Does this have the little nitrogen widget rattling around inside the can like Guinness does? I have to admit I sometimes cut or tear the empty can open just to get that little ball out

The TCM podcast was really excellent, and contained a lot of stuff I’d never heard. I highly recommend it.

Ever heard of Robert Morgenthau? He was 90 -- 90 -- when he left the position of New York district attorney. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Morgenthau

No “Demolition Man”? It would seem like an obvious choice....

What’s the status of selling the CW? That may be the holdup for a lot of the renewal notices, since the speculation was that the buyer would want a lot less original scripted programming.

They left the “Fr” back in Chicago. The movers forgot to pick up that box.

Yep. And at my supermarket, there’s usually some variation of frozen shrimp (across the matrix of sizes, raw vs. cooked, peeled vs. unpeeled) on sale at any given time. If I buy the raw ones (and I usually do), I can cook them, straight from frozen, in my Instant Pot in just a few minutes, and then cool them off in…

Cook Out has some locations here in Tennessee, and I really liked it when I went to one a couple of years ago (I remember it well, because I ate at a Cook Out right before the last live concert I saw before the pandemic hit). I live in a little rural county, so it’s not near me, but it’s in a larger city about a…

Yep, I watch the MST3K and RiffTrax channels as well!

This show is one of the best reasons to check out that sort of best-of-IFC channel on Pluto TV. They run old “Documentary Now,” “Comedy Bang Bang,” and so on.

If I recall correctly, Boulle got full credit for the “Bridge” screenplay, even though he spoke no English at the time -- because the writers who actually turned his novel into a screenplay were on the blacklist!

In happier news, there will soon be a new season of “Hanging With Doctor Z,” and if you didn’t see the first season, head to YouTube right this instant: https://www.youtube.com/c/HangingwithDoctorZ

From the original CNN story: “Costco rival Sam’s Club in 2017 streamlined its 21 private brands into its Member’s Mark brand.”

Walmart doesn’t use “Great Value” for everything, mostly for groceries. They have different store brands for, say, over-the-counter meds or men’s clothing. The whole idea of the piece is that Costco uses Kirkland for *everything* — I am sitting here with Kirkland Signature hearing aids in my ears. The other thing that…

A week and a half ago, I went to see the Mystery Science Theater 3000 live tour. This particular tour is based on a movie Emmerich made in the 1980s, “Making Contact.” Man, is it bad. It’s hard to even imagine that the director of “Making Contact” went on to make “Independence Day.” “Making Contact” is just a huge…

I remember seeing a dip recipe on Lucky Peach back in the day which referred to, if I recall correctly, a 10-ounce tub of sour cream, as if it were sold that way where the writer lived. Here, all I’ve ever seen are 8-ounce and 16-ounce tubs. I think I may have seen the stubby butter on some cooking show (probably with…

Not a problem here in rural Tennessee -- I find store-brand butter, national brand butter, and an increasing variety of cultured, European-style butters. I will sometimes buy the “regular” butter for cooking and something like Kerrygold or President for spreading.

No offense taken. I realize it sounds like an odd choice, but I was fascinated when I first heard about it — and I’ve spoken to other folks who’ve been there and enjoyed it. It’s well-presented, and really ends up conveying a lot about history and popular culture (for example, the evolution of country stores into…

I took a little two-night getaway just this past weekend to East Tennessee, about three, three-and-a-half hours’ drive from where I live in Middle Tennessee. There’s a convenience store chain in East Tennessee called Weigel’s — no idea where it’s based or how prevalent it is. They had huge billboards advertising…

Oh, sure -- I was not trying to negate what you said, which was really helpful.