I guess it's not really cooking, but John Palmer's How to Brew got me to love homebrewing and figure out how to actually put my own recipes together.

When my family moved from Baltimore toward the northern part of Maryland (backwoods of Carroll bordering the Balt County and Howard), I started hearing War of Northern Aggression a lot. It is amazing the difference a 30 minute drive makes.

To be fair, Superjail got actively worse when they started having plots. 3 minutes of set up, 8 minutes of visual explosion worked just fine.

My family has been Baltimore City, Maryland (not like how everyone from Maryland says they're from Baltimore) until my parents left when they married. Everyone else living still is save some cousins in Owings Mills and Randallstown.

I just read the arc, and outside implying they have some influences on certain churches, nothing particularly stood out. I don't think it comes back up again unless it's in one-shots? (I'm somewhere in issues 29-33, reading the book compendiums)

I feel like "his skin is a weird color" is not a phrase that should see much use outside bad medical charting.

My father got in trouble at his job (government agency) for browsing Cats That Look Like Hitler back when he realized there was more to the internet than weather sites.

Also, come on, I probably have 150 albums by men worse than many of these on my damn phone. Even a sentence or two as a joke for some of them would have made it fun rather than just "haha triggered over canonicity"

If you scroll fast enough that picture of Kid Rock looks like Tom Waits on the Glitter and Doom tour. The one in the article I mean.

I would say healthcare still has them, clinically and non-clinically. Or at least that's been my experience; if you want a living wage, benefits, and some job security, a tertiary care hospital in an academic system will tend to provide.

Here's Pit Pat!

Eh, my mom and dad encouraged the hell out of me, but they'll still tell me I'm being an idiot if I said I wanted to change career paths entirely without some sort of backup.

I always think to myself, "Oh, they must be making like several hundred grand if this is their entire life plan and also investing that properly if they're going to live off of it. They are so far ahead of me." And then I realize wait, no, that's probably not true at all and even if they're pulling down twice what I…

There'd be at least half the track as vocal samples.

He's very good, but definitely hard to penetrate at times. I'd recommend Yip Jump Music or even The Late Great Daniel Johnston (originals + covers) to see some highlights and experiments and branch a bit from there. That said, the documentary is an intro in its way as well, and has the most meaningful ode to Mountain…

That documentary still haunts me, especially as someone with severe mental illness. Makes me thankful (and almost ashamed to be thankful) that I can even make it to my job and home.

Huh! It doesn't surprise me really, but neat to know. As for backlash, I'll just say watched most of the stuff on Roiland's website (or did a while back) and I'm glad he got a writing staff with him.

There was a cop in the episode, technically. After the car bomb.

Really? I took it as a folk tale and thought it settled well that way, and in being a folk tale much less absurd than Allfather and the Messiah. I'm rereading the comics now so totally possible my opinion will differ (just got to book 3 of the collection which starts with SoK volumes).

I don't know where Pence is from, but maybe a dialect thing? A lot of my family refers to each other by generational position rather than name. Not so much directly (though my dad calls his wife "mom" around my brothers), but the ones from heavy Catholic and Methodist backgrounds.