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4 minutes ago, Medin said:

I've met him.   Wow...quite a mess.  One of my worst hires and I walked out.  

 

I'm not surprised.  Ex-con.  His look.  All the tattoos.  Labeling himself as "straight" although, by his own admission, he is mostly into trans-gurls.  I would have guessed from the get-go it could be problematic.

6 hours ago, n2guysnatl said:

 That's like announcing a pregnancy at 6 weeks.

I disagree!

It's like announcing a pregnancy before you're even pregnant!😁

Anyone with plans to travel to Porto Alegre Brazil in the next six months should rethink their plans.  Parts of the city are under water after historic rain and flooding during the last few weeks.  Hundreds dead or missing and over half a million displaced from their homes.  Flood waters may take a month to recede and  POA airport is under water and closed.  Some estimates are that the airport may not re-open until September.  

Airport terminal completely flooded:

Same old posters pushing the same old nonsense. Sheesh…it’s like a broken record. The reality is that huge headway has been made on the inflation front.  The rest will be slow-going. 
 

Anyone that thinks the economic consequences of COVID are over with is clueless about what’s gone on.   Supply chain problems continue in a big way. Millions left the workforce either by choice or cause they died of COVID. Many places are still not fully staffed.  Think hotels, restaurants, retail stores, etc. Even factories continue to be understaffed. Nearly every place I drive by here in Michigan still has “Now Hiring” signs out. 
 

When there is a shortage of workers, wages go up. Our local Burger King is paying $18/hr for full time workers and $16/hr for part time. This is much higher than the state-mandated minimum wage.  It’s just what they have to pay to get applicants. Otherwise, prospective employees feel it’s not worth their time. 
 

We are still feeling the economic fallout from COVID…so making that final move down to 2% inflation will be slow-going. 
don’t expect restaurant prices to fall as long as we continue to have a worker shortage in our country. 

Inflation cooled slightly again in April.  As I posted before, its going to be slow-going now to get from 3.4% to the 2% target.  That's just how it works.  Were doing quite well having gone from the peak of 9% to the current level.  It may take a year or more to get from the current level to 2%. 

If I'm not mistaken, he fairly recently acknowledged he was bi-sexual.  

Madonna's last official show on The Celebration Tour took place last weekend in Mexico City.   About a month ago, she announced she would do a final show in Rio on Copacabana Beach.  It will be free and looks to be an enormous undertaking as 1.5 million fans are expected for the show.  I hope it all goes off safely.  I assume everyone attending will have to go through heavy security checks.

Madonna arrived in Rio on Monday morning and is staying at The Copacabana Palace.

Here is a video showing some of the stage preparations:

Anybody going?

5 hours ago, ShortCutie7 said:

Then they weren’t kosher or kosher-style… can’t combine meat and dairy.

That may well be...but I do know that plenty of Jewish deli restaurants offer Mac & Cheese.  

17 hours ago, ShortCutie7 said:

What’s surprising to me is that a Jewish deli would have Mac and Cheese at all!

Really?  I've been to many Jewish Deli Restaurants that offered Mac & Cheese...useually as a side dish.

15 hours ago, mike carey said:

 (And as an aside, to me spicy and hot)

I do agree with this.  I really enjoy some international foods (ie Indian, Thai, Mexican) that use spices we are not accustomed to in traditional US cuisine as long as the level of heat is not too high.  However, food that is overly hot is not appealing to me.  Some foods are spiced so overly hot that the flavor of the dish gets lost in the heat.  Only my opinion of course.  

To me, there are some hot sauces and chili that greatly enhance the heat level without actually contributing much to the foods flavor.  

 Here's another example of the spicy food conundrum.  I'm currently on a Delta flight back to Michigan.  Along with the main course, a small salad was also on the tray for my lunch.  They provided a tiny bottle of Spicy Tomato/Chili salad dressing to pour on top.  No non-spicy alternative was available.  I'm not picky about salad dressings.  I can eat French/Ranch/Thousand Island/Blue Cheese/Oil & Vinegar/Many others....but I don't want spicy dressing on my salad.  I did use the dressing on the salad but frankly I do not desire my salad to be spicy.  Very irritating.

16 hours ago, BuffaloKyle said:

Did you ask the server if it was supposed to be spicy @EZEtoGRU?

 

I did not comment on it to the server.  There were little red flecks in the dish that I assume were some kind of chili pieces.

