I have a horrid friend who will put bread-and-butter pickles on anything. So far, he’s put them on a burrito, on a green salad, and here’s the kicker - a pizza. It’s annoying AF because even if I liked B&B pickles (I do not; Jewish dill pickles or GTFO), let ME choose where and how many pickles to put on my food. But…

Sequoia and Yosemite are lovely, but not really on the route between San Francisco and Seattle unless you’re starting from Los Angeles. But if you fancy epic desert and mountain scenery, go for it. Another option is US Highway 395 which runs along the Eastern Sierra and you can see Mt. Whitney or Death Valley, and a…

I know a Buffalo native who loves to talk about his hometown like it’s some underrated cultural metropolis (no) with four distinct, equally beautiful seasons (nope). I’ve never heard anyone talk this much about where they’re from, and I’ve met Californians and Texans. He’s basically a low-key alcoholic who only drinks…

Heston definitely was a conservative Reagan/Bush supporter in his later years. He supported Hubert Humphrey in 1968 but Richard Nixon in 1972. But he never recanted or regretted his earlier support of King or the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as far as I know.

Your description of his films as allegories is fine but I’m not sure this is a full characterization of Charlton Heston’s personal beliefs and politics, which changed over time. He marched on Washington in 1963 with Dr. King and supported civil rights, yet later also became a vocal critic of political correctness. He s…

For a second, I thought your “casualty list” was a dig at the departing members, but to my surprise it’s really called that!

A similar thing happened to me last year. After watching a film, a friend and I walked into a ramen restaurant at 9:37 pm. There were at least 10 people in the dining area and the sign said they were open until 10 pm, but they turned us away. I wasn’t bothered because there were other options nearby, but at the same…

So “prostitutes [...] should be prosecuted”, but “you shouldn’t ruin a john’s life”, women often falsely accuse men with “unscathed reputations” of rape and shouldn’t be believed because they’re liars and whores in search of a big payday, says the man who is friends with Jeffrey F-Stain and Not-a-First-Responder…

Yeah, everyone should be free to experiment with pesto. Your old list is a good guide, but I just think some ingredients in the newer list don’t go well together. For example, cilantro is a divisive herb - people love it or hate it.

Making pesto with a traditional mortar and pestle is more labor intensive, but sometimes that can be a satisfying feeling. My ancestors were Ligurian so I tend to stick with the classic basil + pine nuts + garlic + olive oil + salt + parmigiano-reggiano. Maybe pecorino or walnuts. No sun-dried tomatoes. No funky miso,…

I was looking for this comment. When I visit friends in Canada, they actually make specific requests for alcohol before I depart the US, and they’re always happy.  It’s the least I can do as their guest.

Endorsing this. I still feel bad for the poor bastard I saw at Charles de Gaulle who bought a wheel of French cheese at the duty-free shop, which was promptly confiscated at the gate. Maybe because it was unpasteurized and they don’t allow that in the US?

You’re not wrong. I do this when I can afford it, but leg room isn’t as important to me as the ability to rest my head, neck and spine, which is not ideal in either class. When I take red eye flights, I often travel with companions who can sleep much more easily than I can. I realize this is a challenge for me, but I…

Same. I want to support the premise of this article, but I can’t sleep sitting up when the seat only reclines about 5 centimeters. I just nap uncomfortably for a few hours.

It’s a good movie and a fascinating performance from Redford. I liked that Johnson started out clean-shaven and his beard got fuller as the story progressed, both indicating the passage of time and symbolizing the transformation of his character during his quest for revenge.

I live in Philadelphia and just within the past month, my neighbors were robbed at gunpoint in a home invasion, someone I know was murdered with a gun by a guy who already had a warrant for gun possession, and there’s blood on my street today and someone is in the hospital because he was beat with a brick this morning…

I’m glad you grew out of that. On a certain level, I can see how his non-conformity might be refreshing and why his antics made good television. But it’s a short trip from antihero to villain, and setting aside his conflicts with the housemates, I didn’t think highly of his DUIs and alleged abuses. He had some problems…

I guess it’s different if Puck was eating his own personal peanut butter out of the jar using his fingers. I still didn’t need to see it. And he was obnoxious to everyone, yet played the victim after he was kicked out of the house.

That’s funny because in the beginning of that season, Pam initially came across as an annoying Asian stereotype who declared to her housemates that she’d never failed at anything she’d ever done.

The main drawback to your idea is driving through Kensington or Port Richmond to get there.