Just on Tuesday I had an amazing grilled cauliflower dish for a fancy office “going away lunch” for a coworker. Rainbow cauli slabs, grilled to a light char, with za’atar, zhug and some kind of citrus (maybe sour orange?), with steamed green beans and mint, and a generous amount of good olive oil over all of it. It…

Indians know how to do up some cauliflower.

If only she had paid attention during her self-defense lessons.

“And when attending large events, the Queen’s plate is chosen at random with the logic that if someone did want to poison her, they would have to poison all the plates of all in attendance.”

Get fucked Bob. He has donated to Kevin McCarthy and other Republicans, he doesn’t want to get “political” around the issue. What a coward, I have a good friend who works at Disney World and she’s LGBTQ, she probably deserves more respect then another soulless billionaire who stands for nothing but profit. Christ this…

It’s not a “weird attitude”, it’s pure greed

The editorial staff and movie reviewers were Chicago based union employees, and they were all drummed out of their jobs when the company relocated. Many of the TV reviews were written by freelancers, who voluntarily stopped contributing in solidarity. The relocation was just a ploy to dissolve the union.

My guess is that a lot of the new writers are free lancers who G/O can pay less. I think that’s part of G/O’s general plan from the get-go.

“I’m Michael. I’m a writer in New York City.”

Ball Things Considered

“This American Butt Hosted By Ira Ass”

God Bless Chuck Tingle

It’s tough for even the really talented people to break out into other things; Kate McKinnon has done movies, but nothing huge, and she’s doing a Tiger King thing on Peacock right after TK2 proved that people don’t really give a shit anymore about Joe Exotic or Carol. Cecily Strong did, what was it, Schmigadoon? 

Steady gig. Pays reasonably well. You’re famous but not so famous that it becomes an inconvenience.  It’s not super reliable as a platform for future success so leaving involves an uncertain future.

Jazz in the 1950s had a pretty bad survival rate too. Not coincidentally, heroin was pretty common in that scene too.

Oh no :(. Mark Lanegan was a real one, damn. Since we had an Oasis piece last night, enjoy this bit from Lanegan’s memoir showing his “love” for Liam Gallagher.

Taxi

I always hate this mentality that shows in the past were just oh so much edgier or whatever and are impossible in today’s current climate or something.

Well, the last President seemingly had no issue with inviting people to the Capitol Building to visit Congress.

“....In the mean time thank you to Congress for inviting me to the White House …⁣”