I like bucatini as well.  Garofalo and Rummo are my favorites. DeCecco will do in a pinch, like for baked pastas and heavily flavored sauces. For very simple preparations, if I can’t find my two favs I just make something else. 

in fact, Viserys thought his dad was trying to suggest exactly that

Since I already know the answers to these questions, my focus is more on where the showrunners are going to slim things down. For example, Rhaenyra is linked, either overtly or covertly, to at least four dudes during her lifetime and pops out 6 kids, and I’m doubtful they’re going to go with all that.

I can understand to a degree why they wouldn’t want to include him, as he might have come across as an attempt to recreate Tyrion, but man, they really could have used the Mushroom character from the book. He’s the court fool and could be used to really cut through the seriousness with a well-timed comment.

Unfortunate but probably correct...

Im still really afraid #2 is gonna win it for em. I know people who think Biden is responsible for the inflation and gas prices, and dont give a shit about anything else.

Smaller servings maybe?

Naw, at some point the bottom gets a bit soggy but it can be minimized. I think the key is the right kind of potato, blanching them and using a little corn starch. And maybe eat faster.

The books do have that role with Mushroom, King Viserys’ court fool who also had his fingers in every pie and his ear around every door and kept making wisecracks to make everyone dismiss him. However, Mushroom was a dwarf and I suspect the TV writers thought having another wisecracking dwarf on a GoT show might come…

“so that makes it okay”

So far it’s a bit dull and I’m having trouble caring about anybody. As far as palace intrigue goes the beats are pretty telegraphed. I’m going to ally with your evil brother because you didn’t marry my frighteningly young daughter to consolidate power. The king physically rotting as a really on the nose metaphor for…

Initially HOD is reading as a throwback to the first season of GOT to me - basically a fantasy twist on medieval English history. It seems to hit many of the character beats of GOT as well - Viserys is Ned, Rhaenyra is a combo of Arya and Daenerys, Alicent is Sansa, Otto is Littlefinger, Criston Cole looks to be a Jon…

I’m also not convinced it wasn’t intentional.

I haven’t read the book (and won’t), but my understanding is that she recognizes it was systematic and she holds no animus toward Grande. The excerpt provided by Jezebel doesn’t seem to have that context, thereby sensationalizing it. 

They really needed to lampshade that...

She was absolutely sexually harassed while underage (bikini photos, foot photos, massages) so I am really not sure why you are trying to split hairs here by saying it wasn’t actually rape. And it’s super creepy for you to describe these things as “got a bit too friendly.”

Kansas is a closed primary state that only allows you to vote for a candidate if you are registered for that party. Approximately 30% of Kansas voters are independent/unaffiliated, and it’s thus not surprising that around 20% of those who voted on the referendum did not vote for a candidate.

Ballot measures can absolutely be helpful, they are just not going to be enough. Making reproductive choice a central issue when voting for candidates will be doing something different (for Democrats at any rate, it’s a strategy the right has been using for years) and it will be essential to protect abortion rights.…

Yes, ultimately politicians are unfortunately mostly representing the people who vote for them - with added weight towards large donors, primary voters and volunteers - rather than the people who live in their districts. Add in issues like gerrymandering and unequal access to polls and things get skewed even further,…

I think it’s a bit more complicated than that. One of my friends refers to Roe getting overturned as a “dog finally caught the car” situation. Like all politicians in our inflexible two party system, Republicans need to cobble together enough different factions to get a smidge ahead of the other candidate. “Pro life”…