He wasn’t even denied due process though. He chose to resign. He could have stayed in, like others have and dragged the process out. “criticizing me publicly denied me due process” isn’t really much of an argument, but him and his stans are clinging to it.

I don’t believe he’s totally unrepentent. I believe that he feels like a victim and he has chosen to perpetuate that it is someone, in this case a woman’s, fault.  It’s all put on one Senator, Senator Gillibrand, when it was a group of Senators, male and female, who said he should resign. 

Didn’t the Sopranos do this? Season 6 aired March - June 2006, and then April-June 2007. It’s kind of cheating though, the final season was 21 episodes instead of the usual 13, but it was all called season 6.

I’m glad they are ending it before it becomes bad. You can only go to the well of relapse and redemption so many times before it becomes parody, and so far they’ve done an amazing job of not doing that. Can’t wait for this season, but I’ll still be sad that it ends. 

Or maybe highlight some of those criticisms? To state that her retelling is somehow difinitive despite glaring problems that were highlighted in the media. Here is Vox on Mayer’s piece: https://www.vox.com/2019/7/22/20703617/al-franken-jane-mayer-resignation

Leaving aside the Mayer’s piece was criticized for glossing over some of the allegations, i still find it remarkable that Franken is out there with this “it was this damn women, Gillibrand’s fault I had to quit”. Take some fucking responsibility. It’s the exact same attitude of Louis CK and others. Fuck apologizing…

I’m not looking for a relationship, i’m looking for a meal.

I’m avoiding the majority of the text to not spoil myself here! But I want to say I hope this shift in focus works. One of the reasons the first worked so well was the story of love and hope. I mean, the moment with the giraffe still gets to me. Just great story telling and touching.

Is this gender neutral? Weird that my male 5'7" is listed as second best.

Oh tell me about it. One restaurant in my neighborhood lists a meal like this: “mushrooms, chicken, butter”. I heard good things about this place, but honestly, fuck that nonsense. They don’t even name the dish, it’s just a list of 3 ingredients for all dishes and I’m supposed to guess? Or just order and pray it is…

Reading the menu is one of the great ways to decide if you actually want to go to that restaurant!  I’ll never ever follow this advice.

How you gonna put Nickeil Alexander-Walker over his cousin Shai Gilgeous-Alexander? That’s not how you alphabet my man!

I went to Europe for my cousins wedding. I was the only one of the family in North America to travel for this (my aunt even gave me a shoutout in her speech as the only traveling cousin). I spent over $3K on the trip, so I decided not to give them a gift, they chose this super expensive location, they can afford it.…

I wonder if on the first recipe a bay leaf or two would help the flavor? I’ll give it a try, but I’ve honestly never been fussy over my sauce. Usually just sweat some onions and garlic, add the can of tomatoes, maybe half a can of tomato paste, a bay leaf or two, let it all simmer for 30 minutes, salt and pepper to…

I’m in Toronto, and I’ve never for the life of me knew what a marinara sauce even was (and don’t get me started on red sauce...). Up here the Italians I know, and restaurants i visit just call it tomato sauce. All versions of it.

Do showrunners still brag about all the “metrics” Netflix has to help them with their shows? “they have all the data, so it’s hard not to listen to their suggestions”. Turns out all that data is resulting in a torrent of mediocre shows that no one is watching! Imagine that!

I know people love to binge, but I really feel like Netflix “dumping” strategy is a detriment to their original content. I’ll use Fargo as an example. Every week a new episode would come on and I’d tell either my brothers or a few co-workers that they needed to start watching it. Eventually a few of them did and also…

I’ve started absentmindedly whistling it, and my girlfriend will yell out from another room “are you whistling Misbehavin?”  I can’t get it out of my head!

So “Misbehavin” is stuck in my head for life. 2 weeks of it has burrowed deep. They did a great job on it, really feels like something of that time and place.

“Judy, don’t shave your pussy. Your time will come”.