there's great Mexican food in West St Paul now thanks to immigration
― this iphone speaks many languages (DJP), Tuesday, 11 July 2017 19:23 (seven years ago) link
CA, WA, OR, NM, AZ, NV, CO, TX, FL, IL = p big swathe of the country imo (and I'm probably leaving out some states just cuz I've never actually visited + eaten fancy mexican food in them)
xp
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 11 July 2017 19:24 (seven years ago) link
there are a few threads where we've gotten into it, but the places able to charge higher rates for authentic mexican cuisine run into the same cost/authenticity/lineage questions that lead us to bringing up Rick Bayless and it's a related but different issue
― mh, Tuesday, 11 July 2017 19:26 (seven years ago) link
eh I'm not touching the "authenticity" debate aspect
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 11 July 2017 19:27 (seven years ago) link
Haaaaa
http://www.avclub.com/article/explaining-david-brooks-column-stupid-coworker-who-257938
As I explained to my grateful, greasy compatriot then—and as David Brooks so finely elucidated for us now—it was not their fault that the nation’s deeply entrenched class divisions fostered by systems built on institutionalized racism and economic disparity have left them so feeling marginalized. They just need to pull themselves by their Wonder Bread bags, stop eating gas station nachos, and get hip to David Foster Wallace, because that’s what’s really standing in their way
― Bio-Digital Jezza (kingfish), Tuesday, 11 July 2017 20:42 (seven years ago) link
the plot thickens pic.twitter.com/dHEDsPXPIG— KRANG T. NELSON (@KrangTNelson) July 11, 2017
― André Ryu (Neil S), Tuesday, 11 July 2017 21:22 (seven years ago) link
which one of you is krang t nelson
― André Ryu (Neil S), Tuesday, 11 July 2017 21:23 (seven years ago) link
that paragraph is pretty stupid but i'm surprised at the huge reaction to this
― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 11 July 2017 21:25 (seven years ago) link
not I, although he gets much respect for his antics
― mh, Tuesday, 11 July 2017 21:26 (seven years ago) link
exactly^^ brooks conflates regional differences w/class distinctions
― busy bee starski (m coleman), Tuesday, July 11, 2017 12:37 PM (six hours ago) Bookmark
i think this is right. fwiw is this the menu of the best hoagie shop in the philly area:
http://i.imgur.com/Wc47x3A.png
http://www.thesiciliandeli.com/id10.html
they have a big NRA sticker on their front door and didn't take cards until like a year ago. i think most of the big hoagie shops in philly specify which cold cuts. i still don't know the difference between soprasetta and gobbagool or w/e fwiw
― 龜, Tuesday, 11 July 2017 22:50 (seven years ago) link
I can't even begin to explain how much better Mexican food is in the Twin Cities than it was 20 yrs ago.- full disclosure: mediocre college educated (4 yr degree, state school), have read Infinite Jest, did not know those particular sandwich meats
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 11 July 2017 22:59 (seven years ago) link
now that's how you make a menu
― mh, Tuesday, 11 July 2017 23:03 (seven years ago) link
xpost -- I gather all you had then were various Taco Johns.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 11 July 2017 23:06 (seven years ago) link
c’mon man, we had Chi-Chis by then
― mh, Tuesday, 11 July 2017 23:07 (seven years ago) link
(at first I misread that as Tasty Tacos and was confused since that’s a long-running local chain that you’d have to visit here to know. also, I ate lunch there)
― mh, Tuesday, 11 July 2017 23:10 (seven years ago) link
I miss the Mexican food on lake st so bad sometimes.
― JoeStork, Tuesday, 11 July 2017 23:12 (seven years ago) link
you can get capicola at frickin jimmy johns
― j., Tuesday, 11 July 2017 23:26 (seven years ago) link
https://waypoint.vice.com/en_us/article/wj8gmx/italian-meats-arent-ruining-american-education
― mh, Wednesday, 12 July 2017 00:54 (seven years ago) link
account of friend's horror needs more gabbagool
― calstars, Wednesday, 12 July 2017 01:14 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EHFRYVxhd8
― calstars, Wednesday, 12 July 2017 01:20 (seven years ago) link
― mh, Tuesday, July 11, 2017 6:07 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
jejejeje tu mamá tiene chichis
― nice cage (m bison), Wednesday, 12 July 2017 01:22 (seven years ago) link
indeed
― mh, Wednesday, 12 July 2017 01:44 (seven years ago) link
Gotta love talkin’ about David Brooks online. :-)
― the ghost of markers, Wednesday, 12 July 2017 01:52 (seven years ago) link
As always respect 2 dayo 4 repping gloco's finest
― layda be cry (los blue jeans), Thursday, 13 July 2017 11:56 (seven years ago) link
Theory: Brooks has begun elevating his "thought pieces" into edgy, meta-level performance art since marrying his intern. Like Andy Kaufman.— D (@hereticalstoic) July 18, 2017
― grawlix (unperson), Tuesday, 18 July 2017 21:41 (seven years ago) link
Comparing Brooks to Andy Kaufman is offensive in any context, ironic or not
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 18 July 2017 21:44 (seven years ago) link
True. Brooks has made me laugh more than once. Kaufman, never.
