ever. For a can of beans, a pound of beef, and a package of mushrooms, I could make like two weeksâ worth of dinners.Â
There are a couple of options on ways to make it. You will need:
8 oz (one of those grocery store packages) mushrooms
1 lb ground beef
1 22oz can of baked beans or 1 cup dry pinto beans plus 4 cups broth or water
If the latter: fixings for a baked bean sauce (ketchup, bbq sauce, mustard, sugar, seasonings to taste)Â
Onions, peppers, etc to your preference
Clean and chop mushrooms -- I donât like big chunks so I cut them pretty small. Sautee in a little oil until soft or, if big chunks, until starting to turn golden at the edges. You will probably have to drain off the mushroom water at some point -- save that if you want, but you wonât need it for this recipe.
You can sautee some onions too if thatâs your thing. I threw in some caramelized onions Iâd made and frozen ages ago.Â
Dump the mushrooms out of the pan and use the pan to cook the ground beef until browned. Drain off fat. Mix the mushrooms and beef together.Â
At this point you have a few options.Â
Option 1: You can add some bbq sauce or ketchup and some mustard and maybe some cooked garlic or garlic powder, some chopped peppers if thatâs your thing, even just a can of chili sauce, basically whatever you like, and youâll have a sloppy joe that goes about 1 1/2 times as far as it would just with beef. Itâs great on a sandwich roll or on a nice bowl of rice.Â
Option 2: You can stir into the beef-mushroom mixture (without sauce) a can of baked beans. Maybe add a little seasoning or bbq sauce for flavoring on top of the thin tomato sauce they come in. You can eat as-is or cook it down a bit on the stovetop or even bake it in the oven (350 for 10 minutes).Â
Option 3: You can make your own baked beans. Pressure or slow cook 1 cup dry pinto beans with 4 cups of broth (water will work) until beans are very soft (in the pressure cooker about 30-35 minutes). You can also just buy a can of cooked pinto beans without sauce. Drain the beans (keep the liquid if you want but again wonât be needed for this recipe).Â
Heat some oil in the pan on the stove and add the beans in, stirring to give them just a little bit of a crust, not very long, 2-3 minutes. Add roughly a cup of sauce -- I use 1/4 cup of ketchup, 1/4 cup of mustard, 1/2 cup of bbq sauce, plus a few spoonfuls of brown sugar -- and bring to a simmer. Remove from heat and bake (350 for 15-20 minutes) until sauce is thickened.Â
Stir meat-mushroom mixture into baked beans. Again, can be eaten on a sandwich or over rice or noodles, or plain as a side dish. Green onions on top are nice. Freezes reasonably well.Â
For the enchiladas:Â
Enchilada Sauce, roughly 2 cupsÂ
Refried beans, roughly 1 cup
Rice if desired, roughly 1 cup cooked
1 lb cooked chicken, diced, or crumbled ground beef (vegetarians can substitute other protein or veggie chunks as appropriate)
Sufficient tortillas (this is the name of my ska cover band)
Shredded cheese for topping
Prepare enchilada sauce as necessary (heat if thatâs all you need to do). I use a spice mix, tomato paste, and water. You can buy it in a jar or make your own recipe or whatnot.Â
Empty can of refried beans into a bowl. (If making your own: cook pinto beans until very soft. Heat oil in a saucepan and add beans, stirring a few minutes. Add in a little bit of bean water and start mashing with a fork or potato masher. Continue adding water and mashing over medium heat until it starts to look like refried beans.)Â
Stir a few spoonfuls of enchilada sauce into the refried beans to loosen them up a little. Add your protein, and rice if desired. This is the filling mixture.Â
In a baking pan or cake tin (I use a round cake tin so I donât have to rip up the tortillas) pour enough enchilada sauce to coat the bottom and sides.Â
More accurate version: Roll filling up in tortillas and nestle into pan. Cover with remaining sauce, using a spoon to poke sauce into all the crevices.Â
Lazy-asshole version:Â Cover the pan sauce with flat tortillas (tear up bits to cover the smaller spaces if you need to). Pour a little more sauce over the tortilla, then spread some filling in a layer across the sauced tortilla. Do your best. Press another tortilla down on top of the filling, sauce, and repeat, alternating tortilla, sauce, and filling, until you run out of space or ingredients.Â
Top with shredded cheese and bake until bubbly, usually about 20 minutes on 350F.Â
I havenât made any soup yet, but I have the bean âbrothâ from the baked beans I made with vegetable broth, and the mushroom âbrothâ from sauteeing, so Iâll probably mix that with a bit of chicken stock I had in the freezer, throw in some noodles and the last of the cooked chicken, add in some potatoes and maybe the last of the cooked mushrooms and caramelized onions, toss in a dollop of almond butter to give it creaminess, and call it good.Â
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The sculptor is Thad Markham and the collection is called Out of the Bowl. The one with the lime and lemon fighting is called The Winner Takes Olive and I must have it.
Man Iâm glad you found that info because I wasnât finding the sculptorâs actual name anywhere!Â
I thought that one, because they are all cocktail garnishes, should be called âbar fightâ :DÂ
timetravelingvampire replied to your post âI was doing research on the stimulus check weâll be getting and itâs...â
i have tried to explain why you don't want a refund to so many. everyone is like, but i like getting money once a year. BUT YOU COULD SAVE IT AND THEN GIFT IT TO YOURSELF. WITH INTEREST.
I do get why people do it -- I know some who do it deliberately as a short-term savings, either because itâs automatic or because they donât trust themselves not to tap it if they put it in an actual savings account -- but yeah, my bank is set up so that when I get paid a set amount just goes into savings, and I canât get the money out of that savings very easily. And I think a lot of people do it just because itâs the done thing. Itâs so normalized in our culture.Â
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"The Bananas Aren't Alone" is the name of my TMBG cover band
NICE. I like how it is at once both absurd and ominous.Â
megsamforever replied to your post âI was doing research on the stimulus check weâll be getting and itâs...â
I'm a tax accountant and I appreciate that you're posting this, there's so much misinformation out there and you have the viewer base to get some better info out. My understanding is that it's a credit because it's the easiest way to get money out to a lot of people at once and one of the most verifiable ways. The downside is some people won't get it if they didn't file taxes last year, but they can still claim it next year if they file next year.
Yeah, itâs not great for PR purposes but the more I talk about it the more rational it does seem to make it a tax credit.Â
As someone who handled all 1000 holiday cards for last yearâs mass mailing to our donors, which involved so much data wrangling, I really feel for whoever is having to pull and process all of this stuff.Â
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Sam omg Sam thank you! "The Mezzotint" is the name of one of my favorite short horror stories but I could never remember what it was called so I lost it!!!
Aw, Iâm glad I could help, even if it was inadvertent! Now Iâll have to look it up and read it for myself.Â
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fun fact: this art technique is sometimes called frottage, just like the sex act is
Iâm so torn between âThanks I hate itâ and âThatâs horrible I love itâ. :D
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"I do have to start shopping at Costco more since Peapod stopped delivering to the midwest." TERRIBLE TIMING, PEAPOD
I mean, even if they did get a boost from the stay-home order, I donât think it solves the larger problem of Instacart and Shipt murdering them, unfortunately :/Â
