La Salle Explorers

[Saint]

I'm a sucker for any place called Kountry Kitchen too.

There's a place by that name less than 600 yards from where I work. It's a revisitation of the restaurant by the same name that was there in the '70s, famous for its country breakfast. My sister worked there in HS. The new place is supposed to be good, too, but I've never been since they close at 2 p.m.

[Saint]

I like to go to Golden Corral, order all you can eat, and then make a big show of getting a tiny plate of food and then not eating it all. It infuriates the fatty crowd...

They wouldn't even notice ye. All they care about is forcing their way to the buffet and getting their plate back to the table before something falls off, which isn't an easy thing to do when it's piled 8-10 inches high.

Also, you don't order "all you can eat" at GC, that's all there is unless you get a takeout plate.

[Jungle Rat]

Been to GC once a few months ago. Never again. Dear God I'd rather go to a soup kitchen.

[hedge]

"I'm a sucker for any place called Kountry Kitchen too.

There's a place by that name less than 600 yards from where I work. It's a revisitation of the restaurant by the same name that was there in the '70s, famous for its country breakfast"

A place called Kountry Kitchen famous for its country breakfast? No way!! I thought they specialized in crepes. Or should I say, krepes...

[Saint]

the dinners weren't so hot, as I recall ... esp. the cold plates. get it? hahahaha!

[eCat]

road buckle in Wisconsin. Why they left the road open with this who knows but its funny as hell. Sing the Dukes of Hazard song to yourself when you watch

http://www.twincities.com/wisconsin/ci_ ... -road-near

[Bklyn]

Incredibly long, and excellent, article (more like a novel) about an Ohio family murdered in Florida...and the race to catch and convict the killer.

http://longform.org/angelsdemons/

[eCat]

Incredibly long, and excellent, article (more like a novel) about an Ohio family murdered in Florida...and the race to catch and convict the killer.

http://longform.org/angelsdemons/

crazy long read. How did you stumble upon it?

I have to ask what would prompt a woman to take herself and her 2 daughters out on a boat ...at night...with a complete stranger in a new town.

[Bklyn]

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing too. It seems they were in the euphoria of leaving Ohio (and the farm) for the first time in ages (ever?). They probably had met many nice people as they drove to these different locations and their guard dropped lower and lower as they went. It doesn't hurt that the murderer is as unassuming as they come...and the family was probably under the assumption that there was safety in their number.

I found it because the website (longform) is one of my favorite places to find in-depth journalistic pieces (that's where I found that article last year you liked about the CIA agent in Pakistan who tried to shoot his way out of a Karachi traffic jam and was in Pakistani custody until we paid the blood money to get him out). I read one or two articles a day during my subway ride into work. This one took me about 4 or 5 days, reading on my phone for 20-30 minutes per trip, because it is so effin long. Most articles are shorter. I enjoyed it though. It was like a movie. The author did an excellent job shifting the lense to different places to tell the full story.

I recommend printing it out and reading it or bookmarking until you make it through the whole thing. It's really worth it.

[eCat]

I did read the whole thing in one sitting. It was like a 48 hours episode that covered 5 years.

[Bklyn]

yep

[eCat]

I don't really want to know the details of what happened on the boat but I can't imagine children watching that happen to the mother or vice versa.

I often think about why people don't fight more before they are about to be restrained or led somewhere going into an obviously dangerous situation.

I guess them not being able to swim was a major issue that was highlighted earlier in the story.

[eCat]

btw, FWIW - I guess this is what prompted the article?

Oba Chandler was an American convicted rapist and murderer who was put to death via lethal injection for the June 1989 triple murders of a woman and her two daughters whose bodies were found in Tampa Bay, Florida.

[Bklyn]

I never did Google his image. I'm guessing that pic is from '97 or '98 (or later).

He sure doesn't look harmless or unassuming, to me.

[Saint]

photograph of the year

From Cape Cod on Saturday:

[Jungle Rat]

Did he get him?

[Saint]

no, he got away while people on the beach screamed at him to paddle or die. in the movie, the shark ate the guy (except his leg) and it was a rowboat.

[eCat]

no, he got away while people on the beach screamed at him to paddle or die. in the movie, the shark ate the guy (except his leg) and it was a rowboat.

the guy on the surfboard should be more concerned - he looks like a grey seal

[BigRedMan]

That brown trail behind him maybe turned the shark off a little.....

[Dave23]

All I could think about was Chris Farley singing "Fat guy in a littttttttttle boooooattttt"...