Speaking of “shops are full,” I decided to let the dealer do my front brakes this time and replace my intake manifold runner that’s throwing codes, and the earliest they had was three weeks away!

it all seems to be enlightened centrist bullshit

Time for Mainers to flood their state lawmakers with calls and letters. No form letters or astroturf or anger. Write a unique e-mail or an actual paper letter, call for a meeting appointment, be sincere and polite, attend local campaign events.

I’ve made a variation of this recipe and it’s just delightful on a grilled all-beef dog with a snappy skin.

Halsey got impregnated and gestated a human child in Halsey’s uterus. Halsey is an individual human, not a collection of multiple humans.

Medium-rare rib eye steak with a blue cheese, mushroom and onion sauce.

Kevin Smith: The Uwe Boll of Gen X nerds.

*blinks*

Sounds like it’s basically Zima now.

For us, it was Boones Farm for the girls and Genny Cream Ale for the boys (with occasional shots of peach brandy).

not quite the same as “not present.”

I think Boone’s farm was still wine (albeit flavored apple wine) when we bought it for our girlfriends in the late 1970s-early 1980s. Wonder why they changed.

2008 Dodge Grand Caravan

I love pizza places that make hoagie rolls out of their pizza dough. So chewy, and the rolls soak up the juices perfectly.

I wasn’t impressed at all, really

tl;dr: Things change.

Riley has recently taken to moving closer to my head at night while sleeping, so I have the pleasure of occasionally waking up to frito feet jammed into my face.  Not pleasant.

to the point where the head-up display was cut off.

My mother-in-law’s 2014 base-model Accord with 34,000 granny miles on it would trade in for $16,000 today according to KBB. Trade in, not private party.

I love potato salad, but rarely make it because nobody in my family will eat it.