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The best doughnut place I know of is in a cruddy location that requires left turn in and out of the suicide lane to get in and out and is run by a somewhat brusque--not to say unfriendly--Vietnamese lady. They're open 24 hours a day and the only thing not to like about them is they tend to run out of the doughnuts my kids like best if you don't arrive early enough in the day. A Starbucks recently opened down the block from them and I really hope the doughnut store doesn't lose business as a result.


Add me to the list of those who never got Krispy Kreme. An open box of donuts is a weakness of mine, but I find it fairly easy to resist theirs. I'd actually prefer commercial packaged donuts and they can be pretty awful.

We have a good donut place in town run by an Asian couple, cash only like all good drug dealers. :hehe:
 
Add me to the list of those who never got Krispy Kreme. An open box of donuts is a weakness of mine, but I find it fairly easy to resist theirs. I'd actually prefer commercial packaged donuts and they can be pretty awful.

We have a good donut place in town run by an Asian couple, cash only like all good drug dealers. :hehe:
I like Krispy Kreme ok, but my passion is Dunkin Donuts. Sadly we really don't have them in Portland Oregon, though we have a shop that must have been a Dunkin Donuts at one time (Sesame Donuts - http://sesamedonuts.com/ they even mispell doughnuts the same way - yep just confirmed https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2010/04/realizing_a_dream_in_raleigh_h.html ). Their color scheme is pretty much the same and they have the same selection. My weaknesses are Boston Creme doughnuts and lemon filled with powdered sugar. Before we moved into our current house there was a doughnut shop that had good doughnuts and sometimes even had lemon filled...

While Krispy Kreme are definitely a different kind of doughnut, I really like the melt in your mouth characteristics of a fresh Krispy Kreme glazed doughnut.
 
I like Krispy Kreme ok, but my passion is Dunkin Donuts.
As an East Coaster, I am always surprised when I hear of people pining for a Dunkin Donuts in an unserved area. Maybe they just ship the crappy ones my way, but the actual dough is dry and papery and (this is something I really don't say often about anything) the fillings are overly sweet. Krispy Kremes are far superior IMO even though they are also pretty damn sweet. Of course, nothing beats a genuine local doughnut shop.
 
As an East Coaster, I am always surprised when I hear of people pining for a Dunkin Donuts in an unserved area. Maybe they just ship the crappy ones my way, but the actual dough is dry and papery and (this is something I really don't say often about anything) the fillings are overly sweet. Krispy Kremes are far superior IMO even though they are also pretty damn sweet. Of course, nothing beats a genuine local doughnut shop.
Dunkin Donuts was probably better when I was a kid in high school in the late 70s. Honestly back then I really don't remember much other for doughnuts other than things like Hostess and Entenamanns.

Post grad school I moved to Raleigh North Carolina in 1990 so I had Krispy Kreme before they became quite such a sensation. I always appreciated they would sell boxes of a dozen doughnuts to non-profits for $3 which made for a nice fund raiser when you turned them around for $0.50 or even $1.00 each.
 
Dunkin Donuts was probably better when I was a kid in high school in the late 70s. Honestly back then I really don't remember much other for doughnuts other than things like Hostess and Entenamanns.
Gotcha. Since I've had it around my whole life, I don't remember how it tasted back then. FWIW Entenmann's still makes terrible doughnuts, but I feel like they have upped their game with cakes. Krispy Kreme was a much more recent addition to the northeast, arriving in the early aughts IIRC.
 
I love Krispy Kreme and will die on this hill. I never thought of them as really special as they always existed around me, but there is something about their donuts that I just like more than any other donut I've ever had. Even ones from supposedly great local shops.
 
My favorite donut was a French cruller I got from a little donut shop off overland and little santa Monica. It's the old donut I've truly craved. I moved away 11 years ago and still miss it. It made my Fridays.
 
Can't seem to focus on anything for longer than about two or three minutes today. I'm hoping tomorrow will be better...
 
Holy shit!

He did fantastic work on editing the many Elvish linguistic papers and obviously the extra detail gathered in the History of Middle Earth series. I especially liked how he often emphasised the theological content of the mythos. Sad to hear.

I annon dannen (Sindarin: The Gate has fallen)
 
I knew he was getting to that age, but it's still a bit shocking. It's amazing the work he did, giving us access to his father's works, if not for him we'd probably not have much besides LOTR and the Hobbit, even the Silmarillion was a posthumous publication.

I've made fun of him for it before, but compared to say....Frank Herbert's son, no one has ever done more for fans of his father's works.
 
Let the floodgates be opened and the sewage pour forth. I’m sure we’ll have the Silmarillion anime show done in Cal Arts style announced any day now.
 
Let the floodgates be opened and the sewage pour forth. I’m sure we’ll have the Silmarillion anime show done in Cal Arts style announced any day now.

that already happened a while back , hence the Netflix LOTR prequel series
 
I will contend that the first movies are good, but fellowship in particular was magnified by timing. you may remember it was released in america 3 months after 9/11. it was a balm to the wounded soul of the country - the struggle against evil was on the screen, and maybe let you forget about the tragedies and the part of the cultural psyche that had been shaken.
 
family out of town for a few days, so i get to have meatballs in bbq sauce and bourbon as dinner, then watch John Carter of Mars (2012) which I have never seen. Thus far, it is exactly what I would expect, and I am not disappointed. I have also been printing a t-rex shower head "for my son", gone to whiskey class, and not been out of my pajamas today.

