Hot Mustard is not available in all locations. It is here by me. It wasn’t at one in the Chicago ‘burbs when I was visiting home. It appears to be a regional thing.

> Are there no editorial standards?

Actually, you are correct. I will add Emma Thompson to Freeman and Joanna Page on the list of people in that movie who’s characters AREN’T irredeemably horrible.

I have never understood the love for this thing. Everyone’s character in it is utterly repulsive, with the exception of Martin Freeman and his romantic interest. It’s awful, and anyone who uses this movie as a measure for their grand romance has some really AWFUL ideas about relationships.

“everyone deserves grace”

That’s not even Big Night’s best food scene. That title belongs to Primo making Segundo some eggs in one of the final scenes of the movie. It’s perfect, silent, and tells you everything about the brother’s relationship at that point.

The other thing they’re missing is a RELENTLESS focus on any ‘heart tugging’ bit of biography. If you are on a North American reality show and you have a(n) autistic or otherwise disabled child, recently passed (grand)parent, or come to that, an autistic parent or dead child, you will be required on at LEAST every…

Within the last 5 years or so, McDonalds seems to have become more and more automated. Long long ago when I worked there, there were buttons on the drink machine that dispensed large/med/small drinks, AND a manual button. The shake machine had a hand operated lever. None of those machines is in evidence at my local…

Shamrock Shake syrup consists of corn syrup, food coloring, and mint extract. Through odd circumstances, I actually have a whole bottle of the stuff in the fridge. The flavor, to my taste, is 95% peppermint. MAYBE there’s a touch of spearmint in there. The corn syrup sweetness lifts things up a lot.

You’re making a joke, BUT... Edgar Winter wrote a concept album based on one of Hubbard’s interminable and unreadable series. It’s... well... here’s a video about it. I’m sure there’s much much more to it than this. I can’t say as I’m particularly motivated to find out.

It is painfully obvious that History Channel has become the ‘crappy reality shows’ channel for Republicans. Forged In Fire, Top Shot, Building projects with Tim Allen, and incessant soldier/gun-humping.

I’m fairly certain the only REAL improvement to society that could be made via Twitter is for the service to vanish overnight. Virtually ANYTHING else will, in much shorter order than anyone cares for, revert to where we are now. Or worse.

Well, I’m a real Lord, so it follows...

I briefly thought the same thing, but closer examination reveals that he is, in fact, wearing grills.

Tangential to this: A pizza place near me in Skokie, IL as a teen had “Ron’s Special Beef”.

I’m guessing “legacy admission” and/or rich/connected family with the $$$ and/or clout to keep the walls and landings nicely padded and make sure the bumper rails are up in the gutters.

> Snyder recently told a close associate that he has gathered enough secrets to “blow up” several NFL owners, the league office and even commissioner Roger Goodell.

Exactly. Establish the ‘danger’ of jaunting via the original story, and then use that as a mechanism to kick off some larger plot. But at that point you basically become Stargate or Trek or The Expanse or something..

Castle Rock was the prequel to Misery I didn’t know I needed. And MIGHT have been the sequel to The Shining that would have been 20x better than whatever the hell Dr. Sleep was...

> Don’t dislike [Radcliffe], but I also don’t think he’s ever going to win an Oscar.