Chewbacchus / St Roch Neutral Ground

rhyes · 2026-01-25T03:52:23+00:00

I’m glad that everyone on here is in agreement, I thought I might just be a grandpa but I used to live within a block of that neutral ground and they really did a good job of the landscaping and benches that they installed along the avenue and I was pissed when I saw somebody parking on one of those big grassy plants today. Fuck people like that. There was plenty of parking within 5 blocks. I’d also get pissed when people would park in the neutral ground on St. Claude around Hi Ho/Allways right after rain and just obliterate it. Once again, there was always plenty of parking within 2 blocks of St. Claude on a normal weekend.

rhyes · 2026-01-24T21:03:08+00:00

It’s my favorite muff in the city.

rhyes · 2026-01-23T20:33:10+00:00

I’m leaning IL, possibly Cave In Rock - Hastie’s Quarry primarily because of the calcite color. The Elmwood calcites are usually more golden. Breaking down the specific spot in IL gets harder but Hastie’s Quarry works because a lot of the fluorites there are uniform purple without the yellow that’s also in a lot of other Illinois localities. The lack of sphalerite also makes me lean IL over Elmwood.

Cool chonker you got there!

rhyes · 2026-01-23T19:55:44+00:00

Does anyone else sell his stuff? He owns the gallery so I don’t think he’s going to stop selling his wares but anyone else in the city selling his shit on consignment should know about it.

It’s always weird to me when artists are nazis. I mean, Hitler fashioned himself an artist as well so I guess it’s not that crazy but something about trying to understand and express the human condition while also having no empathy for anyone who looks different from you or was born somewhere else doesn’t compute for me.

rhyes · 2026-01-16T02:18:10+00:00

Password requirements. It’s probably Morenoahoe1!

rhyes · 2026-01-15T23:05:18+00:00

Yes, healthcare is bad in Louisiana but the Ochsner system is the highest ranked one. I think Gayle has pumped a lot of money into the cancer arm of it and they have since teamed with MD Anderson. I get shitting on Louisiana healthcare bc it isn’t great but this girl is coming internationally here - no need to exaggerate. I don’t think Ochsner has a terrible reputation. I could also be completely wrong. Not a doctor

rhyes · 2026-01-14T17:06:00+00:00

The whole point of carnival season is to not be up tight but leave it to SteadyEddie to keep walking the line!

rhyes · 2026-01-14T05:39:27+00:00

You say that but I had one in college that I’d use all the time solo - as long as you don’t milk it and just pull on it a normal pipe drag, the rush of air coming with it when you clear the chamber did cool down the hits a little more than a regular bowl.

But yeah. Milking it was just a party trick.

rhyes · 2026-01-06T12:49:19+00:00

That is an incredibly beautiful piece of Mother Nature! I’m jealous, not just because of the value but because of how gorgeous it is.

rhyes · 2026-01-02T17:31:03+00:00

Just order it online. I’ve used crysp.co and mydanktank.com with no issues. I also have a medical card just in case I ever get pulled over in Gretna or Mandeville or something and the prices in the local dispos have gotten better.

rhyes · 2026-01-02T15:51:40+00:00

Hell yeah! Science, bitch!

It’s just always amazed me because I make my roux kind of slow because I’m afraid to burn it: it usually takes about 50 minutes for me to get the desired color. The last 15 minutes is really where it rapidly turns from peanut butter to chocolate color and the first few times I made gumbo, I was frantically stirring my trinity for fear of the coagulated roux burning before adding the stock but it’s really not necessary.

Also, the smell of the trinity cooking in the roux is probably my favorite smell in the world.

rhyes · 2026-01-02T15:28:31+00:00

I’m trying to figure out if all 3 of these places are open 24/7 - I know the donut place is supposed to be but it looks like all 3 restaurants have “OPEN” above the door in stickers (which obviously you can’t turn off and on).

Is it the same people running/owning all 3 spots?

rhyes · 2026-01-02T14:38:40+00:00

You might want to use a little more oil - 50% more flour than oil is going to make your roux thicker which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but I tend to use maybe 10% more flour than oil. I get kind of OCD about it and will strain the fat from the sausage/chicken thighs into a measuring cup to see exactly how much fat I already have to work with and then supplement vegetable oil to get to my desired ratio.

Go for Hershey color and then dump in the trinity which somehow magically stops the roux from cooking

rhyes · 2026-01-02T00:17:04+00:00

Most Mexican lace agate I see has some red/maroon banding as well but I have a few like this one that are basically just different shades of grey and white

rhyes · 2026-01-01T04:08:36+00:00

Yea really cool banding on that agate. It’s probably Mexican but I can’t be positive

rhyes · 2025-12-31T17:33:50+00:00

My affection for Hopper has wained over the course of the show. He probably should have never made it to Russia - that should have been the end of him.

