hahah - no. i’m a Wisconsin boy.

not that i expect you, personally, to justify this but... what’s the rationale for a complete reboot? can people not watch a TV show from 20 years ago without having references, to -i dunno- texting and youtubers? i mean, the whole point was that high school is hell even if you have super-powers and friends. why does…

there’s probably a wiki out there i could check but could someone break down where/how this fits in the other “official” continuation comic book series that have come out over the years, such as the Dark Horse series and i don’t even know if there were others? it sounds like this is part of that “back to high school”…

i wouldn’t ordinarily use cottage cheese as anything but a cheap replacement for ricotta in lasagna or mac n cheese but it does melt up really nice on bread in the oven - mix with some garlic powder, seasoned salt, salad dressing of your choice, Worcestershire, Parmesan - any or all of them, stir it up, spread it…

it’s kind of ridiculous to say there are no good reasons not to wash your car - i mean, aren’t there parts of the country where there are water shortages and even droughts? seems pretty wasteful to be pouring water down the sewer in those circumstances, no matter how dirty your car gets.

putting them in a slightly warmed pita pocket - especially the whole wheat flavor - is really tasty, although open-faced on a slightly toasted pretzel bun is hard to turn down as well.

molasses and cumin are the key to my sloppy joes - which i make with crumbles instead of ground beef, because the wife is a veggie. taste great, though i’d be willing to try this variation.

- You heard what happened at the Donut Hill the other night?
- Yo I was there and those De La kids was fighting, yo they was wildin’
- Word man?
- Word, the whole thing happened in front of my face, yo, they was on the dance floor, right, some kid stepped up to them and said something about hippies being punks, and the…

when i was a kid in Wisconsin in the 80s, the big grocery stores used to sell generic (white package, black lettering, no ad copy or illustrations) packages of cheeto-like corn crunch that was flavored with the same sort of powder as Chicken In A Biskit crackers. they were delicious.

i’ve been buying up the extremely inexpensive Jinhao pens online, which use little ink cartidges that come filled with what i’ve been assuming is india ink - i don’t know if purists with old school dipping pens and metallic inks would approve, but i’ve been using them for a couple months now and love ‘em. the…

i really love the size of Field Notes memo books, because they fit perfectly in most of my pants and shirt pockets. but, like many of the options listed here, they’re a little pricey to really justify, so i mainly limit my purchases to their occasional sales where they throw in two or three extra notebooks with an…

growing up in the 80s along the lakeshore between milwaukee and green bay, there were a million places that served up fantastic fish frys - perch was the big draw, back in the day, but smelt was also popular. once the perch got over-fished and started to get prohibitively expensive, it seems like everyone switched…

here’s what i don’t get: there are hundreds of collegiate athletes for every roster spot on an NFL team. if this dude is so toxic, just fire his ass and hire any one of dozens of other guys who’d all love a chance at the big time - this idea that only the best of the best make the cut and everyone else is a loser who…

wait a second - in the link you provided, it says those rescue beacons cost $3,000 EACH. on the other hand, spending even thirty dollars buys a whole lot of bottled water and canned food.

i’d suggest some kind of mashup of God Loves, Man Kills and whatever the Morrison-era story was, with the creeps who were harvesting mutant organs so they could transplant them into their own bodies and thereby gain the powers they were jealous of - this kind of story would really emphasize the difference in attitude…

my wife thinks my love of this movie is laughable, but whether it’s nostalgia or genuine love, i think Henry Winkler and the rest of the cast of An American Christmas Carol knocked it out of the park. retelling the classic story in Depression-era America just seems perfect to me and re-imagining the Ghost of Christmas…

i think it will be interesting to see how things like the digital archives offering unlimited access to decades of previous stories impacts things like line-wide continuity.

betcha those super-salty “club crackers” would turn out a pretty good s’mores, actually - plus, they’re very buttery in flavor. i don’t actually like them as crackers for things like cheese and crackers, but club crackers make a great crust for pies and torts.

wait, what about Chicken In A Biscuit?! with a nice thick slice of gouda or some room-temp camembert? aww yeah... my grandma used to love them with spray cheese from the can, which she thought was fancy in a 1950's housewife-sorta way.

for what it’s worth, the BLOOD SYNDICATE was featuring a lot of these same type of characters... in the mid-1990s. Fade was gay, the shapeshifter Masquerade was transgender, i think Oro and a few supporting characters were bi and there were two lesbians in a committed relationship in the Shadow Cabinet, a team-up book…