The New York Times reported last month (I get their “The Morning” daily email, which is how I encountered it) that one of the leading causes of vaccine hesitancy has been media over-emphasis on the things that can go wrong, or that “it’s not 100% effective”, or other attention-grabbing headlines that scare the crap…

“If your kids complain that they “can’t see the stars””

This is a city where you can’t get a good pizza or burger at any price. We have to eat something.

So nice to see cornbread having a happy holiday after getting knocked outta sight by beans earlier in the year.

“And is coral looking more peach here?”

Dammit, you beat me to it. Take your star, you magnificent bastard.

I just scheduled my first vaccine appointment (and will be getting my second in due time; not sure how Rite-Aid handles this but I guess I’ll find out next Wednesday.)

I’ve set foot in Iowa, but that’s only because you can’t get all the way through the state on I-80 in a car without nature calling for at least one of the two people moving cross-country.

I think I might have to pick some of this up for making Seattle-style teriyaki at home. It sounds like a neat twist on the sauces you get from restaurants around here.

“And those who own Aloy’s skin”

Yep, 110% this. As has been true for every Paradox game since the original Europa Universalis.

Well, that’s one way to cut down on the number of sons you have to divide your empire between when you’re still stuck in tribal Elective Gavelkind when playing as an unreformed pagan religion...

“a really dumb, very funny game about being a shark that just eats stuff, gets bigger, and then eats more stuff.”

“I won’t bore you with the full details, but I ended up getting a system that included an RTX 2080 Super, a card that wasn’t the absolute best at the time,”

Just change its name to Bowzer Standalone Prop and then hope you don’t get sued by Jon Bauman.

“Cash and prizes” is my new favorite euphemism for genitalia. I’m still laughing after a solid five minutes.

I think this is one point where video games, in their ever-present yearning to be taken seriously as an art form, have caught up to films in a lot of ways.

“I feel like there’s a strong case to be made for T2 being the greatest movie of all time.”

“Kinda like marmite, it is not good solo.”

If they stay in their lane and do the job they were sent to do—a nice texture variation in a salad, a little flavor booster in a pasta sauce, maybe even on a pizza someone else is sharing with me that I didn’t order myself—I have no objection to them.