> Are you... ok?

I’m gonna need WAY more info. Brand? Price? countertop or inside one’s freezer?

The brand you have there, Red Boat, is considered one of the best. Also very highly rated is ‘Three Crabs’, which is easily identifiable by the, uh, 3 crabs on the label.

> pebble ice machine

True, I mean, Vienna gets its beef from somewhere... I just wonder how much beef Illinois actually produces.

> horseradish ... there is nothing to do with it except eat it unless you want to make your own tear gas.

Illinois has soybean and corn, as I dutifully remember from my drives to college from Chicago. City corn soybean corn soybean Kankakee corn soybean soybean corn corn soybean corn College. Our state snackfood (popcorn) vegetable (sweet corn) and grain (corn) are all, uh, corn. If one wanted to overpromote Chicago…

Maybe she realized that The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is an ‘honor’ right up there with being selected for one of those “Who’s Who of High School Students Class of 1986" books. Which is to say, pointless and of exactly zero consequence. She lives abroad, having gotten sick and tired of the racism and sexism of the…

If you’re willing to revisit old Bon Appetit Test Kitchen videos, there’s a Gourmet Makes where Claire does a sour candy. I think it’s supposed to be Sour Patch Kids. I *think* she ends up getting straight citric AND malic acid powder for the coating, and does a ‘sour enough?’ confirmation with Carla’s kid and sour…

We do not know one another through any medium except here, so far as I know.

Now here’s some info I can actually use! I’ve just recently tried the whole ‘sushi at home’ thing, figuring that rice, seaweed, and fake crab are cheap enough to experiment with. I’ve only tried the ‘flake’ style from my local white-people grocery store (the ‘TransOcean’ brand, if that matters). What I DID find, for…

I’m starting to suspect we might ACTUALLY be the same person, separated between dimensions. I also am a former Chicago person, and was going to post this exact comment, swapping ‘81 for ‘80 because, apparently, time dilation or something...

“This week, Glorfindel is joined by the comedy stylings of Grima Wormtongue, and musical guest Tom Bombadil!”

from TFA:

To be faaaaiiiiiiiirrrrrr........

This will undoubtedly mark me as an ‘old’, as the kids probably no longer say, but...

They revamped Carrie slightly and I saw it maybe 5 years ago at a smaller LA theater. The stage was set up as an abstract high school gym (naturally) and the audience sat in the ‘bleachers’, which moved around between acts. And the show itself was quite fun!

Tuca and Bertie got the axe for two reasons: the numbers weren’t great (but weren’t AWFUL, either.) But the big reason was that the Bojack Horseman animation crew that actually, you know, MADE the show unionized. They were made by the same production company (Tornante, Michael Eisner’s company) and the studio that…

> Leno, and he’s not really a bad guy, but...he’s a douche.

I’m fairly certain the only way they will be able to remove Lorne Michaels from 30 Rockefeller Center is to chisel his corpse out from among the nearly 50 (!!) years of hardened, fossilized SNL scripts. The stuff at the bottom is stuck in a resin of Chevy Chase’s bile and hardened cocaine residue and may require…