Red Mosquito

Dr. John was on our cheesy Beatles tour of Liverpool in the mid-2000s.

He was drunk and annoyed everyone by asking a shitload of stupid questions.

But RIP.

It's been a rough week in New Orleans. First, Leah Chase dies and now Dr. John. Neither were particularly surprising, but that's a quick loss of two major icons of the city.

Love this

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/musi ... ce-845670/

That was great. Thanks for sharing.

Oh man. They got Bushwick Bill.

Maybe.

Philomena Lynott

Mother of the late great Phil Lynott of Thin Lizzy



Probably means nothing to anyone outside Ireland but she was a national treasure here.

Molly O'Neill

This one really hurts. I never met Molly personally. But she was a friend and mentor to my wife. It could be argued that Molly had more immediate and lasting impact on my wife's career than any other person. She does what she does today because of the time she spent with Molly.

We knew she'd been ill but we thought she'd rebounded nicely and was out of the woods. Yesterday's news came as a pretty big shock. My wife is dealing with some guilt as well because she never told Molly just how important and seminal she was to her life/work. There had been many opportunities to check in and chat but my wife kept putting it off.

Good lesson to learn, don't put it off.

RIP Molly. Thank you for the incredible impact you've had on so many people. You are loved and will not be soon forgotten.

who

She was a writer. Mostly chronicling food/culture.

Ms. O’Neill ushered in an era of food writing in the 1990s that was as much about journalism as deliciousness, built on the work of writers like M. F. K. Fisher, Richard Olney, Elizabeth David and Craig Claiborne, the former food editor of The New York Times.

“I wanted to be all of them,” she wrote in 2003, “with a slice of Woodward and Bernstein on the side.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/17/dini ... -dead.html

joe, what does your wife do for a living?

Chris_H_2 wrote:joe, what does your wife do for a living?

She's a wedding photographer now. But she was going into food media when she met Molly. My wife's early interest was in food writing. She had the skeleton of a cookbook she was working on and pitching around. She had a food blog. She also had a private, in-home catering company she was building. Sort of like the food boxes you see all over the place now (Blue Apron, etc) but focused on couples, specifically.

Over the course of their relationship, Molly said to her, "Look, you can write. And if that's what you want to do, then do it, and fucking don't listen to me. But your true gift is photography. You see people and places in a real way. Not a lot of people see the world and capture it the way you can. Just something to think about."

And here we are.

My wife still photographs events -- some food related -- and she still teaches cooking classes two to four times a month at a place in the city. But she's built her own wedding photography business over the last four years and I've never seen her so happy and fulfilled by her work. That's literally all Molly O'Neill.

durdencommatyler wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:joe, what does your wife do for a living?

She's a wedding photographer now. But she was going into food media when she met Molly. My wife's early interest was in food writing. She had the skeleton of a cookbook she was working on and pitching around. She had a food blog. She also had a private, in-home catering company she was building. Sort of like the food boxes you see all over the place now (Blue Apron, etc) but focused on couples, specifically.

Over the course of their relationship, Molly said to her, "Look, you can write. And if that's what you want to do, then do it, and fucking don't listen to me. But your true gift is photography. You see people and places in a real way. Not a lot of people see the world and capture it the way you can. Just something to think about."

And here we are.

My wife still photographs events -- some food related -- and she still teaches cooking classes two to four times a month at a place in the city. But she's built her own wedding photography business over the last four years and I've never seen her so happy and fulfilled by her work. That's literally all Molly O'Neill.

that's pretty cool. i think your wife should take solace in the success of her business. after all, that's something that this molly woman knew about, and she understands the impact that she had on your wife, even if your wife didn't articulate it.

Chris_H_2 wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:joe, what does your wife do for a living?

She's a wedding photographer now. But she was going into food media when she met Molly. My wife's early interest was in food writing. She had the skeleton of a cookbook she was working on and pitching around. She had a food blog. She also had a private, in-home catering company she was building. Sort of like the food boxes you see all over the place now (Blue Apron, etc) but focused on couples, specifically.

Over the course of their relationship, Molly said to her, "Look, you can write. And if that's what you want to do, then do it, and fucking don't listen to me. But your true gift is photography. You see people and places in a real way. Not a lot of people see the world and capture it the way you can. Just something to think about."

And here we are.

My wife still photographs events -- some food related -- and she still teaches cooking classes two to four times a month at a place in the city. But she's built her own wedding photography business over the last four years and I've never seen her so happy and fulfilled by her work. That's literally all Molly O'Neill.

that's pretty cool. i think your wife should take solace in the success of her business. after all, that's something that this molly woman knew about, and she understands the impact that she had on your wife, even if your wife didn't articulate it.

well said. thank you.

Gloria Vanderbilt. I had NO idea she was Anderson Cooper’s mom.

wease wrote:Gloria Vanderbilt. I had NO idea she was Anderson Cooper’s mom.

stop watching fox news then..geez

doug rr wrote:

wease wrote:Gloria Vanderbilt. I had NO idea she was Anderson Cooper’s mom.

stop watching fox news then..geez

wease wrote:

doug rr wrote:

wease wrote:Gloria Vanderbilt. I had NO idea she was Anderson Cooper’s mom.

stop watching fox news then..geez