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[N711oir]

dis sh*t is just not real....

If you follow most of my sh*t aside from all the many copy cats stalkers etc...etc...so all sh*t posted today and snoops murder was the case

Then snoops momz die

 

[N711oir]

I keep tracing the seems of this virtual box

I know people that I know on the outside are in here under false pretense

 

[N711oir]

sufficient to say I'm sick of this lame game and want out

 

[Tenchi Ryu]

 

[Pazzy]

Yahoo is now a part of Verizon Media

He said the same thing about his first wife

 

[MajesticLion]

Posting from the future, apparently.



NPR Cookie Consent and Choices

Cecilia Chiang, Who Revolutionized American Chinese Food, Dies At 100


The chef and restaurant owner who helped change the way Americans think about Chinese food has died. Cecilia Chiang was twice a refugee before she opened the influential San Francisco restaurant The Mandarin and taught Chinese cooking to Julia Child and James Beard. Chiang died Wednesday in San Francisco. She was 100 years old.

The documentary Soul of a Banquet explains that Chiang was born into a wealthy Shanghai family with two full-time chefs — one from the north and one from the south. (The film also features drool-inducing close ups of her specialties, like red cooked pork and fish stuffed with ginger and pepper. Don't watch it while you're hungry.) Speaking to the camera, former Gourmet magazine editor Ruth Reichl says food connected Chiang to a vanished era: "She has this taste memory that goes back to a time that — there aren't a lot of people alive who remember the food of that China, the great food of the great houses, when what you had were chefs who had been classically trained."


That China no longer exists. In 1937, when Japan bombed Shanghai, Chiang had just started college. She and an older sister fled, walking hundreds of miles to the city of Chengdu. Eighty years later, Chiang told NPR about getting robbed by soldiers and hiding from low-flying Japanese warplanes. "Now I think about it, I was very brave," she said.

Chiang had to flee her home a second time when the Communists took over. She wound up in the U.S., where she was both shocked and amused by the food most Americans considered to be Chinese — like gloppy chop suey.

"They think chop suey is the only thing we have in China," she said with a laugh. "What a shame."

So Chiang resolved to open a high-end Chinese restaurant that served authentic fare. "Everybody said, 'You cannot make it. You cannot speak English. You don't know anything,' " she recalled. But starting in 1961, tourists, dignitaries and celebrities — from Mae West to John Lennon — flocked to The Mandarin for then-unfamiliar food like tea-smoked duck and twice-cooked pork.

To this day, Cecelia Chiang's DNA can be found all over American Chinese food. Her son founded the chain P.F. Chang's and the son of one of her chefs founded Panda Express.

In early 2017, Chiang told NPR how she lived to be so old: "I always think about the better side, the good side of everything. I never think about, Oh, I'm going to fail. Oh, I cannot do this. Oh, I feel sorry for myself."

Instead, Chiang wrote books, starred in a PBS documentary series and won the most prestigious award in American cooking (from the James Beard Foundation) when she was 93 years old.

 

[Splash]

Tryna book disneyland paris as a lil trip for the wifes birthday in Jan as my kid will be old enough to appriciate it now
Almost £1000 more for the marvel room That shyt look lit tho

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

You’re officially old when coffee, checking pre market news and 30 mins of cardio is the perfect start to your day smh

 

[iBrowse]

the replies

 

[Yinny]

Oh my, I’m in love with a news anchor. Shyt don’t let me run into him anywhere he will not be safe

oh, voted early.

 

[Cladyclad]

 

[Zero]

It's almost time to pull out the winter playlist

 

[Dwolf]

Ain't nothing sadder than a 30+ year old internet bully. Y'all need to go outside and make some friends.

 

[Doin2Much Williams]

Already getting started on the xmas jams..



And it feels great!


Gettin' it in like a Freeway adlib... EARLY!!!




There's a 13 minute version of last christmas. I've been listening to it daily in the whip since last week (song hits different when you actually get your heart broken in the holiday season, especially during a pandemic, but this year... i'm healed and the way i perceive/process the lyrics are unique now> but overall i'm grateful to be alive and not kill myself last winter).



My house has never celebrated pagan holiday, but i've always been in the spirit (i remember when kids used to talk aboot the new toys/games/kicks they got during the holidays and I would bullshiit about the toys and shiit i got to fit in... but I was dying inside).



Nowadays, I buy a lot of shiit to compenstate for a paltry non-existent holiday adolescent experience.



I know what y'all are saying, "Oh, this is just a manchild exemplifying his Peter Pan Syndrome.


Sure I never grew up...


But naw, i'm not living a second childhood... simply stated, I'm just finally getting to actually live one.




RIP George... thanks for helping me get through the most arduous experience of my existence. This time... i'll give it to someone special.







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[Yinny]

So we’re dressing up as my boss for H-ween,challenge accepted