Oh my god, that Echo.  That car was just perfect for that character, and stuck with me far beyond any of the rest of the movie.  It caused me serious existential strife; last year I finally decided I had to get a new car because I felt my 2002 Prius looked too much like it, and had consequently become too much of a…

I'm not going to say that I followed the link in this post to that and re-read the entire thing… but I'm not going to say I didn't.  That one was a true gem!

@avclub-de4a08d644135b09bd7e1a592dff156b:disqus I've tried living elsewhere, but there's just nothing like Central Jersey.  ::long, dreamy sigh::  (Okay, I just like not having to pump my own gas.)

I'm in Central Jersey, actually, not far from Trenton, so I probably do get XPN…  I wish I'd known about this a few months ago!  Dulli's such a reliably great interview, not unlike Donal Logue here, come to think of it.  I suspect it's hard to get a word in edgewise with those two.

In my job as a bank teller lo those years ago, the break room TV was always turned on to whichever network it was that aired Passions.  My coworkers were all fans of the soap that was on before it.  I thought I was so above soaps, and for a while would sit quietly in the corner reading a book which the other tellers…

A good, meaty Random Roles is one of my very favorite things about AVC.  I'm actually not very well-versed in the Donal Logue filmography; I came here for the Greg Dulli (and wasn't disappointed), but stayed for the chatty, "everyone was so nice!" reminiscences.  

My angsty teenage years were in the early '90s, and while they weren't my top-three albums at the time, Afghan Whigs' Gentlemen, Faith No More's Angel Dust, and NIN's Pretty Hate Machine were among my top-rotation listens.  Then I spent the next 20 years growing up and not really listening to much music.  Pretty much…

Walker, Texas Ranger is truly spectacular.  I don't watch Conan either, and had never even heard of this lever, so imagine my delight to discover that "Walker told me I have AIDS" was a reference everyone at AVC thought was funny.  It was a little disappointing then to discover that actual fluency in Walker wasn't…

That was always how I read it.  I didn't realize there was any message to Forrest Gump besides just Forrest drifting along through one big Boomer checklist.

The choreography isn't even that interesting!  I hate that commercial!

I don't know if you'll see this (a day late and a dollar short?), but the triple rum black pepper cake from "Baked Elements" is so good that no one would ever think it's tacky.  I made it with Myers's Dark, too, because that seems to be in the sweet spot where quality and baking-worthy price converge.  I'm sure it…

@avclub-ff3315df974a82424353d399b7a68c07:disqus Sitting and looking at it is a perfectly acceptable usage for fabric.  Goodness knows I do that with enough of mine.

The "plants taking over the living room" thing is one of the worst parts of spring.  We only have one south-facing, sunny windowsill in my house, and for years that's where we started all our seedlings.  For two months up until mid-May when we could move everything outside, it was just crammed with pepper and tomato…

I bet your peas are fine!  They're cold hardy — they can take it!

My favorite is when I put my iPod on shuffle, listen to it for a couple of hours, and think, "Wow, my iPod's really feeling block-ish today.  It's, like, playing whole albums."  And only then realize that it wasn't on shuffle at all.  I'm incredibly observant about my surroundings.

Yeah!  I liked that one!  Commercials are pretty much the only pop culture I do a good job of keeping up on.

I had the same work problem.  The only color printer on my floor is in my office, and while there aren't a lot of people who use it, one of them was a chatter.  A desperately needy one.  Who wore bubblegum scented perfume in a failed attempt to mask the smell of her cigarettes.  She'd come in to pick up one of her…

@LJo1:disqus Hawthorne Threads is like crack.  It's just like, "I'll take one of everything!"  But dammit, NO MORE FABRIC!  Not until I finish a few more quilts.  Generally my justification for starting so many projects without finishing them is that I'm a "process" crafter, not a "product" one.  But… it's kind of…

Your father was a visionary!

Man, a six-pack of kale would be the worst thing ever for certain quarters.