I really wondered why they didn’t include that in the article.

For (relatively) cheap sewing machines, check out pawn shops and estate sales. 

Opals can crack in high heat.

Let me introduce you to Texas, which now gets unprecedented cold in the winter. Yes, we have heat - mostly. But our insulation sucks. And our houses were built to retain COOLNESS, because up until the 21st century, excess heat was our biggest challenge.

It made me weep, unexpectedly. Wonderful movie.

Yes, on the small processor. ESPECIALLY if you’re only cooking for 1 or 2 people. 

This assumes he has a soul left to sell.

Calling Jayne Mansfield “the 1950s wish.com version of Marilyn Monroe” is horribly insulting. She was a brilliant comedic actress. 

I’m one of those who thinks there’s no such thing as a dog too ugly to be cute, but I know what you mean!  I do think that mine, though, are pretty damned cute. 

Elon Musk does in fact own twitter now.

I have 3 chiweenies - chihuahua-dachshund mixes. You wanna talk stubborn? LOL.

To blow your mind, capybara, beaver, and alligator are all considered fish for the purposes of avoiding meat in the Catholic church. 

Cool story bro but this is an Arbys. 

Months later now, and yeah - me too, in 1990. Because my dad was Irish (cake) and my mom Sicilian (cookie table). The cake was sad, the cookies were marvelous.

An Italian who was somehow Franco-American.

2005 is almost 20 yrs ago.

In the 70s, during the inflation of that period, we’d often buy things in volume when they were on sale. Since we also shopped at a military PX, we could get big quantities of milk, but we couldn’t drink it all. We froze it up just fine. It’s funny, I think back now and remember my milk having some level of frozen…

I’m so boring. Balsamic + olive oil + garlic. Or red wine vinegar for balsamic.

This is true, and I hate it. I can’t wait to move back to smooth walls territory. 

Running Up the Hill will have less staying power than Len’s “Steal my Sunshine.”