Same. A kid is a wrecking ball for denial and things can start tumbling down if you don’t find someone to help you put it back together.

Becoming a parent SHOULD change you. If it doesn’t change you, then you probably aren’t taking it very seriously. All of my priorities shifted and I was forced to confront which of my values I was sincerely living and which I was merely paying lipservice to. Losing yourself a little is healthy and expected, it’s the…

I should have scrolled down first. I posted nearly exactly the same thing.

Salt Lake City has a ton of ethnic Greek family-run burger joints that specialize in putting pastrami on a burger. And fry sauce. It’s spreading, but a concoction starting with mayo and ketchup for dipping fries a local thing.

But, a good screenwriter and or director should be able to use that to their advantage. A stealth mission. Turn it into a music video with no environmental sound for effect. Just saying “sound = drama” is lazy. There’s always another way.

My mom still drives the next generation of this. She likes it so much she put a crate engine in it a few years ago.

Fun story: about 20 years ago I was riding my bike to work in the rain. Some paunchy middle-aged dude in a too-large truck rolled through stop sign and almost hit me. I, being young and full of beans and bad decisions, flipped him off. He proceeded to pull along-side me and roll down his window to escalate the road…

Anyone have bead on the age-appropriateness of the new Dark Crystal series? I would rate the original film as a little too creepy for my kid, but would love to introduce him to this if it’s a bit more tame. (mostly thinking of the life-force sucking)

I have done a very similar recipe with Sriracha and it was amazing, for what’s it’s worth.

Depends on the day.

Patriot is good in a way that it is painful to watch. The depression of that protagonist is so artfully presented and makes me feel trapped and sweaty. I have to take week-long breaks between micro-binges.

This did an excellent job of making me very much like a person about whom I had thought very very little prior to reading. Well done.

I have done this and do it regularly, in shame, standing in the dark kitchen while my family sleeps. I also add shredded sharp cheddar if it is available. It is delicious, and it is shameful.

I appreciate and agree with everything you say. The thing is, we all THINK we know the kind of parent we’re going to be before we are, but the the thinking and the doing are different. We have baggage and we react in deep subconscious ways to old traumas in ways that make us revisit the shame that inflicted the scars…

When I was a (very popular at parties, I assure you) lad in the late 80s and early 90s, I enjoyed buying old National Geographic magazines at a local thrift store, largely to read about Gemini and Apollo-era NASA. As a cool side-benefit, there were so many great text-heavy car ads. I miss those.

I was diagnosed with ADD (never had the H, that’s a thing) when I was 8 in the 80s and now I see pretty clear signs in my son who starts school next month. My biggest struggle is that I see it in him and I empathize but I still often react from the same place authority figures reacted to me. I get frustrated and try…

It’s not a disorder, it’s a superpower.

I think one key point missing from the answer: Get the ball rolling. Order as soon as possible. BOH may be able to “fire one last meal while they’re taking inventory” but a big part of their closing routine is to shut down the line and clean it, which even one fire is holding them up from. Order quickly and close out…

Bet your not sneering at the fenders on my bike now, are you? Lycra-clad snobby grumble gumble.

Absolutely not. Unless the name of the restaurant has a suspicious number of Xs and Ks, in which case I might allow it.