It’s oddly therapeutic 

I got a few good but cheap stones on Amazon for about $40 and started scanning Goodwill stores for used knives to practice on. You’d be surprised at what people throw away because they don’t know how to sharpen their own cutlery! I’ve come away with Messermeisters, Wusthofs, Henckels and a few cool Japanese blades for…

Grilled Romaine salad is awesome!

I make a grilled peach salsa. The smoke with the fruit flavor is amazing.

True. I have a mixture of Japanese and German knives that I use as my primary pieces and I tend to be cautious about them because I don’t want to have to pay to replace them sooner than I have to. I tend to sharpen them on a progression of 1000/4000/8000 stones every 6 months or so, depending on how they wear, or…

Most of this is just rolling the edge a bit, so a smooth steeling is probably better in most circumstances, or even stropping on newspaper/cardboard to reset the edge. I’m cautious about overusing any sharpener since grinding off actual material is such a permanent thing.

Manchego is a good call. The cheddar could be updated to Leicester red, which is a wonderful variation on a theme.

Manchego is a good call. The cheddar could be updated to Leicester red, which is a wonderful variation on a theme.

Whoa, whoa. She may be a jackbooted piece of shit, but let’s not be so quick to kink-shame.

I thought that her sexuality was well telegraphed throughout the movie, which on the whole was nothing if not predictable. And rushed. And poorly edited. And shoddily written. That’s actually a lot of things.

In the Egyptian national museum they have placards that read “do not touch” in English and Arabic, and yet I saw a bunch of kids putting drinks on ancient statuary while sketching stuff for their class.

They also have a “do not laugh” sign in the mummy room. This seemed odd to me since I would have never thought to…

You’re supposed to eat Carne Asada fries with a fork, and god damn are they delicious. They’re nachos in fry form.

Yeah, those were all pants. Logan was great, but it was hardly an X-Men movie.

Agreed. Also, beyond Deadpoolesque wisecracking, how do you explain why all the highly powered mutants just sat out the world-ending clashes in Avengers I and Infinity War? Those guys could have been pretty useful against Thanos.

It’s best to let them exist apart. If the greed of our corporate overlords ensures this,…

I definitely would have hit that car.

I for one am a happy contributor to this trend.

Martyrs was definitely one of the most horrific films I’ve seen, but you know, it was kind of beautiful in its own way. I’m not sure I’d watch it again.

When MeToo happened, nearly every single one of my friends in academia who posted described abuse from within the system, usually a professor or advisor. I remember numerous people in my graduate program who were sexually harassed and even assaulted by a professor, who had been reported many times, but whose sole…

Curious twist - Iran apparently is one of the world’s largest exporters of trout, but unlike the relatively lifeless rainbow trout we get most places in the U.S., the Iranian version straddles salmon and trout in flavor and texture, so it also stands up to heavier flavors like cream sauces. This is what I did with it:

Was that him saying that he WISHED he could obstruct justice more efficiently?