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Actually, yep.

Pretty much no one gives a shit about any of that, so ...

I think the bigger issue was that he came off as defending Zak S before it became completely clear what a very bad mistake that was going to be.

But that particular shitstorm is about four months old, and the radioactivity, at least as far as Mearls is concerned,

I met Landis at Comic-Con a few years ago, when he was promoting Dirk Gently. I did not see him abuse or rape any women. But I came away creeped out by him after our professional interaction and all of these allegations definitely come off as plausible to me. (Landis straight up seems like a narcissistic sociopath.)

It’

Look, if my career ever hits the skids here in the States, I am counting on “big-eyed blonde with an accent” still working in whatever foreign country will let me in on a work visa, thank you very much.

Fudge is delicious.

Please bring your inexplicably uneaten fudge into the office and discover just how popular it is.

Take your Funkos out of the box, people. Did you learn nothing from the Toy Story movies?

Take your Funkos out of the box, people. Did you learn nothing from the Toy Story movies?

That is a strong argument for this mini-series.

Garlic powder isn’t as big of an improvement as onion powder (or, better yet, onion salt).

This feels like a good argument for moving to Australia.

Little man, no. You’re 16, but you can make better choices.

The pizza that gets talked about most in Chicago—at least by hotel concierges—might be deep dish, but most native Chicagoans actually opt for tavern-style pizza, such as the pies at Vito & Nick’s. It’s characterized by a thin, almost cake-y crust, topped with sausage and cheese and cut into a criss-cross square

Italian pizza is a crushing disappointment to nearly everyone who’s grown up on American pizza.

Every city thinks it’s the best in America

Rewatching Stranger Things with my son last night, when Bob asked if anyone else knew BASIC, I wanted to chuckle that obviously everyone knows that and then realized I am so very, very old.

Isn’t Hamilton the Hamilton of the MAGA crowd? Or have we now decided that the literal Founding Fathers didn’t make America sufficiently great?

In all areas of human sexuality, in my experience, kids want to know far less than adults think they do. Start with simple explanations and keep adding detail until it’s clear the kid would rather be playing Roblox or whatever, and stop.

“Because he has romantic love for that man, not for women. Some people love their

Go eat at the place Dad always wants to go to, but always gets outvoted on. 

And Twitter has utility. (See Ferguson.) If Instagram disappeared tomorrow, we’d be mostly rid of “influencers” and have lost almost nothing.

Instagram is a good social network in the sense that Dr. Jekyll is the good Mr. Hyde.

I’ve been drooling over this dish since I saw Anthony Bourdain’s Szichuan episode extolling it.