I want to believe but they’ve hurt me too many times in the past. 

Have some mercy; he’s already done a couple this season. The man can only take so much.

I keep saying it, and I shall continue to say it- seeing the Rockets lose gives me SO MUCH HAPPINESS. The schadenfreude I feel is absolutely amazing. 

But I’m not a witch! This isn’t even my real nose, it’s a false one!

“best looking of the current HD trucks”

Dude, this guy completely agrees with you.

I thought this was going to be about a festival of fake tacos.

Come on now. If George Bush is in heaven right now I have to think he’s actually doing what he liked best on Earth, ignoring people with AIDS. 

I was a nerd when I was growing up during President Bush’s presidency. It was a small town, which meant there was not a meaningful collection of other nerds. There was no AV Club to join and there was no interest in forming any D&D groups.

Heh. DIY punk/hardcore/crust/whathaveyou is still keeping it real enough in their small pockets across the globe. Lists like the one above don’t represent those pockets (which to me are what punk is really about) very well. I mean, why bother writing it if it’s glossy critic fodder? Leave it to Maximum R and R, or…

Oh, that sucks; I really like you. 

I mean, the embittered souls of a hundred thousand undead valkyries have now been unwittingly unleashed on the general population, but on the plus side... that one guy almost missed a free throw, so... samesies.

Maybe there’s something that happens every time an opponent takes a free throw that makes her think of her bad perm, and she’s just reacting?

You realize things like this aren’t mutually exclusive, right? I mean, two things can be good. Great, even.

My brother and I are trying our first brisket for Christmas. We’ve got all the time in the world to cook it (we’re not a “everyone come at 5 for Christmas dinner” sort of family...we’ll eat when it’s done). Is there a particular online set of instructions that you find to be generally pretty good? There’s A LOT of…

Brisket is not kind to new cooks. If you have practice brisket can be great slow or fast. After 5 years of judging I can tell you it’ll trip up even the best competition cooks. Most restaurant brisket is crap. It doesn’t hold well at all.

There is absolutely such a thing as bad pizza, but as a transplant living in Kansas I’m not surprised that a KC guy doesn’t know that. Hard to know bad pizza when there is no good pizza.

Brisket is absolutely not forgiving of beginners. It’s got a reputation for being one of the trickiest cuts to regularly get good results out of. A whole packer brisket is a huge time consuming chunk of meat to smoke. And those two muscles have wildly different needs, fat contents and cooking durations. Point on it’s…

Pork butts are forgiving. Brisket is brutal. Take your brisket off 10* too soon and it is tough, take it off 10* too late and it is dry and crumbly. One brisket is done in 8 hours, the next one takes 14. One might be done at 192*, the next one might be done at 205*.