Haha yes definitely a fan. My piano world, OCT, TNCR, etc.... avatar was photoshopped variations of him for years. I think most of you thought that's what I looked like, just as I imagine GK as an angry old white man. Wait.

@horace said in Kamala: "If I were male...":

Imagine being born a woman of color in America and having nothing to show for it other than being Vice President of the country.

LOL

As a white male, it sure is annoying I don't have any acceptable race/gender excuses to blame when something in my life is difficult.

@mik said in Hay Cats! Your AOC post of the day!:

Love the Muslim in the Ho Ho Ho sweater.

Isn't that culture appropriation?

Not unless you stretch the definition of vaccine until it snaps.😊

And virtuous of virtue

@lufins-dad Agree. Some unanswered questions, but if the story the lady told is correct, the other family should return her dog.

@Larry @Jolly Thanks for sharing. Those both were very nice.

@klaus said in Your favorite Horowitz recording?:

His melody line is almost never louder than mp and sometimes goes down to pp, yet it floats over the accompaniment so crystal-clear that it's hard to believe. How does he get to that level of control?

I have seen this sort of amazement at Horowitz's mastery before. I quite share the sentiment and have many times found myself at awe listening to Horowitz's very precise, very nuanced control of tone and volume across multiple layers of sound coming out of his piano.

It was nothing but buying votes promising payoffs. I surely would like to see these issues addressed separately rather than huge, unreadable bills.

@aqua-letifer said in The Cookie Exchange:

@jolly said in The Cookie Exchange:

@aqua-letifer said in The Cookie Exchange:

@lufins-dad said in The Cookie Exchange:

Nice! We are making Gingerbread Men tonight for some of our neighbors.

Straight-up or weird ones?

Anatomically correct.

No I mean, are they impaling each other with jam-blood spilling out or are they just standing there smiling?

Lucas and Finley are decorating them right now, so who knows?

@jolly said in Interesting Twitter Account.:

@aqua-letifer said in Interesting Twitter Account.:

@lufins-dad said in Interesting Twitter Account.:

The real issue isn't even Pfizer to my mind. It's the lack of oversight from the FDA.

Dude are you serious? 😄

This is the very same organization that, for decades, conservatives have—rightly—mocked for being so monolithic that they "wouldn't approve aspirin in this day and age." I've heard that here, many, many times. And it's correct.

But now, in the midst of a global pandemic, in which the one thing everyone on the planet wants most and right now is a workable vaccine, the problem is that the FDA played it too fast and loose?

I'm not saying they didn't, I'm saying how could they not? If not in this way, then it would have been something else. With thousands of balls in the air and unprecedented pressure to just get on with it, you're gonna drop some balls.

Ever work with the FDA?

No, but they're enormous and bureaucratic AF.

@lufins-dad said in Beef Wellington…:

Yeah, I’m pushing myself this year. Rather than our traditional tenderloin, I decided to try and kick it up a notch. Running into two primary questions, though…

Wegmans is out of Foie Gras, will a general duck liver mousse work as well for this?

Dough work is not my forte… Would a store bought puff pastry work okay?

@Mik @brenda

Don't know. Not my kind of thing. Yes, the store puff pastry should work fine. I would bet most fancy restaurants use premade puff, too. 😉

@doctor-phibes said in The Robert E. Lee Secret Time Capsule:

@jolly said in The Robert E. Lee Secret Time Capsule:

Uh, the Civil War ended in 1865.

Well, it's nice to see you finally admit that at least 😆

No, the Late War of Aggression ended. The guerilla action began in 1865.

@lufins-dad said in Shopping hard.:

@jolly said in Shopping hard.:

2 cans pork&beans
1 can kidney beans

I'm kind of disappointed in that... I always imagined you as stocking sacks of dried goods like rice and beans...

I have several pounds of pintos, limas, split peas, kidney beans and black eyed peas. The cans were were to go with some I already had, along with chopped bacon, hb meat, pineapple and such in some cowboy beans.

A thumb on the scales of Justice.

@horace said in USA declares that China committed genocide:

What do you think about the Chinese government's actions, Ax?

One of my favorite movies as well.