No these don't mesh together
No these don't work at all

— Starbucks' entire business plan

Good luck, we're all counting on you.

Aside from the comics (above (or below)), I'm also reading Bunny Crumpacker's The Sex Life Of Food, which talks about hunger and desire. I'm only about 20 pages in, though.

It seems I'm on a Zdarsky kick: after reading the Jughead he wrote with Erica Henderson's art (very good, and a lot of cool throwbacks to the really weird Archie stuff from the 60s and 70s), I breezed through his and Matt Fraction's Sex Criminals volumes 2 and 3, which were amazing (especially the back matter).

I'm nearly positive that Skateaway is the song Douglas Adams was referring to in So Long, and Thanks when he talked about Dire Straits and Knopfler's virtuosity.

I'm trying to be more outgoing and personable. It's hard because I'm generally shy and scared of rejection, but I'm trying to put myself out there and make new friends. I lost a lot of my friends in the divorce, so I have to make up for that somehow.
And continued congratulations!

Hooray for at least right now!

My back seems to be finally healed from fucking it up doing squats or deadlifts at the end of September, so I'm looking forward to getting cleared to get back under the iron.

Ramones — I Wanna Be Sedated
Tom Petty — Time To Move On
Dire Straits — Skateaway
Gorillaz — Stylo
The Monkees — Mary, Mary
The Smiths — This Charming Man
Katamari Damacy — Angel Flavor's Present
Shonen Knife — Deer Biscuits
White Zombie — More Human Than Human
R.E.M. — Welcome To The Occupation

Fuck that actually caring about people who don't look like me makes me automatically a bleeding-heart liberal moonbeam. I mean, I already am, but the fact that caring about someone outside of Your Tribe is seen as something only The Left does makes me sick.

I made chili yesterday in the crock pot, using a steak, ground turkey, and some leftover al pastor pork. I also threw in a pint of shandy I had sitting around. Damn you, The A.V. Club, for making me want chili! I'm about to sit down to a bowl of it and I hope it's as good as it smelled last night.

Me too. I'm actually kind of excited to find out about this so I can watch more curling. I really miss playing it, too, but I can't afford the league fees right now.

How can curling be unexciting when everyone is constantly yelling to HURRY! HURRY HARD!?

Well, it may seem too late, but I've certainly switched my

No no no, not good, GREAT. GREAT job, Internet.

Arizona is an area where a whole lot of things need to catch up, especially in Maricopa County,

Hey now…

Dammit, Jim, I'm an emoji, not a meaningful form of written communication!

I think Mohd is referring to the Anthony Bourdain anecdote (from one of his books), wherein Bourdain was out to eat in Thailand and Harrelson refused all the food from this apparently fantastic restaurant because Harrelson would only eat raw food.