While “Dream of a Thousand Cats” is delightful, it probably would have been better to just skip “Calliope” entirely. There’s probably no way to fix the inherent truly gross misogyny of that story.

It’s honestly very funny to look back at how so many people thought that the six year wait between the 3rd and 4th book was “excessive.”

I genuinely do want to see Dr. Oz use a knife to cut up carrots into stick-form. I feel like there’s a lot we can learn about him there.

I'm not sure what Wegner's normally carries, but what he was grabbing were not the "super-tender early chutes" that the asparagus plant sends up.  I think he just grabbed for it because asparagus is normally more expensive than things like "celery" or "cucumbers" or "bell peppers."

The low key funniest part for me is that he reaches for the asparagus (a thing that is always spendy out of season) for a crudités. Barring the very tenderest early season asparagus (not available in August), you will always want to blanch asparagus for your veggie tray at which point it no longer counts as crudités,…

The water rights under the Great Lakes Compact are extremely more restrictive than they are, say, out west. Like Waukesha was located several miles out of the Great Lakes Basin (though Waukesha is a suburb of Milwaukee which is inside of the basin) and when they found their water was contaminated by radium (which is…

My sincere belief is that soup, like a hotdog, is a sandwich.

I mean, the length of a game question is not totally unreasonable. At various points in your life you will have more or less money to spend on discretionary entertainment. If you’re at a low point, a game that you spend $60 on and you finish in a weekend and don’t think this is something you want to revisit is a…

I mean, the batting average for MCU flicks is higher than the batting average for Star Wars films. Less than half of the Star Wars films in existence are actually good, IMO. The complaint rings true that Star Wars is about these same 3 families and this same fundamental struggle over every single Star Wars, even…

The convenient thing is that they can just forget Barry Allen exists and cast someone else as Wally West. Much like we can forget about Hal Jordan because of that Ryan Reynolds movie, but there’s Kyle, John, Guy, Simon, and Jessica available to take up the mantle.

It has been well-known that Facebook (the entity) sucks for so long I’m wondering why teens even bothered signing up in the first place.

The people who want to sign up for “Elon Musk’s private playground social media site” deserve each other.

I remember a class I took in grad school where the professor straight up told the class to pirate the textbook- which he had written. 

Yeah, my biggest complainst about the first season are:

I take issue with the “why is there pumpkin spice in this” in terms of things that exist only to make things smell nice. Pumpkin spice is just cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and clove (sometimes also allspice) and those are all nice smells, separately or together.

I mean I have the Netflix App on my phone but I've never used it since I feel like Netflix as a streaming service is more for stuff you want to sit down and pay attention to than “junk food to occupy your time” (that’s Hulu’s gig.)

It was my understanding that Bridget was initially forced to be in “girl mode” in public as a survival tactic because of plot nonsense. Which has sort of raises uncomfortable questions about “was Bridget made trans because of her parent’s choices rather than their own?” Because in reality you can’t make someone trans…

But like cows and chickens are farmed and those get parasites.  Do worm farmers have to deworm their worms?

So on Fear Factor (remember when that was what Joe Rogan was doing?) when they had the competitors eat a bunch of earthworms, were they using special earthworms that did not have parasites?

Parallel construction is important!  I would also submit Miles Morales (Spider-Man), Peter Parker (Spider-Man), Eddie Brock (Venom).  Since other people have been Venom as well!