I sprinkle the grinds from my french press over my garden every morning. I live alone so I don’t go through a large amount of coffee.

I worked for a county parks department and I constantly found myself involved in a game of cat & mouse vs. wealthy rednecks and their ATVs & dirt bikes tearing up sensitive environmental areas in our parks. Last spring I was hiking on a boardwalk trail through a wetland containing endangered plants and with little…

Low- or no-fat dairy products are gross.

I live around the corner from a GameStop store so it came in handy if a controller broke in the middle of a game. I walked across the street and picked up a replacement controller, albeit an overpriced replacement controller.

I’m not Asian, but I drove from New Orleans to Memphis and didn’t stop at all, being that my car had NJ plates and I’ve seen what happens in My Cousin Vinny.

I grew up in crowded, urban NJ and never went west of the Pocono Mountains until I was 18. Sometime in the 1990s I drove from NJ to Seattle. I pulled over my Corolla station wagon somewhere on I-90 in eastern South Dakota and had a panic attack. The endless sea of grassland with little else to look at freaked me out.…

I give up social media for Lent and I read lots of books that I put off all year. I also spend a few hours every weekend walking the dog through the woods. Defintely helps my mental health.

I enjoy car camping and I’d purchase an EV if I can buy external solar panels and recharge my vehicle while it’s sitting in the campground. I’m sure charging would take ages to do so but hey, I’m camping so I have plenty of time.

Siri told me that she requires a HomeKit accessory to determine the indoor temperature.

Part of me is happy when my teenager rifles through his old man’s record collection and asks me about the times pops saw Neutral Milk Hotel, Pavement, Fugazi, etc during the last millennium, but TBH the kid needs to find his own culture. I am more interested when he excitedly tells me about some new band he discovered…

I am Gen X and former zine reader and I had to Google “AAVE.” Apparently it is a cryptocurrency.

I live in a residential neighborhood with plenty of kids and pets and a soccer field and playground bordering one side of the street. Unfortunately, plenty of cars use my little 700' stretch of road to speed up to 40+ mph before coming to a quick halt at the stop sign 2 blocks away. It’s a stupid waste of gas and a…

New Jersey resident here. We call those cars leisurely cruising in the passing lane of the Turnpike or Garden State Parkway “New Yorkers” LOL.

[Nomadland] is more in line with Kelly Reichardt’s 2008 Wendy & Lucy, a devastating character study of a woman pushed into homelessness after her car breaks down.

I didn’t know mockinbirds can read ;-)

The problem is that the voters of Cawthorn’s district probably don’t care about these allegations. They seem like the type who would say that the woman was “asking for it” and they would elect a steaming pile of dog poop as long as said poop had an (R) next to it on the ballot.

2 BR/1.5 BA cape cods on my block that were built for returning WWII veterans are selling for almost $500k and have $15k annual property tax bills, but that has been the norm here in suburban NJ for at least 25 years. I’m happy I am renting at this point. It’s much cheaper and I don’t worry about fixing a leaky roof…

About 15 years ago my friend turned the backyard of his suburban Cape Cod into a native plant garden. He mows a path through the wildflowers. After a few years his neighbors stopped complaining about the “weeds” and now the soil is no longer compacted and the rainwater/snowmelt percolates into the ground rather than…

I know it took place after the 1990s, but Jezebel certainly remembers the Hulk Hogan sex tape and its fallout.

My old pointer would be obsessed with removing the squeaker from her toys. She’s rip it open and pull all of the stuffing out with her teeth (spitting the filling out, thank goodness) until she got to the squeaker. Once she reached the prize, she’d squeeze it a few times in victory and then leave it amid the remains…