Also, I have a copy of Middlesex by Eugenides, it’s.. normal paperback sized? Definitely not on par with Infinite Jest. This person is a psychopath.

Ugh, my older kid got it but I never did, despite my mother being confident I didn’t have it as a kid. I’m hoping baby #2 dodges it, but now that I said that he’s def going to bring home a rip-roaring case next week.

I saw him a few years back (funny, two thumbs up, would recommend), and he closed with the Hot Pockets bit, like he was the Eagles doing Hotel California. It’s probably kind of lazy just continuing to trot out your best bit for years on end, but man is that Hot Pockets bit great.

And yet, Hot Pockets, I have come to realize, are human.

I was recently on a criminal jury, my first time ever serving. I was aggravated at first, but ultimately it was fascinating, and really gratifying to feel like I actually helped provide someone with justice (we acquitted, it was a phony trumped-up charge, and I was glad to play a part in keeping one man of color out…

https://thetakeout.com/drinking-coffee-black-vs-cream-and-sugar-change-drinkin-1840471253

Also, maybe the server knew that the kitchen usually underseasons that particular dish, and tends to serve it with a salt shaker just in case.

I’m here for this Hapsburg lip content.

Yeah, sweet poppy seed filling as used in Jewish and Russian/Slavic/Eastern European sweets is the absolute best. Would go for the poppy seed kolach before any other flavor.

They still have “skinny mocha” (usually, at least), but did away with the peppermint mocha, which I will mourn to the end of my days. My local Starbucks generally only has the sugar free vanilla, cinnamon dolce, and the mocha. I am the saddest panda watching everyone stroll out with their chestnut praline lattes,…

#housegoals

I do not know when they open but I’d like to put in a plug for the tree lot in Allston which looks really janky but always has fantastic, fresh trees!

Not after a c-section.

Completely accurate account of parenthood.

They did! I saw their version and a more scholarly one (I don’t remember where, maybe a PBS thing?) around the same time, and found Drunk History’s to be more factually accurate.

Like, I bet if they came out with the PSL one year and advertised a lower-cal version with less sugar (and they just swapped the syrup for sugar-free syrup), basic betches would be all over it.

Right?

They did away with the sugar free peppermint mocha last year, which was a devastating blow for me personally as a diabetic who loves Christmas.

I would overwhelmingly recommend the book Dark Tide by Stephen Puleo about the molasses flood! I’m something of a history nerd and found it super fascinating. Major Boston-is-a-small-town story: when I was reading it, one of the people they focused on had the same unusual last name as my boss at the time. I asked her…