I think my favorite Ellie moment from the episode was her genuine glee at finding a box of tampons. Like, that would be me. And those tampons would be my prized possessions. So often mundane stuff like that never features in dystopian narratives. It gets sort of glossed over, but I’m always the person out there…

I was kinda bummed I saw the Arby’s line in the previews because I think it would have been delightful to not know it was coming. 

I’m so late to the party on this, but I totally agree. One of the best episodes of TV I’ve seen in years, for sure. It had so many little moments that, in and of themselves, told a story. The way Bill adjusts the plates to get the presentation just right. The way both Bill and Frank are taken aback by the first bite…

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The advantage that duvets/covers have over comforters is washability. A queen or king size comforter won’t fit in my washing machine. I have to get my duvet insert specially laundered. But the duvet cover will fit in my washing machine, so every few weeks, off it goes into the wash, and I’ve got a fresh clean duvet…

I genuinely do not understand complaints that duvets are too hard to stuff into the duvet cover. I have a king duvet and cover, and I don’t think it’s ever taken me longer than 90 seconds to put the cover on. It’s just like you said: Stuff the duvet corners into the duvet. Grab both duvet cover and duvet at the…

I’m sure there are perks to being famous, but jesus so much of the shit that goes along with being famous are just not worth it.

I know it was fait accompli that some network was going to throw hundreds of millions of dollars at Brady to be a commentator. But...are we sure he will be even decent at it? It seems to me like Brady has spent his career being about the most uninteresting man alive whenever he opens his mouth. Seriously, has he said…

Exactly. I was actually really interested in 1899. I loved Dark. But I knew exactly what Netflix was going to do with it, and I just couldn’t bring myself to watch it because I already knew its fate. That’s the other thing that Netflix has done to shoot themselves in the foot. Viewers don’t trust Netflix anymore. They…

They’re so attached to the binge-watching model, but that gives shows a shelf life of about eight minutes. If you don’t watch it on day one or within the first few days, the cultural conversation has moved on. Shows don’t get a chance to build momentum. I remember when Chernobyl premiered after GoT on HBO. It had no…

“Ultimately, I can’t know,” Kutcher tells Esquire’s Madison Vain about his thoughts on Masterson’s charges. “I’m not the judge. I’m not the jury. I’m not the DA. I’m not the victim. And I’m not the accused. And so, in that case, I don’t have a space to comment... I just don’t know.”

When I turned 16 in the 90s and bought myself my first (extremely used) car, my dad folded up a $20 bill and tucked it into the owner’s manual in the glove box. “Always keep $20 in your car,” he said, “You never know when you’re going to forget your wallet and have to pay for a tank of gas.” (Sidenote: remember when…

Can confirm. A friend of mine knows Cooper and his family. Apparently he’s a real gem. Lovely guy.

It must have been a slow news day that day, but in 2021 I saw a TV spot about two recent high school graduates who were “launching themselves into the business world.” These 18-year-olds were...opening a bins store. You could tell they thought they were going to rock it and make tons of money, all while also pursuing…

He began to openly discuss how the sexual assault allegations leveled against him in 2003 changed him as a person. Kobe was maturing as a person in front of our eyes and from a distance, I revered him.

Exactly. And my Panera shares a parking lot with a pizza place that does awesome, huge sub sandwiches for $12. And it’s across the street from a solid burrito place. And there’s a breakfast place two blocks down. Even in my sad little suburban hellscape, there are so many more attractive options that now basically…

Yeah, that timeline (bought in 2017) seems to match up with about when I thought prices went up and quality took a nosedive.

A few years ago there must have been a directive from on high at Panera to drastically cut the contents of their sandwiches. You used to get a good, quality sandwich there (I’m talking 10 years ago). But now, nope. You get a giant hunk of OK bread with very little filling. The last time I went there, I got the…

These have been cropping up in my area over the last year or so, calling themselves “bins” stores or some such like that. I don’t know about the chains like Ollie’s, but it seems to me that the independent ones that get opened are basically people who watch a lot of TikTok videos of thrifting and think they’re going…

Do queer black people not also have an experience? Isn’t saying their experience shouldn’t be included in the African American history curriculum also hijacking part of the Black experience? Including all facets of a community or group in a curriculum on their history strengthens the understanding of the group; it…