You avoided so many blue balls caused by the offspring of the 1% in Waterford, that’s for sure. Good call keeping closer to the Beltway. The Middleburg gals were lookers, but they all worked on horse farms. Grips like Teamsters, but with callouses like oil riggers. Good for corralling a 17 hand stallion; not so great…

As somebody who worked in Loudoun County for years, I can assure you that there’s no way the fine citizens of Ashburn would ever have something as ghastly as a mere “prison”- or worse the more plebian “jail.” There’s no way Loudoun County would ever use such a declasse name.

I had an '04 Vibe. Sold it to my in-laws with 160k+ on the odometer with only basic maintenance, and still got mid-30s MPG. I miss that little car. 

I am stunned at the brilliant stupidity of jungle lions.

Do you guys realize the severity of this crime? Had this Yinzer actually choked this lady to death, the Chargers would have lost 2/3rds of their fan base. 

I teared up a bit. The Sigur Ros song is painfully touching in the way that so many of their songs are - I like hearing one of them at a time rather than a whole album because, as a middle aged dad, I ain’t got time to wallow in such angst - but then the music is paired with this visually stunning dance scene...FROM…

I had read the AV Club article about this episode, had read some other pieces about how this one scene changes everything about “Sunny” and when I watched it last night on the DVR, I still wasn’t ready for the sheer “art” of it.

I had no idea they had this in them. 

his songs were about Every Kind of People and were Simply Irresistible.

When evaluating any potential player suspension, the first question to be answered is: “Does it in any way manage to fuck over the Pittsburgh Penguins and their absolutely horrible fanbase?”

If the answer is “yes,” throw the book at him. 

That show was a definite victim of the Writers’ Strike; the gap in episodes and ABC’s general inability to manage any of their prime-time shows correctly back then just killed the show’s momentum. 

Her in Pushing Daisies? Hell and Yes. 

the brands all over the place...ugh. Old Money doesn’t need advertising. 

Mrs. Smoak and I were house-hunting in Lovettsville back in 2012. We’d been there to eat at two spectacular restaurants over the years - Patowmack Farm and The Market Table Bistro - and it seemed like a nice quiet place just outside of the majority of the DC sprawl.  We looked at a great old house on a big plot of…

Basically, yes.

I had a the Nvidia Shield tablet for a few years. Even through a cracked screen, it still was as good as any Android tablet around, but the battery started to go this spring. I was thinking there’d be some good gaming tablets out there - nope. Maybe a new Nexus? Nope. Maybe something with MUCH faster…

Years ago, while an impressionable teenager in Annapolis, Maryland, I was shopping at the Oceans II record store on Main Street. There were a handful of people in the store, just a lazy late summer evening. The store was playing this album on their system, and a young woman, probably in her late 20s, asked the clerk…

starring not for your shitty Burger King take but your spot-on Maine observation. 

I was recently in St. Louis - the Raising Cane’s in the Chesterfield Commons was surprisingly tasty. I’ve been to a couple of different locations of theirs over the years, and that one gave me a hint as to why they have so many fans. 

long live the deal

long live the deal

My raised-during-the-Great-Depression grandmother tried to convince me that those little bugs in our pasta were nothing more than pepper flakes. And our oatmeal. And our cereal. And our flour. And anything else grain-based.

A lot of ex-military in the civilian government ranks, and more Republican especially outside of DC.