Big Wheel

I didn't have any beer in cans on hand at the time, only bottles. Since my choices at the local convenience store were: 1) buy one can of piss - er, Bud Light - at a ridiculously inflated price; 2) buy a whole six-pack of Bud Light that I would never drink; or, 3) coke, I went with option 3. I'm pretty sure it doesn't make a difference what liquid you use because only the water comes out anyway to keep the chicken moist. AFAIK most of the other substances in beer (except maybe the alcohol) have much higher boiling points. And since you're gonna be drinking half that can before you jam the chicken on it, might as well not make it something that you wouldn't drink otherwise.

If you're into the drinky, there's a fun little pub called Cornwall's on the Beacon side of the square, down the street from the BU bookstore (it's a Barnes and Noble). Can be crowded sometimes, though. There are also numerous bars up Brookline Ave., near Fenway Park., and tonier places in the Newbury/Copley area. I would also be remiss in not recommending a very good, small Italian restaurant called La Famiglia Giorgio's, which is on Newbury near the Copley T stop. Boston is incredibly easy to walk. If you felt like it, you could walk all the way through the Back Bay (very pretty in June), through the Common, and finally to downtown or Chinatown in maybe an hour or so, then catch the T back. Another nice walk is down the Esplanade along the river past the Hatch Shell to the Beacon Hill area. Apologies for the Planet/Nuggets mixup.

It doesn't have to be beer, either. I used a can of Coke when I did it and it came out just fine. You could use plain water if you wanted to.

For an intermediate between the two, I really like this recipe. It's more of a paste than a rub.

Yup, though roasted, not grilled (that's going to have to wait until I move in a month). See the "What's for Dinner?" thread.

I'm pretty sure the Gardner is practically next door to the MFA. It's probably about either a 15-20 minute walk or a short T ride (take the Green Line into Copley and then hop a Green Line E train back out to the MFA stop.

I just called and they told me these prices also hold for the retail store. Looks like the chances of an NYC trip this weekend just went way up!

I'm pretty sure that Tower is gone. The Nuggets burned down in a three-alarm fire several years ago. IMO the Kenmore area is not particularly engrossing (though it is in the process of getting more upscale); however, Newbury Street and the MFA are nearby - only a short walk or T ride away on the Green Line. Most of the good record stores are in the Cambridge area though I think there is one (Revolution Records?) in Coolidge Corner (about 15 minutes away on the Green Line C) and at least one or two (including a Newbury Comics) on Newbury Street. I'm not sure why you're confining yourselves to walking distance as there's a T stop only steps away from your hotel.

McFadden returned to his clan in the highlands, Schwartz to the shtetl.

The sequel, as is usual with sequels, is a different story. While I thought Hoffman and Streisand did very nicely, there's nothing even close to real about Meet the Fockers. Losing one's virginity to the housekeeper? Funny, maybe, if you have good writers, but not something that really resonates with anyone in the audience.

Talk about a different perspective. While I don't think Meet the Parents is a particularly great film, what makes the movie work is that people (or at least young people) can really identify with Stiller's character. (I cringed through the whole thing as I imagined myself in Focker's shoes.) Focker's not a loser - he's a regular guy who gets the shaft even though his actions seem to be mostly reasonable responses to the situation he's found himself in. It's a very weird movie because you have Stiller playing a very realistic character (who hasn't wanted to throttle an officious airline official before?) juxtaposed with De Niro's ridiculous caricature of the control-freak dad.

I think I may regret not springing for the Lee Morgan '50s box. No indication yet that any of it will be out anytime soon, and some of those records (like The Cooker) are just sick. I also regret missing the Thad and Mel box but I was a complete Mosaic newbie at that point, plus $80 was a lot of money to a then-18-year-old. At least that one is slowly trickling out...which reminds me, I had probably better pick up Central Park North one of these days. I regret not picking up the Nat Cole box, if only because I could retire early had I purchased 20 or so of them. Is there a way to divert my 401(k) into Mosaics?

