And Billy is out there pitching a follow up to the festival, and he means it this time, it will really work out. So there’s no end to this golden goose!

Well, the Euro-style safety net works a lot better when you know that your family’s health care and future education are a function of your citizenship, and not dependent on your job. Then going to a lesser job is challenging/embarrassing, but not life threatening.

And now you’ll be left cooling your heels in an HR conference room for 2t minutes while someone else throws your stuff into a box and disables your logins, at which point HR will offer you the 25 cents once you’ve signed the NDA and the agreement to waive any rights you might have had regarding your employment.

Yes, a rising tide lifts all boats. Which is great as long as you are in a boat.

I found a sealed bottle of the original Frango mint liqueur at a garage sale a while back, and I’ve been slowly enjoying it at holiday time. Still only an approximation of the candies, though.

What’s your opinion on current Frangos? While they’re good, I don’t think that they match the originals from when Marshall Field’s produced them. The texture is too firm now.

The monetary value of the deal is offset by the shame I would experience should anyone I know see me entering or leaving Hooters.

I enjoyed my visit to Biscuits ‘N Porn in NC:

Many times, no, you can’t avoid the TM fees at the box office. I’ve asked. I think that TM cuts their deal with venues requiring that purchases go through the TM system, with fees being added no matter where the purchase takes place. It makes sense that purchases have to go through their system. How else could the…

I’ve asked about that (not this time, waiting to go to the Chicago theatre box office to buy direct wasn’t practical), and in most cases they have to charge the TM fees as well. It’s part of the deal between the venue and TM. It’s only venues that run their own ticket sales that can avoid it.

I’ll be interested in follow up, to see whether the car thief sues the golfer that pushed to unit over. If he develops any kind of physical malady as a result of being coated in sewage, he probably would have a good case. And even if the damage is merely psychological, a good lawyer could argue that the action by the…

Every now and then, I see where someone has used a Sharpie to mark which button mutes the audio. Drivers helping drivers.

How many cars anymore even have a fully removable gas cap? I think that every car I’ve owned for literally 20 years has the cap lashed to the filler in some way. Which is good, because I’ve lost gas caps when they could be removed, having set it on top of the pump.

Start with Ticketmaster. They just charged me $26.60 in service fee on a $111 ticket. A 24% surcharge. For nothing more than letting me select seats on a website.

Nah, grandma’s candy bowl was full of hard candies, a truly disappointing thing to a youngster. Other than the difficulty in separating the slightly melted candy from the wrapper, that stuff would still be around and technically edible after the apocalypse.

Even more significant than the glass out back, glass in the front corner of the front windows instead of a plastic filler is really nice. I feel like I see more where it really counts.

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, we will prove three things here. First, my client was nowhere near the scene of the crime. Second, my client did not know that the gun was loaded. And finally, my client fired in self-defense.

For foreign workers, they get the proper protections that immigrants earned back in the days of the original Ellis Island

Just as long as he doesn’t pull another JoJo Rabbit gut punch. I don’t think that I’ve had another film hit me out of the blue like that one scene did.

I’m certain that a reboot of HI would be retooled more in the mold of Last Man Standing. Something like his character would have learned from his escapades in the previous series, and now he’s the wise producer of the new Tool Time show. He’s not about to let himself be the butt of all the jokes this time around.