In the sentence about Dr Charles Brainman, you probably didn’t mean “alibis”. I think you meant “aliases”.

Fuck... why isn’t Sacha Baron Cohen’s 15-minutes-of-fame over yet?

Or at least recognize that there are those of us who don’t watch movies & TV & streaming media & read books *for a living*, and include in your “Best of the Year” (or “best of six month”) summaries a recommendation of which two or three to watch/read/listen-to if we have only a limited amount of time?

Among the many scary movies I won’t watch: Saw, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Halloween, etc etc etc. And their sequels.

Not my genre.

This was probably my least-favorite SV season, but my favorite SV season finale. I’m guessing that when I rewatch the season I’ll like it more, just from knowing how great the end is.

Also if the show had been canceled and ended with this episode, I’d have been happy. This would have been a great way to end the series.

I’ve done that round-trip at least three times a year for the last 40 years, so I pass Anderson’s at least six times each year. I’m 58 now, and am ashamed to say I haven’t stopped at Anderson’s since I was in my twenties. Every time I see the sign, I reflexively think “tourist trap” and drive merrily past. Thanks for…

I started Infinite Jet a long long time ago and enjoyed it for a while, and then got bored, and put it aside, figuring *maybe* I’d come back to it one day. Twenty years later, I haven’t touched it again and still have no desire to. I’m a big fan of DFW’s shorter works, but IJ just asked too much of me.

Not a vegetarian by any means (I love the taste of meat), but I at least have respect for the idea that an animal gave up its life for me to eat its flesh. So if there’s meat in my order, and it may have started cooking, I won’t leave the restaurant under any conditions until I’m served, because I don’t want the…

YAMS? What’s wrong with ‘yams’?

I understand that in the US ‘yam’ is often used as a synonym for ‘sweet potato’, and they’re not the same thing. But I’m a white person living in Uganda, and yams and sweet potatoes are two entirely different things here. If I don’t use the word ‘yams’, I have no way of talking about…

Read the post, and with all the mentions of Zola, I thought “Is Zola paying for this?” Then I looked closer and saw that yes, this was a sponsored article by Zola. Finding that out made me dismiss any actual *lessons* I might have learned from this article.

Keys underneath: fails for me because I grab the item on top and don’t even see the keys.

Works for me: I have a ritual I perform before leaving the house. There are six items I have to have with me always, and each goes in one particular pocket or location on my body. So I pat down my body at each location, while…

The Milgram experiment DID damage many of the participants psychologically. It was an interesting experiment, but couldn’t be performed today (literally) because of ethics concerns primarily based on how it messed some of the participants up.

I LOVE Derren Brown. I’ve seen most of his work, and think he’s fantastic. But I’m 100% with you on this, Aimée. This looks like it goes WAY too far. I’m hoping that the trailer is misleading in some way, but knowing Derren Brown, it’s probably not. :(

Good for you for doing this! I’m looking forward to reading your posts about it.

YES to not understanding the aversion to doggie-bags! When I go to a restaurant I like, I usually OVER-0rder just so I can have nice leftovers and a good lunch the next day!

DON’T CARRY YOUR PASSPORT! Make a photocopy of the important pages and carry *that* with you. Leave your actual passport in the hotel safe.

* Walk. Start at Centraal Station and just walk. Walk walk walk walk walk wherever your feet and heart take you. Keep walking.

Thanks for pointing out the (unfortunately very common) misuse of “starving”. I successfully purged that word in its non-literal meaning from my vocabulary (in cases when it means “very hungry”) about 30 years ago and it’s still a pet peeve of mind when people use it non-literally.

What if our server is wearing a name tag? Does that make it automatically ok to use their name without asking? It seems like it would, but it always feels a little creepy to me.

I read this while drinking a Dr Pepper in a glass, and looked down at the glass, and the inside is coated with Dr Pepper carbonation bubbles.

So now I’m wondering - is this all true for sodas as well? Or just beer? (I don’t think there’s any difference between soda and beer carbonation - but maybe there is?)