ArtieShaw

That looks like a perfect copycat Giordanos! I used to make those at home before they opened one up locally in ~~American hell~~ Ohio.

They make my friends in Italy SO ANGRY. They insist that it's some sort of quiche or casserole. And then I point out that I've been to Italy and seen the hotdog and french fry pizza with my own eyes. That makes them angrier.

If you're a home cook, it's possible to make a very passable Chicago style pizza at home. I've done knock-offs of Giordanos's stuffed spinach and also a standard Lou Malnoti's.

But I'll admit that it's a bit tricky if you don't have that base knowledge of what you're going for.

I think this was the resource I used to back-engineer the crusts. The rest is getting the order of ingredients (cheese on bottom to form a fat shield that protects the crust, toppings, potentially more cheese or another razor thin crust, then red sauce.)

https://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php

draw what you see.

This is the best advice I ever got when it comes to realistic drawing. And it is hard! Seeing is different than knowing. And a two dimensional page is different than the 3D space that we live in. Drawing is like a translation between brain, eyes, and the paper.

If you draw what you know, you end up with some weird shit, like those medieval cat drawings. It may be recognizable as a cat, but doesn't look like you're seeing a cat.

I think they were just trying to promote math. I always thought about it later in life as I tried to drunkenly calculate pool angles at the bar.

"Dammit - Donald tried to explain this when I was 10! Why can't I remember the details?"

The most hauntingly memorable was a weird mid-century Donald Duck piece of math propaganda. We watched it in school.

Donald Duck in MathMagic Land. Not scary, but odd.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BqnN72OlqA

My husband is still scarred by that one.

They're keeping you safe!

That's a great point. We had a local private solar project that was fenced off and used to graze sheep. The sheep kept the field tidy and had built-in shelter from the sun and rain in warmer months.

It was also part of a farm-to-table project. Unfortunately, that aspect drew the outrage of a neighbor who had ties to PETA. The sheep are gone now and I don't know the details aside from the local media blowup. There may have been more to the story.

I would love it if they used it to graze goats and rented them out to local property owners. My backyard has some weird terrain that makes it a PITA to mow. Goats will even take out poison ivy with no ill effects. I'd pay for that service.

Point being - that land doesn't need to be dedicated to a single use.

Not Russian, but 35 years ago there was a widely repeated translation joke: The slogan "come alive with the Pepsi generation" was translated into Chinese, but it literally meant "Pepsi revives your dead ancestors."

That example may be apocryphal, but translations are interesting. It's something to be mindful of when talking with otherwise fluent ESL people.

I had a very intelligent and fluent coworker who knew the English phrase "to shag" from the Austin Powers movies. She completely misinterpreted the meaning of "a shag carpet," though. It was so funny (and came up so infrequently) that no one ever corrected her.

I feel like this is missing "Prime Farmland"

That would make sense. Unfortunately, I've known enough contrarian weirdos to see how that type of logic might make more sense (to them).

"Why are you stressing about this? Can't you just take those old clothes to Goodwill or throw them away?"

"Well, first I need to buy 30 cases of Coke and then - to make room in the car - I need to visit the park back in Indiana to scatter our dog's ashes."

Knowing that it's probably just illogical all the way down, I could believe either scenario.

Riker, his chair maneuvered.