I do this too, since many juices became too sweet for my taste. I don’t drink juice very often, and what we have around the house we mostly use for cooking. But when I do drink some, I’ll usually just put a splash of juice into sparking water or a sprite zero. Cranberry and pomegranate are my favorite. 

Agree on Tanya. She is 100% going to fuck over Belinda. Most of the reviews/recaps treat Tanya gently, as though she’s just a sadsack pity-case. But she’s not good. She’s self-centered, and we’ve just not seen the extent of it yet because it’s been hidden under her layers of stunted emotional growth, immaturity, and…

I look at those dates and it suggests to me that Richards might have been brought on board in fall 2020 with the express intention of giving him the hosting gig after the guest hosting spots. Which, I’m OK with that. He was fine. He will be a fine host.

It’s a total excuse. Once the vaccine is fully approved, the anti-vaxxers and the “vaccine hesitant” will move the goal posts again and find some other reason why they don’t want to get it. 

Exactly. It is OK to want to retire in your 60s. Hell, I want to retire in my 50s. It won’t happen, but it’s a nice dream. I love teaching. But let’s not kid ourselves. I’m not going to be one of those profs that stays at the university until she dies. I’m making my retirement money then getting the hell out of there.…

Exactly. There’s a Coen brother’s film for every mood. 

That’s a fair criticism of the Coen Brothers, and something I would be very interested in seeing them approach if they decide to make any more films together. 

Everybody kept saying that Once Upon a Time... was a comedy, but I didn’t find it all that funny. But then again I hated Once Upon a Time from top to bottom, so I will admit that I’m not particularly impartial when it comes to that film.

Getting textbooks through Interlibrary Loan (ILL) can be tricky and isn’t a great hack in my experience for a couple of reasons:

Hi there! Global Entry enrollee here. Really the only Global Entry benefit when leaving the US is the ability to go through the Pre-Check lines. The other benefits are all for when you return to the US and have to pass through Customs and Border Control. If Pre-Check isn’t important to you, then you might be OK to use…

This is my association as well. For the love of Christ, they have a 1,250 calorie salad on their menu. I don’t really go to Cheesecake Factory, mostly because it would be entirely too easy for me to eat a 3,000 calorie meal if I got an entree, an alcoholic beverage, and then split an appetizer or a dessert. Gross.…

I have all three of those kinds of salt at our house—sea salt, kosher, and table salt. I don’t mind using any of them as necessary, and I probably use sea salt most often simply because it’s closest at hand in my kitchen. I use kosher to season meat before grilling/cooking mostly. So yeah, I don’t really care which a…

I’ve reached the point with Tarantino where I’m so, so tired of schtick. I’m tired of him thinking that his glorification of violence and racism is au courant or cutting edge. Tarantino films announce themselves in a way that strikes as more about ego than art. I’m sure people will disagree with that opinion, but…

It’s just a dagger to my heart as a former reporter and editor who left the field because--you guessed it--there were no jobs. 

This article uses the word “schism,” and to me that implies a fight or a breakup. I guess I’m not necessarily seeing that in what Indie Wire wrote up, where Burwell expressly says “It’s all amicable” and that Ethan just wasn’t into making a film at the moment.

I always found the Segway a hard sell for people with mobility impairments that made walking difficult, and the marketing toward that population always struck me as curious and misguided. Many (most?) of those people, like my father, can’t walk much or very far for a couple of main reasons: They lack the…

I had the same thought. And I also read “lovable” in the headline and thought, “Wait, do we think Colin Jost has lovable energy?” Because the vibe I get off of him is smug fratboy. Him and Che hosting Weekend Update is a big nope for me all around. They’re both too much...something. 

When your choices are to sexualize yourself or to be unwillingly sexualized by men/society, some people choose the first option. Not saying I agree with it or that that would be my choice, but it makes sense to me (a woman) on some level. If you’re going to make it in a male dominated field that almost certainly is…

I think the egg yolk makes a difference, too. I vastly prefer a French vanilla to a pure white vanilla like vanilla bean. The egg makes the flavor and the texture that much richer. 

I refuse to accept pumpkin spice season until mid-October at the earliest. Starbucks and the like can bring it back whenever they damn well please, but I reject that until there is a chill in the air in the evenings and the leaves start to change. Pumpkin spice is not a warm weather flavoring. It is for sipping next…