Ahh, Maria.

I am the stupendous glorious baker that I am today bc my mom and dad let my 8yo ass loose in the kitchen, mostly unsupervised (I was a latch key kid for most of the 80's). I made my share of inedible cookies and cakes, for sure, but for some reason my otherwise incredibly strict parents never gave me a moments grief…

I’m sorry, sugar. You’re right. I’m wishing you an easy breezy pregnancy and a sunny happy sleepy baby. <3

I distinctly remember Gus proudly telling someone that his product is fresh, never frozen. I can’t remember if it was in Breaking Bad or on a previous season of Saul, however. In any case, the writers are way too exacting for the frozen chicken in this episode to be a mistake, and it was in the walk-in all by itself,…

I traded my 25-year pack-a-day habit last year for a Juul, cut down considerably (I made one pod last about 3 days) and haven’t touched the Juul either since mid-February. It literally helped me quit. Good thing, too, because I live in Germany and the first few times I bought pods, they were in lots of kiosks and…

It depended on where you lived, too. When I was a kid in the 1970's, the rural area I lived in was completely party lines. My cousins and I amused ourselves on rainy summer days by surreptitiously listening in on the neighbors.

In the early nineties I worked at a non-chain sub shop and the sweet tiny Indian woman running the show had bought it as is from whoever had been in the space before. First week goes ok, we’re in the financial district and there’s actually a small lunch rush when she sends me down to the basement to bring up a box…

I really enjoyed this episode and all of your extremely valid and well articulated points didn’t change my mind. It was great to read, though! And I’m absolutely not saying you’re wrong! 

Lol, dude, don’t hold back!

...and she’s barely aged, which, as smart as this show is, must surely be me misunderstanding something, right?

Smells are so much more intense at that altitude, too! I flew a lot when my kids were little and I had to take a 2yo in the toilet with me about an hour into an 8 hour haul, she bumped me at exactly the wrong moment when I was hover-peeing and I got the tiniest bit of pee on my jeans which I could smell like it was an…

Infinite Jest can’t be read like that because of all the end notes. I read that freaking thing with two bookmarks and toted it around with me whole, the way god (or DFW) intended. 

It’s still completely socially acceptable in big Carnival cities like Frankfurt and Cologne to wear full on blackface as a costume, and even the liberal left here gets huffy and offended while defending the tradition. There’s not even a character from a children’s book as an excuse. Also acceptable and beloved choices:…

It must be biology. Lizard brains activated, and all.

Consumers in developed countries are daily complicit in child labor, they just don’t want to have to literally see it. It’s bad for the digestion.

He needs to acknowledge that it is an incredibly difficult, traumatising task to do that job, and treat the workers better. Better pay, better emotional support, and better workplace conditions. So do you. 

I guess the point is that a woman should be comfortable enough with and informed enough about her own body to be able to decide with her doctor if dilators are necessary or not, for medical reasons. 

WHICH GOLDEN GIRL OMG

In the lyrics they say it was filmed at Woolworth’s, though. Maybe Wanamaker’s has too many syllables?

I’ve now got a massive ear worm from Ween’s Freedom of ‘76.