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They're a third-party delivery service (from select grocery stores, restaurants, convenience stores, etc.). Mostly restaurants, which is why the commercials focus on food, I assume - if you get a craving for fried chicken, and want it from a place that doesn't offer delivery but don't want to go pick it up yourself, you can have someone do it for you through Postmates. (I don't recommend it; these services are bad for restaurants, as has finally gotten some attention during the pandemic when use is up so much.) The one time I've used it was at a friend's house; our favorite Japanese restaurant no longer offers delivery (this was before the pandemic) but you can get delivery through Postmates. It was after midnight and we were really set on that food, but couldn't drive (movie night involves a fair bit of booze) so she downloaded the app, and some guy who must have been even more drunk than we were brought it to us -- she could track him on her smartphone, and he basically went in circles several times on the two-mile journey. Maybe he didn't live in her neighborhood, and just happened to be there when he got the bat signal and accepted the gig, but he obviously has GPS (thus her being able to track him; I find this all so creepy), and it's a very simple route from restaurant to house.

Interesting - another station in Los Angeles has picked it up (Sundays at 1:00 on channel 9, for anyone else in this market), and they're starting with the episode that would have aired last night on channel 13 ("Down the Drain"), had that station not dropped the show from its line-up. And it's not like a parent network just switched channels; channel 9 is affiliated with CBS (like StartTV, which also recently started airing it, and is about halfway through season 2) and 13 with FOX. Anyway, it's football season (for however long COVID allows that to last), so the most I'll be doing is checking in during breaks in play, but, yay, it's back on my TV.

They don't work in the sense of making me use Postmates, which I don't/won't do, or even directly order or make the food, but they do make me hungry for pad Thai, fried chicken, or a burger (the ones I've seen). I've only seen them in the wee hours while streaming something on Pluto; maybe if I come across one on TV while deciding what to make for dinner, that will influence what I cook - they really do put the particular food in your mind!

Yes, that was him. (Well, one of them; Paul Qui was another.) He was a grossly arrogant jerk who got into a lot of arguments with his fellow cheftestants, which he tended to escalate.

The spots on Aiden's nose are adorable. Years ago I was on a pet forum where an owner had a dog with cerebellar hypoplasia, and that poor dog had such a terrible quality of life it was cruel for the owner not to euthanize. That being my only experience with the disease, it was very nice to see Aiden with such functionality and happiness! Sprawling out on the deck with Earl was so cute. I'm glad he got a home. Torque's boat testing was cute. Interesting that we got an adoption story where the meet and greet was not filmed. He was so cute bounding around his pen. It's too bad he can't run around that whole big yard, but I understand fencing is uncommon in areas like that, so at least they made him the pen. Tricou is a sad case; I hope that, over time, with nurturing and training, that reactivity will lessen to the point he can be adopted out, but at least he has a home for life if he can't. Mariah is great at offering help to people like Treasure's owner in a way that is not at all condescending or judgmental. They all are, but she's particularly good at it.

I just watched an equipment testing segment on can openers, and I love how much they hate the safety versions. The "Shrimp Mozambique" segment made me hungry; I love piri piri sauce.

I have the original Hite Report, and have an autographed copy of The Hite Report On the Family: Growing Up Under Patriarchy. I didn't know she was going to be doing a reading and signing (of a limited edition) at my favorite feminist bookstore (this was the mid-90s, back when such stores existed) and just happened to come in at the right time. She left the U.S. not long after (because, as the BBC obituary relates, she was subject to sustained harassment, including death threats, for her work), so I'm glad I had that opportunity.

Boo - this doesn't seem to be in syndication in my market anymore. It was preempted last weekend for some gospel music awards show, but, looking at the schedule, this weekend and next they have an entirely new line-up for Saturday nights. I can't really complain; they aired it in syndication for four years! And, even though I don't get the other station that recently started airing it, I have the DVDs. But there's something comforting about it being on TV.

Oh, goodness. This is an awful perpetuation of the false narrative that family courts prioritize mothers, but Conlee's voice is effective if I set that aside and take the song as an individual tale. Seriously pop-influenced country, sure, but a hell of a lot more country - and a hell of a lot better - than much of what has been ranked.

I'm sure it says something about me that BSC is the one initialism of the three asked about that I unequivocally knew, while the other two I'd only figured out within context (MOH = Maid of Honor) or had no fucking clue and would have sat here and rotted if I'd tried to decipher it before someone explained (AITA = Am I the Asshole). Unless you have really shitty eating options in your neck of the woods, you are not missing anything by not having local franchises of these crappy chains you're seeing advertised on your local TV channels. They range from "meh" to "crime against food". And, yeah, a national ad buy often makes more financial sense for the company even though the commercial goes out to those who can't actually become customers even if they realistically want to and thus irks some of them, and that's not likely to change any time soon. So rock on with your principled travel ban, but rest assured you are not actually missing great food.

I could not stand Aaron on the show, but I certainly wouldn't have wished death by reckless motorcycle riding on him. And he donated a kidney to his boss? Wow.

Same here; I've never been to a reception that had a groom's cake, and the only time I'd ever heard of one was in the film*, so I thought it was a southern thing (since I've never been to a wedding in the South). *I love when Ouiser serves Drum the butt and tail of the armadillo cake ("Thanks, Ouiser, nothin' like a good piece of ass"). Why are people serving bland cake? Why not just get a good cake - they're usually tiered, so you can already have at least two flavors. Now that I've read the explanation of a groom's cake, I'm peeved - why is the "good" cake credited to the groom?

This website provides a good overview on its main page.

