Another fun Rilo Kiley/child actor trivia bit: Blake Sennet (guitarist) played Pinsky on Salute Your Shorts and Joey the Rat on Boy Meets World. He quit acting (and drugs) after almost dying from an OD, and started focusing exclusively on music.

They have a $44 BILLION stock portfolio. That’s as much money in play as major hedge funds like Citadel.

Cougs saw his chance and took his shot at stardom.

Holy nostalgia trip, Batman. I had that exact same Diamondback!

THE DEA HATES THIS ONE WEIRD TRICK!

I hope whoever wrote that headline gave themselves a giant pat on the back.

Nathaniel Rateliff’s “And it's Still Alright” was written about he and his wife’s divorce. It’s one of those records where the meaning behind the songs just bleeds out in them, both lyrically and performance wise. It’s one of my favorite albums of the last few years, but man, it’s got some real pain in it.

That whole album is brutal. Beautiful, but brutal. Justin was like the antithesis of a nepo kid. I mean I’m sure it helped having the dad he did. But he had so much natural fucking talent. Really sad.

It’s even more insane and salacious than that. Christine wrote “You make loving fun” about the affair she was having with the band’s lighting director. Her husband, Fleetwood Mac bassist John McVie, recorded it thinking it was about their dogs.

After Stevie Nicks and Buckingham broke up, and Nicks was dating Don Henley (who’s it’s rumored she was seeing before her divorce from Lindsey), she cheated on Henley with Mick Fleetwood. Keeping in mind, her angry and hurt ex husband is still part of the band she and her new affair partner are in. Oh, and while she’s banging Mick, he’s in the middle of trying to fix things with his ex wife Jenny Boyd, who’d had an affair with the former lead guitar player Bob Weston, who Fleetwood fired. Buckingham wrote “go your own way” as a fuck you to Nicks.

I sincerely doubt there’s another band out there with as much utterly insane soap opera internal drama.

Kismet: as I was typing this comment, “The Chain” started playing on the radio

“So this is that swank Sinatra suit, yeah?”

“Yeah definitely Stevie. Okay, smile for the-“

“Not that weak-ass cowboy costume you were trying to pitch me?”

“Okay, smile!”

TIL that even George Clooney had an awkward phase

Hahaha, yup! Man, I couldn’t remember if it was a Wendy’s or a Taco Bell!

100%. They walk in with that “I’ve had a bad day” face and you’re getting fucked.

NYC went hardcore with it I believe under Bloomberg when a video of rats crawling all over a closed restraint that someone shot through the windows went viral on national news.

It’s positive and negative, honestly. I mean New York is a HUGE, densely populated, and objectively filthy city with a massive rat and roach problem. Even having been on the wrong end of brutal DOH violations and fines, and even though I think a lot of their rules are absurd and are clearly there to milk money, I think their hardline stance is a net positive.

Long time food service (in NYC) vet here, including ethnically Asian restaurants.

Sketchy strip-mall Chinese takeout spots aside, there are also certain culinary techniques found in traditional Chinese or Thai cooking that can run afoul of DOH regulations despite not actually being unhealthy or dangerous in any capacity to the customer. Certain wood-fire cooking techniques, fermentation, etc for instance.

But keep in mind that there are plenty of western techniques that are equally as “bad” in the eyes of the DOH. For instance, literally every “house cured xyz” is technically illegal in NYC. I’ve worked in Michelin rated places where the very first thing the chef de cuisine does when DOH walks in is rush to the walk-in or dry stock to shove those house cured charcuteries and air aged cheeses into a sack and toss them into the trunk of their car. There are two VERY famous, multiple Michelin star holding restaurants in midtown Manhattan that I know from seeing with my own eyes have studio apartments rented next door that look like Dexter kill-rooms full of curing meat.

The world renowned named-after-an-address Manhattan establishment can afford to do that to avoid strikes on a DOH report (because the violation isn’t on premise). The traditional Thai start-up restaurant in Crown Heights doesn’t have the resources to do the same to hide their traditionally (and completely safely) home-fermented sausages.

Again, I’m not talking about gnarly hole-in-the-wall roach-infested takeout spots. If there’s been a crackdown on those, it’s probably a good thing for generally public safety. But I’d be interested to see the breakdown of violations. NYCs department of health is notoriously overreaching in terms of what is and isn’t a public health concern (ie if there’s a hand washing sink the correct number of feet from a cook station, with soap, but it doesn’t have paper towels stocked, it’s deemed an unusable sink and points are deducted. Go figure). And that overreach is absolutely a source of income for the city in terms of DOH fines. But they do make damn sure that New York is an, overall, incredibly safe place to eat.