Fiddler crab

Whitley. He was expressive and could move some air. Travis also was expressive but didn’t have comparable power.

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There's actually a "sweet shrimp" that's served raw. I don't think they get them out of the Gulf of America/Mexico, though.

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They’re commonly known as spot prawns and have a May-June season in the PNW. You can pre-order a frozen shipment that may be safe to eat raw after thawing, but I wouldn’t want to risk it. Certainly not commercially. As this board confirmed, Gulf shrimp can’t safely be eaten raw after more than an hour or two after they’re caught.

My friend enjoyed preparing raw shrimp dishes while in Laos, but realizes now that there’s neither demand nor supply in most of the US. He used to catch freshwater shrimp in a tributary of the Mekong River and serve them the same day with Lao-Lao moonshine made from sticky rice to take care of any bacteria. Guess they’ve got adventurous eaters and lax regulations in Southeast Asia compared to here.

A friend owns a small restaurant in Madison, WI and wants to serve a Southeast Asian raw shrimp dish as a monthly special. He’s asking me about buying Gulf shrimp off the boat and shipping to him next day air. Google tells me that eating raw Gulf shrimp after more than an hour or two isn’t safe and that sushi-grade shrimp are generally cold-water spot prawns. Do any of you who catch, process, or sell shrimp know whether that’s accurate?

If not, and if he could serve day-old raw Gulf shrimp safely, could you recommend a source near Lafayette?

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The Frankfurt School infesting Columbia University in the 30s was the beginning of the flood.

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Although it’s tempting for some to blame German Jews for corrupting US higher education, I don’t believe it works in this case. The Frankfurt School favored reasoned discourse and independent thought over conformity and censorship as a result of the totalitarian takeover they witnessed. Sure, many were Marxists and their Critical Theory was in conflict with the Christian origins of American higher education. But what we’re seeing now is more a result of postmodernist faculty in the late 20th Century disavowing the Frankfurt School’s Critical Theory and creating a “critical theory” on race and gender that has more in common with the totalitarian doctrines the Frankfurt School despised than the original Critical Theory. I witnessed the origins of this movement firsthand as a doctoral student at a prominent higher education research center and it has gained traction much to the detriment of critical thinking and open discourse.

I live on a ranch south of the South in the winters. My neighbors are a Cajun cattle rancher prone to domestic violence, an easy-going extended family whose ancestry includes Creoles and Chitimacha chiefs who were rejected as tribe members because they intermarried with blacks, and a black single mother who bought her property with a settlement from an auto accident (Get Gordon) and can’t seem to mow her grass or keep a lid on her trash can. We interact often and all get along.

I live in a city in the upper Midwest in the summers. My neighbors are 99% white with German and Scandinavian ancestry and I rarely interact with them unless I initiate a conversation.

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Are you still playing much?

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Retired from teaching bluegrass at a university four years ago and now play a lot with friends up north in the summer and down south in the winter. I perform occasionally but don’t commit long-term to any band. Enjoying playing music more than ever since it’s relatively stress free.

Victim was a SHE!

No need for an erection when you don’t have a d*ck.

A 1906 German-made violin my great-grandfather bought for my grandfather out of the Montgomery Ward catalog for $12.65. Found it in the attic when I was nine years old and still play it.

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Mambo Taxi's strike yet again

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