Bastet

I've only ever made a basic bacon, onion, vinegar (balsamic), and sugar (brown) recipe, but I'm curious to hear what bonus ingredients others chime in with. I've heard coffee is a nice addition, but I hate coffee so I never have any on hand even to add just a touch of. I can't help with pot roast, as I wouldn't eat it with someone else's mouth. Yet it's my mom's death row meal; I sometimes suspect a mix-up at the hospital.

LOL! I finally watched that about ten years ago after all the jokes and, yes, it is every bit as bad as it was lambasted to be. Showgirls was before Evita, and A League of Their Own wasn't a Madonna movie, just something Madonna was in, so even though that was great she was still quite the joke herself as an actor. I can just imagine the withering reviews if Showgirls and Madonna had collided into one big ball of cinematic dreck in 1995.

Jason Alexander was only signed for two episodes. Not that they couldn't bring him back, but, as planned, that scene with both he and Darlene acknowledging church isn't for her (duh) is the end of Pastor Phil.

I'm still not 100% adjusted to being a Rams fan, and when they play Seattle I can be conflicted at times during the game - but, man, those neon Seahawks uniforms help me re-focus. Ouch. I'm glad the Rams got it done in the end. It's not his fault, but I'll always associate Geno Smith with Ben Fucking McAdoo benching Eli. Next week, Rams at Giants. No conflict there, I root for the G-Men, and I'll finally get one of their games this season. But I fully expect to spend a lot more time cursing than cheering.

Hickman is one of my least-favorite character types, the great detective who's just too "un-PC". Now, I will grant they don't go all in for that, as pretty much everyone regards him as a jackass. But he's so awful - a sexist, racist, serial-cheating asshole who still thinks he was justified in committing perjury - that for the Black woman to be the one emerging from this thinking he's not as bad as he's reputed to be ticks me off. I do appreciate how she handles him, but the script acts like his "third guy" theory of the crime was so singular and brilliant she has to keep doing so. Mike and Stephanie shared that theory, it was just that DDA Grey shut down that avenue of investigation (since it would harm the case against Price). There are better ways to revisit the issue than a toad like Mark Hickman. When Sharon was not finally made commander after solving "the biggest outstanding case in LAPD history", I was so ticked off, but I knew they couldn't end with her promotion and Provenza's wedding. At least she and I only needed to wait one more season, and that scene was worth the wait. In hindsight (no pun intended), there's a lot to be said for "Shockwave" being the series finale.

Yeah, they've been frustratingly inconsistent with some things, but it seems to me like the syllable rule for misspelling FJ answers has always (or almost always?) been adhered to. I agree that if lax enforcement of the rules is happening to Matt more often than other contestants, it's just based on how many of the clues he's able to ring in on. And I also agree on that particular question, because as illogical as they've sometimes been with requiring or not requiring a lax name, it seems like needing to specify which President Adams was consistent, so that one sliding by surprised me.

Ooh, finally one I like. That's really cool.

When it premiered, I loved the film, but I thought she dropped it on purpose and that really ticked me off. I've long since switched to thinking it was not on purpose - for the umpteen reasons it wouldn't make sense for that to be the case, as I've previously detailed and won't subject y'all to again - but it took me a while to figure why I reacted as I did initially: That collision sequence being slowed down and shown from multiple angles for dramatic suspense means her hand's movement looks somewhat deliberate, but in real time it would have been instantaneous, and force would have been the clear culprit.

I'm going to be watching football tonight, so I just checked the archive. I had to decide whether to give myself credit for quite a few, based on whether I believe I'd have known something I couldn't answer just based on the text if I'd been able to see the picture. (Obviously the Seen Here category posed a bit of a challenge.) I didn't run a single category in the first round, missing seven total. Not as bad as last night, but another off first-round performance for me. I was consistent, at least - I didn't run anything in DJ, either. I only missed seven there too, though, which is good for me in DJ. I got FJ after some thought.

I remember when this one made the news. Good for her!

They aren't in a romantic relationship; she wanted to have one-off sex with someone she trusted, asked him, and he said yes. Afterward, he told her he had feelings beyond friendship, she apologized, saying she never would have asked him had she known, and told him that wasn't possible for her to explore during this stage of her recovery, and he respected that. Hopefully, he turns out to indeed be a good guy, and leaves it at that. Ethiopian food is delicious. So many good spices!

Not during, but, yes, I put mine on after, since everything a foot or farther from my face is fuzzy without them. She told him that when they had dinner in his first episode. It doesn't bother me because they're only married on paper, they don't actually have a marital relationship in which sexual fidelity - or anything - has been promised.

What in his prior episode implied that? I don't know this show the way I do the original, so I just re-watched their dinner (and teared up again at Becky's fantasy life of paying off Dan's house so he was retired, and having a baby whose future is secure - and laughed again at Becky's IKEA bench grad school [I love tonight when she said she almost panicked worse and went with Chumbawumba]), and he's not wearing a wedding ring nor does he say anything about his personal life other than also getting emotional when he was able to help his family. I also watched Becky's talk with Darlene afterward, and there's nothing there either. So is there something in Becky's conversation with someone before the dinner (I didn't watch the first half) - maybe about her reading something upon looking him up after he got in contact with her - that is what she's referring to tonight as having caused her to infer he's married?

