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mister d wrote: ↑Fri Nov 02, 2018 7:26 pm 2nd best brewery in NJ.

What's #1 in your mind? I'd say Carton, but I haven't hit Troon or Conclave yet.

Thought you guys talked up Twin Elephant last time? Still haven’t been.

The manager at Tiffs recommended the dive bar neat Twin Elephant. River Grill? She said the food is great, and I guess they share musicians with Tiffs.

I have them as #1 these days.

mister d wrote: ↑Sat Nov 03, 2018 8:43 am I have them as #1 these days.

Twin Elephant? I mean, I love going there, the owners are super cool, and they make some interesting stuff, and some really good beers, but #1? I've had too many complete misses and bad beers from them. Although, the bad ones were when they were new... I need to head out their more often. And I need to hit up Troon and Conclave.

I pretend like the first year or whatever never happened. Definitely had a few I didn’t love but they’re running atleast 1, usually more, really good ones most weeks.

This is wild. Looonnngg read, but, worth it:

https://www.thecut.com/2018/11/the-haun ... ersey.html

"The Haunting of 657 Boulevard in Westfield, NJ"

Yeah, we've been following it from the beginning and its either very something or absolutely nothing. Will definitely read this article too.

I am with the commenter after the article - I think it was the 90-year-old neighbor. Although no idea on motive.

Bonkers story.

That story has been and out of the news around here, but I hadn't ever read such a thorough recap.

Also, assuming the buyers of the property didn't for reasons that make no sense to me do this to themselves, it is absolutely horrifying to look at from their point of view.

So going in, I didn’t have a strong view but would have guessed the family themselves if I had to. Now, even knowing it was sympathetic to them, I wouldn’t rule them out but I’d focus on the 60 year old son. “Female DNA” or not.

I can't make sense of scenario where they are doing it to themselves.

rass wrote: ↑Wed Nov 14, 2018 8:30 am I can't make sense of scenario where they are doing it to themselves.

Right. Even in the convoluted "they were playing a long con to try and subdivide and make a profit" sense, that is too many moving pieces to begin to believe.

Buyer's remorse.

Other people subdivided their property, without all the drama. Seems self-defeating that they would do this to themselves. No way do I believe they tried that dumb move.

imho, some asshole in the neighborhood didn't want the house renovated, and then started to enjoy the game so it took on a life of its own.

It should be noted Westfield is an absolute fucking mess of nice older houses and then equal sized properties where those older homes were either subdivided out into mismatched newer construction or non-subdivided but replaced with massive and gaudy McMansions that stretch as close as possible to property lines.

Why insist on so aggressively revealing the letters to every potential seller even after other realtors told them to chill? They'd have to be dick trippers of the highest order.

mister d wrote: ↑Wed Nov 14, 2018 11:19 am It should be noted Westfield is an absolute fucking mess of nice older houses and then equal sized properties where those older homes were either subdivided out into mismatched newer construction or non-subdivided but replaced with massive and gaudy McMansions that stretch as close as possible to property lines.

We have that problem around here where I live, too. It does suck a bit when people do that, but the extremes somebody went to here...

rass wrote: ↑Wed Nov 14, 2018 11:27 am Why insist on so aggressively revealing the letters to every potential seller even after other realtors told them to chill? They'd have to be dick trippers of the highest order.

Or actually decent people?

mister d wrote: ↑Wed Nov 14, 2018 11:48 am

rass wrote: ↑Wed Nov 14, 2018 11:27 am Why insist on so aggressively revealing the letters to every potential seller even after other realtors told them to chill? They'd have to be dick trippers of the highest order.

Or actually decent people?

Sorry, that was in response to you, in the scenario where the "victims" are the perpetrators.

Oh. If they did it as a means of escaping, I would think they'd expect the public to support them into some financially neutral resolution. The public did not. And the lack of character witness support in a sympathetic article is either weird or just something I expected more than I should have to offset the united opposition.

Hey Rass, what the fuck are you doing liking something in my neighborhood on facebook?

