Except for that one time years ago when everything went according to plan and you finished just ahead of your optimistic timeline and that’s now your frame of reference even though it hasn’t happened since. At least in my case.  Kind of like the dog that found half a pie in a bush on a walk and six months later still…

Linda deciding to knit her kids scarves three days before Christmas makes perfect sense if you’re craftily inclined. One year I got it in my head that everyone would get hand-rolled beeswax candles because they were a Thing and I was broke. Turns out IT’S NOT AS EASY AS IT LOOKS and the smell of beeswax still makes me…

I’m starring your comment out of respect for your opinion, because as someone who doesn’t have kids and knew my friends long before they had kids, my friends phrase it as a question, even if there’s little room for doubt, and if someone sent me a statement like that, I’d feel like there was an underlying assumption…

He didn’t ask to bring the kids, he stated he’s bringing the kids which either means he wants the host to explicitly say “um it’s adults only” or that he’s assuming the kids are welcome. He didn’t say “hey, I’ve got the kids, can I bring them?” like a decent friend would and give the host the option of saying “no” to…

Miso soup, yo.  Add in whatever leafy greens you have on hand and whatever protein you have lying around and rice and/or noodles if you’ve got it and ideally some shichimi (Japanese chili powder).  Vegetarian if you use vegetarian miso paste and dashi and tofu, no dairy, you can dress it up as much or as little as you…

It’s an homage to Sean O’Neal’s iconic Big Red NO.

I hadn’t thought of this before, but both her gender and ethnicity were completely unremarked on and just taken as a given. No one even batted an eye at a grade school student building a radio telescope. The only things about the project anyone questioned (as far as I can remember) were a) should they really be doing…

1. I’m happily shocked to see this is still on the front page this morning. Usually it goes up so late that by the time I check the AV Club in the morning, it’s already buried on the second page of stories.

I clearly recall at least three girls in elementary school who sucked on their pendants, and maybe a half-dozen who’d suck on their hair - I’d say it’s not so much character-specific as archetype-suggestive.

I was somewhat relieved when Brenda’s story turned out pretty mundane, but I loved that they went into so much detail about Linda and Teddy’s backstories for her, down to gun glasses.

As soon as I heard “I’ve been lonely...” I was like OH THEY DID NOT and then they did and it was glorious.  

This warms the cockles of my heart. I’ve had a middle school crush on Keanu for nigh 30 years now and his not having been associated with any major scandals to date just lets those embers keep glowing.

I was going to say the same thing - sure, it was the song that caused people to commit suicide in Hungary in the 30s, and not crushing poverty and famine. Uh-huh.

I watched her Austin City Limits performance and it turned into a midnight dance party of one in front of my TV. Girl got groove and puts on a helluva show.

I waited until after midnight hoping this review would go up just so I could mention how opening the ep with Bob talking to the turkey (and voicing the turkey’s responses) will never, ever get old.

My garlic guy would very much protest being split into cloves.

I tried listening to his music on youtube. The mixes sound like the bedroom tracks my former boss made and mixed and proudly showed off while he was strung out on coke and meth, except he sings like a pre-puberty Chester Bennington as opposed to my former boss’ almost-Cookie Monster death metal growls.

I would watch the crap out of a movie that was 75%-80% Lifetime/Hallmark Christmas schlock before taking a hard dark left turn into the red wedding. “A Red and White Christmas”, “Snow Falling Gently on Castamere”, “A Christmas Card from the Lannisters”...