I like me a good hefeweizen once in a while but man, that trace of yeast clouding the beer sure makes for some mean case of barking spiders.

The only food shop in West Crackerville Virginia? I've seen cheese by the pound if it is Velveeta, they'll cut you off a slice, but none of the fancy stuff those city folk liberals buy.

If Ricotta cheese is not available (or too darned expensive) in your neck of the woods small curd Cottage cheese will work.

I've got a ticket, just gotta get past the picket
They say that the trick is to walk in backwards
Like you're walking out
I guess the lord's wearing glasses now
~ Pete Townshend / 'Keep Me Turning'

Their FAQ says TunnelBear has chosen to 'disable Torrent ports'. If they mean the standard Torrent ports (6881-6889 TCP) fine, but the protocol can be run on any port, and the peer-to-peer nature of the protocol means that discovering peers that use unblocked ports is simple.

Tokyo's Narita (NRT) has techno-seats. When you're done a nice warm spray of water. Totally awesome.

Go to the Front Desk and ask if they have a safe in which you could secure valuables. They will usually give you something like a safe deposit box in which you can place your items, which they will then log and place into their safe.

Leftover heavy cream? No such thing in our house. It is used in coffee or tea or even hot chocolate, or to add a little oomph to a bowl of Frosted Flakes.

When my tummy's rumbling around lunchtime the first thing that comes to mind is to head on down to a Food Truck for a whopping heap of cod eggs.

No gaudiness, no fuss, no conspicuous consumption. Nordic simplicity at its finest.

When all candles be out, all cats be gray.
~ John Heywood

"Are we not men?"
(No, we are Devo)

Come on back when you reach 90,000 feet.

"You're a bad man. I wish you into the cornfield!"

~ It's A Good Life / Twilight Zone

FTW: Four and half bucks for a stiff drink and some M&Ms

Kirk holes up in a seedy hotel room in the Tenderloin after losing command of the Enterprise for violating the Prime Directive on Nibiru by rescuing Spock.

1st Man: Look, up in the sky! It's a plane!
2nd Man: It's a bird!
Woman: It's a frog!
1st Man: A frog?
Underdog: Not plane nor bird nor even frog. It's just little old me...
[sound of crash off camera]
Underdog: Heh-heh, Underdog.

Tony Curran and Bill Nighy are treasures.

It's not "Hedy", it's "Hedley". Hedley Lamarr.

Why live in Bawl'mer? Two words: John Waters.