This is what I’ve been doing since vanilla extract prices jumped, but in my neck of the woods (Canada) even the beans themselves are getting hard to source and even more pricey.

My friends had a dog who growled at me every time I came near with my head uncovered. Wearing a hat, wearing a hood - no problem, but if my hair was exposed, he’d go into full-on enemy threat mode. Dog had even gone through private obedience training. Eventually they narrowed it down to a complete and utter distrust…

I just saw “Free Solo” this weekend and having initially thought it was some sort of “Star Wars”-adjacent documentary, it is bonkers in the best way and well worth seeing in IMAX. I love heights, my friends have acrophobia and we all had to pick our jaws up off the floor when it was over.

It’s also pretty accurate for “creative” girls her age.

I did not know that existed and my life is better for it.  I thank you, good sir!

I want to say it was a mason jar? We wouldn’t have had baby food jars around. (In hindsight, my mom was probably just happy to have three kids under the age of 8 mindlessly and harmlessly occupied for an hour or two on a Saturday afternoon.)

This made me irrationally happy after seeing an OS update left me unable to start a somewhat important database service for some reason. Thank you.

In a way, it really is a shame, because we learned SO MUCH from trial and error on our own and had to read a LOT to get anywhere.  But on the other hand, my friends’ kids are now of LHotP age, and they have way more resources for context than I ever did and probably won’t waste an entire Saturday afternoon trying to…

In hindsight I can’t believe how patient my mom was with my “Little House” phase, especially considering she was a Japanese immigrant who had no idea what “salt pork” or “cornmeal” was, let alone 95% of the ingredients mentioned in those books, and the internet didn’t exist yet so we had to approximate based on…

My brother and sister and I tried that after seeing Sesame Street shorts about cabanes a sucre and sugaring off, but we didn’t get that it was overboiled maple sap. We begged our mom to get us some maple syrup and as soon as we got it, immediately scooped up bowlfuls of snow and drizzled maple syrup on it and got... …

That picture makes me happy.  Joni’s a national treasure here in Canada.

For those who are so inclined, selected songs are available as legit PVG arrangements at http://m.cwtv.com/thecw/broadway?fbclid=IwAR0gp38pMXlKktQX3FPtQWZ1911rrMaM5YIO8edqzYeXGXvyxKpJa3haJdQ

There are pretty much zero consequences if they’re wrong, and confirmation of their existing worldview if they’re even vaguely right - so there’s no reason for them not to say these things, and rewards of varying scale *to* say them.

AV Club didn’t really have a choice, it was all but stated that GMG was going to shove it down their throats.  

Bad/incorrect Asian language tattoos are a genre unto themselves. Unless you KNOW it says what you think it says, why would you have it permanently marked on your skin?

I saw it with three friends last weekend. 75% of us thought it was “fine”. 25% of us thought it was AWESOME just “because Black Manta is the lamest DC villain ever and” - spoiler alert - “he gets his butt handed to him”. There were 2-3 scenes where I had an “ooh, shiny” reaction, but I laughed in several inappropriate…

That song is pretty much the sole reason I own a melodica.

Dance - bum rush the speaker that booms/I’m filling your brain like a poisonous mushroom...

Anyway, back in the day 10 000 Maniacs did a cover that cracked top 20 IIRC:

TIL there is a Blondie cover of “More Than This”.