Post 9/11 and anthrax letters, security got almost neurotically tight in news media offices and AFAIK haven’t loosened that much. Even if he were questioned, which I doubt, I could see how he could’ve framed this as a security measure and the folks writing the checks would go for it without a second thought.

reminds me of this

I didn’t feel old until I realized we’re now at the point where journalists don’t remember the Marion Barry tape. It’s the Citizen Kane of crack tapes.

I think a lot of people who have KAs don’t need KAs and want it as some sort of status/aspirational thing and I kinda roll my eyes at that, but in the grand scheme of things I’m not mad at it. They’re definitely more powerful and have a wider variety of functions (for a price) than handmixers and they’re easier to use…

I hope EJ Johnson flies down on some sort of vintage Halston chinchilla cape and slaps that NW40 right off his dusty Very Special Glee Episode face.

• What’s the most expensive piece of equipment in your kitchen? Has it made your life better? In my home kitchen it’s an old school Kitchen-Aid. I bought it refurbished 15+ year ago. I swear the new ones don’t have the same longevity, so I’ll just repair the old one when the time comes.

Is there a backstory to that? I’m like that with Subway. If I’m in the US doing a road trip, I HAVE to have Subway. It’s not even that I particularly like Subway. but my insides have decided they won’t accept 99% of American fast food without serious protest, so when we drove coast-to-coast we ate a lot of Subway just…

How does it feel to be the most correct person in the universe? Does it tingle? It kinda tingles, right?

I honestly didn’t know how much I needed to read good news until I started tearing up about two sentences in. It’s such a grim time at home, in the US, and globally that the constant onslaught of sadness and horror have been grinding me down without me even noticing how much. Thank you for posting something happy.…

I can only assume there was some tragic autocorrect accident that replaced “cornbread” with “toast”

It’s a guisado, so basically a stew or a ragout.

I’m going to let Texas have this one, only because it’s one of the precious few cases where Mexican-American women actually come close to getting their due in shaping the food culture of the United States. Chili as the US first knew it ~was~ invented in Texas by the Chili Queens of San Antonio who set up shop in the…

SHE IS SUCH A GOOD GIRL. I have a tripod too. He tries not to feel bad for doggos who need four legs to do what he (and sweet Harley!) can do with three, but sometimes it’s hard to be humble.

Now THAT is a Proper Dog. A++++++

Usually it’s a combo of butternut, hubbard, and golden delicious hubbard which is a cross between delicious and boston marrow. They’re all a lot richer and less stringy than even sugar pie pumpkins, and in the case of the golden delicious hubbard, it was especially bred `for baby food back in the 20's. Pumpkin is kind…

First of all and most importantly you need to know you have my all time favorite Kinja handle.

The Edward abdication, assuming it really was solely about Wallis, was more of a Church of England thing than a King of England thing. Until 1981 if you or your intended were divorced, you couldn’t remarry in the Anglican…

The first few episodes of Big Mouth made me really uncomfortable, but the ones where the girl got her first period and learned about masturbation were some real shit and actually moved me. I didn’t finish because it is A Lot.

Odds of this being a Scooby Doo episode where the mask comes off and he’s actually Kylie Jenner?

(see also: Robin Williams)

John Leguizamo was ~luminous~ as Chi Chi Rodriguez in To Wong Foo. and made me cry my own human tears in his one man show Freak (also directed by Spike Lee) but just about terrible in everything else.