“They’re the reason there are directions on a shampoo bottle, & we should ignore them.”

Meh. I spend the other 364 days a year worrying about, trying to improve, and criticizing America, which, for many of the reasons you list, is pretty demanding. Tomorrow is the one day a year I celebrate and try appreciate our country. I know this site is a whirlpool of negativity, but as someone who has spent many…

There’s a lot wrong with Texas, but Blue Bell sure isn’t one of them. (Best ice cream brand ever.)

Personally, I’m okay with Pelosi focusing on avoiding a FUCKING WAR instead of the latest Trump crime.

“Ice Town Costs Ice Clown His Town Crown” still makes me laugh, and I’ve watched the entire P&R series at least four times. I love P&R’s trope with news ledes, usually offered by Leslie.

I agree that it looks fun and that there may be a certain segment of troglodytes who raise idiotic complaints. That said, I hope Banks isn’t overly heavy-handed with a “girl power” theme. By that I mean, I hope she <<shows>> women kicking ass but doesn’t also condescendingly <<tell>> the audience at the same time. Als…

I am looking forward to seeing this. Fun fact: At age 16, Maya Angelou became the black female cable car conductor in San Francisco. OJ Simpson is also from SF, but we try to forget that. 

Agreed. I really want to honor people’s wishes about touching and personal space. And I totally understand that there are people—men mostly—who take advantage of such situations, which is really shitty. On the other hand, I like friendly physical contact. I liked living in Europe and exchanging the two or three…

I defer to Kiwi authority on all things sheep.

If this is true (and I have to imagine it is), Beyonce and Jay Z were guests, and their host was asking Jay Z if he wanted a lime with his vodka tonic in a very loud environment. So, yeah, people are terrible.

Fair point. They are all exceptional directors. He’s also pretty good in David O. Russell movies, where he definitely plays a type. In sum, he’s pretty good when he’s in a good movie with an exceptional director. 

Common is also a mostly bad actor (and obnoxious shill for Microsoft). And, yet, I thought he was really good in John Wick 2.

At the risk of defending Mark Wahlberg in a house of contempt, I thought he was great in The Other Guys, The Departed, and Boogie Nights.

Great post. I’m curious about the local rock and grades there. My only real night climbing experience was starting too late on a 16-pitch climb in Yosemite. We finished late and had to do 23 of 25 rappels in the dark with headlamps. It was mostly terrifying but also incredible to be hanging above the Valley looking…

It’s a slow content day apparently. Jezebel is rabble-rousing sparkling water products and posted its 99th article about the college-admissions scandal, which is apparently an evergreen content provider. Oh, I think there was also something on figurative punching-bag Ed Sheeran, too. Maybe later today we’ll see an…

No. The recent run has been incredible (I’m still in disbelief), but a small part of me misses the “Adonal Foyle Years” when one could get seats in the lower bowl for cheap and the Warriors, while forever just out of reach of the 8th seed, were nevertheless fun to watch because of the crowd. Even if the Warriors…

Thanks guys. Only one or two of the pitches in the video above seem particularly quick or sneaky. In the others, the pitcher seemed to either change his cadence, simply threw a pitch slightly faster than normal, or had already pitching when the batter tried to leave the box. (The one with Chen was just a normal pitch,…

Can you explain what distinguishes a quick pitch from a normal pitch? To be honest, the pitch didn’t seem that quick or particularly sneaky to me. Was he supposed to wait longer after the batter was in the box and the umpire put his hand down?

Agreed about Pacific Heights residents.

Her house (in one of San Francisco’s most expensive neighborhoods) is also what you’d imagine: