Yup - wine, milk, as well as carrot and celery along with the tomatoes and a looooong cooking time (4 hours).

I think that the top three White House staffers are at war with each other is highly newsworthy. This is one of those Administrations where the internal conflict is so important because there are very few old DC hands around. Trump and his administration are dangerous not just from a policy perspective but from a…

Can you get me off the hook, Mooch? For old times sake?

Scaramucci is a well known New Yorker. This is not a case of the sacred white working class - God Bless Them - being mocked by the Evil Liberal Northeastern Cabal. It is quite newsworthy when a New York City hedge fund blowhard thinks he can go on the record with that kind of back room talk, period. But it is FAR…

Most meaningful: I was very ill in late 2014/early 2015 and after 2 months in Lenox Hill Hospital my appetite was finally returning but the hospital food was horrible. My wife was given permission to bring me in anything I wanted. And what I wanted was a pastrami sandwich. She went just a few blocks away to Pastrami…

Yup - it's a two parter. Not sure when the scheduled release for part 2 is though.

I think The Stand deserves the three part, Peter Jackson LOTR-style treatment. From what I've heard the new It pushes the time frame from the kid version of the Loser's Club being in the 1980s (as opposed to the 1950s in the novel) and adult Losers in the present. If an adaptation of The Stand is made they should…

I would make a strong bet that they revamp that scene radically. I re-read the novel a few weeks ago and while I understand the need for the scene you mention on a symbolic level, it just felt so wrong. I'm sure they will get the symbolic aspect in an entirely different manner because that scene could derail the film.

After that fancy speech where he blatantly said that he could not vote for the bill as it stands, he votes yes for the bill. I gave him a tiny sliver to redeem himself and this. Total agreement: fuck this guy. Ash bins of history and all that.

Almost never. Hopefully concerns about his legacy will be his guiding voice going forward but probably not.

The Washington Post has a transcript of a speech McCain just made on the Senate floor - a plea for bipartisanship etc etc. But he also said he would not vote for the current bill as it stands and is not sure if it could ever be fixed. He claims - claims at least - that he is a firm NO as the bill stands now. What…

Agree that "love letters to New York" type films are a bit played and the city is a very different place than the prime years when the city's elegance could be contrasted with the brutal decay and crime. "Taxi Driver" and "Annie Hall" are from the same era and yet tell tales of two completely different worlds. The…

I call them the Thruway cities: Utica, Albany, Syracuse, Rochester, Buffalo. But yeah, Rochester is cool because it's actually a little less rust belt-y than those others, has a nice tech and media scene etc. And of course like all proper Rust Belt towns it has great working guy food - the garbage plates, red and…

This touches close to home because I grew up in Rochester and have lived in NYC for over 25 years. Nice Seabreeze reference - I took the fam up to Playland in Rye, NY and we rode their famous wooden coaster the Dragon Coaster a few times. My verdict: nice ride but it ain't no Jackrabbit.

I think next week Dorne will effectively be taken off of the chessboard, so to speak (Cersei will kill Ellaria Martel and her Sand Snake daughter). Because the show now needs to narrow down the factions to what I assume will be the three final ones (Dany, Jon Snow, Cersei) I imagine the Iron Islands get taken off the…

Sure, kill Ellaria's daughter in utterly horrifying fashion in front Ellaria, very Cersei like revenge tactic. At this point I think the show needs to move fairly quickly and I think Dorne just got taken off of the chessboard.

The weak and addled Robin Arryn is the Lord of the Vale and Littlefinger is his stepfather, acting as Lord Paramount of the Vale. Robin is also being fostered by one of the Knights of the Vale. I think this political situation makes it somewhat easy to eliminate Littlefinger at the appropriate time.

Yes, in the early 80s it was the Satanic Panic and then later the Suicide Panic.

Not really because it was only since Cornell's suicide that I realized "Holy shit - I've know or known of a LOT of people who have committed suicide." No previous bias.

The reviews by both their fans and critics of their last album were beyond scathing. I wonder if the fans turning on them was the last straw?