Tonight the Liberty lost to the Seattle Storm. Losing the game wasn't so bad, it was the playing badly that hurt. The Liberty have skills, and they work well together with old or new teammates. But it seems like their issue is mental -- sometimes if they lose focus or if they fail to execute a few plays or to make a few shots, it's like it stays with them and snowballs into disaster. It is not as pronounced this season as it was last season, but that seemed to be the case last year, and it seems to be the case this year.
This morning I saw an ad for some place that advertised it had the "best fried chicken in NYC" or something. It was on 38th Street, so I decided to check it out after the game. WOW. It's called Bon Chon Chicken (or Chicken Bon Chone, I'm not sure). It's a bar-restaurant and, quite frankly, the service leaves a lot to be desired. There seem to be a lot of people, not a lot of staff, and the staff, while cordial and amiable enough, don't seem particularly attentive to customers. Plus, they were incredibly slow; it took about half an hour for me to get what amounted to 6 chicken nuggets and about a quarter cup of kimchee coleslaw (which seemed to be a vinaigrette based cole slaw with some hot pepper added in).
Oh. My. Goodness. My palate isn't terribly refined, but I'd definitely go back to this place. I got chicken with the hot garlic sauce, and it was soooo spicy. At the same time, I think I could taste undertones of ginger behind the spice. The bag says they have the hottest hot wings in NY and that only fresh chickesn are used. Apparently they double fry them to burn off all the chicken fat and make them crunchy and tender. I'm not sure if that's true, and I didn't have the wings or the drumsticks, only the chicken breast chunks. Despite the lack of service, I would go back to this place. The food was that good.
While I was there, I checked one of the news services on my phone. There's some uproar because the Utah AG tweeted about Ronnie Lee Gardner's execution. I don't understand. We're a society that accepts the death penalty. We're a society that glorifies pugilistic and combative sports. We've allowed our children to become cultishly fascinated with vampire culture (and have allowed that "culture" to find its way into the mainstream of our cultural fabric), while we've generally strayed away from the practice of religion in general and certainly away from any religious tradition in particular. In light of all that, how can we feign shock, insult, or outrage because some human has been invested with the power of life and death, and then behaves humanly? Here is his first tweet: "A solemn day. Barring a stay by Sup Ct, & with my final nod, Utah will use most extreme power & execute a killer. Mourn his victims. Justice" and his second tweet: "I just gave the go ahead to Corrections Director to proceed with Gardner’s execution. May God grant him the mercy he denied his victims."
It seems to me the outrage should not come at this AG's behavior or his tweeting. He's just being a citizen of the 21st century. What's more disturbing than the Utah AG's impropriety is our national insensitivity to death and gore in our environments. All this governor guy did was to make a report of what was going on . What's insensitive is that we allow this to go on.
It's late and I'm already typing without seeing the keyboard. My eyes are closing, and thye memory foam topper is calling.....
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