This is what gets me. I live in the Midwest. It is unfortunately not uncommon for me to see carbonara on a restaurant menu described like this: Thin spaghetti in a rich cream sauce tossed with bacon and peas.

Yeah, it’s going to be a long road. I always told people in the run-up to the votes in August and November that the amendment wasn’t the finish line, it was the starting line. For decades, Republicans have chipped away at reproductive care in the state, and building back from that will take years. One step in that…

My experience in service were the same. Oh, there’s two tables in the whole restaurant? Don’t you dare sit in the atrium for two minutes with a coffee. You have to act busy for the two occupied tables and the 48 empty tables. 

I mean, we all did that with Rhodey, didn’t we? Worked like a charm. 

I like that casting choice!

“Merry Christmas, Johnny Rose” came to my mind as well. And my contribution (that I can’t believe no one else mentioned in the slideshow or in the comments as far as I can see) is this: “Carol of the Bells” from Ted Lasso season 2. Unapologetically sweet, surprisingly touching, with the feel of a British TV show’s…

It’s so stupid. 

And yet, I hate baking and don’t want to do it. It’s as simple as that. (Plus, at the moment I don’t have a functional stand or hand mixer--but mostly, I don’t want to). 

Eh, it’s a convenience thing and a question of how to spend my time. I won’t buy the stuff that doesn’t taste good, obviously. But it’s getting harder to find good alternatives. Sure, I could make my own frosting, but A.) I don’t always have the time and B.) I generally dislike baking. So I compromise with convenience…

“But the school says it took particular issue with posts that said Israel’s war on Gaza began before October 7...”

If you’re a director, and chairs are enough to make your team lose focus on the set, you have failed as the leader of that group. Days on set are long. Chairs are humane. Stop being a weirdo or worse an overbearing asshat under the guise of “your process.” Get some damn chairs.

I think if you look at Skarsgård’s work in something like Mute, which was a bad movie despite his good performance, you can see him playing a character who lacks swagger and instead has a quieter depth. I’m not familiar with Murderbot, but if that’s what we’re looking for, Skarsgård can do it, I think. 

My example here is store bought frosting. A few years ago, we noticed in our house that these frostings had developed a gritty, sand-like texture. At first it was Duncan Hines, then Betty Crocker followed suit. I read somewhere that increased palm oil might be to blame, but I’ve not found anything definitive. But gone…

That was the best part of the whole thing! Whoops, where’s Gen X? Typical. 

While I’m not on board with this (sounds very much gross), I would encourage people to check out Empirical Spirits. This error in judgment aside, they do some really interesting things with spirits and flavors. I’ve got a couple of bottles of their stuff. I started off with their spirit “Helena,” given to me by a…

I’ve taught Poor Things in contemporary British literature courses and it’s always such a hit. I wish I had that class on the horizon again so that I could teach the novel and adaptation together, but alas I do not. 

That might work. If anyone could pull it off, it’s Yorgos Lanthimos. I am really so excited to see this, because I adore the book, and couldn’t imagine how it could be adapted for the screen. But when I heard Lanthimos was doing it, that made total sense to me. On the surface, it’s a great marriage of content and…

I don’t know, it sounds to me like he’s trying something vaguely British in this trailer:

I can’t wait to see this. That being said, Ruffalo is my one point of concern, particularly if they make him put on an English or Scottish accent. I can’t remember if Wedderburn was English in the novel, but if so, I would still be tempted to make him American for the movie. Why? Because I just finished watching All…

That’s a shame. It was a good show. That said, I’m not too broken up about it because it’s finale wrapped up the arc and it felt like a completed show. I’m sure the strike delays played a part, but I wasn’t counting on it having a second season anyway. I figured the writing was on the wall at this point.