I’ve done 3 rounds. The 1st in my early 20s worked pretty well and lasted about 5 years before I started to break out again. The other ones barely helped at all. :-/

I prefer my angel hair without a “sauce” at all. Give it to me with some olive oil, tomato, basil, and a lot of garlic, and I’m happy. A bit of red pepper flake or something to add some heat is good, too.

I’m even worse--I have a bunch of pictures of my odometer at “cool” numbers! :D

I’m 57 years old and have had acne all my teen and adult life. I’m able to keep it barely, mostly, under control by alternating a couple of different forms of antibiotics, but that means, of course, that I take antibiotics all the time, which is less than ideal. The alternative is developing not just pimples, but large…

French fries are great in shawarma. I always think of that as “Dubai-style” shawarma.

Weirdly, it was only a couple of months ago that I said to my wife, “Did you know that Henry Kissinger and Norman Lear are still alive?” I think I’d read something that day about Lear, plus I’d heard a reference to Kissinger in an old TV show. So I guess I jinxed them!

Me, too. I had been taking a PPI for acid reflux for several years, and I started having symptoms that through a lot of reading I decided could be from magnesium deficiency. Then I found it’s actually known that long-term PPI use can cause magnesium deficiency. Like you, I started a magnesium/calcium/zinc supplement,…

Gen X, the forgotten generation. We didn’t even get a name. “X”

Sweet! Mount Vernon’s not all that far from me. My parents’ families were both from that area. The Kroger in Mount Vernon is probably the best grocery store available to me within a 40-mile radius. If I want lamb or something else uncommon, they’ll often have it when nowhere else does.

Yeah, I think it pretty much tastes the way I remember it used to when I was a kid in the 70's. It went through a really dry patty period for about 20 years, but is now much better and flavorful, well-seasoned, has the fresh onions, etc. I enjoy having one sometimes.

We had our own local chip manufacturer in my hometown in Southern IL, Kas, which alas! closed when I was in high school. It smelled so good in that part of town. Their Ozark BBQ chips were great. In the late 80's I lived just off Lindbergh between Creve Coeur and Maryland Heights, then in TX until 2005. I’m back in IL…

Ha! I just watched the movie Driven last week (good movie). There was a scene with Carson calling DeLorean and cussing him out about his unreliable car.

True, that is a problem.

Weird, I’ve lived 2/3 of my life in the greater St. Louis area, but I’ve never heard of these. I just looked at their web site, and I guess a lot of their popularity and growth happened during the 1/3 when I wasn’t in the area. My local Schnucks shows them in stock, so I’ll give them a try.

There was a time, and it wasn’t really that long ago, when we had to use government mandates to make electric and telephone companies to supply service to large parts of the country. Sometimes it’s the best tool for the job and the only way to make important things happen.

When I was a kid, a ‘63 Falcon 2-door was my dream car. Sounds like I lucked out in never owning one!

Glad you mentioned his work in The Santa Clarita Diet. What a great, fun show that was, and all the cast was excellent.

The Second Law took precedence over the Third Law. “A robot Tesla must obey the orders given to it by a human being who is pressing the accelerator.” Not sure what happened to the First Law.

I bet the plastic babies are intended to go in King Cakes.

I use spiced rum. I’m not a big drinker, but I do enjoy my holiday eggnog. I mean, it’s essentially just unfrozen ice cream, or unbaked crème brûlée. Both things that are delicious.