I’ve been a big old moon face all my life, cursed with a weak chin into the bargain, to the point that people who’ve only seen a picture of me from the neck up have been surprised when they see me in person and I’m not obese. It used to tear me up and was the physical feature I hated myself for the most. Then at some…

These and something called Utica Greens featured on the dearly departed Foodspin at Deadspin. I’d never heard of either and tried making both. Utica Greens is still one of my favourite ways to do cooked greens (I’m usually more a salad person for that kind of thing). 

Mandatory plug for the Maintenance Phase Podcast, that roasts the junk science to do with fad diets, wellness fads and associated nonsense. There’s even an episode about Snackwell.

I’ve been an Uber Eats courier to supplement by income when I was too unwell to work full time at my other jobs (irony I know). A LOT of my deliveries were for McDonald’s. The thing that surprised me most was that some people would order a McDonald’s coffee… and nothing else, no food. What the actual fuck?

I’ve noticed conventionally attractive women tend not to like to acknowledge that beauty privilege is a thing that is real and exists. Even the smart ones who would be the first to point out to a white person or a man that privilege doesn’t mean bad things never happen to you, just that whiteness and maleness are…

Serious question, Thanksgiving isn’t a thing in my country. For 20-30 people do you still just do one turkey? I get the impression that the turkey is a very important symbolic item but everyone tends to be way more into the other dishes. 

What’s different between trials of sexual assault of a “person A says/person B says nature” and other crimes such as murder, arson, robbery, etc, is that a finding of not guilty of the accused is essentially a finding that the complainant is lying at worst or confused at best. If someone’s found not guilty in another…

It looks like the obvious solution would be to put ads in the content Netflix gets from other networks and studios, and leave the Netflix Original stuff ad free. But I’m sure someone more knowledgeable about this stuff will be able to say why that wouldn’t work.

I am old and started following the original blog partway through as it was happening. After the book came out (it’s excerpts from the blog with some rewriting, and alternating chapters where Powell wrote the Child bits) I remember thinking it could make a good movie. The movie itself was a very cleaned up rom com…

A movie based on the “Bon Appetit” drama would be fun and have lots of good roles for an ensemble of bankable actors.

At least he is not Larry Hemsworth. 

Australian here, downloaded the app just to see if this was true, can confirm!

Re Watson and Felton, sometimes in life you do make a really good friend who’s of a gender you are sexually/romantically attracted to, and while there might be some of that from time to time it doesn’t get in the way of you being fundamentally good and loving friends. I hope that’s what they have. 

It’s unpopular within the fandom, or at least the Very Online component. 

That’s interesting, I hadn’t seen that specific quote. I knew that part of the reason for the change was because motherhood was such a big theme of the story so he thought it made sense to make the lead female. I knew some of the gender stuff but thought it wasn’t so much his personal opinion more that studios assume…

A good percentage of the “visions” experienced by medieval saints were caused by fast-induced delirium.

Out of all the creatures in the first SH film the ones I had the hardest time getting by were the Sexy Nurses. (They were designed and performed terrifically though, this isn’t a critique of that aspect.) I mean yeah I get why they were in the film, they’re iconic in the lore like Pyramid Head and I bet if they hadn’t…

What I got from the film segment is that “Return” is going to be a pretty direct film adaptation of SH2, hence the remaking of that game to coincide. This is an unpopular opinion in the fandom but I actually like the first SH film, as different as it was from the first game. I know a lot of fans couldn’t get past the…

This is going to remind me all over again why us SH fans (I say us because I’m one) are the wooooorst, isn’t it. I think Bloober are a perfectly okay choice, especially for remaking one of the old games.

Yep. Our grandkids are going to grow up barely remembering what fish tastes like, or thinking they hate it as all they’ll be used to is it tasting like mud and chemicals as the only affordable fish is heavily farmed.