i lasted about two seconds on that yellowtail tuna video before i yelled OH WHAT THE FUCK?!! and just about sprained my finger clicking off.

i’ve never done it with an actual hashbrown patty like the ones shown above, but it works fine with either freshly shredded potatoes (which is a bit of a chore even with a decent mandoline) or the frozen shredded potatoes (more expensive than a big bag of russerts but probably worth the reduction in the time needed to…

yeah, someone tried to convince me this was a brilliant idea at a party the other week.

i’m not a huge super-fan of Malcolm Gladwell or anything but his story featuring “Million Dollar Murray” was something i cited more than once in my grant writing and advocacy over the years. while it goes into a lot of detail about long-tail distribution and other granular details, the story can basically be boiled…

waffle makers work great, actually.

i mean, the logical extension to this is to just chop up everything and serve it in a bowl, right? at what point, then, does it stop being “a burger” and become something else that just has a lot of the same ingredients?

and then you give the kid a Jack Reacher book and suggest kneeing the bully in the nuts and breaking his nose on the way down.

plus, those masks led to the single best gag in Baby Driver.

dude, at some point you have to just stop digging the fuckin’ hole.

i spent nine years writing grants for a homeless shelter and this kind of attitude came up all the time: “why is it the taxpayer’s responsibility to...?”

oooh - good one!

when you say “sprinkle with herbs”, which do you mean? just parsley or are there other herbs that would go well with this? i don’t know if basil would balance well with the potato but i’m thinking rosemary definitely would.

count me amongst those who have no idea what “nduja” is but, other than that, i’ll take a big ol’ pang pizza all the way - mushrooms and olives and sausage are all my go-to toppings anyway and garlic is probably okay, especially if you were gauche enough to included melted butter-garlic dipping sauces under the…

i think anyone with even the most glancing familiarity with meghan mccain and her opinions would realize that challenging her on her bullshit ideas, even to her face, isn’t going to change her opinions or evoke a moment of genuine empathy for anyone - all she does is cry crocodile tears about mean ol’ libs, engage in…

i’ve always wondered how much the decision to adopt V For Vendetta masks was driven by ideology and how much of it was just a happy coincidence in timing, what with a having a huge backstock of not-entirely successful corporate marketing merchandise?

it’ll be interesting to see what they can do with the medium of television to rival what Moore and Gibbons did with comic panels and formalist structure in “Fearful Symmetry”... sort of like imagining that issue before you see it, i have a hard time guessing at what that might even be.

i mean, yeah: the continued existence of the “classic rock” format certainly supports the idea that some - hell, maybe even many - people stopped seeking out new music sometime in high school.

the 1 and the 9 are the bun and everything else is the hot dog and/or condiments?

since this story is likely to be of interest to people who listen to music, this seems like a good place to ask... a couple weeks ago, there was a story/video on this site that featured a record exec from an “indy” label (don’t remember which one) whose theory for why radio is full of such repetitive crap basically…

my local public library apparently has DRIVE, so i’m looking forward to checking it out. (they don’t have SABOTAGE, tho, which sucks - haven’t seen that film since my VCR crapped out more than a decade ago...) actually, it looks like they have a ton of movies with dacascos - with the exception of a couple studio…