I’m really not sure how you would get the real stuff in the US. I lived in East Africa back in the day, and got the genuine article from the Maasai and this was before it became a thing in the western world. Anyway, it has the same spice profile and an analogous taste to what they serve at Starbucks. That said, they…

I think New England would be an excellent location. At the very least, I can’t come up with a better on.

too soon?

St. Louis- Come for the baseball, stay for the riots and civil unrest!

I actually kind of like the general sloppiness of this season for a variety of reasons. There have been a lot of REALLY convenient circumstances (like always having an unguarded dirt road next to anywhere they need to sneak in to, or Blake specifically mentioning, unprompted, that Nails is not part of the plot to take…

I got five bucks says index finger is gone at the middle knuckle and the thumb is just, uh, gone. The spread for this is base knuckle of the thumb intact plus no more than three centimeters of actual digit.

10 games for driving while black.

The thing I find most annoyingly convenient is that every place they have to sneak up on has a little unguarded back road off to the side a little ways. Like, everyplace. How does this happen?

I love Benicio del Toro. His turn as Oscar Zeta Acosta was perfection itself. I doubt if more than three or four other living actors could have pulled that off. That being said, I just can’t see him on the Dark Side of the Force. You need menace without the skin crawling aspect. People may disagree, but I don’t feel…

Drew- Glad you’re still around. After the apparent absence of Funbag (or my own mental handicaps in finding it), I feared you’d run from this internet Lusitania. Glad I was wrong.

In all honesty, I do very little redditing, but for some topics, its a pretty good clearinghouse for information and analysis of pretty narrow topics. For example, I’m hell bent on ruining the new Star Wars movie for myself by viewing every leak and detail possible before it comes out. I can either visit many websites…

There’s a lot out there, but I’m really not one to climb on the high horse unless there’s a compelling reason, and those comments directed to “white person” invalidating their ideas for something totally beyond their control like the skin they were born into (and the fact that “white” is an artificial construct) sort…

Here’s a good summary (with links) from DailyKos. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/12/…

Wow, I’m so very, very, very sorry for all of the things that I’ve done to oppress you. Where do I send the reparations check? When you send me that, I’ll send you the address where you can pay me for the Caribbean slave mills where Irish women were bought for 20% of the cost of an African slave, and were used to…

Lot of that going around lately. I wonder what the official definition of ‘white’ is these days, since a small continent of dozens of disparate cultures is solely responsible for all of the worlds problems. I’m sure my Irish immigrant ancestors could have really benefited from the slaves they didn’t own when their…

I got ID’d for smokes at Walgreens yesterday. I’m in the mid/late 30’s range with plenty of grey in the beard. I looked at her sideways, produced ID, then saw her card the mid-60’s gentleman behind me. Sometimes just a tiny bit of power is enough to set off the dictator gene in shitty people.

If you go to a divey movie theater in Pasadena, TX. . . don’t wear a watch. Or have a wallet.

I skipped the bulk of the article (which I will go read after posting) to give my untainted reason for pirating video games:

He just voiced Vader for the Season 2 premiere of Rebels. I’m guessing they locked him down at that time for future engagements. Or, if his part if pretty solid in the script, it might already be done. If you haven’t seen the Rebels episode, he sounds so totally like. . . Vader. And it’s awesome.

Yellow shell casings on the rounds, as in not shot or slug. Probably LTL beanbag or possibly something chemical. They’ve only got 8 episodes like last season, no “flexible-yet-indestructible” bond a la Rust and Marty, a presumed antagonist (Vaughan) that’s not the villain, and less of the clear cut seemingly…