They looked really solid in the first game! Lots of small ball, working counts, and drew 9 walks! Let’s hope the TC-era, Kevin Long launch angle home run happy squads have been tempered a bit by some OBP/Keith Hernandez Fundies. And 15 strikeouts by the pitching (10 by Syndergaard!) doesn’t hurt, either.

Mark Mulcahy, of “Polaris” (the house band of Pete & Pete/mid-90’s Nickelodeon fame), and also of Miracle Legion. After his wife passed unexpectedly a large group of musicians recorded a tribute album of his music. This is The National doing “Ashamed Of The Story I Told”. Its so beautiful.

I can’t find in the AllData when FIAT recommends the timing belt on the 500. I’m passing 90k so I’m thinking it may be soon, although elsewhere on the interwebs I’m seeing 150k...

The real question is ... what NOT to do with the immersion blender! Seriously it’s one of the most useful kitchen gadgets I have.

oh shit that makes sense... its all momentum presumably some kind of shaft broke somewhere? I kept shouting THE EMERGENCY STOP! PRES IT YOU IDIOTS!

“Maya Angelou is Black?!”

skirt steak was like... $22 a lb at my local market recently! Fucking SKIRT STEAK! Flank was no better! I remember in college (2008-ish) we used to get two big flank steaks, marinate them and feed the entire party for like $30. Now its crazy!

Architect with K-12 experience here, to weigh in:

My voicemail on my personal & work cells are both essentially “please text me, I don’t listen to these” ... it works surprisingly well.

HA! Fair enough, I know when I’m bested.

NBC was so bad with the Americasplaining this year I found myself wondering, do they actually think the entire country is full of idiots, who need to be told what ying and yang are? Nothing like butting in over a perfectly choreographed ceremony that took 2.5 years to plan to tell us American morons about the…

this actual architect is concerned about the potential for foodborne illnesses resulting from direct contact with skanky ass home depot plywood... and what of cleaning afterwards for re-use???

I’m an Architect, and being in a room with other Architects makes me want to end my life.

TEC, Scooped out everything, SPK.

you know it took me a while to remember where I had heard “Vilnius” before; when it came to me, at the end of Red October connery says: “there’s a river, not unlike this one, near Vilnius, where my grandfather taught me to fish”

Katsuobushi is amazing, i’ve started working it into all sorts of things, it punches up the smoky/umami flavor. For popcorn do you toast it and make a powder first?

Courtney & Kurt @ the Tiny Desk!

I saw San Fermin at Bric House in Brooklyn in oh, probably 2014. They played their first album end-to-end in a tiny room, with Holly and Jess from Lucius doing vocals. It was transcendent! I don’t think they topped that first effort.

re: Pitchfork, can I just be the one to say that I do not, have not, will not, ever, understand the fawning over Bjork? Can someone enlighten me?