Fact: Every pasta primavera I have eaten has been disappointing. I expect it to have some good flavor to go with the richness, like an alfredo sauce, but it's just bland milkiness. J. Kenji López-Alt of The Food Lab seems to have cracked this problem, with a pretty good and easy iteration here that uses some creme…

I rewatched 10 Things I Hate About You recently, and realized it fits alongside Clueless in the incredibly specific genre of "Classic of English Literature Adapted As a High School Story, Featuring a Ska Band You Were Into in the '90's". If anyone wants to help me write a version of Canterbury Tales where they're all…

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David Bowie - "Plan" [Instrumental]
Bad Religion - "All Fantastic Images"
The Clash - "Junkie Slip"
Elvis Costello and the Attractions - "This Year's Girl"
Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - "Under the Hedge"

It doesn't matter much to me, as long as it's dead.

You can further improve your odds by driving around by yourself every now and then- when you ride alone, you ride with Hitler. So if 5% of the time you're in the car with History's Greatest Monster, the odds that you would wind up in a car with a run-of-the-mill murderer on top of that are astronomically against. …

I don't know about you, but my experience with taxis is outnumbered by my experience with the video game, Crazy Taxi. And, to a lesser extent, Jim Jarmusch's Night On Earth.

"They’re not constrained by parents, physics, or a moral code… They torment their Freudian psychoanalyst and mock Satan and undermine the authority of a Barney-esque pretender. Mayhem is their genius. They’re a lot like Amelia Bedelia in that way, if, as I do, you read Amelia Bedelia as a rebel saboteur of the…

He was tangentially referenced in a Simpsons joke twenty years ago, so we remember him better than out mothers' birthdays.

That's an odd place for nuns.

"I'm sorry, the correct answer was 'C'. You still have one more chance to win Carl Kassell's voice on your home answering machine."

That… doesn't sound like the sort of thing you can learn on the internet. I think you can literally everything else on the internet except that.

Sure, if the kettle is an insufferable twat.

'Twas ever thus.

"It's an intellectual property, or IP, but it's in the public domain, so there's no charge. We can use this IP freely."

Give 'Em Enough Rope is underrated, I feel, and I think the loud-as-hell Sandy Pearlman production works best on the opener. Topper's a fantastic drummer, and I love the gunshot snare that kicks the record off- it reminds me of nothing else so much as the similar one on "Like a Rolling Stone".

Upvote for the best Stones song ever.

Last funeral I went to was followed immediately after by a baptism of the deceased's grandson- their old pastor was in town, so they just had him do it at the house after. The baby was christened Kyle and it occurred to me at the time that I was literally standing inside the third verse of Springsteen's "Reason to…

Started Bleak House on a plane ride over the weekend. I grabbed this off of my girlfriend's bookshelf- it's her copy from college, but by the sticker on the spine, it was used when she bought it. So I'm unsure if the pencil annotations are hers or a previous owner's. Mostly they seem to be eyerolling ("BLEH" and…

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Titus Andronicus - "No Future, Part 4: No Future Triumphant"
Rage Against the Machine - "Roll Right"
Jimmy Eat World - " A Praise Chorus"
Rancid - "The Wolf"
The Gadjits - "Cleveland, OH"

I assume they would have the same repulsed reaction as they do to holy water and crosses, but it struck me the other day that a vampire could perhaps subsist on transubstantiated wine instead of biting victims.