This was an “indie” author - aka, self published hobbyist writer. Their fanbase is relatively small and entirely online. It’s very possible real life persons were not at all connected or aware of this or even her hobby.

I remember this and it was over 20 years ago, incredibly.

Thank you for not making this a slideshow. Everyone hates slideshows and those metrics aren’t fooling anyone.

This is very common - the way it works is there is a kitchen where specific trained employee(s) are making the food. A number of convenience store chains have been doing this for a while - buc-ee’s, road ranger, QuikTrip, WaWa all come to mind. And of course, New York bodegas have had delis forever.

I have a CX5 and this happens to me about once a year. Usually in winter when cold temps cause the battery voltage in the fob to drop just enough it stops working. Opening the door with a key feels so quaint!

I snagged a bag of the Old Bay Goldfish crackers a few months back  and they were the best. They should really make those a permanent thing.

The sort of magical thing about British governing (or frightening, depending on perspective) is they can choose to change the rules whenever they want.

With all those ferns around, today it’d be lauded for its “biophilic” design. Maybe Bennigan’s was ahead of its time.

Who doesn’t know that?

Unethical, yes... illegal is a stretch. Bad contracts happen and shenanigans like this were a thing 25+ years ago. Art Buchwald’s case with Paramount about Coming to America exposed it in the early 90s but its possible this agreement was signed before that was well known. A 1995 film could have contracts signed a few…

I was always potentially aware that he might have just set this one season up on his feet and got the feather in his cap of doing a show that he co-ran and had a hand in the conception and casting and making of, versus the original series where he definitely became a producer at the end, was certainly I think [Game Of…

Came here to see if anyone noticed the resemblance to the late 2000's mazda front ends.

This is hilarious/sad. He meets someone and says “you’ve seen my dick as a baby, do you want to see what it looks like now?” and some number of women, maybe not sober, take him up on it and he is disappointed this has not resulted in marriage.

Ha, definitely still a thing. Just had one of these at a brewpub on Friday.

I’d like to point that the murders were nearly *30 years ago*. Most people don’t have deep awareness of cultural events from before they were born or when they were very young. I’d argue that many people under 35 only have some passing awareness of it, if any at all, and that it involved some guy named OJ. The other…

Lotus got bought by a Chinese company and has all kinds of weird shit in the pipeline. SUVs included

Thanks for this. I want to like these oranges for their convenience and healthfulness but all too often its a disappointing crapshoot and I end up avoiding them. Sometimes its a lot of work to get into them and then its a sour/dry/chewy mess.

Old guard businesses bring in new hires / consultants who feel compelled to deliver something to “push the needle”, even if that something is a misfit. Clearly this was a case of someone getting hired some months ago during the chicken sandwich craze and pushing to find a way for Starbucks to deliver it.

It’s pretty common in representation contracts to have the rep get paid even if the client went directly to the artist. The idea is that the rep is doing work to promote the artist and that can lead to such contacts. There is often a sort of grace period for a time when representation begins (say, a year) where the…

The stereotype of Canada is that they’re very polite but the reality is when it comes borders, immigration and such, Canada is very strict. Even with a work visa sponsor the sponsor has to explain why a Canadian cannot do what the person coming in does. And they will gladly ship someone back that does not meet their…