Happy birthday!!

That is such a fascinating set of pictures.

Babe.  I don't think I have to go into any detail explaining why.  Or rather, I can't go into any detail explaining why without starting to bawl at my desk just thinking about it.

That's a great choice — that one kills me every time.

That's exactly what happened to us with Comcast.  I don't think it's paranoid at all to suspect that's the problem.

I canned peach salsa this weekend (from peaches I grew myself!  The squirrels finally didn't get all my peaches!  WOOOOOOOO!) and had some leftover that didn't fit in the jars.  So it was incorporated into a "Mexicana Pork" from the cookbook "Smoke & Spice".  Basically you rub a pork loin with a blend of allspice,…

I got through four of your five songs and thought, "Well, Smacky's music was making her happy today," so I'm glad to see that I was right.  :)

I have to thank all of you fashionable people for being an enormous inspiration to me…  ::deep breath::  You guys, I'm wearing a dress today.  I haven't worn a dress/skirt in over ten years, and the last one was an outlier that I had to wear to a cousin's wedding.  It's been probably since my sophomore year in high…

Mine was a Jeep Wrangler, that my mom bought for me in college, so maybe in 1998?  Yeah, I'm spoiled.  It was a nice car, but I never really felt super-safe in it, and was happy to trade it in after moving to Phoenix, where shitty drivers abound.  (Its replacement was a Saab 9-5, which I loved waaaaaaaaaaaaaay more…

Vincenzo Vasi - "Cosa Prova Una Scimmia Nello Spazio"  Ahh, nothing like starting your day off with some solo theremin.  My iPod wants to show off what a hipster it is, I guess.
Melvins - "Roadbull"
Big Business - "Cold Lunch"  A Melvins/my-favorite-part-about-the-Melvins double-header!  That makes up for the theremin!
NI…

Congratulations and condolences, all at once. 

It takes a strong constitution to watch Mrs. Columbo, that's for sure.  I couldn't make it through the pilot that was included on my Columbo DVDs.  Beyond just the staggeringly misguided casting, it's a really jarring shift from the sublime awesomeness of Columbo proper to the… I don't even know how to describe Mrs.…

I didn't think you sounded bitchy at all!  In fact, it was like you were reading my mind, but writing it all out much more hilariously than I could.  :)

I'm glad that you clarified that he was talking about money, because I would have been like, "Damn, that guy really likes cheese."

Hey, do you work in the office next door to mine?  Because that office is full of 37-year-old pharmaceutical company temp workers.

@avclub-d542a3419c3ad57206a96bcc86155ebc:disqus When I grill corn I do it kind of halfway.  I take off most of the husks save the inner layer or two, then soak the ears while the grill heats up.  Then grill until the husks are all charred and shriveling, so you get some sear on the kernels but not all over the ear. …

I'm an administrative assistant at a large company.  Well, technically I'm a "project coordinator" but it's all just "secretary".

Happy birthday!  Staying home is definitely the way to go.  My office used to do birthdays exactly how you describe, so I would always pretend to be too busy to drop by when the cake was being portioned out.  One day I was studiously avoiding one such party even after three different people came by my desk to say,…

MARIOKART!  MARIOKART!  MARIOKART!

Like @LJo1:disqus mentioned above, I've met her in person, and I still suck at commenting.  But the meet-up was super fun!