I can't speak to Matthew's situation exactly, but accents come and go depending on who you're around for a lot of folks down here or from here. I grew up in the 'burbs of Dallas and never had much of an accent, but then spent 3 years at the end of high school in a more rural town and suddenly I realized I'd picked up…

Demps plans to not pitching at all? Then he might just end up being the best pitcher my Cubbies would on the roster this year if that were to happen!

I had no idea. It was back in '98 when I got the photos done (for the spring graduation the next year), and the guy apparently told my parents he'd "clean up the photos" a bit, but I had no idea he meant Remove All Freckles. Perhaps this is why I'm so anti-photoshop, anti-insane-retouching in my own adult photography…

As a happily freckled person, removal of freckles is my BIGGEST low-grade pet peeve. (I might be slightly influenced by my annoyance with my high school senior year photographer, who photoshopped that out on my pics - took me years to pinpoint exactly what was so off about my pics too, but when I did, RAGE!)

"And throwing certain flavors out is morally wrong."

NBC edits to include commercials/take out stuff they think the US audience won't care about. I found a handy live stream from the BBC to watch this morning (thanks, dubious Deadspin links!) & caught all that was mentioned above.

Yeah, but it was the '90s. It was an era where we were all wearing shorteralls and windbreakers while thinking we looked like hot shit, fer crying out loud.

It sounds like the larger amount of those choir guys learned the lyrics from some mariachis.

So long as Vancouver's are included in the 1% of non-terrifying mascots. They were goddamn adorable. One was a sasquatch! A sasquatch!! With earmuffs!

While I'd love to believe Germany's outfits were a subtle message to Russia regarding their policies, honestly, with the black gloves shown there & the colors present, I'd be more willing to bet that it's a nod to the Olympic rings' colors.

Unfortunately, you'll have to wait for Ukraine to host the Games for that one.

Perhaps he accidentally used the Unsafe Face Water.

As a Texan, I thought that they already did.

I think I heard someone else (or read a publication) mention Jets too. I'll need to try them too. Especially if they're tasty and cheap.

I'm not sure about Cici's but Gatti's & Pizza Patron are definitely regional. Little Caesars were missing for ages but I've seen them pop up more in the past 5 or so years. I'm curious what other cheap-ass good/terrible options there are around the country.

There's a food trailer in Austin that is doing $30 weddings this month (and throwing in 2 of their delicious cheesesteaks, 2 orders of tots, and 2 drinks as part of the deal). I'm honestly contemplating this as an option. That's how seriously I hate everything surrounding the idea of paying for a giant party to…

Can we start a best shitty/cheap-ass pizza discussion? Because this is always fun with my friends.

My favorite thing to happen in my radio-listening lifetime has been the split-off of my NPR station from its musical public counterpart here in Austin. On Saturdays (or Sundays, can't remember, one of the weekend days), the bane of my existence was PHC taking up perfectly good chill-out-in-the-warm-sun…

"Oh and here's a look at Deadspin's old layout."

I still find it hilarious that I, the lone lady at the Super Bowl party I attended (filled with college-aged dude-bros, because I was 23 & young then) was the only one in our place that caught it when it happened. It was a warm day, the windows were open & they were out on the front porch passing a pipe around. I was…