I hope it works out for you too! Is he in Alaska? Just asking because Mr Parade is thinking of working there part of the year, and as cool as it is, goddamn Alaska is far away from everything.

I love how clean the styling is! It's really lovely.

There's something hilarious-yet-maddening about using the WRONG slur. It's like, do you just use every one you know until you get it right?

I'm in a similar boat, in that Mr. Parade is very good at what he does, but since he's in academia there is a fair amount of flexibility built in (open summers, flexible scheduling, some working from home, etc.), whereas I'm in medical school and will have a crazy schedule for approximately forever. We also…

I mean, I guess it's not like they've invaded 90% of the world at one point or another. Oh, wait:

Remind me why I'm supposed to be respecting the Queen, again? Is there a reason beyond the standard be-polite-to-old-people one?

I really, really like this one.

I always figured it was a combination of insecurity and fear of non-conformity. Like, they need to demonize "other" choices that don't reflect their lifestyle (which is the only normal one, obvs.) in order to reassure themselves that they're doing it right.

I'll have to try that! Mine is pretty reactive in all remotely vet-like situations (groomers, dingleberry removal, the vet is a nightmare, etc.) but I think I make it worse because I'm always so worried I'll hurt her with the guillotine style ones, especially because she flails and jerks around.

Dingleberries are always funny. My heeler is a serious dog, and he deals with them by looking uncomfortable and spinning around in circles while still squatting, causing the dingleberry to fly around like the blades of a helicopter. It's hilarious and I am a terrible dog mom for laughing at him.

Oops sorry about that. I'm in love with Maillard reaction, so you were right: caramelize the mushrooms until they're good and browned, add garlic and thyme and sauté until fragrant, deglaze the pan with wine and reduce it, and then add stock to bulk it back out to gravy and do the whole cornstarch thing. For a more…

I LOVE fried green beans! So jealous!

This is mean-sneaky of me, but blenderize it and he might not be able to even tell!

I feel you. My pittie is so, so, so sweet, except that she has the lowest fear/pain tolerance of any animal ever (she has SCREAMED when she got a dingleberry and I had to pull it off her butt) and will snap if she gets scared enough, so a nail clipping involves a muzzle, Mr. Parade sitting on/soothing her, and…

I used to be vegan and I looooooove gravy, and I always did it like this:

My dogs are always stoked on oops-I-forgot-kibble dinners. Chicken and rice? Yay! Nasty Pedigree canned food from the bodega? Yay! Deli turkey on quinoa? Yay! Of course, these are animals that regularly try to eat poop, so I don't feel that bad about it.

I know? Especially because really, me reading books written for people over the age of twelve, and watching movies not from RedBox is that threatening to you?

Mine has a butt chin too! He pretty much looks like Gaston from Beauty and the Beast when unbearded, which is cute, but beard + manbun = Too Much Hot.

For me it's people who are just generally anti-intellectual. Like the guy who joking-not-joking called me pretentious for reading Nabokov on the subway, said I was hipster for liking music he hadn't heard of, and categorically didn't like movies with subtitles. Of course, he was in his thirties and reading The Hunger…

Shampoo and beard oil! Mr Parade has cedar scented beard oil and I looooooove it.