I’ve only had it once, and I was an adult so no excuses, but someone brought it as a joke to a party and the effects were almost hallucinogenic. Does your make-out-ee guy even remember meeting you? I’ve had strong wines in Italy but these “fortified wines” must be fortified with something the FDA would frown upon

There was a famous murder in Boston in 1989. A white guy, Charles Stuart, and his pregnant wife were driving back from a hospital appointment through a black area and the wife was killed and the husband shot in the stomach. Riveting headlines. Who was this mysterious black assailant who carjacked them and killed the…

“Fortified wines”, like MD 20/20, are actually forbidden for sale in some jurisdictions, like the one I grew up in decades ago. Maybe Fireball will meet the same fate.

I love Joan Baez (we’ve never met) and I looked her up. She’s 74. In this photo she looks younger than most 50-year-olds. I doubt she’d go for it but I hope someone has broached the idea of a Joan Baez lifestyle blog or something, call it “Goop For The Sentient.”

Of course! As Bette Midler so wisely instructed us all those years ago, “Cause you gotta have/Frieeeends!”

One of my family members used to live in a beachy town, not exactly a resort, and a used bookstore opened up. I’ve worked in books and publishing pretty much my entire life and they were excited for me to see it. The stock was like this Colorado guy’s highway collection: nothing but trashy paperbacks that beachgoers…

A long long time ago this used to be done on paper and my university screwed up assigning the course codes. When I filled out my class list I, like every other undergraduate, ended up technically enrolling in classes we couldn’t take/didn’t need. I for example signed up for a senior seminar in French literature taught…

I love how when lots of dogs are excited/happy they look insane. Is Amy running in the Republican primaries by any chance?

You can save a lot of money if you’re in a position where you don’t need to use a dog walker or a kennel very much (like bring the beast along with you on vacations and holidays; wouldn’t strap the dog to the roof of the car though.)

Are you sure you were at a wedding? Sounds like a bad night at a bar you don’t really like but you have a friend who’s sleeping with one of the bartenders or something.

If I’m remembering correctly the austere Puritans, fearful of anything even the least bit excessive, didn’t even celebrate Christmas. If December 25th fell on a Tuesday everyone went about their business as if it were March 25th or October 25th. Easter was the big holiday. All of us have birthdays. Not all of us are…

Thanks for the intel!

I read that wiki link—-is amaranth also commonly known as something else? I see it’s a “pseudocereal” like quinoa, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen or heard of amaranth. Plus, and I don’t think the article mentions this, can amaranth be fermented? (I may have my food and grain priorities a little out of whack.)