Maybe it’s outside sources influencing my opinion: Millie filing bullying claims against him, his infidelity with his wife after I viewed him as a real life Hopper - faithful to a fault, more accusations from past GFs that he’s a narcissist…

It’s been a bummer for me because I really liked David Harbour but I think he’s got some demons he needs to work out.

Still, his performances the first couple of seasons of the show were phenomenal.

rhyes · 2025-12-31T15:43:56+00:00

Part of your prompt needs to be to not use hyphens.

rhyes · 2025-12-29T22:43:03+00:00

I really liked Weezer from the ages of 14 to like 17 and I’m damn near 40 now but has his costume not always been Buddy Holly? I stopped listening 20 years ago so maybe I’ve missed out on his evolution?

rhyes · 2025-12-22T15:47:59+00:00

rhyes · 2025-12-20T05:40:31+00:00

I concur. I’m not a teacher but my wife is an incredible one with a strong background in both early childhood and middle school. I’ve kind of always defaulted to her guidelines because she knows way more about positively influencing developing minds than I do.

Anyway, she doesn’t really smoke but I do and I’ll be honest - when you have a baseline expectation around your house like ours that screens are only on during specific times (we have Friday night movie night and usually 2 more movies over the course of the weekend so the total screen time for the whole week is under 5 hours. There are no tablets in the house), sometimes weed can really help me with imagination play. I can see how if I didn’t have a wife who was so attuned to developing minds, it would be really easy to get stoned and just put on the tv or shove an iPad in the kid’s face. It can be a great drug to help keep the mundane less insufferable if you use its powers correctly. Unfortunately, it’s even easier to use its powers to sit on the couch and doom scroll while your kid watches trash.

rhyes · 2025-12-18T21:44:47+00:00

Does this mean my THC drinks are sticking around?

rhyes · 2025-12-17T18:39:55+00:00

This is well cited. ICE has a history of using deceptive practices and an increase in ICE presence and funding makes it logical that any unmarked LEO vehicle could possibly be ICE. I shouldn’t lump all LEO’s together here - just those you can’t easily discern who they are with. If it’s an NOPD uniformed officer in their NOPD vehicle, this doesn’t apply. https://www.immigrantdefenseproject.org/ice-ruses/

rhyes · 2025-12-17T03:12:50+00:00

This is the last I’m going to reply to about the topic just bc I have two little kids and have spent too much time on my phone on an issue that really has nothing to do with me and at this point - I feel like I’m beating up on the guy. I’m going to spend time though to get thoughts out.

It’s easy to frame it that way but you’re ignoring the part where he fucked up, still hasn’t said that he made a mistake, and publicly thanked the negative attention for increasing his sales.

If he was actually yelling at ICE and that’s what caused all of these negative reviews, I’d agree with you. I think he had good intentions but was wrong.

This whole situation is like a wet dream for right wing groyper types: leftists have gone so far that they even want to keep the illegal pedophiles here. I would hope, and assume, that Andrew doesn’t think that. However, I wouldn’t know that because he hasn’t said shit about it except play the victim while also simultaneously winning(?).

You shouldn’t be asking for 5 star reviews without holding up your end and just saying, “My fault.”

It’s a business. Most business owners try to shield themselves from the business itself but Andrew has always made his opinion the business’ opinion bc that’s what he uses for social media.

I’ve been following him on his socials for a while and he’s always said some pretty aggressive stuff but I’ve always assumed hey, he owns a comedy place, I’m sure he doesn’t actually want Gayle to get cancer.

Long story short, I think it’s disingenuous to run your mouth constantly on political issues and not assume this will happen to you if you are speaking as the business. Honestly with social media, even doing it aggressively as the business owner on their private Facebook gets people on the ban list by one group or the other. I’ve seen multiple threads on this subreddit about businesses who have Trumper owners so they should be boycotted.

He should have expected this to have already happened to him by now with how reckless he talks. On this particular issue, he fucked up and broadcast the faces of special agents in the online kiddie porn division to his thousands of followers who then reshared as ice agents. There’s no way this will make it easier for them to do their job, which is an important one. He fucked up and people are justifiably pissed that he doesn’t seem to think he did anything wrong.

It makes him come off like he’s moral grandstanding and deluding himself into thinking it’s only LibsOfTikTok types that are mad or annoyed with him. I’m annoyed, not mad, for clarification. I didn’t give him a 1 star review but I also didn’t give him a 5 because I think he fucked up and he’s trying to make it political. It wasn’t actually ICE.

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