Someone who was a 10-year-old fifth grader on the playground in 2003 is plenty old enough to be an adult writer now. Fact-checking the details of someone else’s emotional experience feels like missing the point.

That’s a bad opinion and you are a bad person who should feel bad.

Central NY bar in a small college town ... (and this was a very preppy college)

Well, for better or worse, in our economy, people are not paid based on how hard they work, but on the value they add to the business for whom they work.

Because you aren’t tipping for the service of bringing a plate of food 20 feet from the kitchen. You are tipping for the entirety of your interaction with the server. And the more expensive the restaurant, the more sophisticated the interaction. At Denny’s you won’t be asking about what wine to pair with the halibut,…

a) Were both Ru and Trinity inspired by Delftware tonight?

I really find the “trendy” and “newer” places are the ones who rush their patrons; stick to the older, more established fine dining venues, and they are closer to a European pace. Except anything that calls itself a “Bistro.” That means “I’m fine dining menus at a casual/fast food restaurant’s pace.”

I’d agree with you, but your entire statement was bullshit. Minorities are not the only ones who have been fighting for civil rights. “Cis white people” have been fighting as well, and liberals of all colors and backgrounds have been trying to educate these neanderthals as to why racism is bad, dumb, and pointless for…

Personally, I’m very skeptical about the source of Bobby’s doctorate. 

Shut the fuck up Bobby.

Its origins are a comic book that was meant to ape the 1970s sensationalist pulp horror rags. Hence the overdramatic title.

“Oh, I’m so exhausted, I simply can’t say all that. Can’t you just call it Sab?” - That’s what you sound like.

Counterpoint: Don’t organize items by store layout because that way you can get your steps in and justify getting that quart of ice cream.

I prefer gender neutral terms.

I really hope Bonnet died in that explosion, but somehow I don’t think we’re that lucky.

“America’s most successful touring cover band”? No.

I can’t agree hard enough. I worked as a sommelier for a fine dining restaurant for several years before I went to library school, and boy do I miss the exploration of so many different wines I was able to experience that job (which I usually received for free from local wineries and distributors or were at least heavi…

This is definitely not the case in NY—there’s a lot of Finger Lakes blended wines that are excellent, typically Bordeaux style blends of cab sav, cab franc, and merlot. A good vintner combines flavors to accentuate the best note of each grape, so that the end product is more balanced in flavor than any of the…

Nerd point: sniffing the cork doesn’t actually make any sense - it’s one of those things some people do because they think/heard that they should, but isn’t useful. Sniffing the wine itself can sometimes tell you if it’s corked, but corks smell like corks anyways, so that’s not a good way of judging. Some people will…