I will say that drunk driving, especially buzzed driving, is far more culturally tolerated here in Mexico. It’s a huge problem. The only saving grace —and you’d have to really squint to call it that—is that average speed is much lower because the roads tend to be bad, so you’re going to be hit by a drunk driver going…

Holy shit, opening mail you’ve avoided is a HUGE deal. Overcoming avoidance even in “small” forms (which mail is not. Scary things come in the mail!) should come with a medal, a cash prize and some sort of commemorative plaque for obstacles overcome. Good job and good luck!

I can’t watch the show because it’s like watching a charmingly narrated version of my literal nightmares, but although I adore Mel and Sue, Noel and Sandy instantly struck me as a great pair.

This is ghastly on every imaginable level. I am so damn proud.

Well this should be fun

BUTCH QUEEN

I’ll get some recs together when I have more time but first and foremost before you eat here, you MUST to go to a farmacia —Roma is a good one but Similares will be fine for your needs— and pick up one bottle of loperamida and one dose of mebendazol. Loperamida is basically immodium and mebendazol is an antiparasitic…

I’ve got a lot of family in Jalisco and I’m there all the time, mostly in GDL and the sierra. Where are you going to be?

See? It keeps us humble! BUT if you ever wanted to tempt fate let me give you a pro tip: Granola. If you can find plain granola or a variety you like, substitute that for the oats. If you’d rather DIY, toast your oats with the fat and sweetener of your choice (we use coconut oil and jarabe de piloncillo in ours but…

“an actual master craftsman masquerading as a genius”

Pan cubano with bacon grease instead of lard is a revelation. I’m generally not a huge fan of using animal fats in wheat rather than corn-based baking, but with pan cubano, even butter falls flat.

I think where Q, and people like him, make their mistake is feeling the need to expressly denigrate something in order to praise something else.

This seems as good a place as any to reveal that until about 48 hours ago Señor Chávez thought Showgirls was a movie about Honey Mahogany’s life. It took some serious unraveling to figure out that Honey Mahogany = Diana Ross (he watched the last half of Mahogany with me a few months ago) and the movie he was talking…

One of the things that makes high-end baked goods taste “fancy” is we use lemon oil in almost everything, from sweet doughs to flan to cakes. Our in-house base blend that goes in practically everything is 1 tablespoon bourbon, 1 tsp vanilla extract, 1 tsp almond extract (not emulsion) and 1/4 tsp lemon oil, and even…

KitchenAid gadgets with moving parts are uniformly and universally terrible, especially the can opener which is a feat of miraculously bad engineering. Those Amco measuring cups are solid though, buy two sets of those instead.

KitchenAid gadgets with moving parts are uniformly and universally terrible, especially the can opener which is a…

I’m not a huge popcorn fan so for me, when I’m craving savory popcorn, only trashy movie theater-type popcorn with lots of coconut oil and flavacol scratches that itch. Being able to make movie theater popcorn at home is also second only to putting cash in pinatas as a way to win huge amounts of Cool Aunt/Uncle…

Mike Reilly, go to your room. Mike Godlewski, you may stay.

I don’t especially care about the Spice Girls qua Spice Girls, but check out the cast for Spice World. Alan Cummings in a chest wig, Mark McKinney, Richard Grant, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Jennifer Saunders, Roger Moore, plus a ton of great cameos. It’s a solidly funny movie.

Agreed on all fronts. Citizen Kane, Mildred Pierce, The Graduate, Chinatown, Raging Bull, Goodfellas, and Brokeback Mountain all lost to films much less culturally important. Goodfellas lost to Dances with #@$%Wolves!

Most of the people I know with truly impeccable taste can also enjoy things for what they are. It’s the people who are insecure about their own palate who tend to be what I think of as snobs.