I don’t know what kind of dinner this is - Let’s call it American jumble - but gulf shrimp with compound butter (butter, herbs, lemon zest, garlic) and pizza squares.
Raffi Melkonian
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He’s got a great story about how his job was to run off with the slot machine when the cops came, but I need to get the full thing one evening and record it here.
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I should have said, the scholarship was for Armenian Catholics. That’s why I mentioned it.
Anyway, I’m sure many of our parents have been worried about our plans and ambitions that sound risky. But not many went to a fortune teller!
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My dad ultimately confronted her and got his passport back, and went to India for his degree, which set him on the path to the US eventually.
And in fact, the palm reader was accidentally correct. He never came home to live. But eventually his whole family moved to Toronto.
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He couldn’t find it anywhere. He was frantic. Finally, his sister came to him, and told him his mother, my grandmother had hidden it. She had gone to a Palm reader, and they had foretold that if my Dad went to Bombay, he would never come home again. /3
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Dad is Armenian Catholic, and was a good student at his high school. So, as I’ve told on here, he found a college scholarship in then Bombay, and secured it.
So the new story starts here. He was packed to go, and was looking for his passport. /2
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A new story from my Dad I’d never heard before.
As I’ve said, my dad grew up in Beirut. His family was poor - my grandpa was a cobbler, and then when his hands gave out, ran a bakery where there was an illegal slot machine. Anyway, my dad was good at school and wanted to go to college. /1
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He spent his summers mining in the Colorado mountains, trying to raise money for his firm website.
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New: A few weeks ago, when my father-in-law died, the funeral home asked if we wanted to use AI to write his obituary. So I dug into it and found that it's the biggest new trend in "death care." Tens of thousands of AI obits have been made already. Often the families don't even know wapo.st/4okuxIg
The rise of AI tools that write about you when you die
Families and funeral directors are using AI obituary generators to more efficiently memorialize the dead. What happens when they get it wrong?
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A new cocktail: @anthonyrickey.bsky.social recently introduced me to the Mickey Finn. It’s really good! Bracing, but really good.
punchdrink.com/articles/mic...
This Forgotten Gin Classic Is “Silky as Hell”
A forgotten gin cocktail, the Mickey Finn is an underrated classic drink that Atlanta restaurant Whoopsie’s has transformed into a Martini.
