"What's the matter Lisa?  Is the food too spicy?"
"I can see through time!"

Especially if it's cooked.  It totally gets mellowed out when steamed, too, like I imagine could happen with Spanish rice.  I'm a big advocate for garlic in anything people put onions in, because the garlic brings a whole other level of umami to the proceedings.

Made a couple of desperation, cook-what's-in-the-pantry/fridge meals this past week, but they both turned out really well.  First was really simple: fry up some Italian sausage and onions, add chopped greens and a can of garbanzos.  That was it.  It was delicious.

As far as acid flashbacks go, I'd say a trip to the island of Sodor is pretty pleasant.  Not a Blue Meanie to be found!

Now that I have a 2-year-old, and he's really into Thomas and Friends, I sometimes get to hear George Carlin's voice narrating the stories.  It's nice to hear his voice in a new context, delivering material that's at least new to me.

Hey, @avclub-f0282b5ff85e7c9c66200d780bd7e72e:disqus , remember: you are not to use your knowledge of the Way of the Poison Fist for aggression.  Seek calmness, tranquility, and alignment of your chi with the cosmos.

Do you guys ever get the McRib™ over there?  I often wonder how much appeal Bar-B-Q sauce has in other countries.

No, I think it's every Justin Timberlake video.

@avclub-e463f97ca6bc46b1ba706474e108c7e1:disqus , I might see you on this PBS special that's on tonight, all about that woman who went to live among the chimpanzees.  It's called Jane Goodall in the Family.*

No, seriously, I looked Keach up to find out what he had gone to prison for, and went from there.

I know!  I've been down the Wikipedia rabbit hole this morning, learning more about Reading Gaol, its other most famous inmate, Oscar Wilde, and the Pennsylvania prison reform system that was copied so widely in the 19th century.

Well, to the best of my understanding, he misuses both "anathema" and "polemic," so maybe he didn't do too well on the GRE.

There are some actors who fit perfectly into roles set in narrow eras of history, and others who could play characters in any era.  I guess I'm thinking of this having just finished Season 2 of Game of Thrones.  Not everyone could convincingly be cast as a character on that show, regardless of his or her talent as an…

A physics professor of mine once demonstrated why hydrogen is a dangerous fuel.  He filled a huge balloon, about the size of a beach ball, with hydrogen and tied it with a string to the water faucet built into the large laboratory lectern.  He had attached a birthday-cake candle to the end of a yard-stick, and lit…

Bert Cooper is a perfect cop name.

Oh, man, could you look through the morning paper and point out prophecies from the Bible that are coming true, too? I've also got some Leonard da Vinci paintings to analyze that I don't understand.

Plane, skyscrapers —- it all fits!

@avclub-a1967e6de4ca99fb2635d94b99453928:disqus  and @Scrawler2:disqus , you're right that the Allies didn't fight Nazi Germany to stop the Holocaust, because the death camps weren't operating until 1942, three years after the war began in Europe.  Before that, the concentration camps existed, of course, but they…

Cool!  I got an "ordination" to perform a wedding several years back, and have done another since, but I've never been totally comfortable with that, since I am a religious enough person to know that my church probably would frown on my getting "ordained," no matter how un-seriously I took that.  Anyway, I told the…

I did not know about this, either, but now I must see it! I imagine both of us would be in for a world of pity.