Neither do panthers. In what I expect to be the last sports firing of 2010, John Fox is officially out as head coach of the Carolina Panthers.
(Hattip: FARK.)
Archive for December, 2010
Cheetahs never win.
Friday, December 31st, 2010Photo geeking.
Thursday, December 30th, 2010I’ve been a little hesitant to discuss the end of Kodachrome.
On the one hand, I am a photo buff (though not very good at it) and this is relevant to my interests. (I actually never shot a roll of Kodachrome, though; I used Ektachrome when I shot slide film, and I generally didn’t shoot slides.)
On the other hand, this has been well covered pretty much everywhere else in the known universe.
On the gripping hand, the NYT has an article this morning about Dwayne’s Photo, the last surviving Kodachrome processor; Dwayne’s is ending Kodachrome processing today. Particularly cool, to me, is the shirt pictured in the article.
And, yes! You can order those shirts from Dwayne’s Photo online! They aren’t even terribly overpriced!
(Note to self: also order a “Live Poultry Fresh Killed” shirt. Thanks, TJIC!)
Kubiak watch: December 29, 2010.
Wednesday, December 29th, 2010John McClain takes a break from defeating Hans Gruber and his minions to let us know:
That post is timestamped at 12:10 AM this morning. This is the kind of brilliant analysis that passes for sportswriting at a major daily newspaper.
At 12:31 PM, McClain (having finished with Gruber and his minions) tells us:
Meanwhile, Pro Football Talk is repeating speculation that Kubiak will stay, but the Texans will hire…Wade Phillips?! as a defensive coordinator.
A picture is worth a thousand words, so let me just put one here:
And the owner of FireGaryKubiak.com is taking the site down “due to unrelenting hate mail and threats”. I didn’t think Gary Kubiak had that big a family.
Crimestoppers! (take 2).
Wednesday, December 29th, 2010So we’ve mentioned previously the theft and recovery of one local food trailer.
We were not aware, until we happened to catch a local television newscast last night, that a second food trailer is also missing.
We have been unable to find any photos of the Hook ‘Em Up Tacos trailer. Nor have we been able to find any media coverage elsewhere (not even a Statesman blog entry), which makes us wonder.
In any case, we suggest that you be on the lookout for any unexplained trailers that mysteriously show up in fields or behind garages near you.
A poll, for your amusement.
Tuesday, December 28th, 2010TMQ Watch: December 28, 2010.
Tuesday, December 28th, 2010TMQ has his party bus, WCD has our party van. Let’s get this party started, shall we?
Quote of the day.
Tuesday, December 28th, 2010By way of Daring Fireball, in a roundabout way (and, yes, it is kind of old, but it still tickled my gigglebox):
From Jon22, a site I was previously unaware of, but which I am now considering adding to the blogroll. I actually had a lot of trouble picking just one quote of the day from his site: there was also “Rob Enderle is the Sarah Palin of the technology world, minus all the fun jokes about the front-door view of Russia.” and “I find myself expanding the English language to properly encompass the unremitting catastrophe that is M. Night Shyamalan’s latest work, inventing words like omnihorrific and vomitacious and spectacuturd.“
Kubiak watch (and other stupid norts spews).
Tuesday, December 28th, 2010One HouChron writer says “Fire him now; don’t let him coach the final game.”
Another HouChron writer says “Firing him now is pointless.”
Meanwhile, the fans are restless and organizing a “Fire Kubiak” rally for Sunday.
And in today’s bulletin from a failing chain of restaurants desperately crying out for relevance, T.G.I. Friday’s is apparently lobbying to have their particular style of bartending (which has a name that I will not dignify by giving it here) made an Olympic sport.
L’affair Bell.
Tuesday, December 28th, 2010The LAT has a longish summary of how the city of Bell got to where it is today, along with some background on Robert “Ratso” Rizzo.
A few choice quotes:
Hmmm. Perhaps someone should have been reading documents.
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Wait a minute. There was a former mayor who did time? That’s an interesting detail I don’t recall hearing before.
Quick update.
Monday, December 27th, 2010We previously noted the Chapter 11 filing of Mangia Pizza.
Word comes to us now that the Guadalupe location has closed. As far as we know, the other locations are still open. (As a matter of fact, we had an…interesting meal at the Mesa location a few days before Christmas.)
Crimestoppers!
Monday, December 27th, 2010What a day! Once again, we get to combine two more pet obsessions: food and the police blotter!
The Grinch, or someone equally mean, has stolen the main trailer of Lucky J’s Chicken & Waffles, an establishment we have not yet had the chance to try.
Luckily for Lucky J’s, they do have a second trailer (and I thought they were opening a sit-down eatery on Burnet as well), but in the meantime, please be on the lookout for a trailer that looks something like this:
The actual trailer, as far as I know, does not have a hand holding a giant plate of chicken and waffles in front of it.
Edited to add 12/28: Put a leash back on the dagron. The trailer has been found. You may resume normal activities.
Edited to add 12/28 part 2: An arrest has been made.
Updates from the Department of Mixology.
Monday, December 27th, 2010I did want to note the updated “Perfect Martini” recipe from Jim Coudal at Coudal Partners. I’m impressed with the seriousness of intent expressed in the recipe, and the background material about the changes in Nolly Prat is interesting. (Nolly Prat is our preferred vermouth, but we’ve been looking for others, and will have to give the Dollin a try.)
However, I am automatically skeptical of any “perfect martini” recipe that calls for vodka. While I allow room in my universe for the vodka martini, I do so reluctantly; the “perfect martini” should be gin-based. (I am especially skeptical when the recipe refers to a specific brand of vodka. Vodka, by definition, is a neutral grain spirit, so what the author is really saying is “I prefer the impurities in Belvedere Vodka to those in other vodkas.”)
Coudal’s “Friday Drink Links” looks like a good cache of stuff to browse, though.
(Hattip: Daring Fireball.)
And among the things Santa brought me was a copy of The Hour: A Cocktail Manifesto