I understand your (well made) point here, but it also feels like a bit like chastising people for enjoying escapism and Downton Abbey for catering to them. Downton Abbey was popular because it was nice to watch pretty people in gorgeous costumes have personal dramas and only vaguely interact with the outside world.…

You’re not a Republican, or even an Evangelical, otherwise you would understand.

She’s 1/4 Spraytanese on her mother’s side.

Well, I think people noticed. Her statement was supposed to sound ridiculous to the viewer, that was the whole point. It showed she was from a generation with dying beliefs and rules.

What’s interesting to me about the prophetic angle, is that Atwood is first and foremost a historian. She has long-stated that the content of The Handmaid’s Tale was not some horror fantasy she dreamt up - she pulled each piece of it from history. It still falls well within the dystopian category, but I am sometimes…

I haven’t finished The Treatments yet, so I won’t read past the spoiler, but Atwood also wrote a very prescient novel about the climate crisis, Oryx and Crake. It’s about a world falling apart, the weather is getting more extreme and large parts of the world are becoming uninhabitable because of extreme droughts or…

I feel this way about so many people who have lived lives free of consequence.  And I feel guilty for feeling that way.

“Today, Satan” - Katie waiting for Stephen to pick her up for their first date.

It bothers me that this is an article about her, but the picture is of her boyfriend. I clicked into other links, and there are only pictures of Mike Pence or Stephen Miller. Scumbag or no, she is a human woman, and not an invisible presence defined solely by the men in her life.

Oh please god, don’t let them breed. 

Sure, but Miller? *full body shudders*

Obviously, that only holds for the original GBBO, before Sue and Mel and Mary Berry left.

Cooking only for myself these days, I have to buy smaller portions of everything, lest it go bad before I use it. A trip to the salad bar coupled with a dozen eggs gets me four varied killer omelets, and I don’t have extra stuff rotting in my fridge.

I aways tell my waitperson right away that my Resting Witch Face is because I’m ready to murder when I’m hangry. One of the great, busiest restaurants in Ann Arbor, Zingermann’s Roadhouse, takes a while because everything is house-made, from scratch, etc. I told my waiter that once, he immediately turned around and…

Oh yeah, I was in line the other day at Starbucks, and this clown in front of me (probably a millenial) was busy ordering a mocha-choca hoo-ha doodily-fru part skim double cream chai-lai latte doubletini (probably while dreaming about his precious cellphone) and when it was my turn, I ordered a black coffee, and…

well, the airport is in Romulus several miles south of Detroit, so it would really depend on where in the City of Detroit you went. 

The Joe hasn’t been torn down yet, they’re in the middle of doing so. This is from last week:

but you say “Greek meat sauce” and I retch reflexively thanks to (a) Cincinnati

Not to be too pedantic, but Todoroff’s in Jackson, MI opened in 1914 and is considered to be the first Coney restaurant, even before the Detroit places. I know this because I am from Jackson and we are famous for exactly three things:

The argument between Lafayette and American is dumb, because yeah, either you accept that the first coney came from Jackson, MI, or from Fort Wayne, IN depending on the source. Neither of those are, you may notice, Detroit. So I gotta’ say, even as a Michigander the whole Lafayette/American thing makes me roll my eyes,…