A passing reference to Marmite, but not making it one of the five? Boo.

Not sufficiently well known opinion: if you live in the States, any flavor of South River Miso > any other miso that you can buy.

I used to use Tone’s but was never quite satisfied with it. Then I discovered Better than Bullion and never looked back. I have even committed the heresy of actually making soup with it when real stock was not handy, rather than using it for seasoning (or making liquid stock with it to add to other things.) The…

Point taken.

My relatives down there are toxic enough.

Yeah, that does not exactly make Texas or Florida look any better.

the Official State Gun of Texas

Oh, he had my money once his Black Panther run was first announced. It just ended up being later, rather than sooner!

Dense is why I love Coates. I wanted to be challenged by him. Feature, not a bug!

Well, that is my bent as well, but I love Coates enough that I was tempted to buy the individual books and not wait. But then I procrastinated, and, hey! Trade paperback!

I have to admit (to my everlasting shame) that I have yet to pick up a single Black Panther that Coates has written. I assume that they are anthologized at this point, so I need to correct that oversight forthwith!

“And if Sessions nearly evoking ‘filth’ to refer to a group of people, a favorite term that Nazi-era propagandists used to dehumanize Jews, doesn’t send enough of a shiver down your spine”

“Now, more than 36 hours into the outrage cycle, United’s CEO is apologizing for real this time”

Can you work on me as well? Authors keep recommending my comments, but no one will ungrey me!

Thank you. Came here to point that out. Schoonmaker, Verna Fields, Dede Allen, Sally Menke, Anne V. Coates, among many others — film editing is one of the areas of movie production where a large number of the real legends of the field are women. While many people can go through life without having seen many movies…

I was tempted to throw out a link for the Richard Gray’s Power Company 800 RM Pro that I use, but methinks that this may not be the friendliest forum for that. . .

I was tempted to throw out a link for the Richard Gray’s Power Company 800 RM Pro that I use, but methinks that this…

Ouch.

Sqveaky seal gets da KICK!

“No one ran for office promising to do this. There is no natural constituency for this. But it happened anyway because money begets political influence which begets more money which...you get the picture.”

“Other people” is why I still have a steel plate in my shoulder that was used to repair my shattered* collarbone after one of them backed out in front of me while I was bicycling. I still have the bicycle and still use it for cardio, weather permitting, but. . . There are times I wonder about it.