Appropriate for today since they covered Scott Pilgrim in Age of Heroes: Ramona (Flowers). NOT a fan of Beverly Cleary, as I got a lot of “Ramona the Pest” in elementary school. I think my mom was inspired by Quicksilver Messenger Service’s cover of Bo Diddley’s “Mona,” and I thank my lucky stars my mom didn’t go with…

I actually successfully heimlich’d my husband after he ate a giant bite of dry cinnamon roll. I don’t think I would’ve remembered the baby heimlich, though, so bravo.

This is perfect since today is also MY birthday! We’re going out to a fancy French place I haven’t been to in years, but I felt bored by the latest batch of restaurants. My favorite cake is definitely German Chocolate cake from the recipe on the German’s sweet baking chocolate. So good. One of my favorite feasts that…

There is an egregious amount of rape in this series. Your tolerance thereof will determine if this is the show for you!

I think we’re supposed to see Jocasta as a beloved, though somewhat unknown, Aunt to Jamie, and that her resemblance to his mother and her welcome in a tough time has predisposed Jamie to trust her and think well of her. I think we’re supposed to START from that point of view in the TV audience as well...

These reviews are bizarre. I understand the desire to hear about slavery from the point of view of black Americans and not white Europeans, but this is not that show; this is Outlander: the main character is a time-traveling, English white woman from the 1960s. So exactly how are you expecting this show to not “center…

The gay shaming is sadly still a thing (in that being gay in many parts of the country is still something unaccepted), but no sympathetic character in this day and age should be using that against the bullies. It buys into gay shaming. There are a lot of plot lines on this show that are old-fashioned (bad) in this…

Yikes! Although Harvey’s dad surely deserves it.

It doesn’t make any sense. They want to pretend, a la Harry Potter, that Sabrina has grown up outside of the world of magic (because she’s half human?), but that doesn’t really play since she was brought up by her witch aunts and cousin. It would be a more interesting universe if they were more ambiguous about the good…

Hell yeah, the truth matters. We would care if the book were inaccurate, right? Why should movies be held to a different standard when they are also based on real people and events? The impact of the movie version is even bigger than a book, so it becomes the dominant chronicler of history... If you want to do art,…

I did a vodka taste test last year, and I found cheap Monoplowa and relatively cheap Ketel One to be the best tasting. I didn’t have any of the craft brands in this article where I live, but I did try many local distilleries and didn’t like them. Note that I don’t actually like the taste of alcohol (yuck) so was going…

Not a fan of the argument that McDonald’s is allowed to be unhealthy because we all “know” it’s unhealthy. The problem is we need a little help to save us from ourselves. We are inundated with unhealthy food choices that are literally designed to be super palatable, so our brains trick us into eating it too much. That…

When Whole Foods stocks half of its shelves with its own products, then that means other businesses sell less, including small and independent businesses. I would much prefer Whole Foods stay in its lane. I know that’s laughable in today’s Amazon Whole Foods, and the million other mergers that have happened in the…

Wow, I’m surprised by all the store brand love! I automatically recoil at store brands for various reasons: dislike of monopolies/trusts, pro-consumer choice (related), my sense that store brands are “generic” and low-end, etc. The less the better, IMO.

Yay! I like Paul Giamatti, so I’m relieved he gave the correct answer. I’m not saying his explanation was correct, but he’s on my team. 

The level of condescension in these comments is pretty bad. Gwen is offering a recipe! No one said it was a “real” alfredo, as if that really matters. Maybe Gwen thinks this one tastes better than “real” alfredo!

Why wouldn’t it make sense that they speak a consistent/coherent language? It’s just too far in the past to know what that language is like. We’ve been Homo sapiens for 200,000 years at least, and there are genes related to language that are also present in Neanderthals, so that moves language evolution back even…

Yeah, it’s silly to even think they spoke anything related to modern languages. They should have had that guy who makes up languages like Dothraki come up with something. Using Ancient Latin is kind of dumb.

Ok, now I need to know what the weird British class stuff is about Danny!

I immediately said to my husband, “ew, rosewater.” And see, I was right!