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If you need an idea about what to have for lunch today, I have a suggestion. https://foodimentary.com/2016/04/02/april-2-is-national-peanut-butter-and-jelly-day-3/

https://symphony.org/obituary-seiji-ozawa-longtime-music-director-of-boston-symphony-orchestra-led-u-s-and-international-orchestras-88/ Seiji passed on Feb 6 in Japan. I only saw him and the BSO a couple of times live, but have heard many recorded performances. One of the best conductors of...

I usually start out my weekday with exercise: several sets of kettlebell swings with push-ups and some mild stretching interleaved. In between sets, I am making coffee: boiling the water, grinding the beans, doing a pour-over. Mrs. TR and I go through about a liter of coffee every day...

What's the best title for a team or an individual athlete to achieve? Among the four major American sports (football, baseball, hockey, basketball) is there a hierarchy? Do you rate Super Bowls as better or worse than Stanley Cups? What about winning a golf major? Does that belong in the...

A plane in the Patriots livery just flew over my house (very low) on its way to a landing at the Santa Maria Airport in California. Anyone know what's going on?

It's hard to keep up with the NFL and all the cases of misconduct. Here's what I think are the active cases: Brit Reid - drinking at a team facility in Kansas City Dan Snyder - sexual harassment at Washington Commanders Dan Snyder - financial improprieties at Washington Commanders Brian...

Mrs. TR and I get along pretty well most of the time. But there's one thing we disagree about. I grew up in an Italian household, and Mrs. TR grew up in a Polish household. In my house, we never had cabbage, whereas it was a regular part of the menu for my lovely spouse. So naturally...

Are men & women equally creative? A prima facie analysis would say no. Let's consider the evidence: Arts Literature - verse/theater/prose (novels/novellas/short-stores, children's books) There are giants here among the men with respect to the "classics": Homer, Shakespeare, Wordsworth...

Lots of athletes from cities everywhere have generated some inventive nicknames, and the Boston area teams have certainly had their share. Here's a brief list of some of ones that come to the top of my head - I'm certain that many of you have others that you recall. The Splendid Splinter (Ted...

This is a thread where you can post your favorite clips and thoughts about film music. It can be music from the giants of the genre, like John Williams and Ennio Morricone. Or it can be songs from popular music (e.g. Everybody's Talkin' by Harry Nilsson, from the movie Midnight Cowboy -...

Is it cheese raviolis with bolognese sauce? Is it linguine with clam sauce? Maybe it's lasagna? Possibly beef tortellini in aioli? Perhaps you enjoy pasta in a minor role, like the small pasta in Italian wedding soup (we use orzo). Or maybe it's manicotti, stuffed shells, or...

I'm not a huge board game fanatic, but there are a few that I've played over the years, some quite a bit, and I thought it would be nice to have a thread to talk about them. I'll mention some that I've played most recently and we can also discuss classics like Chess and Go and Backgammon and...

My previous thread in this series was "Mouthwatering Buns." Let's discuss soups from around the world - every culture has a soup it's known for - some cultures have more than one. I'll list some of my favorites here, and hope to learn about some more that I can try in the future. As always...

Just saw this on PFT: https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2021/09/07/patriots-great-and-college-football-legend-sam-cunningham-dies-at-71/ Sam was one of my favorite all-time Patriots.

We've had a "show tunes" thread. In fact, we've had many different varieties of favorite songs threads. We've had a "name your favorite movie" thread. We've had all sorts of "name your favorite food" threads. This thread is a little different - it asks you to pick a genre (you're not...

I have a lot of favorites in this category, and I'm hoping people will post some great songs that I don't know about. Because there's so many outstanding rock instrumentals, it was easy to decide to start this thread, but it was much harder to pick out the song I wanted to use to kick things...

https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2021/03/24/patriots-justin-herron-hailed-as-a-hero-after-rescuing-woman-attacked-in-park/ https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2021/03/24/video-emerges-of-chase-claypool-in-a-fight/ Good news about one of our players, and something negative about one of...

For me (and for many others) the all-time best comic strip is Calvin and Hobbes. But there are many others that I've enjoyed over the years. Doonesbury and The Far Side are classics. Bloom County could make me laugh out loud at times. Zits and Foxtrot too. I was into Dilbert for a while...

We all expect the Patriots to have two tight ends on the field a lot this coming season. We possibly will see some three tight end sets, and perhaps even some formations using 22 personnel groupings. Defensive coordinators around the league are probably already thinking about how to defend the...

This is a thread for posting your thoughts about paths you've taken that, upon reflection, turned out to be good decisions. And it's also for bringing up choices you made or paths you took (or didn't take) that you would do differently, knowing what you now know. I'll start by posting one of...