Activity from drewbage1847

I mean it is messy and confusing and constantly shifting. We're in a period of transition, exploration and greater understanding and therefore symbology will keep shifting. I figure my job as a cishet white straight dude is look around, go… [more]
favorited 6 times, recently by joannemerriam, okayokayigive, Zumbador, miratime, Phobos the Space Potato, rene_billingsworth
MeFi comment - 7 hours ago

Is the show still as much of a restaurant horror flash bomb like the first season was? (I'm not a smoker and I still wanted to go find a milk crate to sit out back on while watching the show) [more]
favorited 4 times, recently by eckeric
FanFare comment - 7 hours ago

I'm terminally online and have been since sometime in the mid 80's with BBSes, but this whole thread definitely shows that I'm not that online because I a Twitter sized hole in my knowledge of online humor. [more]
favorited 4 times, recently by theora55, philip-random, frecklefaerie, chavenet
MeFi comment - 9 hours ago

Pat Sajak's deplorable politics aside - he was a great game show host, but man it's gotta be a hell of a drug being that loved for hosting that it can lead you to those sorts of views. One memory I have of my audition for Jeopardy is that they… [more]
favorited 5 times, recently by variella, Mr.Know-it-some, 41swans, wenestvedt, chavenet
MeFi comment - 14 hours ago

I'm very much of the generation of "boys don't cry". I got relentlessly bullied in school for being the different, sick, smart and ungodfully poor kid with a dead dad in a small private Catholic school. My mom and I both got told by my… [more]
favorited 26 times, recently by neitherly, mon_petit_ordinateur, cyclopticgaze, Callisto Prime, kitcat, ambulanceambiance, Dee Grim, taquito sunrise, obliterati, Barbara Spitzer, spreadsheetzu, wenestvedt, doctornemo, limeonaire, Iris Gambol, meinvt, vickyverky, Piso Mojado, joannemerriam, biogeo, Rhedyn, Phobos the Space Potato, higginba, wanderingmind, downtohisturtles, fader
MeFi comment - Yesterday

I came in to point out memories of seeing "Real Men Don't Eat Quiche" being promoted as a kid on like the Today show. Took me until my adulthood to learn that it was satirizing that dumb idea. But what do I know - I usually make tortas… [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by eustatic, wanderingmind, chavenet
MeFi comment - 3 days ago

as much about the fear of appearing gay as appearing weak they're the same picture I've thought before that part of the reason why people seem to freak out more about gay men and transfem folks is that whole toxic soup of "abandoning… [more]
favorited 4 times, recently by thivaia, chavenet, Death and Gravity, AzraelBrown
MeFi comment - 3 days ago

As the beer guy all I can say is I had a long run of too much during COVID and then quit for 3 months before slowly easing back in and now a days I'll drink at functions and otherwise have a couple of beers on a Friday. I'm not perfect, but who is?… [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by steadystate, srboisvert, eckeric
MeFi comment - 3 days ago

Aha - thought I was getting Taco Tico vibes! There was one in my childhood town of Pine Hills, FL. We also did the Subway thing when I was growing up because poor. We all ate Veggie subs until we got that magical 10th stamp and then it was what you… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by sgranade
MeFi comment - 4 days ago

So rare to see a dude just flat out say they share what is basically exactly my entire lifelong experience being a woman, and thank you for this! I am sorry the women in your immediate life are not ready to hear that and see the parallels. Thanks… [more]
favorited 9 times, recently by kitcat, eviemath, happyfrog, wenestvedt, knotty knots, joannemerriam, biogeo, Kitteh, catcafe
MeFi comment - 4 days ago

So I've glancingly mentioned this before, but back when Napster and Kazaa and it's ilk first appeared I was a young punk of 25 working in the R&D division of a major entertainment company. I was, for a period of time, that company's… [more]
favorited 8 times, recently by everdred, Rhaomi, ob1quixote, JHarris, philip-random, 4rtemis, riruro, ChurchHatesTucker
MeFi comment - 4 days ago

