That’s legit fascinating for me. I had no idea!

It’s kind of hilarious in retrospect. As much as a liked that show (it was pretty groundbreaking for it’s time) the last final seasons were basically “how to be a good wife.” (I won’t speak of the movies- I’d rather just pretend they did not exist.)

Is this true? Links? I’ve never heard this but find it fascinating. I blog about alcohol abuse in my spare time.

HOLY fucking shit, I didn’t even realized that’s a thing that happened. Now I’m embarassed!

It’s funny for me, because my parents drank some beer at dinner or whaever, and my parents I think had some hard liquor in a cabinet somewhere. I could have imbibed if I wanted to— but I looked down on kids that DID drink (mostly because I was a big dork who was never invited to their parties.)

The coverage of that Amish shooting was the WORST. Everyone in the media felt the need to mention the ... he brought to the shooting. On the Media (the NPR show) was the only venue that really deconstructed the whole thing for me.

I feel like they were a little before my time, but yeah. The thing for girls to drink to drink during my college years was those awful Smirnoff Ice drinks.

Wiser words were never spoken.

I could never stomach those sweet Smirnoff Ice drinks, even when I drank, but I was reading about alcohol marketing and those drinks are basically designed to attach you to a Smirnoff band as a young person. Then you graduate to flavored alcohols, then to “real alcohols”. Marketers actually study this stuff. It makes…

I discovered fresh peas at my farmers market this season, and though it sounds kind of cornball to say, it kind of relevatory how this vegetable that I so dreaded as a kid could be so delicious. Sadly they are already out of season here. This sounds like a good idea for the frozen peas in my freezer, though.

I’m going to be a debbie downer, because I’m old and cranky and sober, but a lot of flavored alcohols are marketed to young drinkers because they are easier to stomach. Then the hope is they will graduate to more expensive alcohols. Alcohol marketing is actually quite predatory.

Are people who drink Fireball old enough to be parents now?

When I first read your comment I thought your username was “Snacky Onasses”! I guess I’ll still try this recipe anyway, though.

When I heard about this shooting I was immediately like “this is like when Goeorge Sandori(sp?) shot up that aerobics studio... and crickets. What? Who? When was that? People don’t remember this shit.

I had a boyfriend that would get sooo mad that I watched Sex and the City (don’t judge, it was the aughts and that was the thing), because it “constantly bashed men”. I think once Miranda made a joke about her boyfriend’s skid marks or something? He was super mad about that joke.

Again, I haven’t seen the movie yet, but if you think she’s romanticizing her own childhood, you obviously haven’t read her work. Her childhood was very, very brutal. I’m not sure you care, though. You’ve made up your mind about a person you haven’t met.— imaginary whiskey-swilling hipster artist. Only the artist part…

I have been on a million (approx) dometistic Chinese flights and never saw a squat toiliet on a plane. That’s impressive.

Are we sure 100% this wasn’t Hamilton Nolan???? He’s been posting a lot less frequently... but I thought that was just because of the recent bullshit that went down at Gawker Media.

I don’t think most movies are essential movies that teenagers need to see, but they see them anyway. I would rather have teenagers watch a movie by a directed by a woman and writen by a woman, than to absorb the casual sexism that is present in most PG-13 mass-market movies. The writer in question, whose work is…

Wraps are part of America’s collective eating disorder, where we all eat too much shitty food, and then we have these disgusting foods that taste terrible we eat to feel better about oursevles. Wraps, chicken breasts, egg whites... all of can gtfo.