Well, the white women anyway…

Having her represent us is one of the perks. She’s approaching Maisy Hirono levels of cool here. Careful though - you’ll want to stay well North of Springfield if you’re looking for anyone like-minded. Even then, I’d recommend driving around before buying anything - see how many Trump signs are still up in people’s…

I’ve taken to calling it ‘Kubrick Syndrome’. I doubt Stanley Kubrick was the first ‘auteur’ who made his bread and butter by torturing his actors, but he’s certainly become the template.

Yeah, I remember having ‘Orange Drink’ with my very first Happy Meal back in the late 70's. Now, whether that was actually the Hi-C branded orange flavor could be another story.

I also remember the toy was some kind of plastic flying toy powered by rubber-band, and that it was just utter garbage. Ah, memories....

I tried this for Sloppy Joes last night, with mixed results. No impact at all on flavor - no surprise there, being Sloppy Joes and all. The meat did seem to “pebble” and separate better, but I didn’t really notice any reduction of grease in the pan when browning was done. I was using an 85/15 mix of grass-fed ground…

I’m actually a little surprised to see this take here on Jez. I agree with most of your point, though I probably wouldn’t call the desire to elide Trump (or anyone else) from pop history “cowardly”. Still, I absolutely do think we should have to recon with the horrifying crap we used to lap up as entertainment.

Our local Beef Villa still has gravy bread on the menu, and Portillo’s will do it if you ask (I’m honestly not sure if it’s still on the menu). In the before-times when we could have gatherings, one of my family’s go-to menus was Portillo’s catering. 5 lbs. of beef, gravy and rolls go a long way for company, and their…

I’m trying to figure out how I’ve never known about this before now. It’s a confluence of any number of my historical interests - post-Revolution American military history combined with four gallons of whiskey. My only excuse is that I tend to gravitate towards naval occurrences. What a great story.

Speed Racer is pure unvarnished eye-candy, and I love every neon minute of it. In fact, the only part of it that I dislike is when the original Speed’s voice actor (Pete Hernandez?) says “You bet your ass”. It’s such a little thing, but hearing OG Speed swear is jarring to an old like me.

I know it has some whitewashing problems (Sean Connery as the leader of a group of Barbary pirates), but I still love her (and everyone else) in The Wind and The Lion. It’s a really entertaining look into Theodore Roosevelt’s presidency, and has some genuinely sweet character moments between Bergen and Connery.

I went back to this game over the weekend (rage quite in January after dozens of falls off a toboggan trail on Zeffo), and encountered this same rope. I think I noticed Cal passing through the rope on the third try. I checked my map, saw only red/blocked pathways, and figured I was done with Dathomir for that moment.…

I’ve never played Pokemon, I post only to say screw Uri Geller and all his ilk.

Hmmm, very good points. I’ll keep this in mind as I scream at my TV for the next couple months until I can filter out his blather without being fearful that I might miss a(nother) national security crisis.

Yeah, I’ve been working on de-gendering my language lately, and I find that “asshole” is doing a lot of heavy lifting in the last week or so. Oddly, the one person I still routinely refer to as a c-word, is the man we’re (hopefully) about kick out of the White House.

Your opening sentence alone is worth a star :)
I also love the word ‘psychopomp’, although I normally associate it with birds.

Ah, different occurrences then, but I’m still pretty sure I know the light you’re talking about. Here’s a fun list from a local radio station:

Near Rockford, you say? Depending on the time frame, I may have seen the same light. It ran parallel to my buddy’s car for a while, then took off, jinked in a few odd directions, then streaked off incredibly fast. My friends and I always joke about it being a true UFO - a flying object that none of us could ever…

Ok, here goes. Names have been changed to protect the innocent and all that.

How about Sugar Smacks and Super Sugar Crisp? Can we get those back too?

That you are a normal human being who knows that woman is never to be trusted?