I saw an EV6 out on the road this weekend for the first time. It was really sharp looking. If I were in the market for an EV, I would totally look at it. But yeah, some of Kia/Hyundai’s recent blunders would also be in my mind while I did. 

New Orleans has a gem of a Colombian restaurant called Mais Arepas. It is so good I’m considering taking a weekend trip just to eat there again. https://www.facebook.com/maisarepas/

If you find yourself in the neighborhood of Mais Arepas, definitely get a meal there. Amazing Colombian food. Everything I’ve eaten in New Orleans has generally been excellent. But Mais Arepas stands out as being bonkers good: https://www.facebook.com/maisarepas/

That’s part of the problem: The sidewalk isn’t a logical place for them, either. They belong nowhere. They’re too dangerous for scooter riders to take onto the road. And they’re too dangerous to operate on the sidewalks. No other motorized mode of transport is allowed on the sidewalk. Pedestrians aren’t looking for a…

These damn scooters are a menace in my city. They would be fine if they operated like Velieb bikes do in Paris or CitiBikes in NY, where you have to get them from and return them to docks when you’re done. But the scooters are just chaos. People leave them in the middle of the sidewalk, and many streets/sidewalks in…

You’ve caught some flak re #5, but honestly that’s been my experience as well from the restaurants I’ve worked in: Servers and food handlers don’t clean bathrooms. That stuff fell to the dishwashers, for the most part. My side work as a server was mostly keeping my section clean, refilling condiments, wrapping…

Agreed: I don’t mind at all when a server gives commentary on the food—for better or worse. There was this place that my friends and I used to go to in grad school, a pretty typical bar/wings joint. But we’d been there quite a lot recently and I wanted something different, so I asked our regular server about the…

Absolutely no one in Ohio (source: am an Ohioan, for better or worse) would consider Ohio to be Northeastern or Eastern. Ohio is a midwestern state. Pennsylvania is pretty much the cutoff for Northeastern states, with the eastern part of the state tending to “feel” pretty northeastern, while the western part…

This is 100% what’s going to happen. 

Specifically regarding the Vatican Museums and St. Peter’s Basilica: In my experience, this is often the most disappointing stop on a first-timer’s trip to Rome. The guided tours offered by the Vatican Museum is often very crowded and you can only hear the guide through headphones they provide you, and then the audio…

And Moneyball should be way lower. It’s a fine movie. But it doesn’t have much to say compared to both A League of Their Own and The Sandlot.

I have been all about Boss Ass Bitch Rebecca so far this season. I was loving the show dealing more with her as an owner, even if it was in pursuit of revenge against Rupert. Her men’s room intrusion on Zava last episode was masterful. I fear with this week’s psychic storyline that we’re going back into Season 2…

I am so done with the Beard/Jane dynamic. The show veered wildly off course with the character of Jane in season 2, to places that verge on misogynistic. There was nothing really objectionable about Jane in season 1. Then all of the sudden in season 2 she’s this deranged woman who brings out the worst in Beard. It…

This. Jesus, it’s a subcompact crossover and it can’t even get a combined mpg in the 40s. That’s weak. I drove a Pontiac Vibe for more than 10 years because that car, which dimension-wise was only about two inches smaller than the Corolla Cross, and that Vibe got 35 mpg highway and 31 city. We could make a similarly…

And Quibi was such a huge, public failure that I think it could probably really fuck someone up, and fuck up a relationship—particularly if one’s partner was initially not on board with the whole endeavor.

Now that I’ve seen it, I can’t unsee it. 

I thought maybe John David Washington for Kendall. I think he could pull off the hangdog expression Kendall has most of the time. Aldis Hodge could be great, too. Chadwick Boseman would have been my first choice, because I think he could have mastered that try-hard energy. 

I liked that pick, too. My first thought for Logan Roy was John Amos, with his big voice. 

I have been wondering this same thing myself. 

I just cannot think of a scenario in which any of this tech works well enough to be seamless (or even functional and effective) in three years. That’s an incredibly short timeframe to develop, test, and integrate this technology into new cars. Sure. I can’t wait for this glitchy tech to leave me stranded, stone-cold…