Open Thread Wednesday

Apparently someone left a dead cat in a plastic bag at the dog run on Columbia Hts. :C

Someone did that a year or so ago in Cadman Plaza Park. Not the happiest thing my dog has found in the bushes.

That is horrible! I’m assuming it was removed?

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I’d remove it but I’m unsure of what the proper procedure is in dealing with dead animals of that size. I’m assuming they can’t just go in the regular trash and that there’s some special service that has to come and process the remains. I’m also assuming local burial isn’t really an option.

It’s important to get it away from where any dog’s going to get hold of it in case it’s diseased.I have three cats and I would not hesitate to put a corpse from the street into the garbage, sad as that is. Our friendly neighborhood hawks have been leaving partial carcasses all over the place lately that residents have been cleaning up

On a mundane note, I’d encourage everyone do their part in sweeping/raking up leaves as they now come down. When one house or building doesn’t do its part, the wind carries them onto the cleaned sidewalks. Gracias.

It’s a dead cat, not a dead donkey.

Coming up on Thanksgiving, when many affluent people here can afford to get away…

Think I’ll start running my BH postcard scans through the BHB. I have enough scans to run one or two a week for a year or so.

Here’s the First Presbyterian Church on Henry, near Clark. Note the Sands Street Church on the corner of Clark in right rear background:
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Excellent!

Heard someone spray painted swastikas with “go trump” at Adam Yauch playground.

Boutros told us their menu was “New American,” but we saw for ourself it’s very middle-eastern influenced. We’d been looking forward to it and had dinner there a few days after they opened. It was very mediocre. We had a chicken dish and a pork dish. The 2 different chicken preparations (a breast and a sausage) were very salty. Of the 2 pork preparations – the loin was bland and the pork belly was undercooked and slimy and mushy (I love pork belly, but this was really poorly done). Everything we had was either over-seasoned or under-seasoned and the chicken breast was the only thing cooked well, but it was ruined by all the salt, which made it inedible after a few bites. The vegetables are an afterthought on the menu. There’s more green on the walls than on the menu. We chose a cauliflower side dish, which was tossed in an interesting tahini sauce. That was the best tasting thing on the table aside from the SINGLE roll they brought us – but it was pretty much the only vegetable on the menu (and for some reason they brought it out to us as an appetizer, almost 15 minutes before the rest of our food came to the table). We’ll give them a few weeks before going back to see if things improve, because opening week can always be a gamble, but so far I’m unimpressed and disappointed. The service was good – the waiter was attentive and friendly. But there were only 10 people in the restaurant. 6 of them were obviously the chef’s family (they were mostly drinking, not eating). Other than that my husband and I were at one table and another couple came in shortly after us. so it was confusing as to why our meals took so long to come out of the kitchen (and since we could see into the kitchen, we could also see there wasn’t much happening back there). The menu is small and “fussy” and the prices are high and that’s a combo that demands you get it right every time. They’ve got a long way to go before they do.