Me: Hey, the next time you put in a FreshDirect order, can you get a bag of King Arthur bread flour?
Missus: (not looking up) It’s on the way. Will be here tomorrow.
Me: (blinks) How did you know we were out?
Missus: I looked at the jar.
Me: How did you know I didn’t have some in the freezer?
Missus: (cocks an eyebrow at…
Got this as a Christmas gift. Amazing. I’m thrilled. It’s sometimes really great to be a history nerd married to another history nerd. :)
It was a lot of fun. It was a well-crafted carnival ride, returning a venerable franchise to the spirit of its youth after the disastrous Lucas trilogy. But is it a groundbreaker, a movie I’d want to see over and over and figure people will be watching and arguing about decades down the line? Not exactly. If you want…
So, for six years now I’ve had an internet home. A place to share my dumb musings about my cats, about baking, about gummi candy and politics and science. It’s been a source of great joy in my life. I’ve had GTfolk on my foldout countless times, I’ve shared holiday turkeys with GTfolk, I’ve baked them bread when they…
I have often, here and elsewhere, compared the kicking and screaming of right-wing homophobes in these interesting times to the stragglers of the Imperial Japanese army, hiding in the hills and continuing to fight a lost war for thirty years:
I’m marinating some tuner fish steaks in homemade teriyaki: shoyu, brown sugar, honey, sesame seeds, garlic, ginger. There will also be cous-cous with a lot of garlic, spargaruses with olive oil and bisquits slathered in buttah. What’s everyone else up to for fooding tonight?
OMG
Smallpox was humanity’s great enemy for ten thousand years. Responsible for 300-500 million deaths in the twentieth century alone, the last century in which it was free to ravage humanity.
First female Army Rangers. Good for the army for giving them the opportunity, good for them for kicking ass and taking names.
www.cnn.com/2015/08/18/politics/women-graduate-army-ranger-course/
Flowers? Check.
Either way, the white whale has a certain hold on our imaginations.
http://mashable.com/2015/08/10/whi...
The whole show is worth it just for Titus Pullo’s explanation of the clitoris to Vorenus.
It is ON, people! Those other LOSAHS are GOING DOWN!!1
I can’t make out a single word of it now. Anybody? Bueller? Just looks like BLURTHINGANDMOREBLURTHING
What is that thing? It’s a little dark blob with some words? I think I see the word “magic,” but I’m not sure. Anyone?
It continues to kind of boggle my mind. Nobody likes Kinja: it’s hugely buggy, broken most of the time, fails to deliver even what you’d think would be very basic commenting tools. Editors quit their jobs at Gawker Media and say “Thank god I’ll never have to deal with Kinja again!”
She is safe and well and outbound from the Plutonian system. There were cheers. The exploration of our solar neighborhood continues, quietly but beautifully. Godspeed, small craft.
I’ve been around Jezebel and GT since around 2008 (2009 for GT). Been to probably thirty meetups, met some lifelong friends, met lots of faces that stay with me but kind of pass away as the users stop posting. As is the way of things. Not everyone is a life-friend, and that’s fine.
I’ve had exactly two experiences with strippers. The first was at a friend’s bachelor party at his home, where a young bikini-clad woman came in (with a very large male escort), asked who was the groom-to-be, shimmied a bit for everyone, then kind of did a little semi-lap-dance-with-veils kind of thing for him. It was…
