On the plus side for Brooklyn 99, the main characters are nice cops getting through the day pleasantly, but the B99'ers are the only honest cops in their world.

I put it on ‘record’ because I thought having a person of color as the lead was a nice choice. However, I quit halfway through the first episode because the writers seem to have built the script by heading over to TVTropes.com and loading up on cliches.

Yeah, it was exactly as I expected, too.  No surprises there.

And it’s very good, too. I don’t know why it was unloved.

A big thumbs-up for goat! Less fat and cholesterol than beef, but with an equally full flavor. I started eating goat at a local Indian restaurant, and it’s now the only protein I eat when having Indian. There’s (allegedly) a birria de chivo place not far from my home, but I had trouble finding it. One day, for the…

Yeah, he seems particularly fond of cars and other mechanical vehicles. Maybe Krampus is Henry Ford. Ford was certainly a big enough bastard for that to be a possibility.

And since the video has gone viral, someone at her insurance company probably has seen it and will ensure they void any claim the driver makes.

The little ones are cute.

A scene from a sad day: I was working in east Houston> I was on Navigation Road, which is home to several excellent privately-owned taco stands and Tex-Mex restaurants. And for what you get, they are cheap: a flour or corn tortilla stuffed with beans, rice, the meat of your choice, and taco sauce for about $1.50.

(Hannah, you bone musicians; you don’t marry them.)

Someone’s been reading a lot of Tom Swift novels.

Retraction: It wasn’t T. Swift who got me interested.  I mistook another character fro her.

I have never seen Cats. Even when it came out in my early teens, I thought it sounded lame.

While I’m not surprised that Indiana disliked Charcuterie, I am surprised that enough Hoosiers could spell it for it to be listed on the ballot.

What? The creator of a show based on the idea that women are trophies to be bedded and discarded is — in real life -- an abusive spouse? Who coulda seen that coming?

The article takes the position that any party is a good party and that Rocket Man is a douche. However, the back story is untold: Perhaps the party was going until 3am; perhaps the police had been called and hadn’t been effective? Sure, the protester’s action was pretty extreme, but we don’t know how long he had been…

In 1981 or 1982, I bought several skinny ties from the Evansville, IN branch.

Ow. You got really worked up about this. Maybe you should chill a bit.

I do, too.  Thanks.

When I was in fifth grade in the mid-70s, we had square dancing, but the gym teacher must have been suspicious of the AntiSemitic, anti-black history of it, since she also taught us a ton of disco dances (Point in favor of the gays and the Blacks). We did the Hustle and the Bump just to spit in Henry Ford’s eye!