That really worked for me in the Isaac/Jeremy example on Sports Night, but I thought Bartlet's idea to hire Ainsley - and Leo agreeing after initially thinking he meant as a prank on Sam - was stupid. Having an intelligent person who wants to achieve the same overall goals as you but disagrees on how those are best achieved is wonderful inner circle strategy. Hiring someone who's smart but whose fundamental view of how society should function is antithetical to yours is pointless. Communicate with them and try to find some common ground in order to make deals with them, sure, but add them to the team who are busting their asses to make things better? No. "Well, what the hell made you think I wouldn't scream where there are people?!" "I took a shot." The way C.J. and Sam shriek Leo's name in unison after that is terrific. Because, yeah, dumb idea. But then I love that once Ainsley is there, C.J. stands up against the opposition to her that is rooted in sexism, not what she says/does/stands for.

Again, I don't think so (and I've certainly never heard anyone say so). Her one (well, two, as "Special Master" was a two-part episode) appearance between season two and her death two minutes after we were reminded of her in season six make it more likely she was simply dispatched with, and then became another expendable female character down the line when Duff decided the show was going to end in a Rusty vs. Stroh showdown that no one but him gave a shit about. There's a mild thawing in "The Deep End" when Julio acknowledges her, but it really starts in "Backfire" when she takes on Judge Grove over refusing the first deal (which resulted in another murder) and Julio offers to buy her coffee afterward. In "Pick Your Poison" there's a meta reference when she says "in my ongoing attempt to be less annoying" (about not attending the meeting about Rusty's options) and at the end she's presented as understanding when she offers to deal with the teacher and spare Sharon having to deal with someone who knowingly had sex with a minor. "All In" ends with her apologizing to Rusty for her psychological evaluation freak-out and genuinely saying she doesn't believe a minor should be endangered as bait in an LAPD operation, and he accepts. Then in "Return to Sender" she's fiercely protective of Rusty on the stand and properly appreciative of him seizing the opportunity to get the threatening letters admitted, and in the deleted scene at the end there's a blatant moment of understanding when Sharon acknowledges she can't be objective about offering Stroh a deal (which would keep Rusty from having to testify), Emma says she has to be, and they nod at each other before going their separate ways.

Went on an ignorant, shaming rant about Dak Prescott speaking about dealing with depression, saying things like a QB showing “weakness” is inappropriate because it "can affect your team’s ability to believe in you". If you search Skip Bayless Dak Prescott, you'll be inundated with results, thankfully all reading Bayless for filth.

Yep; I was going to grill tonight, but I don't want to have to stand outside for any length of time since the air is pretty smoky before I add to it! So I'm switching gears entirely, and have just ordered Thai food - Sai Krok Isan, a papaya and blue crab salad, and chicken panang. Lots of leftovers!

That's "Rules of Engagement" (there is no "Dark Money"). I can't imagine that being the case. She wasn't even brought on as a guest star to start, she was added to the main cast from her first appearance. But Duff and the writers have readily admitted the audience hated her a lot more than they intended. That unanticipated response seems to be why, after attempts to rehabilitate her during the second half of season two couldn't fully overcome the initial impression, she was not just jettisoned from the main cast after that one season, but only ever brought back in relation to the Stroh case - in season three's "Special Master" finale and then to kill her off as part of the big Stroh showdown to close out the series in season six. Duff's original idea for the final Stroh storyline (whenever he might write it) was to bring Brenda back in some way; he had a contract in place with Kyra Sedgwick from the time she left The Closer, but it just didn't work out for a variety of reasons when the time came. So I don't think "let me kill off Sharon, then have Emma turn up for the funeral and mention something about Stroh, but off her, too, before she can get into it" was a plan back in season two, no.

Both are listed as acceptable pronunciations in the dictionaries I checked. (I usually hear lie-chee, which is odd, as it seems that's more common in the UK and lee-chee is more common here).

Yes, I have a calendar and can count 🙂 ; I was wondering, upon seeing the 10/21 premiere date - meaning they will be back on the air by their sacred day - if they'll do a Halloween episode this season as they usually do, one that will be a little different because of COVID.

That's not all it is, it's an online healthcare service for men. Many of the services - and commercials - revolve around testosterone and boners, but they also offer consultation and treatment for hair loss, skin conditions (e.g. eczema and dandruff), excess sweating, allergies, heart and bone health, stress, prostate, etc.

I wonder if they'll do a Halloween episode, addressing how COVID-19 alters their traditions.

The Moonlighting pilot followed the typical pace of the time, but the series was built around rapid-fire dialogue (the scripts were nearly twice as long as a typical one-hour show). So whenever I do a re-watch, the pilot seems agonizingly slow, even though it was completely normal at the time, because I'm so used to what came after. Re-watching the Seinfeld pilot is another strange experience -- instead of Elaine, there's Lee Garlington's character (as a server at Monk's ... only it was named something different then) and Kramer is Kessler.

Ah, good ol' Mervyn's; it was my go-to store for basics when I was in college. I found some cute household stuff there, too.

Doug is Jimmy? I hate Jimmy! Yes, still, after all this time, and so clearly; I do not have to look it up to say: That commercial has probably the best of the no-name insurance company's versions of the State Farm jingle with "I have blah blah insurance, so person come help", but when Grandma teleports herself and an entire corner of her outdated kitchen to the middle of nowhere to call the insurance company, her grandson is all excited to see her, but ungrateful dipshit Jimmy just chides her that she's not helping. Oh, really, Jimmy? Because your mom is listening to drippy hold music to get someone from the cheap-ass insurance company YOU selected to take care of the fallout of an accident YOU caused while you stand around complaining.