I re-watched the whole series pretty recently, and I can say with some certainty that Sookie’s appearance/size was never the butt of the joke. She was never treated as a non-viable romantic candidate (see: adorable produce man Jackson). I was watching pretty closely for the fat joke (because how could a show be so…

I have spent sooo many good/bad/messy nights at Piper Down. Also: I know that Mexican place! Here’s how I think they get away with it, because this is what my favorite bar on Main St. does:

The DABC limits you to one ounce of liquor, but you can add an ounce and a half (I think) of flavoring. So you just label a whole…

Here ya go.

If Congress wasn’t such an absolute shit show and really gave a flying fuck about anything other than shouting “ACTIVIST JUDGES” whenever their shit gets checked and/or balanced, they could tie federal funding to not being homophobic dickwads. In theory, anyway. Or POTUS could maybe do the same?

So... he’s a Yelp reviewer that knows a little HTML?

I lived in Utah on-and-off for almost a decade. I am 100% with you on this. (The stipulation is supposedly that you need to intend to buy food, but at our weird little diner at the outskirts of the city I would usually just make them promise to eat a fry off someone else’s plate. If the DABC ever goes calling there,…

My workaround was just getting boozed up at a bar. I think they still need to wait until 10 or 11 to serve, though.

As a server (and I might be the in minority here) I actually didn’t mind questions about the menu. Not respecting whatever level of busy I was on, too many repeat questions or too many mind-bendingly stupid questions, probably. But I kind of appreciated recipe/ingredient/method questions, because I liked learning the…

Or explaining any dish six times to four different members of a party of 8, because there is always at least one person who doesn’t get it until the third time around.

Also: when I worked at a vegan place, large parties usually had at least a small (but vocal) contingent who hadn’t been told by their dining companions…

what is this gif from? i want to stare at it all day long.

My grandmother’s still fucking alive and one of my mom’s brothers turned into a massive dick over her estate. A couple of the sisters started setting things up so they would be in place before she loses the capacity to make her own decisions (a near certainty, given her cognitive state and projected lifespan). And…

I briefly attended a public high school in Salt Lake in the early aughts. Thing might’ve change or they might be different in another district, or maybe I’m misremembering, but I thought seminary was a scheduled part of the day, in place of a class (they would cover it with a “free period,” which of course, was…

Fifteen year old me listened to waaaayyy too much Grateful Dead, but that would be pretty surreal. I’m not great about listening to new artists, so sometimes I feel that way when we would listen to Pandora at work.

(PS, I saw a vinyl Rocksteady album in the window of an Urban Outfitters obviously set up to be…

I would probably be pretty disappointed that I took so long to get to grad school and not stoked on my singledom, but we’d share a bowl and everything would be fine.

That's the most frustrating thing. You can't sit there and go, no, look, whatever fucking Ayn Rand said in her goddamn works of fiction, the social science and doesn't add up. If you disagree with them, you're either brainwashed sheeple and don't know any better or gay-agenda baby killers hell-bent on destroying…

Oof, Men’s Health. As an exercise in J-school, I had to edit a piece one of my professors wrote for MH, and I kept going- what is this shit? I needed to go over the piece with a male classmate because I couldn’t tell if the prof was trolling me or not.

Interesting fact I learned this week— according to a Pew Research survey, liberals are more likely to unfriend people with different political viewpoints.

My working theory on this is that, for example, I won't unfriend someone about differences in tax policy. I will unfriend the fuck out of someone if they say…

Oh yeah, and make sure you don't go for some lib'ral brainwash degree like sociology. Make sure it's a REAL degree, like engineering or something, and then buck up and smile and ignore the endemic sexism when you get into the field.

(eta- I agreed with you too quickly and missed your later points, which are pretty much…

b-b-b-but Ayn Rand said selfishness was a moral good. You wouldn't disagree* with that sparkling mind, would you???

That show was over far too soon.