DearEvette

I made a veggie pot pie. included: roasted butternut squash, portobello mushroom, peas, celery, onion, black garlic, carrots, roasted parsnipa, and lentils. In a bechamel with white wine and nutmeg all in a puff pastry crust.

Oh I think it is absolutely intentional. And this is a great way to encapsulate it. This woman is bearing a whole lot of weight approx. what ...? 6 foot? 190 lbs? In the form of Sir. She is lying to everyone and is holding someone hostage. She has to be guarded at all times. Even beyond her issues with Sir, I just don't get the impression Gabi's life has been easy. And I wonder if the actress is using that to fuel the character? I agree that she serious but I don't agree that she is harsh all the time. She's shown gentleness to the people she rescues, especially the younger ones. And they've shown her being a bit flirty with Trent only to pretty visibly shut it down when he seems to see it as a sign to get closer to her. Of all the the characters, I see Gabi and Dhan as most similar who act outward with their coping, usually behind a very tough, aggressive facade, whereas the other three are inward and much more emotional with their coping. I quite like Gabi but I am really curious if/when they are gonna let her crack a bit. She seems ripe for it.

RIP, sir. A true titan whose work was impactful in all the right ways.

WooHoo!!

I'm sorry but that headline cracks me up. First sighting? What is he a bird? "We've just had a rare sighting the Red-Breasted Caruso in the wild!"

Honestly she should have left out a lot. What may have started out as a discussion about the protests, imo, 100% spiralled into a racist rant. YMMW, but I hear a woman's voice dripping with condescension and entitlement. It isn't just what she said it is how she said it. There was more than a whiff of transactional allyship implied in what she said in a finger wagging 'don't you know better?' superiority. Flat out saying that black people are brainwashed is a choice. She went beyond her own cause, imo, and went after the entire black community in a harmful way. This, to me, says more than a single issue point in time frustration with a campus group and exposes a larger mindset. People upset over and a single incident do not instantly lapse into dog-whistle speech unless there is something latent there.

But she had to. She had to give her daughter a FUTURE!!! Without getting into the school she wouldn't have had one, She would have died right after graduating high school. That is just facts. Also something....something... Black people! Meanwhile black and brown people everywhere are:

I only listened to some of the snippets as well. But I didn't get a sense he gave any real pushback. The podcast actually aired over a week ago and it is only in the last 24hrs that it is getting any real traction. I wonder if now he'll address it in some way or just sit back and enjoy the added hits on his podcast. In all the truly awful racist/homophobic stuff, this little gem got missed: She is truly a piece of work.

Well damn. Juliana Margulies did a podcast and what came out was a rather racist, unhinged rant against black people, non-binary folks and gays. This snippet here is both horrifying and rather funny: Girl whut? Fuck you! The tone of her voice when she said 'Blacks' and 'Those people' onthe podcast when referring to non-binary is so disdainful. I guess that kinda clears up who was probably the problem between her and Archie.

I think my soul just died inside. Not Moby!

I believe that when asked a lot of people will say 'I'm just a Bill' or 'Conjunction Junction' is the best School House Rock song. But for me, it is hands down 'Verb: I Do My Thing with Action.' A small but mighty minority of us love that one best. It is the 70s kinda funky vibe + the back up singers are an entire mood. And as with most of the SchoolHouse Rock songs the writing is very clever. I just adore this stanza... I can tell you when it’s happenin’, Past, present, future tense Ooh! Tell you more about what’s happenin’, Say it so it makes some sense And the entirety of the song is about decisive action, doing, being etc.. with an action hero as the central figure... just great concept from start to finish.

I made a Cacio e pepe that tasted of peppery perfection! For such a simple dish with only three/four ingredients tops, it can be either hit or miss for me when I make it. So it becomes about technique and balance. And my dish last night was the perfect balance of the noodles being just right level of al dente and the sauce being just the right texture of creaminess and cheesiness and the pepper being bright pop in each bite but not too overwhelming.

I didn't catch it, but I would not be surprised if Henry Thomas flubbed the line and they kept it because it sounds like something Freddy would say.

Aw, Rip Marty Krofft. A few years ago I was telling my kids about their shows and showing them HR Puffenstuff and The Land of the Lost. And I can still sing the theme of Electra Woman and Dyna Girl! They were so unimpressed. LOL. But they just don't know the awesomeness of the Gen-X Saturday morning shows!

