36 thoughts on “March 22, 2022: 5,000”

  1. I boiled about 80 lbs of crawfish for a friend who just bought a house here in NOLA on Sunday. There was a good crowd but few native New Orleanians which meant lots of crawfish left overs. Last night I made the Doc's coconut milk curry with the potatoes , corn, and tail meat from the boil with fresh limes plucked from our tree as garnish. Delicious. When I was a kid I would have gagged at the notion of either of these dishes and would have forced my parents to make a Schwan's chicken patty for me......

    1. That's both sad and exciting. I've enjoyed his looks behind the curtain for Fangraphs, but I think he'll definitely be an asset to the the Twins.

  3. Newbish got really into space over the winter, and as a person who had not really paid that much attention to the running count of the objects in our solar system, it's been kind of a trip.

    He made a clay solar system with my mom, and he hit nine objects and kept going. When she asked him what he was doing, he informed her of the existence of Haumea and Makemake and Eris and....

  5. Freealonzo's High School versus Bootys' in boys 3A basketball tournament today. Not looking good for the former Mohawks (now Whitehawks) as East Mankato pulling away in second half. Potential meet up with Spamtown in final.

    1. Our local squad just lost. Tough game. The Mauers took the air out of the ball at various times, forcing a low-scoring, tight game. The Mauers also played good defense (imagine that!) and the locals weren't shooting as well as they usually do, which amounted to a close loss.

      Tom Izzo was in the house to watch his Mauers recruit.

      1. Ooh and Spamtown lost! Looks like Mankato East has a clear path, now has to get by two private schools.

          1. Spamtowners shot 0-12 from 3 in the first half, 2-23 for the game. Princeton went 9-15. That's your game right there.

          2. Bummed I missed the game on Tuesday. Also bummed I’ll miss tomorrow’s tilt too. Noon starts not worker friendly. I will have several of the hotel’s TV set on channel 45, however.

            1. In retrospect, not so bummed. East gets drubbed by number 1 Totino Grace and their five D1 recruits. Hard to believe TG lost 6 games this year.

              1. Oof I saw that score. Alas. A potential Totino Grace - De La Salle 3A final may actually be a fun game to watch.

  6. so many deals going down.

  8. Got to have a real nice lunch with the Dread Pirate today in my neck of the prairie. Always fun to swap work stories. Thanks DPWY!

    1. Thanks for the heads up, I'll be going to this one. The setlists from the first phase of the tour look pretty good.

      1. I think I will, too. Hitting Roger Waters (for the second time) this summer. Hoping David Gilmour comes around this winter.

        2. We saw Waters a couple of years ago. Good show, great staging theatrics, but I'll save the c-notes for a different show.

          1. My wife and I did as well. Great seats and I thought it was a phenomenal production. A very good friend hasn’t seen him yet, though. We grew up on Pink Floyd together, so doing it again is kind of a no-brainer.

            1. We got a little serendipity when they rescheduled the Alan Parson concert from last fall to next month. On my birthday. So I booked a pre-show dinner for us at Murray's because it's on my bucket list. This will be our third time seeing Parsons. The first time many years ago in Las Vegas the band came out to the lobby after the show and signed autographs, so I got to talk to AP and PJ Olsson which was pretty cool. Then back in the 90s when I worked at the TV station and Pink Floyd was playing at the Dome I talked the 10pm producer into giving me a live truck and photographer to shoot a show closer from the concert. Before the concert they had the media gathered in a backstage area by the dressing room and Nick Mason and Richard Wright came out to talk to entourage people once or twice. We were allowed to set up cameras in front of the sound booth and plug into the mult-boxes so we had audio straight from the board (my photog mixed it nicely with a second channel of ambient sound from his shotgun mic). The first song was Astronomy Domine (tribute to Syd) and we had to turn our cameras away from the stage for the whole song (but Rover ran the camera to get the audio and b-roll, he was an old Grateful Dead taper and never missed a trick). We shot the next two songs then they marched us out. We went to the live truck, cut our closer and fed it back to the station. It was one of my more fun nights at work.

  11. meat, my thoughts are with you, Dr. Chop, and all the residents of the Crescent City. Hope you’re safe and the Slaughterhouse is unscathed.

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