I'm horribly torn about going to work tomorrow ;)
 
family out of town for a few days, so i get to have meatballs in bbq sauce and bourbon as dinner, then watch John Carter of Mars (2012) which I have never seen. Thus far, it is exactly what I would expect, and I am not disappointed. I have also been printing a t-rex shower head "for my son", gone to whiskey class, and not been out of my pajamas today.

I'm horribly torn about going to work tomorrow ;)
Whiskey Class...Tasting or distilling?
 
family out of town for a few days, so i get to have meatballs in bbq sauce and bourbon as dinner, then watch John Carter of Mars (2012) which I have never seen. Thus far, it is exactly what I would expect, and I am not disappointed. I have also been printing a t-rex shower head "for my son", gone to whiskey class, and not been out of my pajamas today.

I'm horribly torn about going to work tomorrow ;)
John Carter was just bad enough to be good. I mean... it's not a good movie, but it was enjoyable to watch.
 
Whiskey Class...Tasting or distilling?

more distilling. They had us taste some thins so we could identify elements, but a lot of it was talking about the process of making it.

i Still prefer the whiskey in my glass to all others.

John Carter was just bad enough to be good. I mean... it's not a good movie, but it was enjoyable to watch.

agreed. Fun to watch, I could feel the Disney in it a bit when the female lead came on the screen. however, I promptly started figuring out how to do Tharks in Mythras, because that is what you do.
 
Raleel Raleel recommended on Disney+?

I have Disney plus, but amazon actually set it up for me on Netflix. I’m not sure it is on Disney+ yet.

I have also watched the phantom menace and attack of the clones. I remember piece of the latter, but far less than I thought. They actually are not that bad. In some ways better than the most recent trilogy (though I really enjoyed rogue one)
 
I was home alone one night and eating bachelor chow, so I turned on Disney+ because... watching TV is what all of us dads do when the wife and kids are gone... really... admit it guys. :tongue:

John Carter was the recommendation so i watched it. I was happily entertained.
 
I was home alone one night and eating bachelor chow, so I turned on Disney+ because... watching TV is what all of us dads do when the wife and kids are gone... really... admit it guys. :tongue:

John Carter was the recommendation so i watched it. I was happily entertained.

i very rarely watch tv when they are around. I really only watch when traveling for work And a very occasional show at home when they are there. Otherwise I am busy doing a lot of other things
 
i very rarely watch tv when they are around. I really only watch when traveling for work And a very occasional show at home when they are there. Otherwise I am busy doing a lot of other things
Same... my TV is a kid distraction center so I can do other stuff in peace, normally. I haven't had actual cable in years.
When I do decide to watch something on Netflix or whatnot, I usually have to clear grunge off the screen.
 
It would be good if someone managed to pull off doing a good marspunk/steampunk film. I have heard rumours that there might be one or two decent steampunk films but I've never seen one.
 
more distilling. They had us taste some thins so we could identify elements, but a lot of it was talking about the process of making it.

i Still prefer the whiskey in my glass to all others.

Funnily enough, had a whiskey tasting Saturday, and we tasted a whiskey from your neck of the woods(-ish).

Also a smattering of premium American whiskeys, which are hard to find around here: Jack Daniels Sinatra Select, Eagle Rare 10, Angels’ Envy, Stagg Jr. and Booker’s.

I might catch a bit of flak here but I stand by my previous assessment that bourbon can be tasty, and fun, but to me it seems to draw from a relatively limited pool of sensory qualities that doesn’t really measure up to the complexity of scotch (or Japanese) whisky. (Jury’s still out on Irish for me.)
 
I have Disney plus, but amazon actually set it up for me on Netflix. I’m not sure it is on Disney+ yet.

I have also watched the phantom menace and attack of the clones. I remember piece of the latter, but far less than I thought. They actually are not that bad. In some ways better than the most recent trilogy (though I really enjoyed rogue one)
We all know the main problem with Phantom Menace is Jar Jar and the Gungans. Attack of the Clones I quite enjoyed even on first watch, though the "romantic" scenes are cringy as hell.

One thing that bugs me about the prequels is the many hovering droids that appear. I didn't mind the subtly floating interrogation droid in Empire, but the "Disney style" floating of the CGI droids in the prequels really bothers me for some reason.

edit: The interrogation droid is in Star Wars (A New Hope), not Empire, of course.
 
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We all know the main problem with Phantom Menace is Jar Jar and the Gungans. Attack of the Clones I quite enjoyed even on first watch, though the "romantic" scenes are cringy as hell.

One thing that bugs me about the prequels is the many hovering droids that appear. I didn't mind the subtly floating interrogation droid in Empire, but the "Disney style" floating of the CGI droids in the prequels really bothers me for some reason.

Yea, movies 2 and 3 switch between decent action scenes and cringy romance scenes. If the latter were better, the movies would be more popular.

Re: floating droids, that was one of many little details where, due to better CGI, the prequel world looks more advanced technologically than the main trilogy world 20 years later.
 
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