Prubangboy

Jah accent is just about the hardest accent to fake. Black Brit-Jamaican accent is like posh-Rasta compared to a cane cutter, bongo beater in the Jah-mountains. I went to 8 Nottinghill Carnivals in a row. Dub Poet, Linton Kwesi Johnson has a good brit-Jah accent, as did Jah brit poet laureate Benjamin Zephariah (died recently). As did the Levi guy who won on Shark Tank with his Reggae Reggae Sauce. Just like very white-ish black people like Obama can slip into jive talk when it suits them, English-Jamaican people are ready to channel Bunny Wailer at the drop of a hat. Certainly, Joe Strummer had the most egregious fake English Jamaican accent. I saw The Clash in Montego Bay and the Jamaican people couldn't understand him. They were there for YellowMan anyway. Here he is absolutely murdering The Harder They Come: But Tom Hanks's son has taken the bad Jamaican accent as far as it can really go: https://globalnews.ca/video/6372128/tom-hanks-son-questioned-for-speaking-patois-on-golden-globes-red-carpet -Nick, can we hear more about the pedo insinuations? Let's not let this mod-lite era go to waste.

I'm making fun of your border stuff comments. Then I pointed out that an educated brit like you would hate the actual Trumpies on the ground. But you'r too drunk to get the joke. So just put your head down on the bar mat and rest.

I've been to a lot of the border towns. Bleak. And Trumpy. Effete well-travelled tories like yourself would be miserable. Do you love cammo as a look? And in Bleak Trumpland (which is 95% of it -think of a white Haiti), a border agent job is a ticket to owning a doublewide trailer. They need a permanent immigration crisis. Their inbred cousin needs a job.

As per above, Judge Gorsich wrote an opinion about this 10 years ago. He said the states decide, period. Decide what? Decide if someone can be denied being put the ballot if they are "constitutionally prohibited". He didn't say a court judge decides after a trial. He didn't say The Supreme Court decides. He said the state decides. And they did, citing Gorsich in their decision. So if Gorsich switches sides -or The Supremes just take a hachet to state's rights to please Trump, that's opening up another several cans of worms And for what? To placate Fatty? That's how we ended up in this current mess in the first place. Good quick Gorsich overview (fact or factoid?) https://www.rawstory.com/trump-ballot-supreme-court-2666839573/

Fake electors and hiding documents are slam dunk felonies.

As usual: We'll make allowances and blow Fattie (again) He'll feel more emboldened to go even more nuts (again) This will lead to another "only him in the history of the entire world"-problem (again). -Rinse and repeat until he dies.

Dimwit alert: Only a real Mensa member says factoid. I went down a google hole reading about factoids (because he can't). Factoid means things that are trivial or untrue. Not: Facts I don't liiiiike.

You can't google was Trump told he lost? Is this a paraplegic situation preventing you? Because if so, I want to toss $5 of chump change into your GoFund Me.

Time for an emergency congress session to amend the amendment. No prob -except for how to make it work only for Fatty but not for a democrat up the road? And constitutional amendment in an election year -no prob again, right? The ball is already and play so the old rules must apply. The old rules are only a problem for Fatty; because of Fatty. I say, tough luck, Fatty. What would Fatty say to you if the rules were going against you? What's the plausible Biden insurrection case? There's no states rights-right to give anyone the heave ho just because they don't like their face. People here are pretending there is -and then hilariously making vacuous and impotent threats against laughing in their faces-Biden. Dream on, losers, your dope failed at his coup. And now he has to pay.

He knew he lost the election. He was told 57 times. By lawyers. He knew he inciting an insurrection. He was advised to put in the part about "peacefully march". By lawyers. He now finds himself in a position where "peacefully march" may not be enough. He has since given "aid and comfort" to people who WERE convicted of insurrection -including promising them pardons. As per his advice from lawyers. He knew his phony elector thing was illegal. He was told 57 times. By lawyers. He was asked by Jack Smith: Are you going to use a bad legal advice defense? He says he doesn't know, like his lawyers told him to say.

