u/railroadfrog

I saw this movie with a friend, when it was first released on DVD and I thought it was a pretty good. Reminded me very heavily of SLC Punk, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Beach, Little Miss Sunshine, and a bit of Wes Anderson mixed in. Plot follows a group of high school students who get mixed up pharmaceutical drugs and how their idealistic neighborhood is anything but. Sort of a bad summary, but it has been ages since I’ve seen it.

The film cast includes Glenn Close, William Fichtner, Jamie Bell, Rita Wilson, & Ralph Fiennes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chumscrubber

However, I’ve never met another person who has seen this movie. Ever. It has got to the point where THE PERSON I WATCHED THE MOVIE WITH, NO LONGER REMEMBERS WATCHING IT.

“The Chumscrubber premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 25, 2005, and was released theatrically on August 26, 2005. An accompanying soundtrack, composed mostly by James Horner, was released on October 18, 2005. The film was both a critical and commercial disappointment as it received mixed-to-negative reviews and earning back only US$351,401 of its $10 million budget.” (Wikipedia)

I just thought this was a really cool story about Fish Peppers. I’m not sure if this is common knowledge, but I wanted to share.

Believed to be brought to the United States from enslaved persons arriving from Haiti, the fish pepper was utilized in many dishes, mostly seafood or cream based. Younger peppers would begin their life cycle with a nearly white colored exocarp (I think this is the proper term?) so they were preferred to add a desirable spice level without changing the color of the dish.

It was believed to have gone extinct until 1995 when a bag of seeds was discovered in a freezer.

The summary that Wikipedia has on the rediscovery:

““The cultivar was saved from extinction thanks to a barter made by Horace Pippin in the 1940s. Pippin was a Black folk painter who lived in Pennsylvania. He traded seeds to a local beekeeper named H. Ralph Weaver in exchange for Weaver's celebrated bee sting therapy, used to treat Pippin's arthritis. The seeds stayed in the Weaver family freezer for fifty years, until 1995 when Weaver's grandson, William Woys Weaver, discovered the seeds and sent them to the Seed Savers Exchange. The Exchange reconstituted the pepper seeds and cultivated the first fish pepper seedlings in half a century. Since their resurrection, the fish pepper has regained its former popularity and is readily available from seed websites and once again sees regular use in dishes at Mid-Atlantic restaurants.””

I just discovered capers this year, nearly 40 years old, and it was life changing. I think the actual reason they come in such skinny containers, is to prevent people like me from eating the entire jar in one sitting. If you have any suggestions for recipes or dishes I can add them to, please, let me know your favorite recommendations!

Cheese stuffed olives, same thing. I had an aversion to everything olive flavored until I started working around alcohol more, how to make cocktails, opened my eyes finding out how delicious a fat olive stuffed with feta can be, especially dipped into a spicy Bloody Mary.

Pickled asparagus. You’re good to go I f you can find a brand that has very firm stalks with a decent crunch factor. Legit, I’d probably ask for pickled asparagus to be included with my last meal. So good!

Pickled red onions. Goes without saying. Should be a staple in everyone’s home, no different than bread, milk, eggs, hot sauce.

Looking for some advice here. We have an old 2008 Mazda 3 we haven’t driven in two years, was looking to get rid of it, but wanted to ask the internet what an appropriate & fair price would be realistic if selling on Craigslist or something. It has a bit of damage to it, and would be sold “as is”. Has clean title and new battery (we need to move it / reposition it every so often otherwise our HOA will consider it abandoned despite being registered and insured) . It runs & drives, but wouldn’t trust it to go cross country right now. 110k miles on OD.

Our local junkyard will pay $300 if we drive it to them, or $250 if they send a flat bed & pick it up. Do you think it’s worth listing for a higher price than that, or just sending it to the scrap yard? I could also just sell it to the local motorcycle club for $200 and they’ll blow it up/ smash it up during the next yearly demolition derby they host - and I think I can get free tickets by selling them the car to crash.

Pretty excited. Walked out with these four titles that I’ve never played. Well, not entirely true, I’ve beaten Diablo 3 with every character class, but the eternal collection has the necromancer DLC, which doesn’t seem to be available anymore for download, and regardless, the mobile version of the PS Store had it listed for more than the used EC cost, so hopefully I’ll get access to the Kanaii Cube and the Necromancer now.

Diablo 3 is one of the best split screen co-ops I’ve ever played, for the record. I bought it originally for ps3, loved it. Bought the infernal edition used, loved it. Upgraded to ps4 and bought another used copy, and finally, purchased the Eternal Collection for ps4 WITH original case artwork instead of those ugly hand written covers. Fourth time is the charm!

I’m pumped to finally play Red Dead Redemption 2 - I’ve heard nothing but praise for this game. Last time I played a Red Dead was, like Revolver for the Xbox 360 I think?

Destroy All Humans, another game which I’ve wanted to play since it was first released. wishing it had co-op like 2 does, but hey, whatever.

Your favorite unhinged celebrity cameo or ridiculous secret characters that made you say “what the f——you know what, hell yeah”

In photo: Michael Jackson in Ready 2 Rumble Boxing, Spider-Man in Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2, Tofu from Resident Evil, Fred Durst who was in a surprising amount of games released in the early 2000s; mostly wrestling.

I had a bag of sweet potatoes, around Christmas, and decided to put the “runt” of the bag into a cup of water; see what happened. 5 months later, it has a crazy amount of roots & grown visible flower sprouts off the spud. Can I keep it in a pot of water indefinitely, or will it eventually need to be placed into dirt?

