...but he did it in his El Chupacabra voice, which seems like a bad move.

Same for me. I sat there for like an hour one night watching him work through a series of breakfast rushes, before I knew it I was in that line cook mindset myself - a job I’ve never had! “Two sausage patties left in the tray. Burritos out. He better hope he’s got McMuffin orders coming in, because he hasn’t gotten a…

This seems to apply to a significant portion of the American populace.

I don’t think Kanye had $2 billion to begin with, even in “liquid assets”/“purely speculative numbers on paper.”

It must be pretty frustrating to see so many die before you: Your friends, your admired contemporaries, your career.

I’m sure that’s what your “groovy” new friends told you when they first got you to “spark up.” But you listen to me, kid. You stick with this stuff and you’ll find yourself headed towards the wrong end of a one-way street; headed to prison, or worse.  

Oh yeah, I got my XBox One with the All Access promotion, where you bought the system, two years of Gold prepaid and two years of Game Pass prepaid on a monthly installment plan. After the Game Pass Ultimate announcement, $1 more extended my 18 remaining months or whatever into a membership that lasted like 9 months…

Every now and then I think “Oh I should buy a couple 3-month extensions while they’re on sale for under $45,” followed immediately by “Eh but I’ve still got like a year and a half prepaid, why bother?” MS just handed me a reason to deny that second voice in the near future.

That was a Nick at Nite staple when I was a kid; watching it as an adult I had a good laugh at the ending stinger of “He died of an overdose of LSD [faster, less dramatic] (oh and also of barbiturates)”   

Joe Friday giving a stern lecture to a pair of ersatz Mouseketeers on set about the dangers of “puffing the magic dragon” while they demolish a craft services table due to their “munchies”; in the third act one kid is found dead of “marijuana poisoning” in a Laurel Canyon party den and the other gets life without…

Remember the scene in Mad Men when Don listens to “Tomorrow Never Knows” for a minute before unceremoniously turning off the record player, symbolizing his inability to grasp a changing culture and, moreover, his unwillingness to engage with it? It appears that McDonald’s collabs are doing that for older Millennials…

My guess is that HBO expected it to be their next hit on the level of The Sopranos - Organized crime! HBO! Marty Scrosese! - but it never delivered that audience, and eventually they couldn’t justify the costs. I enjoyed the hard-boiled crime stories plenty, but my favorite thing about Boardwalk was that it looked expe…

Per The Hollywood Reporter, last July, the studio assembled a secret writers’ room of TV writers to figure out why this movie thing isn’t working so well.

Nah this time it’s for real. In fact it’s the farewell tour for all meat on the menu, and after this “McWoke” is going full vegulon in 2023. And they’re announcing that Grimace is nonbinary. I learned all of this from a newsletter distributed under windshield wipers throughout my neighborhood.

Ahhhh the Crunchberries lawsuit; wasn’t part of the argument there “The Cap’n is presenting the berries in an aggressive manner in the box art”?

My (rather generous) read on Alicent and Viserys’ final interaction is that Alicent knows he wasn’t specifically talking about naming their Aegon king in his delirium, but in that moment she also saw the path to power she and her father had been grasping at for over a decade. It was not a misunderstanding, it was a…

I didn’t really care for how they let Aemond off the hook for Luke’s death. Having them both lose control of their dragons was a plot contrivance that came across as a lazy bit of both sides-ism; “Hey, just because Aemond demanded that his cousin put out his own eye in front of an entire royal court then deliberately…

Kinda disagree; Wendy’s burgers definitely have a flavor. Is it mostly salt? Yeah. But it lets you know it’s there.

Dedicated Side B left me cold because I thought all the tracks had a very samey feel to them. As opposed to Emotion Side B, an album where every “unreleased” track could’ve been its own single, Dedicated Side B really came across as though they were unreleased for a reason; like half a dozen attempts at getting one…

Flyover States: A Lot of Rules (Mostly Related to Reproductive Health and Anti-Union Efforts), Alt-Right