Respectfully disagree about placing the blame on Starz and “greed” - I have enjoyed plenty of stuff Fuller has done but, c’mon: he overspent by 30 MILLION dollars. that is a lot of money!

no, because we live in the darkest timeline.

Don Winslow’s latest, THE BORDER, is pretty great. It’s the third in a loose, unplanned trilogy he began nearly 20 years ago, chronicling the relationship between the US, Mexico and how the War on Drugs has ravaged both countries. It’s fiction but based on plenty of identifiable subjects, up to and including Donald J.…

the first time i went to college, i turned out to be a pretty shitty student. so i dropped out and got a job working for the Wisconsin Conservation Corps, which only paid minimum wage but came with a $2000 education stipend if you served for an entire year - and since this was 1995, minimum wage was $4.25 an hour,…

has there been any word on who else will be taking to the stars with Picard? i mean, it obviously won’t be the same crew as the Enterprise but surely they can find room for some familiar faces, right? Nog would be a good one, to say nothing of Kira or Ro. Hell, Harry Kim can’t possibly still be an ensign, can he?!…

or politicians? sure, you have a few who are above-average in the looks dept. (JFK, AOC) but even the ones that put in some effort are overshadowed by the huge number of dorks who look like Trump or Mitch McConnel or Newt Gingrich.

there’s a local fish place that charges extra for tartar sauce. not, here’s your regular allotment of tarter sauce and, for a surcharge, we’ll give you extra - you get NO tartar sauce unless you pay more.

mushrooms are a good substitute for the mouthfeel and bulk of meat, especially if you saute them in butter. but, yeah, dicing up a sweet potato or two and then frying it up with onions and garlic before tipping it into the chili, that’s a good veggie base. i tried pumpkin and hominy one time, too - not bad, although…

I haven’t been to a funeral back in Wisconsin in a couple years but the last couple I went to were the kind where the wake or memorial service or whatever you call it was a big meal served up by church ladies. Depending on your tolerance for cafeteria fare, the food is generally nothing special... until you get to dess…

i mean, on the one hand, i was thrilled to have Wild Dog back in the pages of the Cave Carson book - i’ve been a fan from his first appearance, enough so that it got me to buy every issue of Action Comics Weekly, for crissake! and there’s just something wonderful about seeing him kinda reimagined as a sweary kook that…

ooooh - maybe that’s why they’re finally scheduling a release of the “Five Years Later” LSH in July. i already own the issues in floppy form from back in the day but damned if nostalgia isn’t making me consider picking up the new collections, too. while there’s a lot to love about the late silver age era and the work…

back in the mid-1990s, Pringles briefly experimented with selling their chips in vacuum-packed sleeves instead of the iconic cardboard tubes. i had a college friend who worked in a grocery store at the time and i stopped by to exchange some class notes or something when he was stocking the shelves one time.

you know what i want to do on St. Patrick’s Day?

Happy (belated) Birthday, Kate - that seems overly-familiar but “Ms. Bernot” sounded stuck-up and stiff.

MIKE! You’re ON DRUGS - normal people don’t act that way!

i can just about guarantee he did not. if his wife/girlfriend correcting him wasn’t enough to get him to knock it off, you know he was just a straight up inconsiderate asshole. as for those other two jerk-offs... wow: assholes really do ALWAYS advertise, don’t they?

i’ve never worked a front-line service job, so i honestly don’t know: in situations like this, how do you not fuck with their food?

was he related to john dahl by any chance? while not one of the big-name hollywood elites, he’s directed some real faves - Rounders, The Last Seduction, Red Rock West - and i’m always pleased to see his name pop up in the credits, most recently in some tv show or another.

i still say the fiesta potatoes are better than nacho fries.

according to a ComicsBeat story i went looking for after the heads up from Carlos the Dwarf (love that name, man), these are 100-page collections priced at $5 and sold exclusively at wal-mart. they started last summer and it sounds as if they’ve released about five issues of each title so far. from what i read, it…