"I'm so proud of you for being sober, but you were sweeter when you were drunk; sometimes I miss my tipsy little angel." This show always has some of its best lines in the open. I'm glad they're revisiting Becky and Mikey's new friendship, and LOL at "This whole thing is going to be embarrassing and awful" about having sex after they both ate a heavy meal and then at how awkward it indeed was at first. Becky is very much not ready for a romantic relationship, as she said, and I'm glad he respects that. Louise not having a single non-Conner in her life to help with all the wedding stuff or even have in her wedding is typical TV ridiculousness, but I'll go with it for "Keep spinning - until the dress flies off you and back onto the rack." Amen, Mark; that first dress was hideous. I don't like the second one, either, but it looks better on her. Darlene and Louise both handled themselves well after their initial missteps. I can see them developing a good relationship. But if between now and the wedding someone in this family doesn't express how bittersweet it is to see Dan marry someone else, I'm going to lose my shit. I get it, writers, you hate Roseanne Barr. I do, too. But these people loved Roseanne Conner, and there's an inevitable occasional emotional tug, no matter how much time has passed, how organically it happened, and how good Louise and Dan are together, yet we haven't had one single "Is this ever kind of weird to you too?" moment between the kids about that. Louise marrying and moving in better finally trigger something realistically nuanced from someone before everyone just concentrates on the positive.

The cut isn't specific to flowers - in sewing, woodworking, cooking, keeping cut flowers/herbs fresh, anything, cut on the bias means a 45-degree angle. No big deal, I just thought that was more well known than it apparently is. (My response was 45 degrees, because "this angle" makes degree pop first into my mind, but as soon as he said "bias", I knew that was correct because that means a 45-degree angle - like saying "right" the angle sought in a clue about 90 degrees - and figured they'd fix it later.)

From her reaction when he said it and, especially, how she described the correction during the interviews, it didn't play that way to me. But, no matter; it was indeed corrected (and didn't make a lick of difference in the end).

I'm a little bummed no one knew twee; I love that word. The Long Island TS was surprising. I'm also a bit surprised Mayim didn't know a bias cut is a 45 degree angle, but I suppose there's no reason I should be. I did far worse in the first round than I typically do. I just stared blankly at the TV for the entire Bible category (I really should have come up with Exodus), and words was the only category I ran. I missed six among the other categories, including joining the contestants in being stumped by darts (I've played, but not since I was a kid). I did much better in DJ; I ran Grammys, cold, and colleges. I was stumped by the same two planetary words they were (I've never heard either one), and also missed two in writers and one in peninsulas. But I had no idea for FJ. I could have sat here for an hour and had no idea. So I feel better it was a TS. And now I want lobster thermidor. Ha! Actually, though, she went back to using Barr years ago.

A friend is moving to another state next month, and hadn't planned on taking most of her furniture with her - a lot of it is stuff she's had for over 20 years and not the greatest quality because that's all she could afford at the time; she figured she'd replace it once she bought a house, and that's finally happening -- donate/sell most of it here, and buy new stuff there to go with the new house. But now it's so hard to get anything, she can't take the chance, and will have to pay movers to schlep it all to the new house, and then replace one by one when she secures new pieces.

That's because the actor became a regular on those Chicago Med/PD/Fire shows, which filmed in Chicago, the next season. The health scare stories worked without her, because Sharon calls her (she's out of the country) when Andy collapses during the blood clot storyline, and everything between him collapsing in the Murder Room and being largely recovered from that heart attack occurs off-screen during the hiatus. But, yeah, the wedding. Not only was her absence glaring, but Little Adolf Mark being the ring bearer instead of Andy's stepgrandsons was silly. They should have tossed in a line about Nicole out of the country again and the boys home with the flu or something. (And then, of course, she wasn't at the funeral, either, but a shit ton of characters who would have been there weren't.) That one doesn't bother me, because it took Nicole a long time to reconcile with Andy, and we knew from a couple of brief references his son was even slower to come around. So they could have given him a name, sure, but not seeing him was fine. We only know the name of/saw one of Mike's three sons, too, and don't know the names of/never saw any of Provenza's various kids, stepkids, and grandkids, either.

