I still like “Bad Decisions” better when New Order did it.

SNL has announced that, for the first time ever, it’s starting the season off with six live episodes in a row without a week off.

I thought the joke in the Jack Flatts sketch was pretty obvious. These “militia” types are really just man-boys who can’t get laid “dressing up in costumes, playing silly games” (to paraphrase Peter Gabriel) when it comes right down to it. They changed their voices and mumbled as they were talking about kidnapping the…

“(Pete’s Long Island vs. Burr’s Boston.)“

A lot of our hearts aren’t in our jobs right now. But they’re still our jobs and we still gotta do ‘em.

I like tonnato sauce over pappardelle with peas and roasted red peppers.

I remember going to the grocery store in mid-March when our daily way of life turned on a dime. Just as you said, people went out of their way to be polite, but I could also see a barely contained fear in their eyes. I said to myself, “People are really making an effort to keep their shit together, but you give it…

Or you could always just do your own cooking at eat at home.

Not that I want to live in a country of snitches and hall monitors, but this is a matter of public health. With so many unemployed, can’t supermarkets, Costco, etc., hire some additional security people to enforce the mask policy? Don’t even let them in the door without a mask and give them one warning if the mask…

In the photo at the top of the article, the server is all gloved, masked, and face-shielded up, while the diners are not. That photo makes me very sad. It just ruins the entire dining experience when my server is practically wearing a goddamn hazmat suit. If waitstaff has to go through all of that just to protect…

I was about a month shy of my 12th birthday when this episode aired, but I had a cool mom who let me watch SNL (it was the 70s!). But as an adult, I wonder where they all went off to after the show: Studio 54, Max’s Kansas City, or CBGBs? Can you just imagine a Saturday night/Sunday morning in New York City in 1978?

Devo’s cover of “Satisfaction” is one of the best covers ever made. Come at me. It does what a cover is supposed to do, which is take an existing piece and reinterpret it into something unrecognizable from the original. That, and Devo never got nearly enough credit for the precision with which they played — as a band, …

Springsteen listening in on a Young Americans recording session in Philadelphia, 1974. How did the room not implode from the greatness?

I feel you. I haven’t been able to listen to Heroes since he died. I’m so curious about the Aphex Twin version on this list, but I’m afraid it would wreck me.

In the 80s, Mickey Rourke and Val Kilmer were the two most beautiful men on earth. Val Kilmer could easily have just coasted on his looks, impish charm, and physical agility, but that mellifluous voice gave away his classical Julliard training. He should have everything Tom Cruise has.  

I just wanted to remark on how healthy Pete Davidson looks. I was concerned that isolation would be a struggle with his mental health issues, but he’s actually looking better than ever and seems to be managing the situation relatively well.

I think Sudeikis was real too. And could he have looked any more joyful? I love it when you can see performers are really enjoying themselves.

I was kind of taken aback hearing “A Fifth of Beethoven” over the opening credits, as the story takes place in 1971 but the song wasn’t released until 1976.

I never put sauce on wings or tenders. When the breading is well
seasoned with herbs and spices, all I really want is that perfectly crispy, juicy chicken.

I will have to file this piece to revisit post-apocalypse when the shelves are fully stocked again. Because there is no yeast to be found anywhere. I even managed to find toilet paper, but no yeast. What yeast there is on Amazon costs more than I’m willing to pay. So guess I’ll just have to experiment with yeast…