I was angry to find out he wasn't a dickhead chef.

It didn't help that the European response was largely "don't do it; you can't afford it and we'll punish you," rather than declaring willingness to address such grievances as weren't disingenuous.

Also, if the PR-related stuff is even a little fascinating, watch Absolute Power, featuring a never-smugger Stephen Fry.

Just make sure you crimp down the barbs for easy release, and try to handle them as little as possible. Unless you're planning on eating them, of course. What's the bag limit in your state?

I'm not playing but my home is a gym and watching players in our front yard has become its own pastime.

Dungeon Crawl again. I keep falling afoul of updates though. I haven't had a big win in months, but took the high score in Linespring Sprint again.

If she went behind your back with information you gave her in confidence, then she needs to go. Especially if she is goading you into telling her things you don't want to.

Heading to Anchorage in a week, so I'll be hitting the scraps box at the Alaska Native Crafts store and maybe starting another caribou wallet, as my current one is beat. You can't beat the price for hides but the pieces tend to be small, so nothing ambitious.

Mango Lassi pops have become standard issue in our freezer.

Minutemen - #1 Hit Song
Crystal Castles - Untrust Us
Beck - Black Tambourine
Joanna Newsom - Esme
Sonic Youth - Skink
Steve Earle/Emmylou Harris - Comin' Around
Huun-Huur-Tu - Agitator
Fred Frith - One Never Knows Do One/Adage Coda/Long Fade
Santogold - Creator
Fugazi - Sieve-Fisted Find
Minutemen - This Ain't No Picnic
Lhasa de…

If you find AbFab too tacky, Jam and Jerusalem is a more low-key comedy also written by Saunders. It's packed with good players, each of whom gets to be both funny and sympathetic, and it has no laugh-track. It might be listed as Clatterford in the US.

I decided to finish My Mad Fat Diary after getting fed up with some narrative choices in S2. I'm glad I did, as the quality took an uptick at the end of S2 and S3 is back to being the show I liked so much in the first place. Still a bit annoyed at the handling of the Tix story. I am guessing it's written based on…

Sometimes a guy will enjoy giving his all while he feels free, then when things get serious the smallest kindness feels like an obligation and he runs screaming. It happens with women too, but I think something in our culture teaches men that this is the good life, and it gets in the way of recognizing a good thing,…

There's still one in Fairbanks. Can't she just live there?

I'll be SITTING IN THE WAITING ROOM!

Can we just skip to the part where we mention Hitler, and then be done?

The reaction to Obama's first election was spectacularly disingenuous, since at the time his only discernible agenda was getting to the White House. People acted like the 2nd Amendment was over,and hoarding was so bad you couldn't get a box of anything for the shooting range. And of course nothing happened.

They have good gun sales when the PFD checks come around. Also when a democrat gets elected.

I've been told I have a face made for radio.

To be fair, Alaska gets some things wrong about Alaska too.