Although you won’t see it in the AV Club’s write up, Chicago media is reporting the assistant prosecutor as basically saying they believe Jussie faked the crime, they just don’t think its important enough to charge him.

Groucho Marx smoked and drank and lived to 87. George Burns did and lived to 99. Julia Child ate rich French food and old-school McDonald’s tallow-fried French fries and lived to 92. My grandmother smoked like a chimney and lived to 84.

Sometime in what, the late 80's early 90's chocolate mousse became trite and passe, which is a crying shame. It’s an epic example of how applying the right technique to just 5 ingredients can result is something ethereal and transcendent. Some classics really should never go out of style, this is one.

Toss your raw meatballs directly into the sauce. No frying. No baking. Just simmer in the sauce for about and hour/hour and a half. You may lose one or two to the sauce, but I promise you they will be the best textured meatball you’ve ever eaten.

More obscure but has anyone else read “Barney’s Version”? The second wife id called “The Second Mrs. Panofsky” throughout. Same in the movie. 

Unnamed characters:

The Wendy Peffercorn plot did NOT age well. And didn’t the “Where are they now” say she married that kid?

I’ve got a Google Sheet I keep open on whatever computer I happen to be on that day with a list of all the foods I typically eat. I have it set to auto sum the “what I’ve eaten” columns and tell me what I’ve got left in terms of calories and macros for the day.

Myfitnesspal, every day, for almost two years. I kind of hate it, and it takes a lot of hacks to make it even close to accurate (no calorie counting is accurate unless you eat exactly the same thing every day) and I’ve maintained a 20lbs-ish weight loss, with another 20 lbs to go that I have not been able to lose for…

Congrats!

There are some outside chances it wasn’t staged, but there’s a 100% chance Smollett’s lying about what happened. He got caught because he provided bogus information to the police (he handed over his phone records, but removed any calls with the nigerian brothers; the police had already obtained another list directly…

I guarantee the detectives on the case didn’t believe Smollett for more than a day (plenty of people realized this story about cartoon villains appearing out of thin air to lightly rough up a guy then disappearing into thin air just might not be the whole truth), but CPD (correctly) realized that publicly doubting his…

if he did stage the entire thing, why would he..

Regarding #2, maybe because he is black and gay and the Chicago cops don’t have a great rep in dealing with either of those communities, he didn’t think they would take it seriously?

Not to paint too broad of a brush stroke here, but a lot of “creatives” I know aren’t exactly the most analytically minded people.

If they’re going to flashback to Marge and Homer as a childless young couple in the 90s, better this then that horrid episode that was “College students are whiny PC snowflakes” that could have come straight out of Quillette and was almost as funny.

Based on the women over 50 I’ve been around who drink diet coke, I really doubt a causal relationship, as opposed to it being that the type of women over 50 who drink diet coke are also the women over 50 who have many other factors that are leading them to be more likely to have a stroke or heart attack.

Just his luck that the case got to a couple of detectives that were good at their jobs.

I’ll say that, being a lawyer, I have been privy to hate crimes in the past. And while I did not automatically think he lied, I did think “that’s kind of....perfect.” I mean, it was the description of what would basically be a textbook hate crime - epithets, a noose, bleach, the MAGA references. It is certainly…

And I can’t be the only that thought that story sounded a little fishy right ?