I had been making my own yogurt, and on a whim I bought a buttermilk culture from one of my online yogurt culture sources. Wow, it’s great -- and much easier to make than yogurt, because it does not need to be scalded and because it incubates at, basically, room temperature. (The directions for the culture call for…

John Bloom, as in Joe Bob Briggs?

I’m part of a Fermented Hot Sauce group on Facebook, and about once a week someone posts with a question about blue garlic, to the point where it’s become a running joke. Most people just answer the question, but then there are always the why-didn’t-you-read-last-week’s-posts goons.

And Fallon was a guest on it.

I would have loved to have seen “How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying” on Broadway with Radcliffe and John Larroquette. All the clips I saw looked fantastic.

Just now seeing this slideshow, so I doubt anyone will see my comment, but how could they omit John Fogerty’s “Zanz Kant Danz” (which had to be renamed “Vanz Kant Danz” after Fogerty’s former record executive Saul Zaentz filed suit)?

IIRC, when Microsoft wanted to license the Rolling Stones’ “Start Me Up” to promote the release of Windows 95, the Stones did not really want to sell it — but they quoted some ridiculously-high, multi-million-dollar price as a way of dissuading Microsoft. Instead, Microsoft agreed to the price immediately.

Well, in practical terms he’s probably out because he just signed a huge (eight-figure) deal with Food Network: https://tvweb.com/guy-fieri-3-food-network-3-year-deal/

The check’s in the mail, but we have a Postmaster General who’s intent on sabotaging the U.S. Postal Service out of existence, so who knows if it will ever get there.

Here’s a photo I took two years ago at the US Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama, of a fragment of Skylab that landed in Australia, as a reminder that we’ve done the same thing in the past:

The one reason it’s worth it for me is the livestream of the local CBS affiliate. I’m in a rural area, and while I can get my ABC and CW affiliates with an antenna, I have to stream CBS and PBS. I wish Peacock would offer livestreaming of NBC affiliates so that I didn’t have to watch SNL on Sunday.

I’m guessing the HBO Max show, whatever it looks like, will be at least an hour -- and I’m wondering if that leaves room for Jimmy Vivino and some of the old band members. It would be nice to have a live band again.

This ties in nicely with the “Mad Pooper” Wikipedia Wormhole yesterday over on the AV Club.

Can’t believe no one has posted the MST3K clip yet:

Schell is also great in Topkapi, the jewel heist film that inspired every other jewel heist film (it also inspired Bruce Geller to create “Mission: Impossible”).

I would probably never have sought this movie out in a million years, but I stumbled across it one day on TCM and I was immediately hooked, and I will watch it every time they air it.

I’m guessing that someone at the CW is probably working on “Quimby: Medical Examiner,” even as we speak.

I have no idea who is buying these things like MayoChup and what have you. It’s a ridiculous idea. In decades past, I’ve seen at least two, maybe three, attempts by small start-up companies to market a salt and pepper combo for use at the table. But that doesn’t simplify things; it complicates them. There are bound to…

I live in the next county over from Bonnaroo and have never been. I take no particular pride in this; I almost went one year, back when I was working for the local newspaper and when the festival was a little more liberal with press passes for local media. We had one writer who had been covering the festival every…