If the people making the show can’t afford to rent some damn dogs, or make a little effort on depicting daemons, what the hell are they going to do once they get to Amber Spyglass? There are multiple major characters and entire species that are going to be CGI. 

My family used the same fake tree for my entire childhood. I’m fairly sure my parents had it before I existed. We also had a carpeted living room, and based on how fucking annoying cleaning up needles on a wood floor is, a fake tree was the correct choice. I’d get one now if I didn’t live in Manhattan and have no…

My grandma’s cookies all come from that book, and they are really good. 

I agree that Midge and Joel could work now that they’ve both realized that they weren’t happy with the lives they were living when the series started, and have gotten to know themselves.

That game is fun but so brutal. I died so many time because I neglected my manners training. Manners save lives people!

I was Upsate recently and we bought a bunch of white hots at the airport. I was tempted to get some Abbott’s too, but I wasn’t sure how well it would stay frozen. I’m so glad they opened up a Wegmans in Brooklyn.

To be served with white hots, Cornell chicken, salt potatoes, and concord grape pies. Upstate feast!

These sound interesting. The association with pork and Christmas makes me think of Hogfather where the Santa figure reverts into the sacrificial pig, and the red and white of the suit is blood on snow.

Ugh, as a woman who goes out out to eat alone quite a bit, I hate this. Just because I am a woman alone doesn’t mean I want to be yammered at. Polite, unobtrusive service should be the norm. 

Speaking of disappointing candy, one of the great disappointments of my bookish childhood was getting to taste Turkish delight. I read The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and thought that it must be the most amazing thing ever. But its not, stale flavorless gelatin with nut in it is not something any self respecting…

Its very easy to explain its popularity with girls, Elsa has cool powers. Apart from Rapunzel the other princesses did not have cool powers. Elsa is a superhero who wears a sequined gown, that is going to have a lot of appeal. 

So men are better and should definitely be running everything, but they are also such coward babies that they’re too scared to order what they want because they think someone will laugh at them?

The answer is unobtrusive, that should be the one and only goal. I’m not going to a concert, and I want to be able to converse at a normal inside level. Way, way too many places seem to think that being forced to shout at people inches away to be heard is “ambiance”.

The editing really was weird. Remember how after Priya left everyone was talking about how chatty she was. Unless that was all sarcasm, the editors totally removed her personality. 

I just got to Nancy’s season in my backwards binge watch, and her story is inspirational AF. 

The chocolate cake thing is huge for me. I don’t get dessert very often, and if its one of the rare times I do and a chocolate cake doesn’t taste like anything its so disappointing. There is a fancy steakhouse in the city that supposedly had great chocolate cake, but it was just oily flavorless nothing.

This is wrong. Bill Gray’s has the best hot sauce, and they can properly season their burgers.

I envy the crew on the show so much. Kim Joy said that after filming is over, that they get to eat all the leftover food. This week especially, the domed tarts looked great, and Steph’s final cake looked especially nice.

Its also impossible to eat. The crispy pastry layers mean you just smoosh out all the filling. 

I just use my hands as little as possible. Grandma used to go full on and soak her hands in an ice water bath, but I don’t go that far. My secret trick is mashing the butter into the flour with a whisk.