I have a friend that is really protective of their signature recipe. They moved to Australia a few years ago and so I asked for the recipe since, you know, different hemisphere. Nope!

I’ve known a few local celebrities, like radio DJs and such and there’s something about a show business ego that makes them really enjoy memorabilia of their own work. I’m not fully convinced it’s just common narcissism either, I think they really just like to remember successful performances/events (which I suppose…

He’s even got a full-face helmet on, so yeah. I’m choosing to interpret the silly hat to be the beanie in the other pictures, even though I hope that’s not silly because I’m wearing basically the same hat right now.

I put “God Damn It You’ve Got To Be Kind” on a piece of posterboard for a Planned Parenthood counter-protest a few years ago, and I got singled out by the roaming fundamentalist provocateur.  He seemed to not understand why that was my message.

It’s weirdly insidious. It kind of starts as a challenge to young men for them to show how evolved they are. Which makes them feel superior, then that superiority gets focused on who they are superior to, etc, etc.

I am basically the same as the kid on the left of the header, and my brother is the kid on the right. Before we got a NES, we had an Apple IIC with a supply of pirated games (in recent years I’ve been really curious where my dad got the hookup for all those floppies in rural Iowa). We were almost encouraged to play…

I figure the people in charge of new dollar bill designs don’t have a lot of input with the COVID/White Terrorist/Russian Hack/Impeachment crews. “Hey Joe! Tubman?” “Yep! Keep me posted.” “OK, talk to you for next week’s meeting.”

Uno is basically the perfect game, as long as you can trash talk the other players.  

The arc of Theoden’s central dilemma, “Is this it? Is this my legacy?” makes a lot more sense when I’m 20 years older. It is sold so well by Hill’s performance.

I really hate that I’m a churro snob; I just find the mass-market churros kind of boring and way too bready. Taqueria churros are a completely different pastry than Costco and Disneyland churros. Don’t even get me started on Churreria el Moro in Mexico City - that place ruined me.

You could try getting the hamburger thinner. I’ve learned that I like to make the burger way thin, like as thin as you possibly can, and it cooks right that way.

It’s worthy of a second season, in my opinion.  Not all of the segments land, but there is some gold if they get the chance to dig.

My first solo experience with the microwave that I remember was when I was 5 or 6 in 1984 or so. My mom liked to make angel food cake a lot at the time, and it had been demonstrated that you could warm it up with a few seconds in the brand new microwave! So my child brain thought, if 10 seconds makes the cake better,…

Earth to Ned and the Pepe segments on the Muppets Now are proof that someone knows that what makes Muppets good is keeping it weird.

Christmas Carol is a better movie than The Muppet Movie, but TMM has some killer gags and captures some of the best dad-joke puns in Muppet history.

I’m just trying to figure out if I need to get a home equity loan just to pay for a new video card.  A new monitor is kind of secondary.

Holy cow, at that price and performance looks like I’m getting an electric motorcycle. I have no hesitation here.

I’ve been saying all year that the multi-state coalitions that came together on COVID issues could easily be the beginning of the end for the USA. People could start identifying more with their region than their country, and that’s the ballgame.

I disagree. I think what those staffers did was fucking crucial to stopping the nascent coup. It wasn’t a little thing at all in my mind.

This is like something out of a Vonnegut novel.  Good God.