Uhhh... Cedar Ridge? I haven’t been there in forever, BTW. If not that I have no idea what you’re talking about. Unless FB bubbled up some non-recent “like”.

Cedar Ridge. They're at the end of my street. Paul is a tremendous dude.

They’ve always been super nice, and seem like perfect community partners.

And you should do a Swampsearch for “sconewich”.

I made drop biscuits with dinner last night in large part due to this thread.

I guess drop this here? https://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2018/ ... er_fo.html

This is obviously extremely important to shine a light on, but it also seems impossible to quantify town versus town given coverups, lack of reporting, differences in departments reporting, etc, etc.

Did you get a result back on a search? Or maybe it's just overwhelmed right now. I have a neighbor who is a cop in town and I'm almost scared of the search by officer.

Yeah, searches were working earlier. I'll be shocked if this isn't A THING very soon.

I get results for other towns. I wonder if my town is just broken. If I search on the town name, it doesn't show up, though all of the other towns in the eponymous (or vice versa) county show, along with another town with the same name in a different county. If I search for "township" it does show in the list, but I don't get a result.

Worked finally. Neighbor is at 3 incidents.

One of my office mate's best friends tops his department.

My town's PD is clearly broken. Black people are 41% LESS likely to suffer an incident of police violence than white people? WTF am I paying exorbitant taxes for?

Stat is totally misleading, as it appears to measure the rate of police violence only for people arrested. they say my town has a 1% black population, and 23% of arrests are black people. Only two incidents of violence against black people, 5 against white people.

So which family member from the Halloween story got hit?

mister d wrote: ↑Thu Dec 18, 2014 10:18 pm Speaking of Montclair, anyone been to Montclair Bread Company? The doughnuts got great reviews somewhere recently and great doughnuts are pretty much the best thing in the world.

Why didn't you tell me they are sponsoring a donut 5K?

My kid wants to do a 5K and I'm hedging on whether I want to get up super early on a freezing cold Saturday to let her do the Santa Run in Asbury.

ETA: the Star Ledger is in the middle of a donut tour of the state with results out soon

rass wrote: ↑Tue Dec 04, 2018 4:34 pm

mister d wrote: ↑Thu Dec 18, 2014 10:18 pm Speaking of Montclair, anyone been to Montclair Bread Company? The doughnuts got great reviews somewhere recently and great doughnuts are pretty much the best thing in the world.

Why didn't you tell me they are sponsoring a donut 5K?

My kid wants to do a 5K and I'm hedging on whether I want to get up super early on a freezing cold Saturday to let her do the Santa Run in Asbury.

ETA: the Star Ledger is in the middle of a donut tour of the state with results out soon

Hey, I'll be at the donut 5K in Montclair!

Registration seems to be full up.

And...

Why didn't you tell me they are sponsoring a donut 5K?

rass wrote: ↑Tue Dec 04, 2018 5:23 pm Registration seems to be full up.

Shit, guess I won't be going. My wife sent me a link several weeks ago, and I completely forgot about it until your post. The boy is complaining that his foot hurts, so I'm off the hook for not signing him up. Want me to let you know when we sign up for other 5ks? Or just donut related races.

BTW, 2450 signed up already? Jesus, thats a big race.

Sure, if you ever find a cool race, let me know.

The Asbury ParkSanta Run was sold out also (also my bad for waiting). It did look like a fun event (some sort of Santa costume was to be distributed to every runner), and AP has a lot going on this weekend in terms of specific after-race activities and in general. Too bad.

I got her signed up for a smaller Santa run in Roselle on Saturday morning (runners get jingle bells, but no Santa suit) to benefit poor, poor Roselle Catholic.

Had dinner at an Italian place in a strip mall in Wayne last night (Viaggio). “Locally driven” menu, they make their pastas (as they should), and about half of their salumi offerings were cured in house. Beginning to end, prep and taste and service was top notch. But I mention this today not just because it was a great meal, but because the ravioli was so good that it redefined ravioli for me. Just incredible.