I bet you’re a blast at parties. <snark>People don’t speak or write with HTML tags</snark>

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This mirror’s my feeling about Shake Shack coming to Chicago. They have a great location outside a movie theater and people were lining up out the door. It wasn’t that great. This may be fighting words for some, but I didn’t find anything distinctive about it. Big cities have come with a lot of burger choices and…

I’ve seen these rants before. While I should not have to apologize for my son’s discomfort during the flight, it’s certainly nice to have ear plugs handy for the folks around me so THEY are more comfortable if it happens. A bit of candy, some ear plugs and a nice note for your immediate neighbors - while completely…

The avocados you bought at the grocery store probably came into the country with a shipment of illegal drugs. I’m not going to stop eating guac over this. Did Pellegrino sexually harass women on his staff? Any inappropriate groping? If so, will you come over and make our arrabiata from scratch and clean up afterward?

HA! I edited my first comment and completely left out how the store stopped carrying it. I can see how you thought that, but the Rao’s comment was a little clue.

Yup. Just like everybody else. Batali made a good pasta sauce. Pellegrino makes a better one. I just hope that he isn’t the same human garbage as Batali becuase all the other brands I tried were terrible by comparison.

You have a valid point.

His arrabiata sauce went well in my wife’s lasagna - one of a handful of dishes I’m learning to make without help. It was a struggle to find a good replacement.

As I recall, it was serviceable. Palatable mediocrity. Meh. We were hungry. We didn’t want to eat at the park’s concession stands and we had a long drive to downtown Chicago on the interstate so there was nothing to stop at on the way. There were other choices in Gurnee, but I’d recently re-watched Harold & Kumar and…

I’m sure there are wonderful applications for this. I don’t think the Safelite guy is going to have a laser in his van.

This should be on their damn logo. Stopped there in Gurnee, IL after a trip to Six Flags a decade ago. Threw up everything when I got home because I didn’t heed this unwritten warning.

The last small town general store I stepped in did not have any open food anywhere to speak of. No kitchen. Just self-serve coffee and soda machines and prepackaged everything else. If NYC can have bodega cats, I don’t see the harm here.

Additionally, those rogue spectators will be taken to task—likely by removing from the area and delivered to the Toro’s gates at Pamplona just before the running.

I recognize a lot of the mod pieces on that car. The leather skins for the center console, radio surround and gauge cluster are from Redlinegoods. I wrote the installation guide for those parts. The HVAC panel is ArtWorksDewa. AWD stuff is hard to find these days. Revlimiter has taken up the mantle of AWD - especially…

I actually forgot to include something; The glass top I bought from Robbins eliminated the need to unzip. The window was slightly smaller, but totally worth it for the convenience.

Torch, I have a first gen Miata. The plastic rear window was tolerable and mine lasted a decade. Some care and attention is necessary to keep them clear. That being said, you’re not wrong. I replaced my top with a Robbins sunfast canvas and glass rear window and I’ll never do plastic again. 

Not true. While the NA Miata did have a plastic window the telltale fold in the plastic indicated that the owner was too lazy (or ignorant) to bother unzipping it. The window laid flat on the deck with the top dropped. Snap on the boot and the window was protected from dust and debris.

Literally everything about Donald Trump, the man, is a forgery, a facsimile or a veneer designed to convince you that he’s something he’s not. Does he “Tell it like it is” or is he merely an asshole? Is his marriage a sham, a financial arrangement or do they genuinely have affection for each other? Is he a great deal…

Okaaaaay. In your effort to defend this “style” you want to call a “genre”, you just proved MY point. “Small niche” means “a relative few people like it.” In other words, it’s not mainstream. That’s okay. I don’t hate it. People can do what they want with their money. Freedom of expression doesn’t mean freedom from…