The thing about Kate is that every time she writes something it makes me feel like she has to be one of the best people on takeout to be friends with. Her love of both high and low brow things is a delight. So, Kate, thanks for this new weirdness and have a great day.

This is incredible. Thank you. Lifehacker needs to pay you to write this up and post it as an article, I think.

Wish you could somehow do Christmas at Thanksgiving and then take all the stuff your kids don’t want/need to a place like toys for tots- then everyone would be happier (so long as the in-laws never knew.)

This really does feel like you’ve found the best case scenario. Getting real mail does make you feel loved. It even would make them laugh (if it’s a postcard from basically the town you live in) and feel remembered and loved. And your goober gets to feel important and part of it all.

Came into these comments for this tea.

Did you even read the [part of the article] he’s quoting or the article at all? 

Yikes. Oh well, I liked his column but it was just reposting reader stories... and is that even a step up from just reposting things from ask reddit?

Thank you so much for the link. Mystery solved. :) 

Since you’re kind of balking at the same, they’re called Senbei (or as my mom always called O senbei) mix. If you can’t say or remember the name, Japanese snack mix might be a better alternative since these crunchy bits of heaven are Japanese rice crackers. My grandma was Japanese and I was raised on these lovely…

On road trips:

The funny parts of animal house:

...I’m going to actually totally agree with your take here. Everyone should listen to the podcast as a perfect primer of “what not to do” and because it is like a trainwreck you can’t pull yourself away from.

Perhaps this is pure fan theory but this is what I always believed:

Yeah, it’s a different strokes for different folks thing, I think. I know with MFM it’s like talking true crime with my friends, with Casefile and Criminal it’s pretty well researched stuff and LPOTL is somewhere in the middle (while they’re absolutely feral boys, Markus does quite a bit of research and it shows.)

I’ve literally never heard them fawn over the murderers, but okay. 

Megustalations!

Going to have a bone to pick about some of these. Up and Vanished and Atlanta Monster are both questionable because of Payne Lindsey. 100%. I listened to ALL of Up and Vanished and the amount of patting himself on the back Lindsey does is actually so frustrating and disgusting I can’t believe it. And I’m personally…

Don’t Look Back In Anger is the only Oasis song that holds up.

I’ll go to the grave defending Slaughterhouse V, but I’m with you on the other stuff. 

I’ll give NIN credit, I’m a little younger than the target audience here (I do remember when Jagged Little Pill came out because my dad thought she was awesome.) but they happened to be playing a music festival I was at so I caught their show? I had never cared about NIN before, but gosh, they’re really great live and…