Man, I'd go to this place just for the name, but it sounds very tasty too.

Gourmet Carousel

Cheap Chinese isn’t hard to find in the Bay Area, but if you’re looking for inexpensive and generous portions of good food, then Gourmet Carousel should be near the top of the list. Best bets include the deluxe wonton soup filled with at least a dozen dumplings — practically a meal for two for around $8.50 — or a generous platter of salt- and pepper-crusted prawns, fresh squid with mustard greens, sauteed pea shoots and some of the best potstickers around. The service is as casual and homey as the food.

Food talk reminds me, I'm wanting to do some marinated chicken kabobs with rice pilaf and Greek salad this weekend. I'm also planning to make homemade wheat pizza this weekend. Tonight is just plain old grilled chicken with boxed rice. Leif and I might have brats instead of chicken though, we both like brats and we have two that need to get used soon.

I'd love to lunch with y'all, and I promise it wouldn't all be Wire chat.

Actually, I've been meaning to recommend the latest issue of Oxford American to you. It's a return to New Orleans post-Katrina issue and there's a fantastic piece in it by a buy who's teaching in the 9th Ward post-flood. It goes into great detail on Li'l Wayne and the whole thing is so very Wire S4. But NOLA-style.

$1,800 power cord costs about $1,795 too much

Well, if you've got any sense in your head whatsoever you don't need little old me to tell you that there's absolutely nothing that could make a simple power cord worth $1,800. But let's face it: the Furutech Powerflux power cord clearly isn't aimed at people with sense in their head. It's aimed at people so rich that they've given up thinking, allowing their almost limitless supply of money to go to any snake oil salesman with a good enough pitch. And what a pitch!

Leif and I might have brats instead of chicken though, we both like brats and we have two that need to get used soon.

Beat on the Brats!

Gah! I fuckeded up! Something that I thought was an "is this possible" turned to be a, you know, actual plan on the other person's part, and now boss is all "but why didn't I hear anything about this" and Gah!! Gah!! Gah!!

Cool...there's going to be a show like that. Which I'm mad excited about, even considering having to wait for the discs to come out. DS got Wendell Pierce and Clarke Peters back for it. It's gonna be about musicians,iirc.

Your boss didn't hear about it because of their passive and ambiguous phrasing?

Why Baseball Is Fun, Part 983:

Rookie hazing isn't quite the same when a team loses - the atmosphere is a little less fun and some of the more veteran players always look miffed that there are hijinx going on after a loss, especially like the 14-4 drubbing Oakland absorbed on Wednesday.

There are so many first-year players, though, that they outnumbered the veterans. Alan Embree, one of the suspected costume providers, said that 17 of the A's dressed up in various items of women's clothing on Wednesday.

I'll try to link to some AP photos (see below) when they're available. I know AP's photographer was in the hallway outside the clubhouse, so perhaps there will be visuals of Greg Smith in a skimpy candy-striped nurses outfit (which he wore with great poise) or Dana Eveland in a tight police woman's costume, complete with handcuffs. Carlos Gonzalez got a sailor dress with ribbons on his stockings, and Gio Gonzalez had a Swiss-miss style dress, with ribbons in his hair. Sean Gallagher: French maid. Ryan Sweeney: devil girl. (He ditched the wig, though.)

My personal favorite, however, has to be beanpole reliever Jerry Blevins as Harry Potter's Hermione Granger. So wrong it's right.

The team's youngsters must wear the costumes on the plane to Seattle and into the team hotel. In some years, they're then paraded elsewhere in public.

I asked Aaron Cunningham, who is from Washington state, if he might have friends or relatives meeting him in the hotel lobby, and while wearing a very small cocktail dress of some sort and a blue wig, he said, "Oh, I hope so!'' And he meant it, which is probably the right attitude to have. They don't have much choice in the matter: Their regular clothes were all hidden during the game.

Pictures

For real?

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I can't remember, is the Examiner the conservative paper in town? We have an Examiner here and it is run by a total nutjob.

I can't remember, is the Examiner the conservative paper in town?

Yeah, it's always had conservative endorsements. It's (what's left of) Wm. Randolph Hearst's politics.