I was at a nice Jewish Deli today in the downtown area of Ft.  Lauderdale. It’s called The Top Hat. I’ve been multiple times in the past and have always enjoyed it. Today I had the Matzo Ball Soup (Excellent!)  and a nosh plate of Mac N Cheese. Nothing on the menu suggested the Mac N Cheese would be served with some spicy kick to it…and being a Jewish Deli I certainly didn’t expect it. But it was spicy. 
 

Having been raised in the Midwest in the 60s,  spicy foods really weren’t part of our regular diet.  Mac N Cheese certainly was never spicy. 
 

I guess I got a nostalgic thinking about how our cuisine is evolving in the US. We can’t expect standard American fare (think Mac N Cheese, Meatloaf, Pot Pie) to be made in a tradition way anymore. 
So many things are served spicy now. Everyone serves hot chicken now. So many salty snacks have red hot versions.  There’s a gazillion different brands of hot sauce at the grocery store. 
 

Im sure this is all a consequence of more international influence on our cuisine…particularly from Asia and Mexico. Of course nothing stays static. There is always evolution and I really do enjoy the much wider variety of foods  we have available to us now compared to the 1960s. But sometimes you just want to have a traditional Mac and Cheese like mom used to make. It’s getting harder and harder to find😢. 
 

By the way, I do recommend The Top Hat. Most of the food is solid there. I’ll go back there again and again.  Just not for the Mac N Cheese.

Deli | Top Hat Deli | Fort Lauderdale

WWW.TOPHATFTL.COM

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Top Hat Deli is modern deli by be nice restaurant group. Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL.

1 hour ago, Ali Gator said:

Cher fans have been campaigning for her for years. I'm glad to see it happening now, while she's still around to enjoy the honor. 

Cher was previously on record saying she wouldn’t want to be in the RARHOF if they paid her. Apparently she is now backtracking on that comment. 

Cher said she wouldn't want to be in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Now she's being inducted | Salon.com

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"I wouldn’t be in it now if they gave me a million dollars," the singer said previously in December

There must be something about Cabaret on Broadway that gets people going.  Back in 2014, Shia LeBeouf grabbed Alan Cumming's ass during a performance of Cabaret as well.

Alan Cumming Shares What Really Happened Before Shia LaBeouf's 'Cabaret' Arrest - ABC News

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Last week, Shia LaBeouf explained that a boozy afternoon full of misadventures led to his arrest during a Broadway production pf "Cabaret."

The latest inflation report is not a huge deal. Look…inflation is way down from where it was. The final push to get it to target levels will be a slog. As long as oil stays high, it will be slow-going. 

2 hours ago, rojjodc said:

Oh, that's right. Berlin did close after 40 years.   Although there is a builder proposal to re-develop 200 W Belmont, but it does not seem to be the building that housed Berlin. This will be interesting, if true.  Montreal, meet Chicago and walk from Lucky Horseshoe to Johnson's !

Wasn't Berlin a very large club?  Not sure that's well-suited to become a male strip club if so.

17 minutes ago, Cock Eyed Optimist said:

I was told that they bought the recently vacated Berlin club on Belmont. Any word on this?  

Now that’s interesting. I guess we’ll have to wait and see. I don’t think we’ll have to wait long…it seems Matt is already moving to Chicago. 

Things seem to be moving fast regarding the Chicago location.  Matt's FB page indicates they are already looking to hire dancers/bar staff/etc.  That suggests to me that an opening might be just a few weeks away.    I have no inside info, but I'm going with the rumor that they are taking over the Horseshoe.  Matt was in Chicago recently and he did visit the Lucky Horseshoe during his visit.  

It's reported that traffic was stopped in both directions before the bridge collapse.  However, there were some workers on the bridge at the time filling potholes and it seems they ended up in the water.  Several but not all were rescued.  It's also reported that multiple cars went in the water as well.  If traffic had been stopped, they may have been the worker's cars that had been parked on the bridge.  

Eureka Springs seems pretty remote.  I'm sure it's lovely for a 2-3 day visit but I would start to get fidgety after that.

The closest decent sized city is Tulsa which is more than a two hour drive from what I can tell...and Tulsa doesn't even qualify as a big city IMO.  So big city life is pretty far away if you're yearning for culture/sports/etc.

Well I wonder what all this means?  I guess we'll have to wait and see.  So what happens on the other nights?  More drag is my prediction.

There is an announcement on the Stock Website indicating:

We Listened

May 2024

CONTROL/ALT/REFRESH

Anyone know what is changing?  Also, it seems that Monday is now drag night.

One lousy inflation report does not make a crisis.   Let’s see how the trend goes in the coming months. 
 

Recoveries from inflation are almost never completely linear. There will be bumps in the road which are normal and expected.