Yeah, thanks for that. It will amount to the same thing, but it is indeed not the same thing.

Just for Laughs: You get a choice of a Red State or a Blue State vacation, all expenses paid. You can pick: Alabama, Texas, Florida -OR: New York, California, Maine. -As a lover of all things Red, you want to go to Alabama instead of New York, right?

Evidence was presented, insurrection was found. Was there a trial? No. 14th Amendment doesn't specify any need. Repubs LOVE states rights when it comes to their pet issues like abortion and control. This is a states rights issue that is biting them on the ass. Neil Gorsuch wrote an opinion years ago affirming that states rights are untouchable. Do states have the right to regulate their elections? The Constitution says yes. In my heart and head, I believe that Trump should be told to pound sand on these issues (immunity too). My pragmatic self tells me that won't happen due to fearfully placating whiny Trump Trash and their always shifting (when he's losing) game posts. We are subverting the constitution as written to assuage the fee-fee's of people who crow about liberal tears -and don't care one whit about what the constitution says -if it doesn't go their way. So even having this conversation about just exactly how much we're going to bend the written in stone rules for a bully who has never given an inch to the other side is proof that Trump has already won. Interesting wrinkle: The Supremes wink at Diaper Boy and give him a pass on insurrection but not on immunity (most likely outcome). Jack Smith then finds him guilty of insurrection. What about all those states who already called it and were disenfranchised if (I mean when) The Supremes overturn them?

I don't feel that we have enough warm bodies left still posting in this little internet backwater to ignore anyone. Also: after porn, laughing at idiots is why the internet was invented. I'm on a 30 day marijuana-fast. I'm hoping to dodge the increased clarity-bullet. Clarity -never exactly a pretty picture.

I don't love Electronic Dance Music (EDM), but it was great to go to what was EDM Mini-Woodstock. It's a massive non-mainstream musical taste and a venue like FMP will def bring in some semi-names. Without drugs or dancing, it can be patience-testing. I think of it as disco on a budget. I'd liken it to: I don't love opera either, but if I went to Italy and a famous one was playing right down the street, I'd prob pop in. I like that you can go away from it and come back. All night. All walks of life and ages on the beach together. I can't think of anywhere else where that happens. Much more egalitarian and cross-political than the hippies were. It's always portrayed very negatively, but a google image of Nottingham Saturday Night will show worse. Prob 50% English, 20% N.Euro, 20% Yank, 10% Middle East; mostly couples, often EDM tourists who might also vacation in Ibiza or Tulum. Chiang Mai and Pai are also on their Thai itinerary for more of the same.

We made challah bread for our New York Jew landlord for Christmas. It had a proper brown crusty bottom and a proper rise due to a pizza stone. He keeps sending me French toast video's. If you bake more then twice a year, get a stone. 5,000 years of baking history is on my side. And the stone gets better as it gets more burnt. You want a dry, super-hot oven. That's why we put the sauce on lightly. Steam is the enemy of bread. A hot stone is the enemy of steam.

We tried it, with tomatoes straight off the vine, but it was a lot of work for a slightly inferior version to canned. Some ethnic foods deliberately include processed foods because that's the agreed upon taste. In New Orleans Cajun food, they use garlic powder AND fresh garlic. They like that earthy undertone of the powder. In Puerto Rican food, they make their own sofrito and scoop some out of a jar too. Most Indians (and Thai's) start with a glop of a curry mix and then customize from there. Purists are the enemies of gluttons.

Make that super-lite olive oil. Extra-virgin etc burns at lower temperatures. Dab that on at the end. We're going up to 800 degrees with an extra pizza stone on the upper oven rack above to refract heat. Any person here not using at least a single pizza stone needs to be mocked. I designate NextG for that needed task. He's right about the better ingredients in Euro-land, but they don't fire up the oven hot enough. Woodfired works for me too. Why Not? Italian in Nimman gets in the ballpark.

