It’s kind of amazing that you can pay a large chunk for insurance, the other person can be at fault and yet after a fender bender you can end up out a couple thousand dollars, hours of inconvenience, and with a car that is not as good as your wrecked one.

I feel like Halford doesn’t get enough credit for being a trailblazer for gay rights and changing hearts & minds when it comes to homosexuality. There is NO more of a conservative, bigoted group of music fans than metalheads. Him coming out as a proudly gay man was a big goddamn deal.

I am getting married in June and we are just eloping for safety reasons. Over half of my family has reached out with ‘their solution’ so that they can be there.

Hahah, one thing I’m going to miss is I actually look good in a mask, despite the fact they are a pain in the ass. Oh well, It’s worth subjecting the public to my less attractive lower face to not have to fuss with them.

Fuck those people holy shit. I wouldn’t talk to them again anyways cuz they clearly have no respect for you or your safety. They fucking set you up with a prime scenario for asymptomatic transmission. Exposed a few days prior, fucking knew about it, didn’t tell you ahead of time, didn’t tell you when you arrived, told…

Unfortunately this is exactly when people are going to start fucking up, because of magical thinking. “Oh, I’m getting my shot next week, so I can ditch my mask/hang out in a bar now!” 

The day after I got my first vaccine shot my partner and I were guilted into seeing two of his family members... we were masked, outside, and sat more than 6 feet apart...but 20 minutes into the conversation they casually mentioned that they had someone else over to their house earlier in the week and that person…

That Marriage Or Mortgage series might be the most unappealing show idea I have ever seen, and I’ve seen my share of garbage tv.

I’m a fan of ajvar, a Slavic condiment of blitzed peppers and eggplant, with varying heat levels. Perfect for cevapi :)

I’ve had dreams like this too, fueled mainly by the childish desire to discover a world inside a wardrobe a la CS Lewis. One day when I’m rich I’m going to build a secret passageway in my house. 

I disagree that they minimized it. Every time someone snapped out of their Hex self, it was made clear that they were being emotionally tortured underneath their facade and were terrified for their family. In the finale you had people begging Wanda just for the right to be able to hold their kid again. And while…

It’s neat that the show decided to branch out and tell deeper, interconnected stories in later seasons rather than just sticking with random silliness. Also, the show is really imaginative, there’s so many original concepts and designs in it.

I’ve experienced two major sources of extreme grief in my life, so this show really hit me. One of them, when I was younger, left me feeling very much like Wanda did at the beginning of the Hex, where you feel so overwhelmed and so broken and in so much pain that all you can do is scream at the top of your lungs and…

I feel like no discussion of grief and television would be complete right now without mentioning Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist. Last year we moved my wife’s elderly parents in with us, because they were reaching a point where they couldn’t live alone. My mother-in-law passed in October, in our house with family around…

Luckily it did turn out yummy. If it had been bland after all that there would have been spontaneous “beef and smashed crock pot all over the walls” redecorating in my apartment.

I hear you on the BMI. By every other measure I’m pretty damn healthy; it’s just that my body likes hanging out at a weight that puts me in an undesirable zone of a flawed metric.

Ca bagel, so good for you, it's just too bad it smells like methane.

Same here: I live in the cultural middle of nowhere. If I can’t get it at Publix or Kroger I can’t/won’t do it.

I live in the cultural middle of nowhere, and I can’t just pop to my local Indonesian corner store for six leaves of some fancy herb to throw into my sauce or stew. If I’m going to get a specialty ingredient, I better want to make that dish for the rest of my life, because I’m going to have to order the ingredient…

Brand-specific ingredients.