It isn’t currently suspended w/ toothpicks, just sort of floating in the cup. I change out the water once a week, occasionally giving it a bigger glass whenever I notice the roots have outgrown the old container.

CT Representative Tracy Marra was the keynote speaker today. Very proud of the hard work of my sister and her graduating class. Congratulations, PhramaD Class of 2026!

Do you season your corn water? I usually toss a pinch of salt, minced onion flakes, chili powder, adobo, granulated sugar, a spoonful of jar-lic,paprika, and black pepper to my pot.

I love my friends ❤️

Stumpy has been hanging around the complex for a while, he’s well fed and I suspect he has a home - but comes to check out our neighbors porch, who has been feeding the chickens who mosey over from across the street, as well as the other outdoor cats in the complex. She’s a nice lady all things considered.

First time Stumpy has ever decided to come hang out on our porch, and Bear, our 9 y/o indoor, wasn’t having it. Bro was ready to throw hands and cause a disturbance - made noises that had me checking to make sure he wasn’t choking.

The found footage grainy zoom in bad quality of these photos make it more funny to me, for some reason.

(Note: I wrote this for a Facebook community page last year and stumbled upon it in my memories, wanted to share it with this page and ask Reddit what they think about it - but just to add context on why I mention New Haven or why I’d be asking a Reddit page about tree enthusiasts why anyone would care about DED - it wasn’t originally meant for this sub.)

Curious about your thoughts & opinions on this article taken from an 1858 edition of the Litchfield Enquirer, where the author makes a point to discuss the “mysterious” disease that’s plaguing the Elm Trees of the area. The author acknowledges that NOBODY seems to know WHAT is causing the blight of the Elm Trees, but goes onto discuss possible hypothesis on the cause / solutions.

You may ask yourself “yeah, and? Who cares?”

Here’s the thing…as far as I am aware, Dutch Elm Disease didn’t officially arrive to the New World until the 1920s, after being first documented in Europe between 1900 & 1910. Yet, we have a newspaper article discussing what appears to be DED first published almost 62 YEARS prior.

It would eventually kill an estimated 40 MILLION Elm trees. Ever wonder why New Haven is known as the Elm City, despite not having a single elm tree? Or why our cities or towns have Elm Streets, again, with no elms? Blame DED (and also the Hurricane of 1938 which destroyed most of the remaining, weakened, trees).

There is evidence of a precursor event in Europe during the mid-1800s, but officially it was not discovered & named until 1921, when it is believed to have arrived in the Americas via ships carrying European lumber for furniture manufacturing.

👉👉👉”””Dutch elm disease (DED) is caused by a member of the sac fungi (Ascomycota) affecting elm trees, and is spread by elm bark beetles. Believed to be originally native to Asia, the disease was accidentally introduced into America, Europe, and New Zealand. In these regions it has devastated native populations of elms that did not have resistance to the disease. The name "Dutch elm disease" refers to its identification in 1921 and later in the Netherlands by Dutch phytopathologists Bea Schwarz and Christine Buisman, who both worked with professor Johanna Westerdijk.

Dutch elm disease owes its name to the fact that its cause was first identified in the Netherlands in 1921. Since then, the disease has been found in much of Europe and North America, and in parts of Asia. The disease affects many species of elm, but the American elm (Ulmus americana), is particularly susceptible.

The first North American Dutch elm disease epidemic began when Ophiostoma ulmi was introduced in the 1920s by furniture makers who used imported European elm logs to make veneer for cabinets and tables. Some of the beetle vectors of the Dutch elm disease pathogens also were brought here from Europe, years before the fungi were introduced. When the more aggressive pathogen, O. novo-ulmi, was later introduced in North America, it killed many elms that had survived the original epidemic. Dutch elm disease epidemics that resulted from movement of Ophiostoma species between and across continents vividly illustrate the dangers inherent in our movement of plant material around the world.

⭐️⭐️A Dutch scientist, Marie Beatrice Schwarz, is credited with first identifying the causal agent of what was to become known as Dutch elm disease. Another Dutch scientist, Christine Johanna Buisman, who had seen the disease in her homeland, first identified Dutch elm disease in Ohio in 1930. The disease spread up and down the U.S. East Coast and west across the continent, reaching the West Coast in 1973. Over 40 million American elm trees have been killed by this disease, and today it is still a very destructive disease of shade trees in the U.S.⭐️⭐️”””

Found in the back of a buddy’s cabinet. He deals with house clean outs and bank foreclosures as his job. He doesn’t remember where he got it, but he gave it to me for free.

Near Boston. Not shown “$5 Big Breakfast w/ Hotcakes (1x per day)” which didn’t fit a single image.

Has anyone noticed that the artwork for the “Monkey” series by Victory are slowly becoming more and more closer to resembling the band “The Gorillaz”?

According to Google, RF has an approximate capacity of 41,000 people, compared against HHC Amphitheater in Bridgeport (6k), xFinity Center in Hartford (30,000-ish), and Mohegan Sun Uncasville (10,000 approx.). Why doesn’t the venue book more concerts, when the location would surely guarantee consistent ticket sales? It surprises me that they (meaning the owners and management) are not capitalizing on the opportunity & capacity more than they have.

Does UConn still own this, or does P&W, or…?

For example, why is Metallica, a band that played for over a 1 million people, booked at Mohegan Sun Arena? (When we entered presale queue, there were 40k people in line ahead of us 🫠)