Good luck!

I read a few years ago that my home county in New Jersey has the densest population of white tailed deer in the world.  They are brazen, cocky motherfuckers around here, that's for sure.  And like the does on your trail, they'll let people walk right up to them.  There's a doe with twin fawns who live in my…

Not fitnessy, but I'm all excited by fashion these days, now that I've got a whole new wardrobe.  I'm all about green dresses lately, specifically this one from eShakti and this one from Boden.  When I had the latter one on last week, I got a compliment on it from a stranger.  That's the first clothing compliment I've…

Your house sounds so stylish!!  That rug is awesome.

My sister (@avclub-58deef2e771fccf51741836cedecf5e8:disqus ) and I have extremely unfocused (or perhaps we should call it "eclectic"?) tastes.  When decorating our house we find ourselves leaning toward all kinds of styles that really look best when done with a consistent approach, like Edwardian or Mod.  So we just…

There was a tree service that had a contract with the previous owners of my house, and after we moved in they just kept up the service.  The first spring we lived there, some idiot on their crew screwed up whatever kind of tree-feeding formula they were using on our foundation plantings and managed to kill everything…

Isn't being a grown-up the best?

Hey, I have that same pimple!  Twinsies!!

Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - "Dusty Wreath"
Tomahawk - "South Paw"
Japancakes - "Duluth 7.5"
Grails - "Silk Rd"
Melvins - "A History of Bad Men"

Creamed corn!  I can't believe it's this late in the year and I still haven't made any!  Although now's really the best time, as the corn's getting sweeter with the colder nights.  Mmmm…

Speaking from experience, your Sriracha Salt makes the BEST gift.

Nothing could be easier than pickled onions!  If you're thinking just of quick-pickled ones, I make mine with 1/4 cup of red wine vinegar, 1/4 cup of water, 1 tbsp of kosher salt, and 1 tbsp of sugar.  Just mix that all together until the salt and sugar are dissolved, then drop in one thinly sliced small red onion. …

"The killer is the guest star."

"A hot Saskatchewan covered in scorpions" is the best description I think I've ever heard for Arizona.  I lived for three years in the Phoenix area and finally had to leave for two reasons: scorpions and the weather. 

Hey, you leave Drumline out of this!  That's a wonderful movie, and the stakes for the big final drum battle are totally worth war-movie treatment!

Exactly.  No matter how you look at it, the math just isn't working on this pairing.

Congratulations to you and the whole Broccoli family!  And nice work, Mrs. Broccoli, for being so quick at having babies.

A million times yes to this one!

That's a really clever idea!

Well, the six years of staring at the apple trees, willing them to grow apples but getting nothing were a lot less worthy of jealousy.  If that's any help.  :)