that sounds encouraging! i’ll have to check those out - thanks for the heads up!

Don is interesting, because he clearly starts out being portrayed as an almost mustache-twirling villain we’re supposed to root against, only to wind up being one of the most decent, principled people on the show.

well, Casey McCall died in the Twin Towers on Sept. 11, so SPORTS NIGHT probably isn’t coming back. Dan, Jeremy and Natalie - and especially Isaac Jaffee! - were all home safe and sound that day. I don’t know what happened to Dana or anyone else - probably a lot of running around and waving of arms.

doing that with the Tim-Tam cookies is awesome. the cookies by themselves are okay, but once melted by a hot drink? incredible.

yeah, i don’t like salmon or tuna, so that sounds terrible - i’m mainly a lakefish or whitefish guy.

my wife hates fish* so i’m making her a brie puff and some roasted Brussels Sprouts and pierogis for dinner tomorrow.

on the rare occasion i cook with meat (my wife is a vegetarian, so basically when she’s out of town for some reason) i’ll usually make a type of goulash with the leftovers - the last time, it was a bunch of leftover bratwurst that i diced up and reheated with some garlic, onions, bell peppers and mushrooms sauteed in…

i was prepared to skip this article a couple sentences in but your by-line convinced me to hear you out, kate - while it’s difficult to say anything about people you only know through their writing (especially on the internet) with any real assurance, you certainly SEEM level-headed and reliable.

we offered up seven pounds of various cheeses from a local Amish cheese place during our (two!) wedding receptions and still wound up taking a bunch home and eating leftover cheese for weeks afterwards. which isn’t the worst thing in the world - cheese is awesome! and it held up better in the fridge than the more than…

start with rye or pumpernickel bread. take cottage cheese and mix in as much crushed garlic as you can handle, Parmesan cheese, Ms. Dash, seasoned salt, basil, whatever you like. (sometimes i even drizzle in a random salad dressing like ranch or green goddess to thin it out a little.)

go to a bar? i find it difficult to believe you can’t find a tavern or hotel bar that wouldn’t welcome a group who wants to just sit at a table and entertain themselves, as long as at least some of you are ordering something to drink or eat. other options might be places like a bowling alley or an all-night/24-hour…

i moved to West Virginia from Wisconsin almost 15 years ago. i met my lovely wife here (her family is from just over the border in PA) and plenty of smart, wonderful people.

yeah, a decade ain’t shit - imagine making the same prediction in 2009.

when an Aldi’s grocery store showed up in my town for the first time, i had never heard of the brand and, based on the logo design, honestly thought the place was called Z-Aldi’s.

went there today for lunch, actually, and it was... okay. way better than a Big Mac or a Whopper but that isn’t saying much - i got the standard mushroom/swiss burger and while the burger and toppings were good, the bun was junk. it split in half on literally the first bite, making it difficult to finish without…

counterpoint: read the Nov. 8 2017 profile of Johnstown, PA in Politico for an illustration of how ignorant and racist Trump supporters are.

Assholes Always Advertise.

fuck that noise - people need to learn to live with being offended.

just curious but what are some examples of people who “made it” on the basis of having nice tits?

respectfully, this kind of thing does happen in the Midwest - i grew up in Wisconsin and my college roommate wore shoe polish while dressed as Flavor Flav at our sophomore year Halloween party - his mugshot (the party got busted) shows him holding up his hands to show his true skin color.