Osaka! I didn't get there but now that I've finally connected with Kyoto relatives and cleared those obligations, I may actually have time next visit. And I'm totally not serious, just nostalgic for vending machines every 30 feet with delicious beverages for 100 yen. (I can get the instant stuff for a quick fix.) …

I love/hate reading these articles because they make me crave my mom's cooking, which kinda sucks, but I love reading everyone's comments. @SeedyC:disqus, whereabouts are you? And can you send me some coffee in a can? Please?

This admin has also been noted as being leaky like Niagara Falls. I don't think they'd be hard-pressed to find sources.

"…we white Christian cisgender males would probably actually be safe." FTFY

The National Research Council official time signal: The beginning of the long dash following ten seconds of silence indicates exactly twelve noon…

Get people to eat foods from other cultures in addition to listening to their music. Kebabs, taddiq, falafel, shakshukah, sambusa… It's hard to fight on a stomach full of tasty new-to-you food.

I thought it was just the image throwing the usual formatting off with embedded imported elements (tabbing between the FFVII article in Gameological and this makes the difference evident), but clicking through other articles posted today, I seem to have been mistaken…

There's a bit on one of the commentary tracks on the "Home Movies" DVDs where Brendon Small talks about getting notes from Adult Swim (or Cartoon Network?) saying - and I'm paraphrasing here, it's been some time since I've listened to the commentary - that they couldn't depict dogs being in danger or harmed. "Well,…

You mean busy scampering across rolling meadows on that farm in the English countryside that he took to after he retired into seclusion in 1991? ::blink blink::

I haven't purchased all their albums, but I would call myself a fan and the new song sounds promising. They've managed to tread this narrow band where the music is heavy as a buttload of liquid mercury but still makes me wanna shake my moneymaker like few other artists can.

I'm of the same mind. I love Queen, I love Brian May's guitar work, but the Adam Lambert/not Freddie factor does me in.

::car stops mid-air::
::record scratch::
You're probably wondering how we got here.

VIVE LA RESISTANCE (ANTIBIOTIQUE)

I had this for a while as my screensaver. IIRC it's a nice freeware version: http://www.kellysoftware.co…

That could work, except for the small but not insignificant chance that it could be interpreted as a come-on.

Man, I hope I remember this next time I get "chink"ed or "ching-chonged" or somesuch. Heck, I hope I remember it next time I get "nihao"ed and reply "tally-ho" or the like.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I don't recall the Sally Kellerman sitcom, but geographically and chronologically that jibes. Some hotel conference room downtown? It was totally worth the $50 in the end, given that both my brother and I were students and I got to write a long screed about saccharine trope-saturated predictably edge-free TV passing…

Ha! I did one of those panels when I was a broke university student because it offered $50 (IIRC) in free groceries. Dragged my brother to it. Sat through a treacle-soaked sugar-coated "family" show starring Tom Wopat. Savaged it on my comment card. Got a call a few days later from a company in Indianapolis (I'm…

One of my best friends looks like a 90s Bob Odenkirk. And he worked with a guy who looked like David Cross. It was uncanny.