Douchebaggery

originally posted by Mark Davis:
I really think that Nathan is just too uncool and unimportant to realize how great that story...and more importantly...that chef...and even more importantly Portland is.

Joking aside, Portland seems like a very cool place to live to me. I've been here for about 11 years and like the place a lot. The food and wine scene is pretty good. The houses are affordable. The traffic doesn't completely suck. Ocean and Mountains are close. The venue offers world-class outdoor activities.

...and tons of freaks. "keep Portland weird".

and...At least people hang out IN the city...not so much in Detroit where I am from.

So it rains 8-9 months a year...it just barely comes down.

-mark

PS. worked in RTP once. I like PDX a lot better.
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PDX certainly seemed that way. As I said, I tried to live there for a spell. Couldn't really find decent work which is strange given that I'm a native English speaking statistician.

When it isn't raining, it's stunning.

Summer weather is terrible in NC bordering on unbearable. April and October, there is nowhere else I'd rather be. What makes the RTP area excellent is the cultural life that bats way above the cost of living as well as the job environment.
 
If only the whole year could be like the transitional seasons ... I guess you have to afford SF for that.

I've heard good things from other sources about the RTP living/working environment.
 
What a douche that guy is. Me, I can't imagine living anywhere else.

I've lived a number of different places, and never found any that were lacking their quota of assholes. Regional character only modifies the form that the asshattery takes.
 
The folks that won, Olympic Provisions, are awesome! Not only is their salumi incredible (as are I'm sure the dishes that won them the contest mentioned in the article) but they have an amazing wine list that would even look good to many around here.
 
Nathan,

I order raw milk from Udder Milk. For me, it's to get something with a high pure whey protein content which is excellent for bodybuilding. I also consume a decent amont of raw milk cheese to as it tastes better. I sold cheese before wine back in 1998-1997. The dogmatic hooey I could care less about but the shit sure does make me lean.

Rail on VLM.
 
originally posted by Lyle Fass:
Udder MilkNathan,

I order raw milk from Udder Milk. For me, it's to get something with a high pure whey protein content which is excellent for bodybuilding. I also consume a decent amont of raw milk cheese to as it tastes better. I sold cheese before wine back in 1998-1997. The dogmatic hooey I could care less about but the shit sure does make me lean.

Rail on VLM.
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Raw milk cheese is substantially less dangerous than raw milk. Still, people used to die every now and again from poisses.

You are a grownup and free to make choices concerning the risks you take.
 
Wait until you see "The Kids Are All Right" - Annette Bening's character has a great rant against political correctness in food that takes on Whole Foods, heirloom tomatoes, and I can't recall what else. It's quite funny.
 
so much for diversifying the mood of this shit.

the number two award in this year's fatboy's festive favorites was close run.

half the committee wanted to honor otto nieminen's seminal thread, Studies in Dumbness, while the other half agitated wildly for this thread.

seriously, when it comes to separating content like this, how could anyone ever covet the lot of a committee-member?

"can't we honor both?" asked one.

"can we please have more booze?" pleaded another.

in the end, it wasn't just the booze that swung the vote. it turned out we've honored the chemistry nerds before, and some of us have never really forgiven them for the weak assed "psychedelics" that they sold us in high school.

but there was more to it than that.

"asshattery."

this shit has poetry and such.

so, fuck you Studies in Dumbness -- in celebrating all that is the best on the wine interweb's most cerebral bored, Douchebaggery , initiated by therapy's own foul-mouthed simian, has been chosen as number two in this year's fatboy's festive favorites

happy fucking holidays,

stanley crouch (on behalf of the fbffc)
 
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