I got a chance to watch these two eps. They were enjoyable and I was entertained throughout. Enough to want to see the next one which is more than I can say for any season of Fargo since the first one. I know I am in the minority when I say that I am not as impressed with Juno here as most. She feels a little miscast, to me. I don't see the unassuming house wife when I see her. She has a look that is a little too polished and sharp to be the person she is pretending. I was truly not surprised to know that that woman at the school board meeting was capable of what she was capable of. She looked like it from the jump. It could be that that was intent, but I think the shifts we get from the 'Oh golly gee" wide eyed persona to the smart escape artist or the "don't fuck with me" steely eyed stare down with her mother in law would have worked better for me and hit harder if there had been a bigger contrast. Instead of seeing someone take off a mask to reveal someone wholly new, all I saw was someone drop an accent. And there were a few things that kept yanking me out of the story. For one, if Dot is supposed to be so savvy why wouldn't she be fully aware the gig is up? DIY home siege preparation is fun to see for what it is and how it will come into play, but it is impractical and if someone forgets how something is set up or touches something you can get a hammer to the heads or electrocuted? Also, If someone wants to get you, they don't have to do it while you're home. Joe Keery as Gator was great though. I barely recognized him and he hit just the right loutish note. LaMorne Harris also hit just right as the officer who probably never expected to do more than traffic stops or busting up bar fights. I am betting that Witt and Indira between them will fill the shoes that Frances McDormand has in the original movie. Jon Hamm was of course great as that particular type of 'I am the law" Sherriff. My husband and I were laughing that Jennifer Jason Leigh didn't even attempt the accent, instead dusting off her Hudsucker Proxy tribute to Katherine Hepburn accent. So far the only people I unreservedly like are Indira, Witt and Scottie. Very curious about Dot and Roy's relationship and her background. Also very curious to see what happens with Dot going forward. If the show remains true to its pattern no one is gonna come out unscathed.

LOL. I saw that and the first thing I thought is... WOW, Vanessa must be over the moon. And oh yeah, congrats Bliss and Zach. 😂

Abbott has a return date. Woot!

Wow... been reading the Cassie allegations against Diddy and they are awful. Just awful. If this is all true, why are people like this? Also Diddy (allegedly) blew up Kid Cudi's car?

I am so sad to know that this has been going on since before her pregnancy. There is actual footage from her own security cameras showing all of this. I wonder if he knew they were there? If not, well played, KeKe. if so, then he was arrogant enough or felt secure that she would never tell to do it anyway. She did get her restraining order and full custody granted. I hope he goes to jail he sounds dangerous.

Well, I lied. I ended up reading Payback in Death by JD Robb after deciding to press pause on her work after the last few installments felt rather meh. But I am in a massive reading slump and she is reliable. And she roared back with this one. It was good and had a lot of callbacks to one of my favorite books in the series, Treachery In Death. One running joke amongst my In Death book buddies is how slow time passes in this universe. Robb has been writing these books since 1995. This is book #57 in the series and yet only 3 years have passed in-universe. In this book one character is moving to live with his significant other. Eve, the main character of the series, wonders if they are moving too fast because they only met 'a few months ago.' Hilariously, they met in book #35, the aforementioned Treachery In Death, which was published 13 years ago. It feels like to me they've been together forever. I had to chuckle at that.

I don't necessarily read her as high and mighty per se, but one of the features of a lot of these types of stories is that supernatural or super human beings are often very disdainful of humans. I think a being like Verna having been around for years and observational about human nature probably isn't too impressed with us. At the very least you are given limitless wealth and opportunity and this is what you do with it? The show doesn't tell us exactly what Verna is, but if we go with supposition she works in bargains. With that in mind, I think she had to make them an offer. It is like the story of the scorpion and the frog. It is what she exists to solely to do. I mean yeah, Madeleine and Roderick were awful, but we can't know how less awful they might have been without the deal. As it is, Verna's bargain smoothed the path for them. They got everything they wanted with no effort and no consequences. They were literally above the law. If they had met any resistance at any point along the way it may have caused them to take a moment and pause or if they had ever had to pay any consequences for anything... it might have made them proceed with more caution. But moving through life unfettered and free of any threat of imprisonment or fines or anything had to have corrupted them even more.

Sounds like something Jackie Chiles would say.

I actually don't mind too much not knowing everything right now. I am kinda liking the anticipation of getting bits of info in each episode. The only thing that hinders that, is that we won't have the luxury of time to let them expose it in this way. What with show cancellations etc. One thing in this show's favor is that it is doing well in the ratings because it doesn't really have any other scripted competition. So maybe we'll get a good run. I am hoping, charitably, that the writers/showrunner has planned out what their vision for Sir is so as it plays out and is revealed it works logically. I am also hoping, charitably, that they don't actually plan to have him in the basement too long. It is an unsustainable element of the show and over time would bog it down because it will begin to loom larger than it should.

I wonder if Roderick having all the kids was his way of trying to loophole the contract? Madeleine we know was trying to loophole it by trying to first find a way to beat death itself via AI aided immortality and then by trying to renegotiate. Maybe Roderick thought that the only kids affected by the bargain were the ones born at the time of the bargain, i.e. Freddy and Tammy. And him having more children and then making them basically hunger games themselves into getting money and position was his way to figuring out who would be the one to carry on the Usher legacy. Doesn't make him any less shitty for basically bargaining away the life of the two kids he had in favor of making a better life for the ones he didn't.

Co-sign. And just because I think it bears repeating every year. Amy Schumer. She's been upgraded from garden variety unlikable to straight up garbage person flames-on-the-side-of-my-face unlikable.