I was just thinking about this. Nabisco Doodads snack mix. I’m not sure when they stopped making them, but they were kind of like Chex Mix. Or rather I should say Chex Mix was kind of like Doodads because I’d never eaten Chex Mix - homemade of bagged - until the late 1990s, and Doodads were far superior.

You know what I love most about Lucid Motors? I have no idea who the CEO is and have never seen an article written about one of his/her inflammatory Tweets.

All great points, and I really appreciate the feedback! I always assume any outside comments aimed at Philly are negative, because they usually are. I don’t typically get worked up about it. Personally I’d prefer the outsiders hate on Philly. The bad press might keep the interlopers away, and right now there are way…

The kind of people who eat burgers at A&W are going to get their britches twisted over getting called stupid. Although to be fair, it’s not just slack jawed yokels who are bad at processing everyday common sense. Technology has raised a whole generation of college educated social media gurus unable to read an analog…

CarMax gave meet a week to return my car, no questions asked. I like how Carvana is pretending to be anything but that, without customer service. WeWork similarly repackages a stodgy industry while pretending to be anything but a subletting landlord because it has foosball tables. Carvana’s basically profiting off the…

“In most major cities, if someone needs food, they can get it. Addiction, and sometimes pride, are what tend to get in the way.”

I’ve lived in three major cities on two coasts and two rural towns. It wasn’t intended as an insult. If you have some insight to offer, by all means I’m open to dialogue. Hurling insults at the American Punching Bag - Philadelphia - is tired and played out, and doesn’t explain to me what it’s like in these other…

In-N-Out is the Chick-fil-A of the West Coast, so I’m never surprised when they go full MAGA. But regardless of Wensinger’s FoxNews peppered rant, I wouldn’t want minimum wage fast food employees - in a city where the average rent is $3000 a month - challenging potentially charged up grease cheesers for their…

I thought Rich Juzwiak was gay. He should be way better a Halloween than this. 

Serious condolences and empathy for everyone involved. I have to wonder why the fuck in 2021 with CGI and special effects, Hollywood can’t make prop guns as safe as a 1948 toy that looks every bit as realistic! It is truly mind boggling. They can build an entire replica of the goddamn White House, they can build ocean…

I know the Wright Brothers are from Ohio, but the Wright Flyer is pretty much synonymous with Kitty Hawk. I’m not sure if that’s nationally assumed, but it’s definitely the common understanding on the East Coast. It’s been on the North Carolina license plate since at least the early ‘80s. Of course now, depending on…

It’s no secret all businesses waste heaps of product. We’re an exceptionally wasteful society. While charitable organizations occasionally go through seasonal drives, the truth is most are overwhelmed by the stuff we don’t want. Have you ever seen the back lot of a Goodwill?

“As for the nuts...I can just picture the mold growing on these when I haven’t touched them by the end of the week.”

Is it just me, or is The Salty Waitress sounding less like an actual waitress and more like a millennial who just discovered Alice on Nick At Night?

We grew up learning we’d run out of fossil fuels, who knew it would be literally everything else? The coal miners of the near-future will be digging through landfills for plastic and circuit boards.

I think I read an article in The Baffler explaining how startups worked. Of course that was c.1995...and an actual article.

“Grillin’ and Chillin’” is right up there with man caves and people who use the phrase “make it rain.” I can be pretty gross, but there is something so disgustingly manufactured about Bobby Flay’s pandering to the textbook suburban heterosexual male that can only be trumped by Guy Fieri. That would be a low bar if…

Public companies have always been damn greedy, but over the last 30 years, their quest for exponential profits solely sent to the table at the top has been shamelessly unconscionable fuckery. I was silently hoping COVID-19 would crash the economy 1929-style but somehow the robber barons even managed to exploit the…

Oh I completely agree. Automakers are going electric sooner than they probably would have without a push from Tesla, and a lot of that is built on Musk’s Cult of Personality. But I think Musk and his customers vastly overestimate the good EVs do or will ever do for the environment. I do believe Musk, and Tesla drivers…

“...almost”? LOL