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Sunday, July 17, 2022
Friday, July 15, 2022
Taqwa's
For years now I've ignored Taqwa's on 27th and Layton. After all, I snootily thought, how good could a Mediterranean restaurant be if it sets up shop in an abandoned Burger King?
Well, as it turns out, pretty darn good.
The interior of the restaurant was comfortable and attractive, and displayed no hint of its fast food history.
We started off with delightful tabun bread, served with oil and herbs.
We tried a spinach fatayer, an individual pie cooked in a burning stone oven, and vegetable sambousek, a deep fried pastry that could pass for an eggroll. The fatayer was excellent; the sabousek merely good.
For an entree we split a mixed platter of one skewer each of Shish Kabob, Chicken Shish Tawook & Kufta Kabob. They were wonderful, although the rice it was served with was a little lacking in flavor.
All that, and a reasonable price too.
It's worth a visit, and I regret not going sooner!
Thursday, July 14, 2022
Wednesday, July 13, 2022
Mulligan's Irish Pub
Sonic
Tuesday, July 12, 2022
Good Job Milwaukee!!
Monday, July 11, 2022
Sunday, July 10, 2022
The Sparrow
I think the bird was injured or stunned, bc he didn't fly away. I fed him some mealworms, and when I returned to check on him ten minutes later he was nowhere to be found.
Saturday, July 9, 2022
Lenny Von Dohlen
You probably know him best for his role on Twin Peaks. Curiously enough, I know him best for playing a version of the same character in "Dual Spires," an episode of Psych that parodied Twin Peaks.
He has passed away at age 64.
Von Dohlen also holds a special place in my memory for starring in the '80's dramedy Electric Dreams, in which an architect, Von Dohlen, falls for his beautiful musician neighbor, played by Virginia Madsen. Alas, this couple must compete with the jealous emotions of the architect's newly sentient home computer who is intent on driving them apart.
I loved that movie, and its soundtrack (new original songs, including one by Culture Club!) so much that I went out of my way to track down and buy a cassette tape of the same. I think I may have actually had to special order it at one of the mall music stores.
Oh, and this has always stuck in my head: the character's solution to earthquake damage: construct building from bricks based on interlocking jigsaw puzzle pieces.
I've always wondered if that would really work.
RIP sir.
Friday, July 8, 2022
Tony Sirico
Stranger Things Season 4
Shinzo Abe assasinated
Whatever the reason, whatever the rationalization: it's wrong, and it's an affront against the democratic process.
Thursday, July 7, 2022
James Caan
Godfather, Misery, and Alien Nation star James Caan has died at 82. Like Luca Brassi, he sleeps with the fishes now. May he RIP.
Happy Birthday Dad and Grandma
Wednesday, July 6, 2022
Unless
Solid marriage advice:
Your wife won’t start a fight with you if you are folding the laundry.#youarewelcome - Me
Monday, July 4, 2022
Sunday, July 3, 2022
The Indiana Jones doll
The Big Ten expands - again
Happy Fourth!
Saturday, July 2, 2022
Running up the Hill
There’s a kids bop cover of running up the hill playing rn [at the 3rd St Market] - Smiley - Kate Bush's 1980's release has found a new life with Season 4 of Stranger Things
Friday, July 1, 2022
56 Pitches of Shame
Now, it's fine, when the game is long past rescue, to leave a pitcher on the mound, even when he's getting rung up, and spare the rest of the bullpen. Except . .