If Garth Brooks recorded an album with full-length versions of "Mr. Robotron", "Love Bat", and of course "Fred's Slacks", he would deserve all the CMA's / Grammy's / Jimmy James' Choice Awards our society could muster.

Oh, you mean Hootie.

Sometimes I'm not sure if I want to have any kids of my own, or if I just want some young people to give copies of Frog and Toad are Friends to and have it not be creepy.

In Canada, today's Tom Sawyer gets high on you. But in America, you* get high on Tom Sawyer!

They may not be yet, but I'm confident a World Series win is just the thing they need to put them back in the running.

Gumbo, jambalaya, shrimp creole… it's in all your favorite New Orleans speciallities!

We had a bunch of celery to use up, and so I went and made some shrimp creole. Fairly easy, and I think it turned out well.

If The Muppets can lead the parade, surely they can lead us out of this age of fear-mongering and willful ignorance.

In that it has blood coming out of the steaks, it has blood coming out of their… wherever.

Ted Leo cast in lead role of Lin Manuel Miranda's Broadway adaptation of Ocarina of Time.

That backwards-talking dwarf can really flow.

Ninety-nine and forty-four / one hundred percent pure.

That Gonzaga student didn't know Beastie Boys or LL Cool J! Wasted youth, indeed.

Should we take the long-term view when it comes to Donald Trump? I think that we should. And the long-term view is that in billions of years, Donald Trump is going to actually expand as he grows into a red giant in his natural lifespan as a star, until he encompasses the Earth, right.

Haven't tried it, but I can look for it next time I go beer shopping.

This began from The Jimtown Store Cookbook, which I really like. The Washington Post shared the chili recipe here, though I suggest a few modifications:
1.) Omit the green beans. Green beans in chili are weird.
2.) 3/4 c bulgur in place of the quinoa- it looks like they made a change from the cookbook version to make it…

This is brilliant and true and I am going to steal it and I wanted to let you know.

I don't think it's the number of fingers- he has five digits here, too -it's that they're not all long and tapered like, you know, a frog's.

It's okay, America doesn't actually got that much talent, he can take a break.

A few autumnal dinners- I made some vegetarian chili, with chickpeas, kidney beans, and bulgur, paired with cornbread*. Followed that up with this stuffed acorn squash from Martha Stewart.