You watched Liquid Sky as a tween? Yow. Yeah, that’d mess with a kid.

P0int. This is of course one of the many reasons why I prefer to live in a real city. ;)

I stole that one from Bugs Bunny. ;)

“As an avowed feminist who is also a man” [...] “empathy is far more necessary than snark”

It is now. ;)

“now I am desperate for some beef carpaccio. With capers.”

It’s an absolutely standard souvlaki place in Melbourne. There are literally dozens of them here. Back in the day, they were all Greek, but these days they might be Greek, Turkish or Lebanese.

“if you see nothing but boring old white people in an ethnic restaurant”

“she didn’t know the difference between a garlic clove and a garlic bulb, and the recipe called for three cloves.”

“This right here is why we need BCO for Retail.”

“They didn’t just buy one book, they’d buy a dozen and be back a week later to buy a dozen more.”

“we had to create sub-Love Bundles; regular and Christian due to complaints from our more devout romance-novel enthusiasts”

Yep. The nomenclature is kind of flexible. Here’s a fairly typical souvlaki takeaway in my city. Notice the lamb spit on the right:

Mmm. Delicious carrion!

I’d class them as ZZZ—- celebs.

“So as his good friend, you probably don’t need me to tell you he’s dead...”

Hrm. I’ve been to parties where I’ve bobbed for forbidden fruit.

“Gyros are delicious (especially when purchased from a food cart at 1 AM)“

“As one who has not had Skyline, I cannot comment on the veracity of that statement.”