I finally broke down and ordered a half dozen pints from Jeni’s right around the time they ran out of the Everything Bagel (I tried to pass it off as a Valentine’s gift to my family, but it was really for me). It was bonkers expensive, and I honestly might do it every year, because it was ABSOLUTELY worth it. 

Oh Christ. My brother-in-law went to college upstate (I don’t remember exactly where) and has made Garbage Plate for my sister once or twice. I absolutely do not understand the appeal, lol. 

I just wanna know who blocked you on Twitter. 🤔

The vibrator ads are from The Inventory, and you cannot fucking get away from them. I have AdBlock Plus, which gets almost all boxes and banners, but it can’t do anything about the ones that G/O puts on its various homepages, carousels, and in side rails as “content.”

Is Paramount+ bad? I have Amazon Prime and was just considering adding the Paramount channel this weekend; it turns out they have a lot of content I’ve been looking for. 

I’m not a huge fan of whiskey, but I had that a few years ago at a St. Patrick’s day dinner and enjoyed it.

Every once in a rare while, someone mentions this movie, and I go watch the trailer again, and am again completely gobsmacked that it is a real thing.

I did! I thought it was fine – a little sweet, but I prefer red to white, so I can’t say if it was “bad” sweet or just not to my taste. They did get a kick out of showing it to their friends, though, and I’m pretty sure the bottle didn’t go to waste :)

Funny story:

Help me out, here, because I can’t tell if it’s me, or if TJ’s messed up. I finally got my hands on the mushroom umami seasoning about a month ago, after hearing people rave about it for what felt like forever. I got home and tried it, either on some toast or plain pasta, I don’t remember, and it nearly blew out my…

I feel like MasterChef Junior (MasterChef Kids? the not-adults one) is probably the closest Americans are going to get to what he’s really like. He’s so careful with the kids – not in a condescending or coddling way, but in a way where he so clearly wants to help them do the absolute best they can. Sure, there’s a…

I feel like the difference is more pronounced than that, but also, I never actually do it. If I’m going to the effort of making hummus, I want it now, not in 45 minutes. 

I realize it’s a week later, but if you’re still interested, the big, big thing is to peel the skins off the chickpeas before blending. Canned, dried, whatever. Throw on a podcast or Netflix, take the twenty minutes to rub the skins off, it makes a huge difference. (I very rarely actually do it, but you absolutely can…

I didn’t watch Suits, so I don’t have a horse in this race, but he seems like an okay dude:

I backup all of my photos from my phone to Amazon and to Google Photos, because I figured you can never have enough redundancies. What’s wrong with Amazon’s photo app? 

This is wildly accurate. I couldn’t put my finger on it until I saw the still image for the dating sketch. He was in How to Succeed a few years ago, and while he was fine, he could not – or would not – stop smirking at the audience. He did the same thing in the dating sketch, which is what ruined it. 

Cristine at Simply Nailogical did it too! I love Ann’s videos, I’ll have to check that one out. 

This sounds like a class I would like to take. 

Wtf is his problem? I live in Queens, NY, which is about as far from the “sticks” as you can possibly get, and depending on where I shop, it can be difficult to find pancetta. Neighborhoods change. If people aren’t buying something, stores stop selling it.

Wait, does BJ’s do these?? We only have BJ’s nearby, and I don’t remember seeing them. Now I have to look the next time I’m there.