I’m from Cleveland Ohio. Our local dishes are heavily influenced by Eastern Europe, plus Italy and Ireland. Pierogi are universally enjoyed all around north east ohio, but Cleveland is the center. And fat tuesday just went by, which for Cleveland is pączki day. Something that is always found at the baseball game that is unique to Cleveland is the Polish Boy. It’s kielbasa, either deep fried or grilled, on a bun with coleslaw and french fries on top. This town also loves corned beef, if you ever come here, Slyman’s is an institution and is a must visit. And something that I did not realize was local until recently is a romanburger. Essentially put a burger patty in an Italian sub. The exact recipe has variations, generally has to have mortadella and salami in addition to the burger, and a vinegarette sprinkled on instead of the usual burger sauce. We aren’t afraid of calories here.

I have fairly recently learned that this is the curse of Cassandra. I also hate it.

I have been a fan of Kraut for a long time. He makes video essays on a lot of historical and political topics. He has made two massive three part series that total to nearly four hours about the histories of Mexico and Turkey. He makes some short form as well, like a point about american healthcare that americans don’t realize.

@Kraut_the_parrot

It’s a roman graph.

I remember a story about a remote town that needed a bridge replaced. And the federal government was dragging their feet about it until the town wrote to the Soviet Union about helping them build the bridge.

I put forth the motion that Tuesday is the worst day. Monday is Monday, but it is a fresh start, at least. The week could still turn out ok. Wednesday is at least the half way point. Thursday is good because it is almost Friday. And Friday is Friday. But Tuesday has nothing going for it, it’s Monday without being a fresh start.

George Carlin talked about this, “Take a shit? You don’t take a shit, you leave a shit! That’s the whole idea!”

I feel like this is too coincidental to be a coincidence.

Korgoth of Barbaria. Only ever made a pilot, it was made by the creators of SpongeBob and the whole thing was like a story from Heavy Metal magazine.

Well, after looking through, I saw that some of my favorites are not on here.

Kraut: makes well thought out video essays on politics, history, culture and everything in between. He also tells you his reading list that went into making a particular video.

Adam Something: bit of politics, bit of urban planning, bit of shitting on Elon Musk, bit of shitting on stupid ideas.

The Great War: started in 2014 doing week by week of the first world War, 100 years after it began. Now is doing a similar series on the second world War.

The Operations Room: breaks down historical military operations minute by minute, incredible level of detail.

Korean Englishman/ Jolly: Josh and Ollie a couple of British guys introduce korean food to people and on Jolly they go get into other foods and hijinks

Townsend: showing what life was like in early colonial America

So… at what point will paranoid people start screaming at their keyboards while typing, “just in case”?