That would have been the only name that I would have absolutely hated, so I’m glad they didn’t go that way for my hometown team. Most people here are over “Cleveland Rocks.” 

Yep. I am 100% here for all of this. Cleveland FTW.

I marvel at those statues every time I drive downtown. I fucking love them.

I wasn’t a huge fan of the Guardians name when it was initially suggested, but it has 100% grown on me over the course of the day. In 12 hours, it has come to seem normal. But I was always going to accept whatever team they chose. I’ve hated that my team’s name was the Indians for years, and I’ve been counting down…

Political thriller might be a more apt characterization, but in terms of the post-Cold War spy fiction genre, I can see how the comparison gets made. Spy fiction and spy movies after the end of the Cold War increasingly features an agent working against factions within his own service or within his own government. It…

That, and it basically at its core was just a retread of a lot of the thematic elements of the first GotG. It was about a bunch of disparate personalities coming together to become a team/family. Then the sequel puts them right back into that same situation, like the first movie didn’t already cement these…

I’ll go you one step further and say that police forces nationwide should not have dogs. Period. The officers are often poorly trained, the dogs difficult to control. And people get mauled or killed. The dogs are a tool to intimidate and brutalize, nothing more. 

Good to know! I’m all for anything that encourages me to throw fish sauce in more things!

If reapplying sunscreen isn’t your deal (or if you’re like me and you just forget), might I recommend rashguards/swimshirts that have SPF 50 level protection? I wear them a lot of the time when I’m in our pool now. Plus a wide-brimmed hat. I still use sunscreen on exposed skin, but I’ve found that I tan or burn a lot…

“One of the problems with food waste is that people started buying oversize refrigerators...  and then you have a lot of food waste because things happen, meals get delayed, meals don’t happen. It’s a disaster. So in my house I have a European refrigerator that’s very small and narrow, and it disincentivizes me from…

Amen to this. 

My problem with using exclamation points in work e-mails is that, as a woman, it seems like a no-win situation: If I don’t use something to soften the tone of my e-mail, I can be seen as severe and/or bossy. If I do soften the tone with something like an exclamation point, I risk being seen as flighty or…

FWIW, cilantro is an optional addition to chimichurri. Parsley and oregano are the essential herbs for chimichurri, and many (most?) of the recipes online do not include cilantro. So if you are among the unlucky percentage of the population who genetically cannot enjoy cilantro, there are lots of recipes out there…

What a nice thing to say. Thank you. And you, in turn, have perfectly illustrated that partners with different inclinations can indeed work. It takes communication and the ability to step outside of your perspective and try to understand someone else’s. Really, I think that the list of questions could be boiled down…

I cannot see a world in which Aidan and Carrie start something up again. They were fundamentally incompatible, and I think at least Aidan realized that eventually. The send-off the show gave him, with a baby and a wife, was totally fitting. If the show upends that just to send us all back into “Big vs. Aidan”…

Willie Garson is uniformly delightful in every project that he graces with his presence. He should be in more things. In all the things. 

FWIW, after having watched Hacks, I don’t necessarily agree with the assertion that the series “isn’t about the pair of them learning to be different.” I do think that both Ava and Deborah learn and grow throughout the season. And maybe I didn’t think they were as shitty people as Emily Alford does. I took Ava to be…

This list seems geared toward happily enmeshed couples rather than independent couples. I have friends who have successful relationships in both categories, although I admit that I skew more toward the independent side of the scale in my own preferences.

The Purell line killed me. We’ve known for more than a year now that covid transmission is like 0% about handwashing. It’s all about droplets and aerosols. But sure, go climb all over some guy, huff and puff in a fitness class, and share the same air with a bunch of people whose vaccination status you don’t know.…

I feel like you’ve actually got the perfect banana system in your house. Buy the bananas a bit green and you eat them for a few days. Then when they ripen and get soft, they’re all his! In our house, it always seems like we waste a banana or two each week because nobody goes for them once they start to soften.