Remember Michael Fay? Only the story there was that he didn’t even do half of what they pinned on him. If it were recorded, though, they could really prove it.

Holy shit, I basically came to write the same thing.

Thanks for clarifying that. I was about to write up the same correction.

There’s also Emilio Lizardo....

I should point out that Dad’s Hat is apparently trying to resurrect an Old Monongahela style spirit - basically the prototypical rye whiskey from Pennsylvania.

Some interesting new (to me, anyway) stuff I’ve tried lately, and liked:

Dalmore 12 was horrid. I ended up using the rest of the bottle for whisky cake so I wouldn’t have to drink it. Auchentoshan is just bland. It’s distilled too many times, and just didn’t taste like... well, whisky. But... I will drink the hell out of the Balvenie 12y Double-Wood. It’s only about $50-60 a bottle, and…

Yet stones have stood for a thousand years, and pained thoughts found
The honey of peace in old poems.

I checked my account, and was surprised to see that I only signed up in 2005. I could have sworn it was closer to 2001 or 2002. 5% would have been great.

I’m sorry if I caused you some grief - I really wasn’t trying to be flippant, but in re-reading, it sure came across that way. To be honest, this kind of thing makes me feel incredibly connected to the universe. The idea that the constituent atoms of my body were forged in stars and novae and supernovae billions of…

If it makes you feel any better (spoiler alert: probably won’t), the current estimates for the lifespan of red dwarves is quite long (in the 10 trillion range), and the estimate for the time it would take for the largest black holes to evaporate is somewhere between 1 and 2 googol (10^100) years. So, it won’t be “a…

This headline makes me so sad. I opened my ING Orange account (now CapitalOne 360 and of significantly lower value) back when the savings account rate was 3%. I’m old.

I’d second Patrick’s advice, and also recommend reading The Gift of Fear by Gavin DeBecker. Not all of the stories in the book will be as “vanilla” Hurt Again’s story, but it’s on the same spectrum. Break contact with that person and don’t relent - don’t talk to him or give him any in to get back in contact with you.…

Goddamned brilliant. Go! Do! Awesome!

Rub his leg while he’s kissing her.

Bonus points for a Howard Cosell impression. I’m picturing something along the lines of the Korean brothers in Better Off Dead. Maybe to make it real fun, each family member can take on the persona of a different commentator. Cosell, and as another commenter mentioned John Madden, and maybe Al Michaels or, I dunno,…

(I know, I was having some fun with you.) :)

No crunchy tacos, no problem.

Alamo Drafthouse was awesome when I was working in Texas for a while. The food sucked, but the concept was magical: no kids for most shows, beer, servers, a “table” for food, and reserved seating. And they had shows for new parents where they volume is lowered significantly and the lights are still on low for seeing,…