I read all the way through this and I have to express my dismay at the lack of a Baby Driver shoutout.

If I know I don’t have time for a real full-service meal, I try to find a local coffee option if I can (Hey Stumptown, love you boo). If I do have time though, I’ll generally hit a place with a real bar and get what I can get.

I don’t know about the others, but the Fiat has hill assist. Alex is going to be driving in a hilly town, so having that little bit of help would be nice. It’s kind of a trip for me when I don’t have to drop the clutch and/or handbrake start while on an incline.

Tortellini feels like a stroke of genius! But then I read the ‘recipe’. It’s just dry plain tortellini? No cream sauce? No vinaigrette or something? Not even cooked in with the eggs?

Just a palm-mounted dart where you slap people on the shoulder. The sting of the slap will hide the shot until you’re long gone!

I have a Logitech 933 headset, and Dolby 7.1 headphones can be incredible. Years ago, I was in one of the hectic firefights that happen all the time in Borderlands 2, and I realized I was hearing where enemies were in a natural way and reacting without having to see behind me. I’ve been sold ever since.

Quiet chuckling is basically the highest-level laughing I can get to while reading, and this one got me there.  Genuinely useful review on top of it. 

I stayed at a hostel in Edinburgh many years ago. Every morning they served a Full Breakfast with all the fixings like haggis and black sausage and baked beans. Every day they served the egg, like, medium rare - the whites weren’t even solidified. On the last day there I asked, “Can I get the egg cooked until the yolk…

Splenda makes a decent brown sugar replacement, just remember all quantities should be halved according to packaging directions.

There’s a hipster bar in my area that is nearly impossible to enjoy, due to crowds and their complete lack of acoustic deadening (opting instead for concrete and glass on all six sides of the room). That said, I go back all the time (COVID notwithstanding) due to their pretzel and cheese options. Gigantic Bavarian-styl…

Hold on, Michael. I find it very hard to believe that you’re not acquainted with the phrase “Drank the Kool-Aid” and its meaning.

I say this all the time when toddlers shoot themselves or others.  It’s 100% negligence on someone’s part.  No bullet is fired blamelessly.

Back in the beginning it was reported that they were welding doors shut, not just locking people in.  I wonder now if that was true, it feel like something from a movie.

Well I googled it from the T-shirt: MMAMCV is “Millions March Against Mandatory Corona Vaccination” Lovely straw man they’ve got there. The second bit it just 2021 in Roman numerals, which kudos for the design choice I guess.

My weird thing isn’t really all that surprising once you think about it.

I hope we get a write-up on the fantastic sequel to this one - it’s got it all. Artificial hearts! Rednecks eaten alive! Cold war military porn!

Oh my god he has a collection of bowling shoes that he wears to work. At the Capitol. 

With that Tony Hawk re-release last year, I have hope for SSX.  I’d pay AAA money for a 4k reissue of the SSX series.

Just imagine the manager of the complex, approached for comment. “Our policy is not for everyone!” they type. Having finished their statement, they click send and sits back, sips on a cup of lukewarm Folgers and thinks, “Yeah, fuckin’ nailed it!”

My wife’s first job in high school was a professional cleaner. We’ve moved out of two apartments together, and I cannot overstate how much I hated cleaning the apartment to her standards.