Yeah, I love that about him, along with the fact that he’s definitely a shark, but not a great white like his dad. He’s like a mako shark who thinks he’s a white shark. Capable of inflicting some damage, may even take some folks down, but not nearly the ruler of the seas. 

Those toe-raises are clutch. They really do work. For temporary pain relief while you’re dealing with shin splints, I wholeheartedly endorse ice massage using a cryocup (link below). The key to the ice massage is using moderate pressure when you run the ice along the tender part of the shin. It does actually have to…

Someone on here recommended uBlock Origin to me about six months ago, when I finally reached my breaking point with YouTube ads seemingly every 90 seconds. It has changed my life. It’s like all of the visual noise of the internet has faded away. I don’t know how I lived without it before. 

Citrus fruit does not last very long outside of refrigeration (just a few days like the article says), but it stays in the fridge for quite a while. Keep your oranges, limes, and lemons in a crisper drawer in a mesh bag and they will easily last 3+ weeks. 

Arc trainers are so awkward. The gyms I had been going to for four years pre-covid each had a couple arc trainers, and they were never in regular use. Meanwhile the ellipticals are always busy. I’m sure there are legitimate reasons for arc trainers to claim to be better in some ways than ellipticals, but in my…

It’s not fair to pick on Far and Away since it was so early in her career and because all of the put-on Irish accents in that film are horrible, as you can see here:

My college coach always used to ask: Are you hurting or are you injured? I liked that. If you answered that you were hurting, he would ask a bit more just to gauge the extent of things to determine what we needed to do. As an athlete who was probably more prone to push myself past the point of pain and into injured…

That’s fair, for sure. I don’t make much from it anymore since I don’t put in high mileage these days. But when I was cranking up the miles, I would make up a batch of a recipe and use it for my week’s worth of rides, or make up a batch and freeze half for later use. I’ve got to dig out the Feed Zone Cookbook. I think…

Total Streisand Effect. 

It kills me because I love Michael Shannon and Melissa McCarthy, but I just can’t. I can’t let myself get sucked into another one of Kelley’s projects that will only infuriate me in the end when it implodes spectacularly. 

It’s the best, isn’t it? Snickers might be on the extreme end of things (Chris Horner famously downed snickers and coke throughout his racing career. Legend.), but lots of the stuff that gets eaten in the peloton is awesome. Jam sandwiches, bananas, hand pies, and energy bars that might as well be candy bars. When I…

Thank you for the sour cream suggestion! I don’t know why my brain finds sour cream acceptable and mayo disgusting, but it does. I love the idea of corn dishes like this one and elotes, but the mayo is always a huge turn-off. Like you, I would also swap out mozzarella for a more interesting cheese. 

Yeah, reading comprehension can help, but many restaurants don’t make this easy, and Cheesecake Factory is one of the worst offenders when it comes to undercover calorie bombs. I mean, it’s safe to assume that everything at Cheesecake Factory is a calorie bomb given its reputation, but some of their offerings that may…

I really loved Hacks, but for whatever reason it seems like the pilot is the episode that got the most nomination love. That’s going to hurt its award chances in writing/directing categories, I think, because the first episode is fine but it is largely a place setter for some absolutely brilliant episodes later in the…

Chris Bauer is one of those actors for me that, whenever I see him pop up in something, I rejoice a little. You always know you’re going to see something good out of him. True Blood is undeniably campy and ridiculous, but Bauer’s Andy Bellefleur could easily have been a disaster. Instead, he was both hilarious and…

Dear god, this so much. I was struggling to put what I wanted to say into words, but “How many more of these old white guy morality plays do we have to watch?” sums it up perfectly. It’s been a good 15 years since I’ve felt like Eastwood’s variations on a theme re: white men felt even remotely fresh, and that was…

Also known in HBO circles as the Big Little Lies debacle.

You’ve just had a signature David E. Kelley viewing experience: Take a vaguely promising premise and write it into the ground by episode 4. Finish the series hating yourself and wondering who continues to allow Kelley to write shows and why he hasn’t found an editor or writing partner capable of steering him away from…

My sister’s lingering covid symptoms—loss of smell and weird sense of taste—started to improve within days of getting her first dose. She’d been dealing with them for five months or so before getting vaccinated, and her symptoms had shown only slight improvement over that tie. But she says the vaccine definitely…

I cannot believe that necco wafers and smarties didn’t make the list. They were, without doubt, the most disappointing candies to see in your Halloween bag every year.