Christopher O.
Christopher O.
@phaseolus.bsky.social
Old man, loves Milwaukee and cats and Baroque music, pining for a more just and equitable and kind future
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First time I went to Manhattan was 2003 or 2004. Took a long walk from midtown to the ferry dock downtown. I saw a FDNY pumper slowly cruising down a street, about 7 or 8 guys in fire gear riding on the outside, slowing down and catcalling whenever they approached a sufficiently young pretty woman.
one of my kid's bands that is to say one of the multiple bands that one of my multiple kids is in. That's them on the floor
What do you mean it's bandcamp Friday??? That means it's the perfect day to check out Sorry For Your Loss the debut album from Milwaukee indie outfit Breakup Tour breakuptour.bandcamp.com/album/sorry-...
For @planecrazy.bsky.social , a pen at the Abraham Lincoln museum, Springfield IL Year is late 1862
One great-grandfather, a former Secretary of State of Wisconsin, was kicked out of the banking industry for using a bank's assets to make (and lose) stupid bets on financial shenanigans. One of his sons was on the State Banking Commission at the time, this must have been extremely embarrassing
Citation needed on "most", bub. Raw milk cheeses younger than 60 days exist in Europe. Canada, too. But most cheese is commodity cheese, everywhere, and that's all going to be made from pasteurized milk for quality control reasons.
Ehhh you know most European cheeses are made from non-pasteurized milk right? Ok we don't drink raw milk, it is all pasteurized.
Introducing myself with 10 bands or artists I've seen live: Tame Impala Bill Monroe & the Bluegrass Boys Paul O'Dette & Ronn McFarlane (at the same time!) Janelle Monáe John Fahey Peter Schickele Willie Dixon John Hartford MJ Lenderman John Prine
introduce yourself with 10 bands you've seen live: Amon Amarth Bauhaus The Cure David Bowie Flaming Lips Interpol J. Mascis (solo) Lords of Acid My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult Rasputina
Cream City all the way! photo by @bobbytmke.bsky.social , stolen from onmilwaukee.com/articles/cre...
It was 1977, and the sleazebag who ran Champion Chicken on 87th & Lisbon paid me $1.76/hr to wash dishes and bus tables and get yelled at. That was the special wage for tipped employees but I was not actually a tipped employee. Worked all summer, came away with pocket change.
Hey how make much did you make an hr on your first job and what was the job? I made $5.25 at Hollister in 2008
So I recently learned something about the commercial beef tallow process that I didn't know before, and I think it's a really interesting bit of chemical engineering. Me, I'm an occasional soapmaker. (Those occasions are basically my ADHD brain's random dicta. Anyway, years ago when I needed 1/
I'm gonna make my first batches in 12 years, soon. Just had a bunch of free beef tallow dumped in my lap, figuratively speaking.
So I recently learned something about the commercial beef tallow process that I didn't know before, and I think it's a really interesting bit of chemical engineering. Me, I'm an occasional soapmaker. (Those occasions are basically my ADHD brain's random dicta. Anyway, years ago when I needed 1/
I'm gonna make my first batches in 12 years, soon. Just had a bunch of free beef tallow dumped in my lap, figuratively speaking.
So fast-forward to today, and the demand for beef tallow's through the roof, both for culinary and cosmetic purposes. My employer's going to supply packaging equipment to some clever businesses who hope to capitalize on this demand. (My free fat came from machine testing at our shop. Yay! Anyway) 4/
So I recently learned something about the commercial beef tallow process that I didn't know before, and I think it's a really interesting bit of chemical engineering. Me, I'm an occasional soapmaker. (Those occasions are basically my ADHD brain's random dicta. Anyway, years ago when I needed 1/
I'm gonna make my first batches in 12 years, soon. Just had a bunch of free beef tallow dumped in my lap, figuratively speaking.
Drop an album that was important to you when you were 19 www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTbS... Nonesuch was an amazing label back in the day
Drop an album that was important to you when you were 19
Post a banger not in English www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWgD... Monteverdi: writes a banger with basically only one note
Post a banger not in English www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnP6...
Some (Saxony, Pomerania) were "Old Lutherans", who didn't want to join the official half-Lutheran half-Calvinist state Frankenchurch. Others (Mecklenburg, more Pomeranians) were draft dodgers. I usually get a chuckle from South Germans when I tell them my ancestors were sick of being Prussians
I believe this is an op. He's neither popular or likeable, but legacy media outlets discussing the possibility of a presidential run is sure to get Democrat-haters on the left yelling at Emanuel-dislikers online and vice versa. Voilá, Dems in disarray again.
how does these assholes think Rahm will win South Carolina in a democratic primary
O they had better not do this, "Anne Boleyn's Lament" is RIGHT THERE www.youtube.com/watch?v=VK8W... Those dissonances with every "...I die..." are [chef's kiss]