Did anybody’s mom put salted peanuts in the cream cheese icing on the red velvet cake?

I mourn the absence of Malt-o-meal from your list of hot grains in this otherwise fine piece of writing.

SIU is rental some empty dorm rooms fairly cheaply in Carbondale.

I live in a small college town. Macy’s at the small local mall is the only place I can still find a few items to wear. We only have an Ulta so the Macy’s makeup counter still gets a good deal of business. I was unhappy when they dropped Jones New York, the best women’s ready to wear brand they carried, but I can…

No lie-I’d use that iron cord guide.

In my university, most mid and upper level administrators wear suits with slacks regardless of gender. Male professors tend toward whatever was fashionable when they were in college/grad school. So you see a lot of balding guys in their 50s/60s with ponytails, jeans, birkenstocks and a nondescript shirt. Women profs…

Well there are a number of universities already offering courses like this - including my own. I don’t mean to eyeroll too hard but there are a number of qualified scholars with both the academic bona fides and experience in the field (working with refugees and victims of war crimes) that this doesn’t need to be a…

I made two things: Saturdsy was grilled pizza with prosciutto fontina and arugula. Then Monday was chicken paprikash with rhick chewy buttery noodles.

Arugula with roasted beets, walnuts, and goat cheese. Spinach with boiled egg, tomato, blue cheese, cannelloni beans & chicken. Chopped tomato, cukes, red onion, garbanzos, goat cheese & mint in garlic vinaigrette. These are a few of my favorite things.

I saved today’s Kitchenette until the dark part of the afternoon to relieve the dreariness of a 3 pm workday. It worked! I am uplifted. also hungry. I’d eat an upside down sandwich

I think the most painful betrayal would be Winter Soldier but don’t think the odds are good that they will go there. BW is so obvious though and we don’t know if this leaked lineup is accurate.

It has become overly complicated. I just want to buy one song. Is that too much to ask?

I didn’t know my first year film students had enough money to hire Pitt and Jolie. This is obviously their attempt to recreate the magic of French cinema in the late 1960s. It couldn’t be professionals.

yes that would be my measured response as well.

I forgot to say that in WWII, the SU government declared lipstick to be an essential product so its manufacturing continued. They thought having lipstick improved morale for women war workers and armed forces women.

My favorite lipstick right now is from Bessamé - they make a color from each decade. Hayley Atwell wears their 1945 choice; I prefer the 1935 Cherry Red. The cases are gorgeous and each lipstick case comes in a little red velvet bag. http://besamecosmetics.com/collections/li…

I just finished Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson. I liked it a lot and found the sections dealing with the Ship particularly riveting. I’m a bit KSR fan, though, so factor that into your response to my one sentence review. Now I’m reading 97 Orchard Street, a gastronomic archaeology of a 19th century NYC tenement.

I have so many of the implements listed in the comments. Here are some: Turkish coffee maker, wine wrapper cutter, mezzaluna, two piece plastic garlic chopper (leaves more in chopper than anywhere else) lime shaped zester - zester just sprays all over counter. These are a few of my favorite useless things. However, I…

There apparently is a native and a non-native cattail in the area, which combine to produce a frighteningly invasive hybrid in NE Indiana and adjacent Illinois. But let’s hear form an expert, shall we?

Oh dear. I have been fascinated by Gertrude Bell for years. This film has all the signs of Hollywood white masculine capitalist patriarchy. What a shame - there is a really profound tale to tell about Bell but this won’t be it.