Ewww! The one time we left something perishable in the trunk it was celery and we found it two months later - perfectly white, completely limp, but mysteriously intact.
Rotting potato is the WORST.

Jar is definitely not as good as fresh. So I can put prepared garlic in my fridge, you say? I might be able to handle that - thanks for the tip!

It's close enough for lazy days! I also go out of town a lot so anything that can stay safely in my fridge for months is fine by me. I've found many a shriveled head of garlic in my kitchen (which at least isn't as bad a liquified potatoes - hurl).

I think this is one of those "you can't win"s. Flats - except for well-made menswear-style ones - always read as casual to me. A nice patent pump with a stiletto heel? Totally appropriate.
I suspect that the person who wrote the slide was talking about shoes for clubbing that happened to be stilettos.

I remember one of those episodes - it was horrifying. The designers were insufferable, the "regular people" models were humiliated and upset, the clothes were terrible.

What are your thoughts on the lazy-person-friendly jars of minced garlic? I'd like to say I can be bothered to mince my own but it's just plain never going to happen. The jarred stuff in the produce section suits my work ethic and my refined tastes.

Yep. Apparently everyone thinks of me 50 lbs heavier. Yes I look awesome, but I've been thinner again for longer than I was fat.
There was some study (pair if studies? I'm on my phone so I can't look it up but I know Jez wrote about them) about how people would not only prefer a partner who had always been thin to one…

Did anyone else mail away for the official GhostWriter light switch cover? Mine took six months to arrive and my parents wouldn't let me put it up because they thought it might be hard to remove. :(

I believe you are correct. A broth-based soup cannot possibly be contained by a giant roll with the middle carved out, while a chili or stew might fare better, particularly in a purpose-built vessel.

I am intrigued. Is there anything else you can tell us without compromising the integrity of the mission?

This is exactly the same problem we run into with soup in a bread bowl. It sounds so fucking clever - we'll put one thing in the other thing! It'll be adorable! - but then when it's in front of you you're screwed. You have two foods that should be eaten concurrently but you're forced to have all of one before you can…

I was definitely picturing "animal law" referring to either adorable wee courts of woodland creatures with cute little chipmunk juries, or some sort of pre-social contract, state-of-nature universal truths that are called "laws" somewhat jokingly. Your way is far sadder.

Could it have been sexy incest-fest "The Dreamers"?

This was very well said - thank you!

I completely agree that there is value here - that it's too easy for most people (including many in the recovery community) to ignore the suffering of socioeconomically disadvantaged and generally non-famous addicts, that reform is needed - but when the thrust of the argument is that people need to stop sharing their…

That's certainly not how I read it, but I think you may be right. This essay read to me as, "stop making this about you, this is your chance to talk about policy," but I may be quite wrong about that.

A couple cups in the toilet finally got the hard water deposits off of it - I'd been scrubbing at them since we moved in almost a year ago.

Thank you for this - I said something very similar to this but probably not as well. We can't move on to talking about reform until we get people to accept that there's a societal problem besides just, "our society has lazy addicts in it." Until enough people can grasp what we're talking about we can't take that next…

That's tremendously, wonderfully compassionate. They're very lucky to have you in their lives.

Thank you. Your last statement reminds me a lot of conversations about being related to someone with any other kind of mental illness. It's a rough balance - yes, the addicts in your life feel like shit about it already, but you're still entitled to feel anger and disappointment towards them. The fact that they…