I went off hot dogs for about a decade after witnessing (and cleaning up) a hot dog vomiting incident. I love them now but I am always acutely aware that another incident is not ever out of the question.

The most vomited food is definitely hot dogs. Kids eat hot dogs. Eating-contestants eat hot dogs. Drunk people eat hot dogs. They sell hot dogs at convenience stores and in sports stadiums and from carts on the sidewalk. Plus even the best hot dog ever (and I *love* a good hot dog) is just a few steps away from being…

American zoos do this too, but they don’t record it.

Boooooo “draggin’ wagon”

They’re investigating the mysterious disappearance of Mr. Kim.

I’m a huge fan of IKEA’s rhubarb syrup in a gin & tonic. Yummmm

Everybody please read the linked Washington Post article because it is so good:

Last Week Tonight really does it for me. Nothing will ever be able to fill the hole that The Daily Show and The Colbert Report have left in my heart and my mind, but I think Last Week Tonight and Full Frontal will come the closest.

I think The Daily Show would bring Sam Bee down. TBH, I think The Daily Show might just be dead. RIP. (Or possibly I’m just too old to get it anymore. Which is fine.)

Mondays at 10:30. Before Conan.

She explained on a podcast recently (Nerdist, I think) that she had already told The Daily Show that she did NOT want to take over the show whenever Jon left because she wanted to have her own show that didn’t have all that history. I think this show is going to be amazing, and way better than what she could have done…

Let’s all send this snowstorm some dildos in the mail

It’s way funnier than just the part I mentioned. That particular family was buying ONLY Mountain Dew, Pepsi, and Doritos, and the (I assume) mom complained “This is NOTHING like Publix*! Shopping here is NOT a pleasure.”

THIS MAKES SO MUCH SENSE! There were some real weirdos in my DC-area grocery store last night who did not seem to be aware that a storm was coming, nor how urban grocery shopping works. (“What do you mean ‘Did I bring my own bags’? Why would I bring my own bags to a grocery store???”)

Would Danny and Jesse and Joey be any better though?

I think it’s marketed as YA because book marketing is the worst.

You forgot the part where Bei Bei and Bao Bao have an older brother, Tai Shan, who defected to China in 2005 and has never even met his siblings.

Yeeeeeees! I wouldn’t even classify it as YA.

California by Edan Lepucki

My parents never tried to get me to actually believe Santa was real. We just pretended Santa was real like we pretended fairies and Disney characters and unicorns were real. I am 100% certain I had just as much (if not more?) of a sense of wonder as kids whose parents convinced them that some old dude broke into their…