Once I stop sniffling over here (dad/daughter stuff always gets me weepy), I need to know how to keep zinnias alive for more than two or three days. I bought myself two bouquets of them from FreshDirect this week because I *love* them, and two days later they were dead in my window. (And yes, not buying flowers from a…

Irises are a great purple flower, too! And I don’t (really) just say that because they’re one of my favorite flowers ever, I swear.

Kirk still has to see a certain Opera House.

But really though: Northbot!

The scorn in their little pursed, smirky mouths! I need one of these in my life that can just follow me around and look at people judgmentally on my behalf.

Seriously? FU for this! It’ll be in my head for a damn week!

This is actually one of the huge drawbacks in our house. Not that we have anything against KS, but he’s not Snake. Also, having never watched 24, I can only hear Ace from ‘Stand By Me’ (you know, because clearly KS hasn’t been in any other movies/shows in the last almost 30 years).

Or, on the flip side, see the byline and do a little dance of “yay intro paragraph goodness”?

In the league I commish (and the two others that my husband does), we have notorious problems getting people to respond to shit at all. There needs to be a corresponding article to this one called:

You owe him absolutely no justification or explanation for this article, which is totally valid and fine (not that you were remotely seeking my approval, mind you). Don’t engage the trolls, it just brings you down to their level.

As a lifelong Indians fan in the midst of suffering through a season in which they’re dead last in the AL Central with 2 months to go, I suppose I’ll continue to do what I always do: live on past glory (not that I’ve ever seen anything but also-rans, mind you) and whine a lot.

Exactly this! I know tons of people who’ve traveled there who don’t speak any Japanese. My husband and I are planning a trip next spring, and well, I can count to ten in Japanese, that’s pretty much it. Don’t let the language barrier be an impediment! And if it makes you really nervous but you still really want to go,…

So next time around, avoid the wrath of boss by using your personal email, on your personal phone, and not using the office wifi.

As a Destiny “widow,” I just want to say that this,

I’m not a Destiny player so much as I happen to sit on the same couch next to one for long periods of time and I know way more about the game than I should for someone who doesn’t actually play it. That said, Mr. AGS was reporting similar issues yesterday. He says:

I’m about 4 years your senior. My first real sports memories are of Brian Sipe and terrible Indians teams. I don’t have kids, I live in NYC now, but still I feel like I could’ve written this (just substitute “My mom is from North Jersey...I could’ve been a Yankees fan” for your dad/the Steelers).

Because show world <> book world. The end. GRRM has said it a million times. The books are the books, the show is the show. There are overlapping details, but stop trying to theorize what might happen in the books based on what you see in the show. They’re distinct entities.

So best I can tell, this is what you’re proposing: Faceless men want everyone to die. Faceless men know how to kill people. Faceless men work throughout history to engineer a giant cataclysmic event that may or may not be in league with the White Walkers so that they can unleash dragons and end civilization. That’s…

Forget a garlic press at all (what else are you going to use it for, ever? it just takes up space when you’re not pressing garlic) and use a microplane zester to grate your garlic. It’s much more versatile, can be used for way more applications, and does exactly the same job (generally better, in fact) than a press.

Forget a garlic press at all (what else are you going to use it for, ever? it just takes up space when you’re not…

It’s also written from a Maester’s perspective and may or may not be completely speculative. You’re basing a lot of what you deem to be historical “fact” (as far as fact goes in a fictional world, that is) on that compendium alone, and as with almost everything in this series, there’s a substantial amount of hearsay,…