[Tiste Simeon]

Just as impressed by our youngster Raducanu. Good crop of young talent coming through!

[Malankazooie]

Dang, Raducanu was born in Toronto. What a wealth of tennis riches you guys are witnessing today. You guys can't lose. Cheers and not bad, eh?

[Malankazooie]

Wow, learning more about Raducanu's US Open path to the final and win. It's quite an amazing feat. She's the first qualifier to win a Grand Slam. That's like looking at the NCAA Basketball bracket and choosing 16 seed Pipsqueak St. to defeat Duke in the final (it's even more impressive then that, actually). Kudos to her. I truly hope she and Fernandez are the future of tennis.

[amphibian]

We may be at a point where we look at women's tennis right now as being perhaps the most diverse it's ever been in generations in terms of who can win each tournament.

I think that's a function of both the lack of an athletically dominant player (think Court, King, Graf, Seles, the Williams sisters etc) and also there being a much bigger bunch of pretty good players with consistency + injury issues.

I thought Madison Keys was going to start putting big runs together as she developed more consistency with her shots post-Sloane Stevens loss in the US Open finals. She has enough power and athleticism to overwhelm a lotta people, but just can't put the runs together for long stretches for tons of reasons.

Radcanu and Fernandez are both excellent players who I think will be around in the majors for a long while, but it's really hard to win slams and maintain for a long time a defense first play style that takes the ball off the bounce super early. That takes conditioning (gas tank) that's difficult for athletes to maintain, lots of on the fly adaptation, and not getting ground down in long matches all the time.

[Mezla PigDog]

We're collecting Disney cards that come with our supermarket shopping. My son calls R2D2 "Arty Deetoe". Adorable.

[Malankazooie]

I just got the biggest grin on my face (ear to ear), when I saw the statue of Robert E. Lee come down. Rock on!

[Whisperzzzzzzz]

I'm moving to Denver on Monday!

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

Found a place within 2 miles of me that's offering Pfizer without ID. Only a little ghetto / dangerous I think... but it's also finally getting cool enough out for me to wear my bulletproof hoodie and carry my bulletproof plate (in my backpack... don't want to get mugged for my bulletproof plate).

Thought Georgian mtsvadi and bazhe might not be on my diet (mtsvadi because it's made with pomegranate juice, bazhe because it's creamy) but if they're made the traditional way they are---pomegranate juice is low glycemic (and apparently slows absorption of high glycemic foods) and the creaminess of bazhe comes from the walnuts (and the whitish color from garlic and spices, not dairy). Delicious. Love that there are now so many good Georgian and Uzbekistani restaurants right outside of Philadelphia (mostly serving relatively recent immigrant communities I think).



(salmon mtsvadi---'Georgian barbecue', reminds me of tandoori a little, but with pomegranate marinade)



(salmon in bazhe sauce)

Also love phkali:



(vegetable pate with ultra-finely-chopped walnuts, pomegranate seeds on top---eggplant pate is wrapped in eggplant, bell pepper in bell peppers, green is spinach)

Georgian cuisine became trendy in the US a few years back though iirc more for the cheese pie egg-over-easy-with-yoghurt boats.

This post has been edited by Azath Vitr (D'ivers: 16 September 2021 - 09:36 PM

[Tsundoku]

Briar King, on 16 September 2021 - 11:05 PM, said:

Just putting this here because.

Has anyone been to Shanksville?

Sounds like you're asking if I've ever been stabbed.

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I’ve got the urge to get in Betsy and hit the road and I think I’d really like to go there. Or Whisp just reminded me unknowingly that I still have to fulfill my promise to my old gangstess lover to go see her in Colorado Springs.

Take the Shaggin' Wagon all the way to Colorado Springs? I'm sure nothing could possibl-i go wrong.

[worry]

CS is 1000 feet higher than Denver. The oxygen level at that altitude makes sex impossible there.

[Tsundoku]

 worry, on 17 September 2021 - 06:07 AM, said:

CS is 1000 feet higher than Denver. The oxygen level at that altitude makes sex impossible there.

This is where BK comes back with "Challenge: accepted".

[Whisperzzzzzzz]

 worry, on 17 September 2021 - 06:07 AM, said:

CS is 1000 feet higher than Denver. The oxygen level at that altitude makes sex impossible there.

Noted, I won't date anyone in CS.

BK, hit me up if you actually make that trip!

[Gust Hubb]

Actually had a really good, like the early-days, day yesterday with my wife. We went out for lunch, macarons, soaps, and general shopping. It just felt like how it used to.

[Slow Ben]

Headed up to a 20 year college football reunion this weekend. Lookin forward to seeing old friends, but how the hell has it been 20 years?

[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

I’m reading on a regular basis again. I had stopped for a long time for reasons, and didn’t realize how much it depressed me. Don’t suppress your inner book nerd, people!

[Abyss]

Say whatever you want about how crap social media is...
Neil Gaiman just 'liked' my twitter post and i am tripping.

[Tsundoku]

 Abyss, on 21 September 2021 - 01:16 AM, said:

Say whatever you want about how crap social media is...
Neil Gaiman just 'liked' my twitter post and i am tripping.

Link or it never happened.

[worry]

My sister likes my tweets.

[Maark Abbott]

Between Sunday 12th and Monday 20th, wrote 10,000 words.

Felt good bro

[Tsundoku]

 worry, on 21 September 2021 - 07:41 AM, said:

My sister likes my tweets.

Is that like Alabama code for something?