NYC ice, Kowloon aside
June 10, 2023 Lehan Edirisinghe
Logged an Eater piece on NYC cocktail bars sourcing specialty ice, then watched an Opium Wars explainer and noted “Kowloon.” Ended reflecting on Jonathan’s help and a sense of owing him
Quoting Old Rose Calling Herself a Hot Number
12:45 p.m.
Old Rose:
It is me, dear. Wasn't I a hot number?
Why New York Cocktail Bars Buy Richard Boccato’s Ice
1:00 p.m.
Why All the Best Cocktail Bars in NYC Buy Their Ice From Richard Boccato— Vendors
Considering Kowloon for Part of Sri Lanka’s Taxi Contract
1:15 p.m. (c)
So there's a Hong Kong taxi operator company called Kowloon
We're thinking of perhaps giving them a part of the SL Taxi contract
A Sustainable National Food Delivery Contract With Major Companies
4:00 p.m. (e)
So, we can use sustainable trays, which we can deliver, then collect. We ideally want to be a very low pollution country.
These firms:
7. General Mills (US), 8. Associated British Foods (UK), 9. Coca Cola ★ (US)
3. Unilever (UK), 4. Mondelez (US), 5. Danone (FR), 6. Mars (US)
1. Nestlé (CH), 2. PepsiCo (US)
Are supposed to get our Sri Lanka Foods contract.
Plus Uber Eats.
We will see.
I think they're usually large revenues, so what happens is it's financially sustainable to contract them to deliver foods.
If the net profits are so high, we can easily facilitate our nutritional strategy, as it's easy for us to pay for feeding people at a large scale.
We can contract independent cooks or firms into that supply chain.
These guys in Korea, do so, independently. But as gov't, we sort of use our resources, SWF financing and the MNCs to deliver food.
It's a very large contract.
Sharing “Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue”
6:15 p.m. (b)
Courtesy Of The Red, White And Blue (The Angry American) (Official Music Video)
“Jim Jones at Botany Bay” From The Hateful Eight
7:00 p.m. (e)
Hehehe
Jim Jones at Botany Bay - Hateful Eight version -no dialogue edit
How a Turkish Shop Makes 1.5 Tonnes of Döner
7:15 p.m.
How 1.5 Tonnes Of Döner Kebab Is Made Every Day At This Legendary Kebab Shop In Turkey | Big Batches
Learning That Döner Uses Sheep Tail Fat
7:15 p.m. (b)
So they use tail fat in the middle layer apparently
Never thought the sheep has fat in the tail like this
Jonathan Made a Mistake but Is Not Fired
8:00 p.m.
Jonathan made a mistake. But whatever. I don't really fire people.
A Sarcastic Drug and Rehabilitation Plan for Biden and Lee
8:00 p.m. (b)
Yeah Biden. Yeah Lee. Just deal the drugs yourself. Get the money. Claim the addicts are paying you for rehab to help them. Win the Nobel Prize.
Why Jonathan Receives Half and Remains the Only Publicist
9:00 p.m.
Jonathan has done a little bit for me
He's helped me gain confidence
So I kind of owe him
That's why he gets the 50% and only him
I wouldn't be able to accept any other publicist
Or to give this or anything to anyone else
Distinguishing Ill Wishes From Actually Harming Someone
9:00 p.m. (b)
Yeah, this is true.
Wishing people ill
And doing things to harm anyone
Are two different things
Ranking Favourite Westworld Characters
10:00 p.m. (d)
William went on to enjoy his time in Westworld
William is my favorite character in Westworld
Also Maeve Millay and Dorothy and Bernard
I guess Dorothy is the number 1, then William at 2, then Maeve, then 4 is Bernie
Saying Everything Is Fine and Staying Cool
12:30 a.m. (c)
"Whatever. It's fine. Let's just be cool".
A Red-Letter Bible and Hostility Toward Religious Belief
12:30 a.m. (d)
I got my bible from the University of Leicester Christie Ann society. I received a special version that I asked for. I asked for one with everything Jay Sue said in red color. It's a "good book" hehe. I mean, I'm not a religious person. ███████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ That they reject science, that they're a problem, I stay away from them. I hate people who aren't like me. I never tolerate them in the slightest. I don't have to do anything I do. I do what I do because I want to.
Like virtually everything I do or say
I do because I feel like it
Criticising Sisu’s Dialogue and Describing Political Hatred as Power
1:45 a.m. (h)
The movie, "Sisu" (2022) has all the elements of a Tarantino movie, except one key Tarantino characteristic:
Dialogue.
