Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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What the hell, trag.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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Especially that skate park from the Marseilles level in Tony Hawk 2, would love to visit that place.tragabigzanda wrote:Watched the Marseilles episode the other night. I had no idea it was such a culturally diverse city, and that it was considered rough. I want to go there.
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the Austin episode was on tv when i woke up this morning...i need to make brisket soon
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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i have not smoked a brisket on the egg in probably a year..many pork shoulders but no briskettragabigzanda wrote:Has it been a week alreadydoug rr wrote:the Austin episode was on tv when i woke up this morning...i need to make brisket soon
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Anyone have a link to the article comparing Anthony Bourdain to Alton Brown some years ago where they seemed to go with Bourdain being on top of the world, and Brown suffering from a spiritual crisis in the midst of a divorce?
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I really miss him
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watching the tokyo episode from no reservations now...love that its on at 7am now on the cooking channel
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Im looking for references for a commercial and damn, that Nashville episode is so good.
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this morning is thailand..watching now..good way to start the daydoug rr wrote:watching the tokyo episode from no reservations now...love that its on at 7am now on the cooking channel
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Realized recently that No Reservations is on Hulu. Watched about 10 eps in the past couple of weeks. Most recently, the Penang episode.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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p utragabigzanda wrote:Watched PU South Korea the other night. Probably my least favorite episode of PU? It’s told backwards, and Anthony doesn’t seem to know anyone personally. He seems oddly detached from the experience.
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Yeah i don’t like that episodetragabigzanda wrote:Watched PU South Korea the other night. Probably my least favorite episode of PU? It’s told backwards, and Anthony doesn’t seem to know anyone personally. He seems oddly detached from the experience.
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