How is it that everybody doesn’t do this? I started doing it for scallopini back in the 80s and realized immediately it worked for fried chicken, too. Just wack until it’s a semi-uniform size instead of into a...uh...scallopini shape.

That was the most articulate expression of what I’ve inchoately believed about McCain but lacked the art to say.

Ditto. I was always voting for Obama, but I thought that McCain could be a fine caretaker president until a more seasoned Democrat ran in ‘12...until Palin came on the scene. The scales fell away and I saw McC. for the irresponsible pol he really was.

It was a joke.

The anal-rententives are out in force.

Agreed. (shudder)

I kinda hate that person. Stubbs is one of the best things about an Austin that has very little resemblance to the city I moved to 25 years ago. Liberty Lunch? Gone. Las Manitas...gone. La Zona Rosa...Les Amis. Gone. I can retire in two years and I plan to shake the dust of this glitzy simulacrum of someplace neat…

You’ll love Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl. You get to have windup everything!

I think the most basic, fundamental lesson we can take from this is: Don’t encourage people to kill themselves. The fact that this is even a thing is as damning an indictment of this society as I can imagine.

Involuntary manslaughter? I don’t know...seemed pretty voluntary to me.

How come when folks talk about the Second Amendment, I hear fuck-all about the militia part? It’s as if it’s not there.

“I’m far superior than most people in some things and far inferior in other things.”

In this particular instance, it’s not about you.

I moved from the South to Portland to go to college in the late 80s and, man, was I a fish out of water. In spite of feeling like I’d found my people (bookish and...bookish) the culture shock was too much for this country boy and after disentangling myself from the complicated life forces a place like that generates,…

Sometimes I think it may just be a matter of neurochemical circumstance. I mean that sometimes it just seems like your brain is perfectly set up to record that particularly powerful moment. I still flush with embarrassment when I remember something that happened 45 years ago, but I also remember random moments from…

Boom said that he believes everyone has a path in life already determined by God, and that maybe it wasn’t in God’s plan to have Singleton work on the biopic.

You are a desperately, desperately creepy person.

“...god, why would you?” 

Her husband knows that he’s breeding with something who raped and murdered kids, including her sister. How does he do that?