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Martinis tomorrow to toast Trapper John, MD. RIP

Dayum.

Nice work Mike & Debbie! Looks beautiful and delicious. All I've got is pizza and Pliny.

Hey, that's pretty good. I second all of that! Cheers Jacob!

I think it's going to be overdone by late January!

Happy birthday Sammich! Cheers!

Nice! Is Raffy a Sikh now?

More from Lauren and Ken.

Either I'm being dense, or you don't get the gist of this thread. RIP Meadowlark, my favorite Globetrotter. It's good to see that you're still alive after another Santa season, Wayne. I've been waiting to hear some stories of your adventures...

Awesome prime rib roast Chris! Meat part deus over here. Boneless leg of lamb roast.

Meat, part one https://vimeo.com/150021457

Happy birthday and merry Christmas Eve! Have a great one Ken. Cheers!

We should start a new meme by adding that picture of Ken into the background of all our photos.

http://www.bakingsteel.com/ I haven't tried pizza on mine yet, but it is one of the main reasons for the Baking Steel's existence. Check it out.

So glad you're back Jim -- I've recently been lamenting your absence, especially when Dusty made himself a Vesper of all things! I hope the shit since June hasn't been all bad but I would love an opportunity to get together live to chat one of these days. As a teaser, JP and I have been cooking up an idea for a New England Brew Tour like the one we did in Michigan...

Good luck Iain!

It's been raining a lot here, which is weird. It started pouring rain while I was in a dim sum shop in SF this afternoon, and that turned to dense pea-sized hail for half a minute or so. Made people ooh and ah.

Indeed it was. I was sorry that they did't do a rock cover like the old days, but there were compositions by all four players and they were great, of course.

The Bad Plus Joshua Redman was incredible. Any opportunity to catch this act should not be missed.

Wow. Want it all.

Nice. The show was amazing last night. Josh melded with TBP so, so well.

Yeah, same. :/

There is some truth to your statement, Raffy, and Dan is obviously correct, but let's review the arc of this stupid issue: -Crappy posted a bunch of lingerie shots he took of his co-workers -Chris says he doesn't understand why med students would pose for these pics and then let Crappy post them publicly and wonders if Crappy is doing a fundraising calendar -Crappy unloads on Chris with his typical persecution-complex response raising all kinds of irrelevant straw-man arguments about double standards and such. Then he defends himself and his models on the basis of information Chris didn't have any chance of knowing instead of just making a rational response to Chris's reasonable comments and inquiry -I stew about it and eventually crack and post a self-righteous, half-crocked response dumping on Crappy for blowing everything out of proportion and claiming an attack where there really wasn't one, like he has many times -Crappy responds with a bunch more irrelevant claims but does not address or even acknowledge my main point repeated above -Shelly expresses her valid feeling that this type of photography is demeaning to women (my wife said the same when I vetted my response) and says that she would prefer not to have them posted in the thread without a spoiler tag -Crappy once again flies off the handle with claims of double standards (still not sure what two classes of people he refers to) and disdain for Shelly's feelings: he says he is insulted, that Shelly lacks courage, that she is just part of the mob attacking him (a legal US citizen, no less), that she is prudish, backward, unevolved, offensive, and stupid. He twists her simple statements on her own feelings about this kind of photography and honest statement that she would feel the same way whether the subjects were med students or strippers into a claim that the models are strippers. He also assumes that Shelly would chastise or belittle anyone who looked at strippers or porn, but she never said anything like that either. -Various other people chime in with positive thoughts on the photos and Crappy personally, and some wonder why I'm such an asshole to him on occasion. Other people here may not see the out of whack and misguided responses by Crappy the same way I do, and that is fine. I don't actually have a "beef" with him at all. I think Crappy would acknowledge that I was friendly and supportive of him when we first met and when Gene and I gave him a place to stay for free so he could attend CanJam Florida. Hell, I put up with his weird math trance and I almost threw Stevieo off the third floor balcony when I tried to steal Crappy's couch. I just have little patience for Crappy after years of sharing HF and HC space with him, and this whole issue is just another example. His obnoxious and unwarranted retorts to Chris and Shelly are prime examples of why he annoys me. Sorry for stirring the pot and keeping this going, but I thought I would explain myself for those who asked. Now I will attempt to return to live and let live vis a vis Crappy.

That's hawt.