Not where I am, sadly (MA). Indies here are two to three times as expensive and maybe even worse taste and quality wise. I have found one good local frozen pizza, though. I wish they were selling more varieties.

No, it is still dangerous because the the willfully unvaxxed are clogging up hospitals which has knock-on effects for the chronically ill and people with non-Covid serious conditions. Plus, breakthrough infections are a thing, as is Long Covid which we still don’t know a ton about. Not to mention the risk to those who…

I read the first four and part of the fifth books a shot and actually prefer the serialized stories. I don’t know if it’s just the translation (a deeply underappreciated literary art) 0r where my head was at the time, but I found them hard to get into. Normally for me, series get easier, not harder to follow, but not…

Edited because just f Netlix true crime. It’s all gross and exploitative.

I’d argue that panel shows (which we don’t really have over here) cover the topical piece, and it lands more frequently because it’s just comedians riffing instead of needing to produce entire scenes. Why the need for adding half-baked sketch comedy?

Although the great unevenness of SNL does make me wonder about the value of the format. Why bother what is clearly a horrible process for largely middling-to-bad comedy the chance of a few highly topical jokes when you could just do a scripted show of actually good sketches?

It’s creepy AF and not in a “spooky” way but “predator” way

I saw this in college with friends, had no idea what it was going in and I will never forget how horrified and baffled I was when the entire theater cheered at Harold’s first suicide performance. A very fond memory.

A silver lining in the darkness of the cancelled Mexican pizza is finding my people in the commentariat.

Unless the Michelin chefs decide that it’s going to be the new peasant-food-cum-luxury-food. Honestly, would love to see that. Let oxtail get cheap again, ffs.

I was home for Thanksgiving for the first time in ages and we actually had it on in the background when it happened, so I had to explain what Rickrolling was to them. Honestly, such a pure memory compounded by the fact that I first discovered Rick Astley in elementary school when a new girl moved in a few doors down.

It’s kinda brilliant, though—yes, Freya would have been in her element, but it was a chance to shake up the strongest contenders, which it did. And then they decided that floor was not a forbidden ingredient, so...

Absolutely. As much as this year’s cast won me over (particularly given last year’s being very meh), the degree to which they’re rigging it for whatever producer-driven story lines is very clear given past seasons’ decisions/rules.

Are...are we just gonna not say anything about Jurgen dropping his bake, Prue and Paul TASTED IT, and he got through?

Why would a guy who wouldn’t eat out start a restaurant?

Lizzie is delightful and needs a YouTube show. If we ever manage to beat back the pandemic (something I grow more doubtful of everyday), I’d love to see her do a thing where she cooks with Bake Off alums.

yeah, I was so skeeved out when it happened to me that the moment I realized and confirmed there was no condom despite the theatre of putting it on, I just was like, NOPE, said we were done, got up, got dressed, and walked out. He was like, “but why? You need a ride” and I was like, “Fuck, you think I trust you to…

I hope not. Is anyone really clamoring for more Bobby Flay? He makes me turn the channel.

Good. Dude is insufferable in front of and behind the camera.

She also got with John Mayer, so whatever her cooking is like, she has horrible taste in men.