I had to call Pepsi headquarters at work the other day and the lady at the switchboard remarked that they had just got the first batch of Pepsi with lime in this week. Apparently they used to give the stuff away for free but "people began to abuse that."

The problem with five-card draw is that there's almost no skill involved. Either you're bluffing or you aren't, but it's nearly impossible to ascertain what the probability is of this because you can never see any of the cards in a person's hand. Stud and hold-em type games introduce a lot more skill into the game.

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A convertible in summer with the top down? Better pray there's no traffic... I wasn't kidding about the tarpon...you know about Robbie's, right?

I guess I'm not sure what you're asking. You can play hold'em in cash games (so no "all or nothing") as well as tournaments. As far as the community cards, the probabilities are different from, say, 7 card stud because you see less cards in hold'em -- you are updating your beliefs on less information. Guy True, but it's also a lot simpler to calculate probabilities in hold'em because you only have to think about two cards in each opponents' hand. Seven-stud, though easier to understand for a beginner, is much trickier to master IMO (and more a game of chance)--not only are there three cards face down instead of two, but you have to quickly think about everybody else's face-up cards.

About a year ago my dad got me the Sony DSC P-92 as a gift. It was one of the first 5 megapixel cameras available in the States. Sony should never have rolled this one out, IMO. The image quality is not as sharp as it should be despite the high MP count, the thing uses clunky AA batteries and an external charger, and inexplicably, Sony included 3 of its 4 special "photo effects" in the features: sepia, solarize, and reverse effect. The one they casually neglected to include, a feautre that appears in all the other Sony models in this series (P-52, P-72, etc.) ? BLACK AND FREAKIN' WHITE. But those things don't really bug me so much. The main problem I have with the camera is that the power system sucks. I don't know if there's a loose connection or something, but the thing shuts itself off at very strange (and often inopportune) times, even with fully charged batteries. This seems to be a somewhat well-documented problem. Tonight I pulled it out after not using it in months, charged up the batteries, and was able to get six pictures taken before it went on the fritz. Now I can't even get it to turn on to transfer the pictures to my PC. I'm pretty sure the warranty has run out on this thing. Should I try complaining to Sony anyway, or just suck it up and buy a new camera?

No need for me to dirty my nails......our guys own the 'box' companies and the software has already been pre-programmed, remember???? Guess yer again in '08. Wheel, if you're right about 836 W., I'll never say 'Cambridge' again. B-) Gracias. That's assuming there is no construction or anything (which there could well be, it's been awhile). The Palmetto (826) to 874 to the Turnpike may be a workable alternative, and less distance. Taking US1 from the Palmetto, though, is a bad idea even if it's a shorter distance.

Midday, maybe 2.5 hours, IIRC. Rush hour going south...by the time you get back there won't be any voting to tamper with. Google maps says only 1 hour 38 minutes but I think that could be a big underestimate, especially if there is traffic on the highway on the way to Largo. I would budget at least 2 hours. PS: take 836 West to the Turnpike. You'll thank me later. PPS: don't forget to feed the tarpon.

The story as I've read it in at least two different sources says that Wes picked up the guitar shortly after getting married (at age 19). Wonder where that story got started. Maybe that was his first attempt to learn six-string guitar?

I think it's mainly that they are running out of sessions in the vaults to issue, but like the idea of having "regular" and "limited edition" product lines. Since they'd rather not rebrand the Connoisseur series as something else, the Connoisseur line just becomes shorthand for "titles we don't think will sell very well." If they restricted themselves to things that hadn't been issued on domestic CD before, it would be a tricky business to release the Hope as a limited edition that wasn't part of their Connoisseur brand. (FWIW, I would have much preferred that the Hope have come out as an RVG!)

Didn't Wes Montgomery pick up the guitar as an adult?

I guess over 95% must be turned off by your posting record of being an abrasive dickhead. I know I was when you approached me a couple of years back about some Jaco tapes I had played on the radio.

BTW, if WHRB ever decides to run a Bill Stewart or Larry Goldings orgy (in which they try to play the artist's complete works, if possible), you can bet that I'll be sending them a copy of this one...