Also - it's Portland Dining Month.  A bunch of the area's snazzier restaurants put together special 3-course menus for $29 a person.  Some have very specific menus, while others let you build your own meal from a list of options.  This past week my partner and I went to Tabla Meditteranean Bistro, only to discover…

My blueberries and strawberries are ripe - it's time to bust out the ice cream maker.  I had my doubts at first but that thing has proven to be one of the wisest kitchen purchases I've made since the Kitchenaid mixer.

I was going to make a joke about someone being molested at Applebee's, but @avclub-32a2e71c97df5281f1324db72c73a59a:disqus is right - this is a weird Index.

@avclub-015159ee211a4723b60a05972fc5b7e1:disqus must be single (but yeah, this is mind-numbing).

Patron saint to troubled teens?  Maybe?

@avclub-58f80cfeb0401e72edadcc105edade0c:disqus - Kanye is actually credited with the packaging design for Yeezus…and I don't see what that has to do with anything.

The cover of The Next Day is wittily lazy…which is still lazy.  I'm not saying I don't appreciate it (and frankly I hadn't thought it through) but at the end of the day it's the cover of one of his old albums that looks like someone edited it in MSPaint.

Judging by the covers of Yeezus and David Bowie's The Next Day, I'm going to have to say yes.

Statler: "So if you smash two Muppets together do you get a new Muppet?"
Waldorf: "Whether it works or not it's going to be a mess!"
S&W: "HO HO HO HO…"

The constant Wilfred ads on this page make me really glad my speakers died this week.  I'm kind of amazed that show is still a thing.

*checks stacks of unissued Lifetime Passes*

Mixing bran with saitan
sounds like a great plan
but keep it off my plate man.

Psycho? Who can relate man?
Maybe Sharon Tate can.

I'd be okay with some non-descript bank robbers or terrorist threat.  It's not like they're sticking to the comics anyway.  Either that, or the black suit/Venom story could be split into two movies like @avclub-d116ae13554d47530ed800aef8ed5755:disqus suggests.  If The Hobbit can be three movies, surely the story of…

What's with the hate, man?

Adjunct in the a-trunkt?

Dammit, just give us a decent Spider-Man movie with Venom as the only major villain already.

In a row?

If you'd posted this after the end of season 4 I would have been right with you.  After the ridiculousness of season 5 - particularly the all but complete squandering of a Chris Meloni appearance, some key deaths that I won't spoil here, and the just-plain-stupid final scene of the season - I could not give less of a…

It's one of those albums that I never thought I'd see released in my lifetime.  I'd been hearing rumors about Buck Satan since high school, and I always figured Al would OD before he ever recorded anything official.  So glad I was wrong.