Go outside, turn around three times, and spit!

Spouse and I have two bottles of wine ready: a standard-issue nebbiolo that we’ll be having with dinner, and a hyper-fancy-by-our-standards $80 bottle that we got a while back as a gift and haven’t yet found an excuse to open.

IT IS SO GOOD. Another good-for-picky-eaters Roman treat is suppli: basically a fried ball of risotto made with ragu sauce and a blob of melty gooey mozzarella in the middle. Basically, a grown-up mozzarella stick done AWESOME.

honestly, I’m probably a terrible person to give you advice - I’m from New England and adore cold weather so I chronically underestimate how cold other people are going to be. That said, for context it snowed and froze in Rome the year my husband was living there and it was a news-making unicorn event - the fountains…

Viggo Mortensen as Sirius Black (I LOVE Gary Oldman, he’s just not what I pictured there).

Yes please! Great thread idea and I’ll add my voice to those begging for an ungreying. I don’t comment super often but it’s partly the usual “I am gray so nobody will read this so I won’t post and stay gray which means nobody...” cycle.

Sorry, one more, can’t resist: Ristorante al Fontanone in Trastevere is this tiny blink-and-you-miss-it family-place-with-random-hours restaurant right near the river and a GREAT stop to try classic Roman food. Cacio e pepe (cheese and pepper pasta) and carciofi de giudia (literally “Jewish artichoke”, basically…

San Clemente is a criminally-underappreciated site in Rome right near the Coliseum. It’s a church build on top of an older church built on top of an even older church built on top of a Roman-era house. I always recommend that people do this on the first day or two in Rome; it really impresses upon you how the WHOLE…

Yeeeahh, it’s not quite an “oh thank god everything will be okay now” relief. It’s more a weak “well, at least we’ve staved off a systematic dismantling of reproductive rights and imminent nuclear winter for another few years” kind of relief.

At this point I’m honestly not even going to be *happy* - at least not right away - with a Clinton win. I’m pretty sure my overwhelming first emotion will just be a bone-deep relief that we managed to avoid total fucking disaster, coupled with the knowledge that there are still an alarming number of indescribably…

A very good point - it’s certainly not like I expect Trump’s base to be watching any of these shows.

They are and I adore them and watch them every week...but...

thank you for bringing this gif into my life

Am I the only person slightly curious about how he just casually got a *ring* off her *finger*?

I am furiously working on writing a grant proposal for literally a million dollars; it’s due in 48 hours and could be life/career-changing if it succeeds. That is for real the only thing stopping me from drink AAAALL THE WINE in response to this ridiculous goddamned news.

So, yes, keep these coming, take this asshole down, everything about this is simultaneously stomach-churningly appalling and great news for the outcome of the election, etc.

I mean, on the one hand I agree with you and the same thought occurred to me when I saw the headline.

Don’t you mean “tempt the wrath from high atop the thing”? :P

i will never be able to understand many, many things about this election.

My guess: before he was talking about, you know, brown people, or fat/ugly women, and we know republicans don’t care about those.