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^Okay, that looks fun. Also, I haven't had decent Italian since this dang pandemic began. Maybe I need to make myself a bowl of non-Asian noodles. Or actually *gasp* go out and eat on the Hill. (You marry into SE Asia and you can forget that there are other noddle traditions.) If they'll let this stupid Slovak kid into the neighborhood I'll go get myself a bowl of pasta.

I rather still have a little Bosnia but that shifted to Deep South County

dbInSouthCity wrote: ↑

Jun 19, 2020

Don’t think you’ll find decent Italian on the hill either.  Google Italians try American Italian food


Interesting thing about the documentary is it opens up about how Italians where discriminate when they got here.....which is ironic when you think about the Hill today

This may not have been obvious, but I meant American Italian. Local Italian. The Hill will do nicely for my purposes. Not planning to travel to Naples today.

It's a sad truth that most immigrants suffered discrimination when they first got here only to have their grandkids dole it out to the next batch of people to try to join the party. It doesn't quite always work out that way, but . . . all too often. My Slovak great grandparents and most all of their children suffered discrimination. At least some of their grandkids and great grandkids participate in it. (And great great and great great great at this point. I guess I'm really not the kid anymore, what with the 70s being a wee bit in the past now.)

And yes, I know local Italian is different. And in a few generations local Bosnian probably will be pretty unrecognizable to you and local Vietnamese to my wife.

But it will still be delicious, and it will be ours. It will belong here. (As it already does.)

Let's just hope we can teach our kids and nephews and nieces to respect the next waves of new arrivals and to enjoy the delicious food and lovely culture they bring with them.

Little Italy in Manhattan has become a Disneyland, but there many other genuine Italian enclaves in NYC, namely in South Brooklyn (Dyker Heights, Bensonhurst) and Staten Island.

Politico - Couple draw guns at crowd heading to St. Louis mayor's home

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/2 ... ome-344400

This story is getting around heavily now along with Lyda reading off names.


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International!

De Telegraaf - Echtpaar bewaakt huis met grof geschut tegen demonstranten

https://www.telegraaf.nl/nieuws/2378635 ... onstranten

sc4mayor wrote: ↑

Mar 28, 2019

So, how do you guys like your bagels sliced?

I recently bought a couple of cupcakes from Jilly's.  They were so big, I sliced them bread-style.  Is that wrong?

If it wasn’t for the president re tweeting a video of people shouting white power,CDC calling covid out of control, and the president knowing that Putin is paying Afghans to murder Americans all while he sucks Putin’s dick, we probably would have gotten more national tv time over this Rambo and Ms Rambo story

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Jun 30, 2020

If it wasn’t for the president re tweeting a video of people shouting white power,CDC calling covid out of control, and the president knowing that Putin is paying Afghans to murder Americans all while he sucks Putin’s dick, we probably would have gotten more national tv time over this Rambo and Ms Rambo story

C'mon man.

JaneJacobsGhost wrote: ↑

Jun 30, 2020

dbInSouthCity wrote: ↑

Jun 30, 2020

If it wasn’t for the president re tweeting a video of people shouting white power,CDC calling covid out of control, and the president knowing that Putin is paying Afghans to murder Americans all while he sucks Putin’s dick, we probably would have gotten more national tv time over this Rambo and Ms Rambo story

C'mon man.

You’re right, virtually sucking Putin’s dick

I’m not old enough to see hard nosed journalist go to work but Carl Bernstein is still alive and still killing it
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/29/politics ... index.html

dbInSouthCity wrote: ↑

Jun 30, 2020

JaneJacobsGhost wrote: ↑

Jun 30, 2020

dbInSouthCity wrote: ↑

Jun 30, 2020

If it wasn’t for the president re tweeting a video of people shouting white power,CDC calling covid out of control, and the president knowing that Putin is paying Afghans to murder Americans all while he sucks Putin’s dick, we probably would have gotten more national tv time over this Rambo and Ms Rambo story

C'mon man.

You’re right, virtually sucking Putin’s dick

I’m not old enough to see hard nosed journalist go to work but Carl Bernstein is still alive and still killing it
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/29/politics ... index.html

Doubling down on your adolescent musings. Good stuff

Sure Jane....

Clyde is on CNN right now.

The Gun-Toting St. Louis Couple Are the New ‘American Gothic’
Mark and Patricia McCloskey — the pair who defended their mansion with firearms — revealed the gap between conservative myth and reality
https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/st- ... protesters

Propublica- How Dollar Stores Became Magnets for Crime and Killing
https://www.propublica.org/article/how-dollar-stores-became-magnets-for-crime-and-killing?utm_source=pocket-newtab

Taylor Swift’s surprise studio album “Folklore” includes a song “The Last Great American Dynasty” covering the life of St. Louisan Rebekah Harness. Swift ended up purchasing Harness “Holiday House” in Rhode Island. Always fun to hear Saint Louis in a song.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/musi ... t-1033497/




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Apparently much of her extended family lives in St. Louis. She spent most of her Thanksgivings here in her childhood.