-winces- I’m 47 and do it when I go to local hockey games and root against the home team.

I’d love to agree with you about the suit - those are cool power-ups but not something Spider-Man really needs to be Spider-Man. However, as voiced by Jennifer Connolly, I just loved Suit Lady and her interactions with Peter.

I always find myself somewhat sympathetic to the alien-thing in John Carpenter’s The Thing - every time I watch the movie, I find myself wondering just why Kurt Russell and the others are so determined to kill The Thing without giving it any chance to communicate. I mean, yeah - when it’s try to actively eat you or…

the Jack Ryan show is okay if you liked Jim on The Office - he’s a charming motherfucker and, bonus for them what like that kind of thing, he’s now totally buff too. it also has the guy who played Bunk on The Wire, although they have not yet done a scene where they say nothing but “muthafucka”.

hope it helps!

throw a couple spoonfuls of black beans or canned pumpkin in with the dry food - we do and our dog loves it. his kibble is supposed to be fairly high quality (Taste of the Wild, due to allergies) but he appreciates some wet stuff mixed in with the dry and he’s generally a good boy so...

curious to know how the ATK recipe stacks up against glory of twice-baked potatoes, which are the best. i mean, baked potatoes are okay, i guess, but twice-baked?

their live album, ABSOLUTE PLEASURE, is a pretty fine greatest hits collection for anyone who wants to check in on what they’ve been doing over the course of their albums up through about five years ago but, yeah, pretty much every album i’ve heard has two or three classic bangers and the rest is generally pretty solid…

sorry this is months late but my suggestion is to try some kind of fruit and oatmeal bake - basically like a cobbler or Brown Betty. take pretty much any kind of fruit, dump in some maple syrup, honey or molasses to sweeten and top with oats, then bake or even just dump in a crock pot (some people say to put a paper…

On the topic of that fly fishing episode of This American Life: my wife and I were driving to meet some friends at a park for a community picnic-type thing when this story came on. Before the episode was over, we wound up sitting in the parking lot for 45 minutes, eventually with three people stuffed into our…

nope - 1990 graduate of the town in Making of A Murderer and i’ve kept in touch with pretty much everyone i’d care to (hell, most of us still get together for a monthly D&D game on Roll20... which should give you some idea of the kind of hip cool kids i hung with).

do people really change, though?

I like Qui-Gon but hated the concept of midicholorians, so I’ve developed my own, mostly unsupported theory for why he wasn’t on the Jedi Council: all the other Jedi thought he was a far-out crank.

there is a bar in Milwaukee, At Random, that has an entire three-ring binder of ice cream drinks to choose from - i haven’t been there in close to 20 years but have fond memories.

woo-woot! Manitowoc native, here.

“Like, at the end of the movie why is everyone so happy when they’re flying away after losing like 99% of their comrades?”

i love ‘em both but is there any difference between a Clark bar and a 5th Avenue, besides the packaging and shape of the bars? (i seem to recall 5th Avenue being a little flatter and Clark bars being more rounded in cross section.)

“First goddamn week of wint- DOH!”

boiled?! what the fuck, man? hot dogs have to be grilled, otherwise you might as well just be eating (gagging sound) baloney. i mean, shit - your top pick shows grill marks right on the package, for crissake.

Yeah but Silverhand was always envisioned as a guitar slinger - so maybe by 2077 this kind of industrial grunge sound is retro-cool again or something, sorta like how swing music came back into vogue in the ‘90s?