― grawlix (unperson), Tuesday, 18 July 2017 21:59 (seven years ago) link
good impression of brooks imo
― qualx, Tuesday, 18 July 2017 22:06 (seven years ago) link
they've both been mostly dead since 1984
― a brief spurt of enthusiasm (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 18 July 2017 22:09 (seven years ago) link
This is not a party that’s going to produce a lot of modern-day versions of Jack Kemp.
God bless David Brooks that he intends this as a criticism.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 21 July 2017 16:52 (seven years ago) link
Nice bit about Brooks-types(like Josh Barro and the Hamburger Problem):
https://thebaffler.com/the-jaundiced-eyeball/more-mush-from-the-taste-police
― Bio-Digital Jezza (kingfish), Saturday, 22 July 2017 00:39 (seven years ago) link
It is, at any rate, a cinch that the prescription of first resort for professional prognosticators of our national politics is this peculiar pundit brand of mind-cure. In this backward-spooling cosmology of our public life, the more stubborn and deep-seated challenges of structural reform, painstaking political organizing, and demanding long-term strategizing yield magisterially to the modulations of attitude, taste, and Zeitgeist fealty that the Vox Populi supposedly demands from its pundit class and the allied liberal cognoscenti.
who the fuck thinks this is writing
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 22 July 2017 20:53 (seven years ago) link
it certainly is a lot, of, words
― j., Saturday, 22 July 2017 21:18 (seven years ago) link
david brooks actually cracked me up on the news hour on friday. he called trump an anti-mentor. everyone he helps becomes worse. his whole trump thing was good actually.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3MXqcoPkMM
― scott seward, Saturday, 22 July 2017 23:57 (seven years ago) link
lol that was funny
― flappy bird, Sunday, 23 July 2017 04:28 (seven years ago) link
http://pinstor.us/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/antimonitor.jpg
― Bio-Digital Jezza (kingfish), Sunday, 23 July 2017 05:45 (seven years ago) link
/pol/ with a graduate degree has logged on. pic.twitter.com/cvlZtPfHRQ— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) August 1, 2017
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 1 August 2017 13:33 (seven years ago) link
800+ words on manliness and what the greeks would think of today's masculine ideals, somehow no mention of the fact that in ancient greece men loved to fuck each other
― the shape of a hot willie lumpkin (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 1 August 2017 13:40 (seven years ago) link
thats pretty manly
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 1 August 2017 13:41 (seven years ago) link
too manly for brooks, clearly
― the shape of a hot willie lumpkin (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 1 August 2017 13:41 (seven years ago) link
the greeks were pro-gay sex, anti-gay marriage
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 1 August 2017 13:50 (seven years ago) link
brooks is terrible but he had a line on tv the other week (after spicer quit?) about trump being an "anti-mentor" that was good
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 1 August 2017 16:00 (seven years ago) link
8 posts up
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 1 August 2017 16:06 (seven years ago) link
ah yes that's probably where i saw it
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 1 August 2017 16:13 (seven years ago) link
yeah i watched another one of those Brooks & Shields videos last Friday, it was equally good. he's a good talking head!
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 1 August 2017 17:06 (seven years ago) link
ok, this theory from a friend checks out pic.twitter.com/w3WaGzMOJ3— Peter Finocchiaro (@PLFino) August 1, 2017
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 1 August 2017 17:16 (seven years ago) link
oh hell yes
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 1 August 2017 17:19 (seven years ago) link
does brooks actually have a graduate degree or just the underserved confidence of a man with one
― qualx, Tuesday, 1 August 2017 17:44 (seven years ago) link
the latter. daddy was an english prof tho.
― nice cage (m bison), Tuesday, 1 August 2017 18:40 (seven years ago) link
you just made me go check whether david brooks was the son of cleanth brooks, which would have messed my mind up bad
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 1 August 2017 18:42 (seven years ago) link