I think I’ve only really liked them from one Chinese restaurant in SF back in the day when I briefly lived in the Inner Sunset. They used a LOT more scallions than most and ratio of crab to cream cheese was closer than most places. (That place also had the best twice-cooked pork. Man, I miss SF Chinese restaurants.…

When I first saw the header image, I though it was a pistachio layer, and now I want to try that.

The book messed me up as a teen, so I’ll probably watch this despite Marilyn Mason whom I cannot stand. I still can’t see James Marsden as Stu though—he’s way too pretty. Skaarsgard and Goldberg seem particularly well cast, though.

Also the use of “Don’t Dream It’s Over” was pretty perfect.

Spy was cute, and he was awesome in Green Wing. (I never see any love for Green Wing.)

It’s telling just how much looks matter in our society that people would rather risk dying or living with a serious chronic condition than have a droopy face. (I almost don’t blame them because as a fat lady, I know stigma is real.)

They just can’t stop being mad that two Black girls have the audacity to be from a well-connected, high profile family and are living their lives.

I guess Rowan Atkinson needs another fancy car.

I’m so sad about it. Like, was it really that hard to just postpone the production until after the vaccine? It sounded like all of the actors really loved this show and would have given it priority when scheduling.

I hear the Attorneys General of New California and New Nevada are very interested in this case.

I remember hating a lot of the stuff in my American lit and British/Euro lit classes because I just couldn’t relate to any of it. Just because a teenager can comprehend a novel doesn’t mean it’s appropriate. (Looking at you, Madame Bovery, which I should probably re-read now that I’m 40.)

A significant part of the Secondary English education community has been pushing to retire the old white canon for literally decades, and it’s funny, the only pushback I got when I was a high school English teacher was from parents because I wasn’t assigning enough of the “right” books. I took a middle road of mixing…

I’m surprised he hadn’t contracted it already—I thought he had.

You know anything coming from “palace sources” is so far up the royals’ butts that it’s hard to take seriously. The hangers-on have made their whole lives conforming to and sustaining that institution they must be terrified that it could conceivably end in their lifetime because what will they do then?

I just hope we get more women characters outside of Themyscira, which was my biggest beef with the first movie after the awful CGI and nothing villain.

The page turner is just :chef’s kiss:

I was like five or six when they got married, so of course I thought her wedding ensemble was perfect.

I hate them all, but it would be delicious if he never got to be king.

I’d ask if he rather his special needs children died rather than be special needs, but I’d be afraid of the answer. Ableism is a hell of a drug.

I agree with most of what you said, but the Gates Foundation isn’t perfect. Just because they’re big doesn’t mean they’re infallible. They’re big because they’re rich AF, not because they’re particularly effective. They’ve done a lot of good work in the health sphere, but their work in public education in this…