I’ve just finished re reading his books for the millionth time. In Kitchen Confidential there’s a chapter where he’s talking to another chef who fired a cook and the cook went home and killed himself. Bourdain says he told the chef “We’re in a lifeboat, the weak go over the side”. In Medium Raw there’s a chapter about…

There’s a chapter in Kitchen Confidential where he’s talking to another chef who had to fire a cook and the cook went home and killed himself. Bourdain says he told the chef “We’re in a lifeboat, the week go over the side”. And he’s pretty upfront about his self-destructive ways with drugs and alcohol for some of his…

Remember how the media pitted Anne Hathaway and Jennifer Lawrence against each other a few years ago? Hathaway was mocked for trying so very hard, while Lawrence was adored for being just this fun hot chick who put no effort into being so fun and so hot that’s just how she was made, what a Cool Girl.

I don’t know if this is your experience or not as you don’t give a relationship status, but about the loneliness thing?

Anyone want to place an early bet on whether the movie will end with Gaby (a) single but okay with it or (b) happily paired up or that thing where she’s not exactly paired up but it’s heavily implied that she soon will be?

How do you know someone’s a “foreign tourist” - is the waiter supposed to ask them before taking orders? What criteria do you suggest for determining whether a customer may be “foreign”? Hmmm....

Well sure, nothing’s stopping you from applying. XD

It sounds like all her friends were teenagers too so I know I should give some leeway here, but I can’t help wondering what her male friends’ thoughts were when they were told “Oh....he doesn’t want any guys coming in the van, only the girls”. Like, this feels like it could be a teachable moment about how being a good…

That’s the one. :)

Like, for serious. I want to sit them down and go “Look, nice white women, you are all smart, educated and savvy people. I know that you know about sociology and shit. You KNOW that we are socially conditioned to objectify and project onto beautiful women, especially when they choose not to say a lot, especially when…

Dear nice white women who didn’t vote for Trump, please repeat after me: “Melania Trump is not an avatar for my suffering under the Trump presidency. I will stop projecting. Melania Trump is not an avatar for my suffering under the Trump presidency. I will stop projecting.”

Does anyone else really want a Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal movie?

Whoa, has there been other versions of Iron Chef USA than the one hosted by Mark Decascos? Did Alton Brown host a version too?

I know this might blow the antis’ minds (just kidding, they’ll simply ignore it because it doesn’t fit their narrative of consensual sex workers being selfish greedy sluts only looking out for themselves) but us sex workers actually have our own peer organisations and a lot of our work includes reaching out to those…

Funny how the conservatives (and I’m not just talking about people who align with right wing politics here) suddenly have much less to say when it comes to trafficking victims used for manual and domestic labour.

The only one I can think of was a woman who looked like every other woman in the Sin City comics who Dwight (I think it was Dwight) saves from some thugs and she keeps talking about a “him” she regrets leaving and who probably won’t take her back because she’s such a naughty dirty girl and then there’s some car chases…

Hang on, did you politely ask the staff to do something about the family first, or just flounce?

I can’t find the comment now but I think it was somewhere her a few days ago that someone said the silent demographic for a lot of these “ridiculous workaround for achieving a straightforward task” gadgets are people with disabilities, except for some reason marketers and advertisers don’t like to say that on their…

“First they came for the sex workers and I did nothing because I was not a sex worker.”

The Walking Dead is Watership Down with human survivors instead of rabbits and zombies instead of predators and humans. :)