While obviously not a nationwide thing, I remember a local Subway did a special Valentine’s Day promotion where the store was reservations-only, with candles on the tables and a special deal on a heart-shaped sandwich you were meant to share with someone. (Like, it wasn’t on special heart-shaped bread, but it was…

Maybe it’s just the places around here, but in my personal experience the line cooks know as much about what is and isn’t working as the owner does, if not moreso.

I used to work at a beer distributor, both in the office and on the delivery route. The bars with staying power were the ones where the owners (often also one of the bartenders, in my area) actually paid for their own drinks. The ones where the owners just take whatever beers they want without putting money in the…

I love the show and it’s batshittery, don’t get me wrong, but sometimes I do wonder what the series’ rules are about timeline disruptions. There’ve been more than a few historical figures (Jeanie comes to mind, as does that Tokugawa shogun back in season 1) who’ve died before their times because of the Legends’…

I’m guessing the ‘parking lot’ thing is using buildings in mall parking lots that used to be banks or tanning salons or whatever.

I’m not gonna deny, while I’ve peeked at it from the outside from time to time, I haven’t actually watched any of the show since season 4 because “Ruthie” just hurt too much. Not even clips. That one just crushed me.

While it wasn’t a ‘don’t want it any more’ sort of situation, this brings to mind something that happened last year. I was at a gathering with some friends while on a trip, and we went to a local restaurant for breakfast. But because of an obnoxious flight schedule, I was going to have to leave first and there was a…

For comparison’s sake, I live in a relatively small college town. We’ve got three standalone locations, and four located within other businesses (Target, a hospital, a hotel lobby, and a grocery store). Interestingly enough, none are located downtown.

I totally get the ‘imprecise fruit/veggie size’ thing. The first time a recipe called for a ‘medium’ onion and I’m looking at the huge-ass onions (the only size they carry) in my local grocery store thinking “well, what now,” it drove me nuts. (I figured out quickly that half of one of those onions was enough for the…

Having just recently discovered the wonders of the salted lemon Kit Kats, I’m more than ready to try an American attempt. My roommate and I, on a recent weekend trip, found a store with a wide variety of Japanese Kit Kats, and the salted lemon was our favorite of the bunch. (We bought so many Japanese Kit Kats before…

This thing we’ve never seen before could be fine if done right. Have to try and explain your way around how it wouldn’t invalidate the Rule of Two. Get around that and go nuts. Have him be outside the Rule of Two in some way.

I think part of it comes from the Expanded Universe novels, where you got nerds who read all the books and comics and could enjoy sneering at people who had only seen the movies, like that one guy who brags that he’s read the Bible in the original Hebrew and the rest of us don’t know the ‘real’ story.

I can’t remember where I read this, but I understand that is in fact the case. And even if it weren’t, I believe he destroyed all of his negatives of the originals years ago so even if you wanted to put out a new release today, you’d have to do some literal magic on the very hard to find DVD release that had the…

Ugh, yeah, this. If one of the main cast passes away and they insist on continuing, best case scenario is we get a Sealab-esque spiral because it won’t be the same, everyone knows it won’t be the same, and the tragedy might ruin anything positive the rest of the cast might get out of the show.

I see what you did there.

The phrase ‘craft a perfect bowl of cereal’ makes me think of a website that General Mills ran many, many years ago where one could order cereals custom-mixed. Pretty much any individual cereal component you could find in a GM cereal could be mixed and matched into plastic bowls that were then sealed and shipped to…

Admittedly, the latter idea doesn’t make a ton of sense within the context of Doctor Who. Though the show has always played fast and loose with how much humanity remembers about the many, many planet-wide alien invasions that have happened during the show’s tenure, it’s hard to buy that MI6 knows that UNIT and…

I’m not gonna deny, I’ve long been curious about HOX/POX, but I’ve been reluctant to get the trade because I honestly suspect to find out that anything I like about the comic is going to be undone within a year or two. Even if it’s just a great story on its own, it’s just disappointing when that happens.

When I worked in a bookstore, one of my coworkers swore that Snickers had amazing energy-giving properties and since the vending machine always had them, I chose to believe her. Maybe it was psychosomatic, but I feel like a Snickers gives me a boost.

Or when he and Rey perform their lightsaber hand-off trick, and Kylo reveals his weapon to his former Knights with whom he’s about to do battle, giving a slight whaddya-gonna-do shrug and the barest hint of a smile.