My wife and I have been watching a LOT of the Bon Appetit YouTube channel during lockdown (aside: that we’ve started watching YouTube on our smart TV makes me feel like a young person - I turn 37 next month) and there’s one series where they blindfold one of the test kitchen dudes and make him taste and then recreate…

“Donkey sauce” is just aioli, but with a name that Guy knew would inspire these kinds of takes. He leans into the campiness, extremely hard, but he comes across in reality as a very down to Earth kind of guy with a deep affection for where he grew up.

If it was after 2015, know that that’s when Guy was pushed out of Johnny Garlic’s and Tex Wasabi’s. 

Dude is definitely leaning into the campiness, hard, but he’s clearly in on the joke. He’s incredibly goofy and LOVES him some down-market food made with quality ingredients where the chef is in the kitchen doing work.

Their frozen mac and cheese is awesome, as are their boxed cookies. They have dark chocolate covered shortbread stars that absolutely go. Simpler Times beer is a steal at 6.2% ABV and clocking in at like $2.99/6-pack.

As a boring, middle-age white person, the notion that we all like Mumford & Sons is offensive. Fuck Mumford, whoever the hell he is. He should have gotten that vasectomy long before he sired any sons.

See also: burning Nike swag when Kaepernick took a knee and the company didn’t drop him; destroying their Keurig machines for a similar offense; buying and then throwing away Starbucks coffee drinks when they didn’t have an explicit “Christmas” cup design; panic-buying Dr. Seuss books (even though they either didn’t…

Leonard is one 4chan thread away from going full Q. He’s extremely active on social media (my wife really liked his content when was playing in Portland) and even in some of the more mundane vids/posts, he makes some...questionable remarks. Nothing overtly racist, but I’ve always had the feeling that he’s extremely…

I get where you’re coming from on this, but, as a matter of honesty, the same logistics infrastructure that can get sushi-grade fish to Vegas can get sushi-grade fish to OKC. Now, some of those land-locked states don’t have a strong fish tradition, so the people caring for and preparing that fish may not be great, per…

Ranch and blue cheese dressing are two very different things. Sure, they start with the same base, but everything else is different. That’s like saying a sauce Mornay is better than a soubise.

You’re definitely right about the Leviathan. I had mostly forgotten about that, because it feels like it’s been ages since it was relevant. It feels like CoS took place all in one room, with precious little space to explore. Last Wish was a pretty damn good raid, IMO, because it felt like it was expansive and there…

I feel like raid encounters have, largely, been getting easier and easier to perform, but more convoluted to explain. Like, the nomenclature they use to describe various mechanics has been getting more esoteric, but the mechanics themselves have been getting easier. If that makes any sense.

Most 401k’s offer a limited, curated menu of investment choices from a specific list of investment firms, while IRAs tend to have fewer guardrails.

I can’t wait until Mitch McConnell uses the phrase “smooth brained autists” on the Senate floor.

Most retirement-oriented funds aren’t strictly buying bonds. In fact, it would be malpractice to just shove those assets into USTs because it’s not what those funds are designed to do. It may even be against their investment charter.

It actually depends. If it’s a 401k, you’re probably right. If it’s an IRA, you’re probably wrong.

Tesla is trading at a P/E ratio of almost 1,100. GME may be the latest example of a company trading at prices that are not justified by earnings, but they’re hardly the only, nor will they be the last. It’s “growth investing” rather than “value investing”.

As above, many of those Corner Stores and Gas Stations were closed. Many people live day-to-day. And if we’re honestly going to talk about it, maybe lay the blame at the feet of the nincompoops at ERCOT that had a full 10 years to winterize power generation and didn’t because profits>people.

Some people, certainly, are laughing at his bad taste. I know I do. Others laugh at how fucking petty he is. He actually got mad that his steak wasn’t as big as one of his dining companions. Others, still, lament that this country is so fucking broken that a man with obvious bad taste, no social grace, no professional…

What a weird world we live in, where food is essential.