new fav covid website

"Strolling across the Brooklyn Bridge is one of the Big Apple’s most popular attractions — but how much cooler would it be if you could visit a wine cellar at either end? Well, the hidden chambers beneath the famous bridge once served that very purpose, as chilled storage units for liquor vendors starting in 1876, several years before the bridge was even road-ready. Their existence was born out of compromise: The Brooklyn Bridge’s construction path crossed over two local businesses on either end, Luyties & Co. and Rackey’s Wine Company. The bridge’s chief engineer, Washington Roebling, came up with the idea to help keep these businesses afloat by renting out the cellars for storage, which also helped offset construction costs for the bridge. During the Prohibition Era, the cellars were used for newspaper storage until 1934, when the “dry era” ended. Today, the cellars are no longer used for their original purpose but are opened for rare historical tours."

1130: enjoys delicious slice of reheated pizza

1131: i will never eat cold pizza again!

1132: burns roof of mouth on a plume of riccota cheese

1133: cold pizza forever!

was sure this had to be the onion.

Only available until Sunday 2:00pm. Very worth it.

http://distillerista.com/mexican-gin-tonic/

mexican g and t

"walking past people loudly enjoying New York’s flourishing sidewalk bar scene combines the preexisting anxiety about missing out on what the cool people are doing with the new anxiety that the cool people are now actively killing us."

https://youtu.be/JFFdqKw9KcI
 

The Giant Claw

make a few billion give one away

https://twitter.com/jack/status/1247616214769086465

 

 

"Today, I am announcing that the Office of the General Treasurer will remove the words "and Providence Plantations" from the state's checks. We will also remove those words from our letterhead, citations, and other Office correspondence.

the lincoln project is the #nevertrumper republicans without a home superpac. they seem to be putting up the most viral videos with a little bite so far. wouldnt go so far as to call it art but im all for the consistent mockery with such a willing subject.

50 years later, Oregon honors exploding whale with park name.

After nearly 100 years, Eskimo Pie ice cream will get a new name.

"We are committed to being a part of the solution on racial equality, and recognize the term is derogatory," Elizabell Marquez, head of marketing for parent company Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream, told Reuters and the Wall Street Journal in a statement.

The chocolate-covered vanilla ice cream bar joins brands such as Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben's in overhauling long-used names and marketing strategies considered racially offensive.

low turnout at the tulsa trump event apparently due to a concerted effort by teens & others organizing via social media to obtain tickets in order to essentially punk trump via large number of no-shows. i thought his million ticket request was bluster but they just got fooled big time. i think last week k-pop fans (not sure if it was at the urging of the bands) overwhelmed a pro-trump hashtag with clips of their favorite bands. it seems this is related. pretty hilarious but can only guess what kind of blowback it will cause if this tactic is gets abused by both sides. not that bots and trolls havent already scuttled useful discourse online.

now watching a k-pop playlist is an act of resistance instead of that, uhh, other thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhTeiaCezwM&list=RDCLAK5uy_k27uu-EtQ_b5U2r26DNDZOmNqGdccUIGQ

the great is not quite great but very good. if you enjoyed the favourite then you will probably enjoy this as they were written by the same dude (too lazy to look it up) though it is perhaps a bit overlong. on hulu.

Steve Doughton Sez......."Best English Language Move Of The Last 30 Years" and I quote.....

Beware the toilet

The list of once-innocuous things that we now fear — hugs, handshakes, surfaces — just got longer. A new study found that flushing a toilet releases a plume of aerosols that can linger long enough to be inhaled by the next person, or land elsewhere in the bathroom.

Using simulations, the researchers showed that the clouds can send coronavirus particles up to three feet high. A single flush produces about 6,000 tiny droplets and even tinier aerosols.

Previous research has found viable particles in infected people’s feces, and while the virus prefers the lungs and respiratory tract, it has also been known to settle in the small intestine. The degree to which toilets contribute to transmission remains unknown, but you can take precautions: When possible, close the lid before you flush, and wear a mask in public or shared bathrooms.