Question for Julianne (The Identity Police).... Can you please tell me what clothing styles were not made popular by other cultures so that I can avoid offending you with my white privelage?

Quick everyone, what are your failsafe dinner/desserts?

"Well, I can cook food, and the food I have cooked hasn't killed anyone, or caused mass vomitings, so that must mean I'm pretty great! That's all this cooking stuff is really, preparing food that is technically edible, and my food is the most technically edible of them all! All the accolades to me!"

This should be a main article post - Paging Mr. Shrayber - Mr. Shrayber?

the fact that he cooked the fish first only further proves what an idiot he is. just ugh.

bottled. sauces.

Amen to all of this. It's one thing to be able to follow the steps of a recipe, and another entirely to have the whole kitchen (timing, clean-up) under control.

I've learned that if someone is actually a great cook, their friends will usually do the bragging to others on their behalf! Everyone I've ever met who claimed to be amazing wasn't...and I was once a pro cook, as were many of my friends, so we usually just sip our beers and side-eye when some friend of friend is…

Wow. Part of being a good cook, or any kind of cook really, is being prepared and having a plan, not sending people out to grocery shop at 8:30 the night of the dinner. Another part is serving hot food hot and cold food cold. Also, cleaning up as you go (sometimes I am able to clean all the dishes but the ones we're…

My kitchen is the size of a matchbook and my cooking is amazing, but I just cook, I don't announce it to everyone at all times all the time. It needs to be judiciously done. I have ex-boyfriends who tell me they miss my cooking as the first thing that comes out of their mouths...which brings me to another epiphany -…

One of my favorite things is when guys brag about their cooking skills to me. I'll talk to them for awhile about it, and then casually mention I used to be a chef. They either blanch or take it as a challenge. I don't intend to scare or challenge them, but the reaction is always funny.

Hell of a handtruck. Really nice.

Yay for your mom. Tell it, mom!

I don't understand how anyone can not have cooking skills in this day and age. There are step by step instructions to cook absolutely anything on the internet. I could get if he was too lazy to do a good job, but it sounds like he worked for hours making like 5 different dishes, and he some how fucked them all up?

I am a decent (albeit unimaginative) cook, and even I know not to do this.

We had people over at our apartment last night. Only 5 friends, plus my husband and myself. We're more of the sink into the couch and watch tv types, reveling in our mutual introversion, and don't usually entertain at our home, so this was a change of pace.

Holy shit, I just stumbled upon (through a pirat stream of the playoffs, nonetheless (a stream that plays Touchdown Nigger...)) this PSA. Apparently it's from last spring, but I hadn't seen it. Huge triggerwarning:

So today my sister took me to this bomb Korean spa where you pay 25 dollars and get to go to all these mineral saunas and stuff. It was all good but what she neglected to tell me(on purpose) was that the woman's section with the hot tubs and showers was naked only. Like a little Korean lady will stop you if you are…

A merry Saturday night to you all. It's stop and go packing, what with the foot hurting, but here's my progress so far. Small totes are paperbacks, Medium totes are trade paperbacks, and the biggin's are the hardcover books. Looking at what's left on the shelves, this is about 60-70% of the total, with mostly…