Archive for June, 2010

Thai Bangkok: Maybe The Best Thai Dish Ever.

Tuesday, June 29th, 2010

The Ocean's Nest at Thai Bangkok located at 3935 Brian Jordan Place. Sauteed seafood (and lots of it) combined with onions, broccoli, napa, carrots, mushrooms, bell peppers, zucchini, and green onions in the house spicy sauce. If you dare get it "Thai Hot" you'll need the outer layer of cabbage to cool ...

Seared Scallops and Grit Pudding

Saturday, June 19th, 2010

It was a tough call between the Panko crusted seared scallops over warm Gorgonzola and grit pudding topped with thyme, cranberry, and red onion marmalade or the Grouper over roasted cauliflower and garlic mash, collard greens topped with cream corn. The scallop dish (shown) won. And Thursday is $5 Martini night with ...

Could E-Mail Data From BOE Level Campaign Playing Field?

Monday, June 14th, 2010

For around $30 you can get a disk from the GC BOE showing all registered voters in your district. That disk provides a lot of information but does not include e-mail addresses. The BOE does not collect e-mail addresses. Campaign mailers are around $0.50 each. Let's say you wanted to send ...

Kudos to David Ruden For Diffusing Tabor/Spencer Conflict

Monday, June 14th, 2010

Thanks to David Ruden for his quick thinking and action during "the" altercation in downtown Greensboro recently. Note the guy, who I call the "conservative bulldog",  in the pink shirt coming in quickly from the right side of the screen. Ruden stops any further punches from Tabor's cheek to Spencer's fist ...

The Case Of The Missing Porta-Potties

Saturday, June 5th, 2010

How often do you hear porta-potties mentioned at city council meetings? Thanks to Keith Brown for the clip. You may think it's an amusing topic...unless you were one of the more than 12,000 people in town last weekend for the 2010 Wrangler/McDonald's Youth Soccer Classic that had to pee. An 8 AM ...