Lifelong pedestrian:

Grits can either be cooked into a cake (polenta was a good description) that you can top with shrimp, mushrooms, bacon, or other savory things, OR it can be cooked like a hot cereal - it should be thinner than oatmeal, but not by much. If it’s watery and gritty, it had too much liquid and/or wasn’t cooked long enough.…

[edit: you’d think I’d know to check the DATES on these dang posts.]

I grew up just outside Rochester. Predominantly white, I think POC might’ve been about 10% of the population at school. I remember talking to a girl who lived outside Syracuse who said she’d never seen a non-white face until she went to college. Not really rural or even isolated, but maybe ... clannish is a better…

Oleo. I had the sugar free gummy squirts once, but never had the oleo squirts, thank goodness.

In that scene, he’s a ghost. (literally.)

Eastern Carolina vinegar barbecue > all else. (and I’m a snowbird with no geographic horse in this race.)

The star is particularly for drinking the dressing out of a salad bowl. Not a fan of wine in any case, but I’ve been known to drop twenty bucks on a great bottle of vinegar, and I am not wasting the dregs!

I kinda agree. When people ask me about reading the books, my standard answer is that they should read #1 without question, and if they enjoy that, read 2-3-4. If, at that point, they’re not particularly invested in the story, that’s a good place to stop: in part because it gets a lot more heavy-handed with the…

I was getting whiffs of Rhett Butler & Belle Watling there.

Disregarding for a moment the canon that the ability to travel is genetic, Diana’s made it clear that will never happen. I’m pretty sure she wrote a short essay (or a response to a question, at the very least) on the subject at some point - one of the cool things about DG is that she’s been extremely interactive with…

The thing about TFC on is that’s where the story really goes a lot more hardcore into history, and not quite so much development; it ought to be *easier* for them to cut things without losing a lot of the flavor. If they cut this one before the Artemis (I’ll trust that’s enough detail for book people to know what I…

John Grey was the wrong kind of handsome. He may be a soldier, but he’s a lot more ... fine? delicate? And while I can’t fault the actor, because he really did try, he doesn’t truly strike me as having that deep and abiding infatuation with Jamie, nor with Hector. But again, it was all that severely rushed development.

They stuck surprisingly close to the book for this one - but one change I wholeheartedly approve of is making Willoughby less of a caricature, because that really bothered me in print - I was cringing as the scene approached, wondering how obnoxious he’d be, and thankfully the scriptwriter was woke enough to tone him…

Mayim has bugged me for years - I appreciate that she’s a successful woman in STEM, but she’s still super-overprivileged crunchy granola lady who comes off as being really judgey, particularly when it comes to Things Domestic, like raising kids. Like, I don’t even *want* kids, and her op-eds about co-sleeping and…

I gotta WELL ACTUALLY this one. *adjusts douchey fedora*

If a person can’t tell the difference between sexual harassment and asking someone out, that’s a significant problem.

A lot of those tips are good for communication in general, not just the deaf. I am only mildly hearing impaired, and if I had a nickel for every time I had to say some variation of “Please make sure you have my attention when you talk to me, face me when you speak, don’t mumble, and take your hand away from your…

Oh god. About a year and a half ago, I freehanded a bunch of arches for a painting loosely based on the window behind the east altar of the Liverpool Cathedral, and even measuring off the start and end points and the middle of the curve where necessary, I still wanted to punch myself in the face. I watched one of his…

Captain, I must protest. I am NOT a merry man!