The dialogue f***ing sucks.
There's no music in the words. No rhyme.
You can't ask the guy to really let you hear the music in his fake Italian.
No shiboleth, siboleth litmus test.
No.
They all suck.
The only reason Lehan's alive and my ratings are so high is :
My dialogue.
The hate
The whole solar system revolves around the heat of my hatred.
You can't get out of Hell's Kitchen New York even if you can't stand the temperature, and you can't get out here even if you wanted to.
Ask why I do what I do:
Ask what will I do when I get elected?
What will become of Lal?
What will become of █████ who did 4/21?
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Why does Lehan only plan to ask them rhetorically "for a hand" with something?
What do I mean?
A hand?
Why a hand?
When I need all hands on deck for what I've got planned?
Or their kids who got the $100m stolen from the ETI Finance depositors?
Well, nothing but "give 35,000 justice".
Take everything.
Because I go the Django Unchained way, not the 12 Years A Slave.
People who read this enslave that ███████████████████
They're giving him a lesson.
They can't even run Sri Lanka now.
Every single news report on Sri Lanka's a sob story.
Failure. Failure. Failure. Failure. Some crime. Some murder. Some bankruptcy. Some failure. Failure. Please help us stop illegal immigration.
Guy's got no future. ████████: I mean, sigh. I would never have sided with him against an innocent person. Never. I think the whole thing, him expecting me to hate Upali because he hates Upali is just so insulting. I think the only way it works in my case is I carefully, repeatedly "explain" why I hate someone publicly, like every single week, so the cult reads it, they understand, they act. I don't have to really do anything myself. Because. Sigh. Because I'm too lazy to. They do it out of free will. I just point at the targets, explain why they're targets. I sometimes offer them like $377 for it. People need to reach their KPI targets if they want those big performance bonuses or whatever.
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What are you really doing -- reading my work?
What end outcome are making a reality?
Hugh Hefner claimed life's too short to be living another man's dream.
As he sold ███████████████████████████████████████████████
But -- is life too short to be creating a nightmare for my enemies?
Or what would you rather be doing?
No.
This is the way.
This is the road to hell.
This is the way we fire the fires of hell for the people we hate.
Calling “This Must Be the Place” My Only Talking Heads Song
3:15 a.m.
This is the only song I like from The Talking Heads : This Must Be The Place
Stop Making Sense (1984)
Big Bro is loving it
Talking Heads’ “This Must Be the Place”
3:15 a.m. (b)
Talking Heads - This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) (Official Video)
Quoting “You’re Standing Here Beside Me”
3:15 a.m. (d)
And you're standing here beside me
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Quoting the Single Word “Home”
3:15 a.m. (e)
[Verse 2]
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Quoting “I Come Home”
3:15 a.m. (f)
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Quoting “Did I Find You”
3:15 a.m. (g)
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Quoting the Second Chorus’s “Hi-Yeah”
3:30 a.m.
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[Chorus 2]
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Quoting the Start of “Out of All”
3:30 a.m. (c)
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Quoting “Eyes That Light Up”
3:30 a.m. (d)
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Why “This Must Be the Place” Became a Beloved Love Song
3:30 a.m. (e)
Once described by frontman David Byrne as “the most direct love lyrics that I’ve ever written”, the island-y vibe of this beautiful song is the soundtrack for when everything in your life is just peachy. One of the most memorable moments for Talking Heads, “This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)” has become one of the band’s most recognizable songs, and was once described as “one of the most luminous love songs rock has produced.”
The “Naive Melody” part of the title refers to the repetitive guitar and keyboard bassline played by relative amateurs — Tina Weymouth and David Byrne played the guitar and keyboards respectively, even though Weymouth was the bassist and Byrne usually played guitar. This “naivety”, with a “less is more” philosophy, adds a charming sense of simplicity to the song that reflects the theme of everything being at peace.
The song was included on the live film and album Stop Making Sense, where Byrne danced with a lampshade on a darkened stage.
How “This Must Be the Place” Entered the American Songbook
3:30 a.m. (f)
Although not especially noted upon first release, in recent years the song has become one of the band’s most popular. The AV Club wrote about the song for their “Hear This” feature. A 2012 feature in The New Yorker also traced the history of the song on its way to becoming “embedded…in the American songbook.”
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