I love pineapple-everything and eat a mini-pineapple a day for fiber. The prob with pineapple pizza: Too acidic when combined with tomato sauce. Otherwise, I have no objections. Adding ham to it furthermore makes it too salty. I used to do a white pie (ricotta-base) with paper thin pineapple rounds (roasted, so not soggy), pine nuts, and gorgonzola dabs. Blue cheese and pineapple is a perfect combo. I think I'll have it on toast later on. We had an oven at home that went up to 1,000 degrees F and during covid became complete pizza-ologists. You want a 2-day sour dough rise, San Marzano canned tomatoes and not much oregano etc, and def no fresh herbs until table side, if at all. To get a crust that is both thin and chewy takes some kneading technique. It's a genius food of 3 ingredients. Anything else is dead weight. I tend to be anti-toppings. If pushed, maybe some decent, non-canned olives or possibly mushrooms. You have to worry about it being too salty. There's plenty of salt in San Marzano canned tomatoes. We grew our own SM tomato's but the canned kind worked better for pizza. In my native Staten Island, there is the noble tradition of the Grandma Slice, where whatever is heaving in the garden (basil, plum tomato's) is heaped on top of a reg. slice. July to September; then Grandma is done. Finally, I am disappointed here at the lack of snobbery about coal-fired ovens. They get the proper density of heat that nothing else provides. Outlawed now in New York, a few grandfathered-in shrines like John's in the village keep hope alive. After New York, and then after Staten Island (it's own pizza-world), New Jersey is indeed superb -no wait, there's the coal-fired Nirvana of New Haven too. Anthony Bourdain said that you have decide if you are a cheese or a sauce person. We are sauce people. We def go light on the cheese and substitute 50% parm cheese. I tend to pick excess mozzarella off my slice. Deep-dish? Like a bowl of melty cheese? Yuck.

Most tourists are here for the cheap beach experience. In America, with Mex, Florida, and The Carib close at hand, a 26 hour flight to get the beachfront room for 70% off is a hard sell. That's why I love Chiang Mai. To come here, you have to have some cultural interest. Of course, to 80% of the tourists here, a cultural interest means washing an elephant that's been already washed to death or taking a cooking class where they're smart enough not to let you handle an actual knife. We have marijuana and mushrooms everywhere now too for additional cultural experiences. In Nimman, at least half of the tourists don't even bother with a look-in at The Old City. We have our own, classier night market, thank you. Most people list eating and shopping as their #1 and #2 travel interests, so there's no need to leave this lovely little grid of 8 soi's between 2 busy roads.

Absolutely the least likely Enja fan on earth.

Love John, and Elvin Bishop was my first rock concert (he was opening for Donny Hathaway). But John was def a bit of a shy mope.

Disagree. Bangkok aint Paris, but toss together Jim Thompson House, The National Museum, The Royal Palace, a visit to the Thai Khon Ballet, assorted Wats the likes of which are found nowhere else, The Prassert Garden and on and on, and you could easily fill a week in Bangkok, dedicated only to cultural pursuits. And let's not forget the medical museum with 2 (two!!!) two-headed babies. I'm here for the culture. Living in Chiang Mai is like living in Florence.

A lot of people I might list would be a drain to even kill an hour with: Kafka, Picasso, Muddy Waters. That's why I picked cheery, blissed out Alice Coltrane.

A lot of hippie humor has aged badly (talking to you, Cheech and Chong). And so has a lot of that soft, Bill Cosby, banal observational humor, of which "Mom always liked you best" being particularly laugh-proof these days. I recall the Bros more for having the white hot hippie acts of the day like The Doors on (even tho it was the worst Doors song ever). Lenny Bruce -I loved his two books in high school, but he was terrible to watch or listen to on a record. He beat every bit into the ground, whereas in the books, his editors really helped him out. Dustin Hoffman in the film Lenny is much funnier and more bearable than Lenny ever was. Sort of like Joe Strummer: a one note try-too-hard. For me, the comedy legend from Long Island is Howard Stern (one town over from Lenny). Just like Bruce grandly elevated my poor, suburban angst, Howard legitimized the crassness of idiots like me as worthy (see also: Andrew Dice Clay).