I didn’t tinker too much with recipes from her other books, but I have to say that “How to Be a Domestic Goddess” is one of my most-used for treats. Hard to believe it is 20 years old!

Well, those commercials ARE emotionally manipulative, so we’re probably in good company when crying about them. As a palate cleanser, look up the Suburu videos with the dog family that drives. This one is an immediate cheer-up:

And only to discover that the baking powder expired 4 years earlier, somehow! But really, I used to enjoy baking as a hobby....but the busier I got, the less I felt like struggling with digging stuff out of the pantry, cleaning up random spills, going on a treasure hunt to find the measuring spoons (only to find out…

In a way, though, I kind of envy how it was acceptable back then to open a few boxes or cans of whatever and be done with it. Your guests ate it — perhaps the copious martinis of the era helped with palatability — and everyone was fine.

This is how I like to burst the bubble of people who take the “food was different in Grandma’s day!” way too far. It was a wonderland of Karo syrup and mixes. I have no judgment over that, because the expectations on women were ridiculous as far as entertaining in the ‘50s. Think Casserole Pinterest is weird? Then you…

Yes to all of that about trying-and-failing to NOT click on the saddest stories in the world. (Although for me, it’s falling for clicking on bad hot takes and raging away; the unprompted crying seems to be an offline activity right now.)

Can I just say that pregnancy hormones are the WORST? I’m only in my first trimester and the mood swings are off-the-charts. I cried while reading a magazine yesterday. A design magazine. There was no reason whatsoever. Then, I was fine. Then, that commercial came on with the puppy growing up alongside that kid, and…

Yep, all true things! But get this: If you’re “lucky,” you actually get reporters. (Low-paid, inexperienced reporters but still actual people.) In the worst-case scenarios that don’t involve shutting down entirely, you get syndicated content from elsewhere and no actual people to help you run things.

I mean, I can’t speak for everyone involved in the business, but your suspicions were pretty spot-on. In digital outlets (that don’t have or have never had a printed component), the average age for a full-time editor/writer is probably 26-28. The turnover is high, and more and more hires will be considered “general”…

It’s definitely worth the trip! You get to see everything from Henson’s earliest commercials to life-size puppets from the Dark Crystal. My favorite was seeing the actual Doozers from Fraggle Rock and learning how they made them move. They’re so tiny in real life! Only advice is to go earlier in the day, if you decide…

Speaking as someone who has worked in media for 10+ years now (mostly digital, never affiliated with the Gawker family), the video push usually comes from on-high and not without pushback from editors. The directive is usually accompanied with some flashy stats about how videos end up with longer time spent on the…

Oh I forgot all about Uncle Deadly (and how could I??)! I really loved what they did with his character, plus all the screen time he got as a result of it. I just don’t get why people are so lame.

It sounded like a chunk of the bottleneck came off with it (as with the commenter above), which then proceeded to open up my friend’s hand. Could’ve been the angle, could’ve been an imperfection in the glass itself, could’ve been the ghost of Carry Nation.

SAME. I am so glad I found this thread, because I can still get mad at all the people who swore up-and-down that the Kermit/Piggy relationship was sunshine and rainbows, or that the Muppets were never “edgy.” They definitely were! And not just when they were hanging out with Debbie Harry!

Maybe, but doing this sort of flair-filled bottle opening maneuver somehow got one of our wedding guests sent to the ER for stitches. I wasn’t there to witness the actual maneuver, but saw the results unfortunately.

At first I thought that line was from an entry to one those “Cool Girl Olympics” posts that keep popping up

If it’s metal we’re talking about, does Eddie come out to hand out the awards?

That, plus the fact that all networks won’t schedule any new episodes of anything for fear that it’ll all go unnoticed for all the attention that’s going towards curling. I just want a new episode of Bob’s Burgers.

People really, really get odd about food — and they often have very limited personal experience with those who aren’t as fortunate as they are. I think there’s a grain of truth in that the writer of this story probably does have the perspective of “cheap shitty nostalgia food for poors,” even if they never outright…

Right? A lot of those types of comments also come from people who were rightly aghast at the new SNAP proposal, but when it comes to fast food or even grocery shopping they turn into the “those who buy cheap food can’t be trusted to make decisions!” crowd.