No no, I bet she's really bummed about the whole thing.

Oh no.

Thanks! I'll make it if I can.

UU high five!

I almost always go to the movies alone, and whenever I'm meeting someone to see a movie together, I'm reminded why I started going alone in the first place. I got tired of missing limited engagement films because people couldn't get their shit together to settle on a time; I have distinct seating preferences and hate…

The Celebration is still fantastic.

I tried cooking rice noodles at home last week, and the results were…not good. Following the package directions resulted in uncooked noodles, so I kept cooking them until they were al dente. They seemed fine at the time, but when I reheated the leftovers…disgusting mush. (Which is not a problem I have encountered…

My personal experience is closer to yours. Despite having lived in one place for my whole childhood, I never felt all that invested in where I grew up. (Probably didn't help that my parents—who were not local—outright told me and my sibs, growing up, that they intended to haul ass out of the city as soon as we were…

Seriously, avocados have that nice, neat little round pit that separates from the flesh easy peasy (if it's ripe). Mango pits are Satan's nuts.

True, although a butter knife is no good for cutting through the tough skin. You'd just bruise the flesh underneath it.

My parents—both excellent cooks—cut up everything with fucking paring knives. I mailed them a spare 8'' santoku knife just so I had SOMETHING to work with when I visit them at Christmas.

Don't drain it! Use a pasta fork to scoop it out and put it directly into the sauce.

If it's ripe, you don't even need a spoon. You should be able to just pull the peel backwards off the avocado, and it will come right off. Half the time, I can get the entire peel off in one piece.

Pro tip: at no point during the cutting of an avocado is it necessary or advisable to point the knife at your own hand.

I just watched it and I fucking loved it. Thanks muchly for the rec.

The only thing you need to run bus lines is buses. Public transit isn't just trains and subways.

I'm just glad Josh Duhamel is getting work.

But it's equally nuts to me when people have a strong reaction to:
"A movie was made about a crime from my regional geography!!! THE
HORRORS!!!"

My grandfather used to have this joke about the Boston couple who announced they were retiring and moving out west. When asked how they were going, they said, "Oh, by way of Worcester…"

Warlock and Doug's friendship was my favorite element of the New Mutants, hands down.