Oh, bless you. That hilariously captures the bewildered rage I felt as each storyline got worse and worse, and knowing the filmmaker meant me to be entertained in any way by them, let alone find them romantic, nearly short-circuited my brain in its confusion. This pretty well sums up the film for me: In fact, this sums it up quite succinctly: I could quote commentary on each storyline, but I'll limit myself and say I particularly love this, about the totally bizarre world this movie creates in which Natalie being, I don't know, a size six, means everyone who knows her engages in constant commentary on her apparently grotesque size: And this, about the creepy airport kid: And pretty much every word about Colin Firth and the Portuguese woman ("Okay. Seriously. Is this Colin Firth storyline actually about human trafficking?"), especially:

The cupid TS surprised me, and I was also a bit surprised no one figured out Ann Arbor from the clue. Financier was another one I wasn't expecting to go unanswered. Thanks to The X-Files (in fact, the episode in which Alex Trebek appeared as a man in black), I answered the Roswell clue by shouting "Roswell! Roswell!" like that kid. I usually do well with math clues, but I missed two; I couldn't get commutative from my brain to my mouth, and I had either somehow never heard or completely forgotten hearing natural numbers. I also missed two in history, but got everything else in the first round. In DJ, the specie TS stumped me, too, and I also missed two each in canyons and sonnets, and but I got everything else. "This phrase relating nutrition and health" made me think "You are what you eat", but then "fruit" made me realize it was "An apple a day keeps the doctor away" instead. That's a long answer for FJ! If it took someone half the Think music to come up with it, they'd be challenged to write it down in time.

I just binge-watched this series on Netflix, and am surprised by how much I enjoyed it. As an atheist, I'm not terribly interested in a series centered around the idea that something happens after death, but I heard so much praise I finally decided to give it a whirl. (I'm glad I hadn't heard any specifics, though, so all the twists were a surprise to me; I wasn't spoiled for anything [I mean, I saw that it was four seasons and knew they couldn't sustain season one's premise all that time, so something was going to happen, but I didn't know what]). But the whole afterlife thing was largely just a setting for exploring our obligations to each other while we're actually living, so I liked it. And, while I don't have afterlife fantasies, I understand why people do (death is a pretty big thing to cope with), and as those fantasies go, this was a good one - you get the chances you need to become the best version of yourself, and are then rewarded for learning those lessons with as much time as you want to do anything and go anywhere, but you don't have to deal with eternity; if and when you're ready to be done, you'll feel an incredible sense of calm, completion, and total peace and you get to end, with that feeling being the last thing you ever know. (While I have a lot of specific goals, some altruistic and some selfish, possibly the thing I want most to feel in my life is contentment, particularly since I have chronic depression and anxiety, so I love the notion of that as the final state of awareness.) I have never in my life seen a TV couple with less romantic/sexual chemistry than Eleanor and Chidi, so season three had me worried that relationship was going to ruin the show for me, but thankfully it never took up a disproportionate amount of story time. And at least they had great friendship chemistry, so I believed the love between them, just of a different kind than the show wanted me to. What I most appreciate is that romantic relationships were not prioritized over others; it was about the value of human bonds, period, so family and, especially, friends (one's formed family) were every bit as important, and those not coupled up were never described as "alone", and certainly weren't presented as not getting a happy ending because of it. (And even those who were coupled up were ready to end at different times; that relationship was one aspect of their lives, but not the determining factor in when they'd reached completion.) When I saw Mary Steenburgen playing Michael's guitar teacher, I thought Eleanor's speculation as to how his human life was going was going to include falling in love, and was pleasantly surprised when that wasn't mentioned. There was such deliciously sly humor throughout, and I love all the snarky commentary on humans ("they're just mobile turd factories" may be my favorite description of people ever). I also love all the big questions about what we owe each other as members of a society. I also like how many different philosophies Chidi drew from in teaching how to live a good life and get into "the good place" - it's about being considerate, helpful, and compassionate, not following the "right" belief. I know there are a bunch of little touches I missed, just because there are so many of them, so I'll definitely watch this again at some point. Bonus, I added fun stuff to my vocabulary, like "holy forking shirtballs" when I need to exclaim without cussing.

Quoting myself to say I watched it this morning, and, yep, every bit as funny as I remembered. "You are the worst fugitive in the world." Betty's subconscious manifestation of guilt being Bradley Meade in cabana wear cracked me up, too. When Rick Fox played the bodyguard Wilhelmina was banging, I thought I remembered that he and Vanessa Williams were married at some point, so I looked it up and they'd divorced two years earlier. Must have been amicable!

You're the only person I've ever "met" who knows that quote did not originate in Steel Magnolias.

He knew his wife drugged their daughter when he was out of town in order to have uninterrupted sexy times with Zapata - the affair over which he ultimately killed both parties - without the kid knowing. So, not wanting the cops investigating her murder he staged to look like a burglary gone bad to know his wife was having an affair, he had to come up with a benign reason Elaine would have drugged the kid. He thus said Lydia always freaked out when he was gone, so Elaine gave her a pill to sleep. But Lydia fell asleep before consuming enough to sleep through not just the usual sex, but a brutal murder as well. So she, awakened, came down the stairs and saw the attack; he was convicted based on her testimony's corroboration of the physical evidence. Imprisoned, he later gaslighted Lydia to make her think she'd screwed it all up - based on watching a scary movie earlier that night in which a husband killed his wife and then Mike questioning her the next day and feeding her the answers - and the intruder scenario he'd set up was the truth all along. So she, made to believe she screwed over her father, recanted.