Yes! I started making the quick pickled grapes from Molly Wizenberg’s memoir several years ago around holiday time and now my mom is also addicted. Everyone else looks at them askance on the table, so more for us! The lemony cauliflower pickle from Serious Eats is also a favorite.

R.I.P.

It’s always 20 words when two will do the job.

“Must... not... strangle... the... idiots... so much paperwork. Oh, did I say that out loud?”

Just coming here to say this. I find scrolling through adorable and inexpensive homes quite depressing, actually!

Agreed. My brother lives in Portland which does not have a major league team, but they do have the wood bat league Portland Pickles in the summer and he can bike to the park with his 6 year old kid on a weeknight evening and have a blast. Now the kid will sit and watch a few innings of the SF Giants on tv with dad,…

Swimsuit bottoms. Even some of the boys’ had elasticized legs.

They did. These were uniform swimming bottoms.

I lived in Jakarta until age 10 and most of our family friends were Europeans and Australians. The younger kids, boys and girls, often swam in just pants. I recall going with my mom to collect a friend from the British School for a playdate. The class was just coming back from PE and all the kids were in shorts. We…

Yeah, keep your cat inside, arrange a place for it by a window where it can observe the world, and play with it whenever you can with like fancy feather wands and stuff. My friend’s cat was just run over by a neighbor the other day, and somebody else’s cat was grabbed by a coyote a few months ago. They can exercise…

Driving back and forth to LA a couple times this summer, I’m seeing more of these on the road, and there are even a few companies that rent them. I’d much rather drive a campervan on a winding mountain road that what amounts to a fucking aircraft carrier with wheels.

I played Pitfall on the Atari in my parents’ bedroom where I could also sneak peeks at the Playboy on my dad’s bedside table!

I finally got around to reading the Gamache series just a few months ago and hot damn they are good, but I found that the paranoid subplot running through the first few books (highly recommend reading them in order) made me anxious enough to place them outside the “cozy” classification. I’ve also been working my way…

Scruples and Princess Daisy were staples of our 80's middle school/early high school dog-eared sexy paperback bookshelf, along with Rodeo Drive, Lace and Wifey.

Wanna see a BK employee’s brain melt down? Order a Whopper without onions and onion rings. I just don’t like raw onions, but somehow it results in system failure every single time.

Was the shoe question a repeat or did I experience deja vu?

I’m fine with a good veggie burger since I don’t care whether it tastes like meat or not. Haven’t had a chance to try Impossible yet, and didn’t think the Beyond burger was all that great flavor-wise, but have been pretty happy with the Beyond crumbles as a substitute in recipes like chili that call for ground meat…

I’ve just read the first two books in Sarah Beth Durst’s Queens of Renthia series and am enjoying the world building and suspense. Lots of political machinations as well, if you enjoy that part of GoT. The Three Darks Crowns series by Kendare Blake also features a lot of politics, and I didn’t make it through the…

Yes, reading To Say Nothing of the Dog after The Doomsday Book gave me quite a sense of whiplash, though I enjoyed it a lot.

My dad was in an induced coma in ICU several years ago and when he woke up thought that some motorcycle gang was after him for winning too much in a poker game, and that the nurses at the station right outside his door were preparing to open a restaurant (which was probably fair since they talked about food…

I am unable to watch any show with a laugh track anymore, period.

The guy with a lot of forehead is Walton Goggins who was fantastic in Justified, but this show sounds odd.