Pardon me while I go hug my big old bark-monster.

I would, but need the reference!

I love your recipes, and your posts in general- Helena was done dirty! I’m just another small voice without an InstaPot (trusty Faux Creuset Dutch oven), and I know you can't possibly write recipes for every possible permutation. But we stove-people still exist, and if you're ever in NC, I'll make you my adjaruli…

The furniture company I used to work with bought Costco croissants and pastries, stuck them in the oven to warm, and bragged about fresh-baked French pastries during Furniture Market.

One of the few nice things I can say about my city in NC is our strong diner and donut scene. And the Vietnamese food.

Nobody will ever see this, but Daughn Gibson’s ‘Phantom Rider’ or Yeasayer’s ‘Reagan’s Skeleton’.

My first thought was "Ice Ice Brimley".

Interpol followed by The Cure on Randall's Island in 2004 for the Curiosa Festival.  My first time in NYC, my first time seeing either band- despite the heat the whole experience was magical.

This was 2002, at an established theme park. I went with college friends on one of those swinging boats of death, that build up to a full 360' rotation. I slipped right out of the fixed shoulder bars and the waist band caught my thighs. I spent the whole ride locking my elbows around the restraints. Haven't been on…

I have some sympathy towards Hop. He lost his first daughter to cancer, which was something he could not control. He gained a daughter in El, who has gone through a horrible childhood and still has supernatural abilities that make her a target. It makes sense to me that his protective nature would go into overdrive,…

Onions, zucchini and mushrooms marinated in a balsamic-rosemary-olive oil mix.

This falls apart when you’re a singleton, and need value per serving but don't want to eat pizza for the next 4-6 meals.

My partner is 6'5", and I’m 5'6", so for short flights on a 3-2 jet we try to get the 2 seats. Armrest goes up, and I get the window. Otherwise we go to the gate long before boarding and very politely ask/volunteer for an exit row assignment. It doesn’t always work, but sometimes the attendant takes pity on the tall…

It gets worse when you think about all of the mega-towers going up in ‘gentrifying’ neighborhoods- not only do they cause rent hikes and increased police calls for a block doing what it’s always done, but these massive iron and glass phalluses cast permanent twilight down upon the surrounding buildings. Gram’s kitchen…

My sister, assigned male at birth, signed up for the Army to find some direction (we come from a Marine family). She, presenting as male at the time, went through jump school, got extremely high marks on the shooting range, and was part of the 82nd Airborne deployed to Baghdad when barracks were being targeted. The VA…

Boring troll is boring. 0/10 would not do. 

I tried to come up with a coherent response, but fuck you, you racist one-post burner-hiding coward.

An adult ‘repeating what children are saying’ is no excuse. Any adult in a position of power over these children has no fucking excuse to use those words, unless they were looking for a reason. And they should be fired.

My city has a population of about 300k, the third largest in the state. We have 5 colleges/universities in the city limits, and a wonderfully diverse population that has created an award-winning food scene. But according to a certain NY reporter here for a trial, we're "a decaying mill town".