My friend keeps his cat in the guest bedroom, and she is...very sedentary. A professional bed-tester.

I’m a back sleeper, and the last couple of times I’ve visited she’s clambered onto my chest and belly at night and dozed off in that position. As my friend keeps his house very cool, it was nice.

That header image still shows more detail and tonal depth than at least a quarter of the food pics I see on Instagram.

hand out punishment the very moment players’ public comments escalate into the balcony scene from Cyrano de Bergerac.

Another vote for iwatani torches, though I’d only recommend them for pork belly and not shoulder. I find Afuri overrated and overpriced, but their torched belly is excellent and worth paying extra for.

The sous vide approach is one that is increasingly popular in Tokyo, as bowls at the best shops there are increasingly…

Well said. I hate it when shops just use a hunk of pre-cooked belly and slice it off cold and plop it into your bowl, but a well-done cut of shoulder is exquisite.

And the hard-boiled eggs is just unbelievable. It’s not that hard to make ajitama eggs.

Ed: Didn’t see the previous comment essentially advocating for the same places, but hope my comment adds to the conversation anyhow!

I’ve been to Hiro Ramen House and Cheu Noodle Bar. Hiro is solid from a more traditional interpretation, but Cheu’s Brisket Ramen (complete with matzo ball) is...something. (Decent and…

Goodness gracious, great balls of fire!

Abura is fantasistc when you don’t want to deal with the complexities of the broth and you simply want to stuff your pie hold as quickly and efficiently as possible. It’s awfully hard to screw up so it’s usually a pretty safe bet.

That said though, the truly great shops can elevate it to another level, usually with…

For me, aburasoba is a delicious (and guilty) pleasure when I just don’t want to parse though the various merits the ramen broth—“Does the shoyu have an aged wine flavor?” “Do I think the tonkotsu-gyokai broth is too gritty?”—and I just want to stuff my pie hole with medium-thick noodles that lap up the tare and fat,…

Management needs to be better attuned to the needs of the servers and just step in a bit.

Radical Solution #2: Lock’em up/sleep the teenage years off, à là Winter’s Tale style:

Hrm...

Gonzaga is not accidentally the No. 1 team in the country, and Hachimura is not accidentally projected as a lottery pick in June’s NBA draft, and neither of those two statements are independent of each other.

Now looking for a similar style to Sanchez to back him up.

“Ponder this...what great marriages have is sexual variety! Period! It’s not the equal burden-sharing at home trend, it’s not the fidelity trend. Find someone that is going to let me have unprotected, random sex! Period! #monogamysucks!”

“My fiancée has informed me that sheez letting me go. #thankstwitter!”

Michael Cohen got too proudy.

But unlike Mudasir, I hope there’s no reconciliation this time.

Apparently this couple is from the UK and the BBC has declared the gesture “romantic.”

I’ll have to take a page out of their book and propose outside of the Pret a Manger in Picadilly Circus in London.

“Daddy, no!”