I just remember like a decade ago I had a book go through an emergency print run because of a shortfall in copies. They went and printed those in the US to beat the delay in Chinese printed copies. In order to keep the pricing the same, they reduced… [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by wenestvedt, May Kasahara, cupcakeninja
MeFi comment - 5 days ago

count me in the big screen club. I don't like doing anything much more than ordering food or a book on the phone (in terms of expenditures). If it's something "real" you bet your sweet bippy I'm on the laptop looking through all the finer… [more]
favorited 12 times, recently by taquito sunrise, doctornemo, wenestvedt, zbaco, mike3k, Kitteh, Barbara Spitzer, ob1quixote, BlahLaLa, neon909, Otherwise, Glinn
MeFi comment - 5 days ago

This is part of a chain of events that include Disco Demolition Night that designated for assignment all the fun and wacky promotions to the minors. [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by Melismata, not_on_display
MeFi comment - 5 days ago

I'm not usually the sort to have opinions about football kit, but I love this. [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by chavenet
MeFi comment - 5 days ago

They've been trying for years to get a train service running from the Port of LA out to the distribution warehouses in San Berdoo. It would be so much more efficient than what they do know of either offloading from the near port train yards or one… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by ovvl
MeFi comment - 5 days ago

Ok, re-rail - you can tell these two are really good friends and having fun while being absolutely unfairly charming. [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by hototogisu, kensington314
MeFi comment - 5 days ago

I have many books, but I have far fewer than I did. Being the son of an English teacher, husband to another English teacher and grandson of a professor and of a librarian, this is hardly shocking. I have gobs of Kindle books shared with my mom, tons… [more]
favorited 4 times, recently by From Bklyn, TrishaU, paduasoy, AzraelBrown
MeFi comment - 6 days ago

The secret is - as always - practice. Like my wife likes eggs OE on buttered toast. I know, in my heart that I melt the butter, crack the eggs, put the back burner on medium. lid the pan, put on back burner. start toast. wait for toast jiggle the… [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by Pallas Athena, clavdivs
MeFi comment - 7 days ago

Love this movie as an adaptation and a feeling of what Shakespeare can feel like when done rousingly. (as opposed to read blankly by teenagers in a classroom) Also, love that scene with Brian Blessed for that it's his plate armor and that he feels… [more]
favorited 4 times, recently by wenestvedt, whuppy, suelac, merriment
FanFare comment - 7 days ago

It's been funny watching the many many reactions amongst my friends - unsurprisingly almost everyone younger or of color has been copacetic with the new stats. Shocking to discover who hasn't been receiving the changes with as much universal chill. [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by humbug, chavenet
MeFi comment - 9 days ago

For whatever reason, even as much as I hate sappiness, I'm ok with the Dodo being sappy. Also, don't give Mr. Wickham a cannon on his little cart [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by adrienneleigh, ishmael, exolstice
MeFi comment - 10 days ago

I wonder how much of the growth in cricket here in the US can be attributed to the large influx of South Asian tech workers? The folks I managed are absolutely obsessed with cricket and can rattle off stats and facts of all sorts of matches like I… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Wordshore
MeFi comment - 10 days ago

just even reading the blurb here made me experience a whole symphony of involuntary retractions. No thank you, no sir. [more]
favorited 10 times, recently by Clocky, Thorzdad, eirias, cybrcamper, Surely This, The Ardship of Cambry, AzraelBrown, neutralhydrogen, Aleyn, adrienneleigh
MeFi comment - 11 days ago

I'm disappointed in the reaction here which feels a lot like "ew, gross gay guys" homophobia I'd like to be very clear - my reaction had zero to do with homophobia and everything to do with hatred of needles coupled with the thought of… [more]
favorited 12 times, recently by syzygy, kjs3, Thorzdad, cooker girl, The Ardship of Cambry, Artifice_Eternity, cuscutis, lalochezia, thecincinnatikid, dr_dank, Ray Walston, Luck Dragon, Windopaene
MeFi comment - 11 days ago

I'm trying to think how obsessively spread sheety and overly analytical I would have been if these tools had been available to me when I was young and overwrought. (Not passing judgement on her - just on younger me) [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by chavenet
MeFi comment - 12 days ago

Sounds good to me! They do a great job at writing propulsive fiction and I have no clue how they make that partnership work. And then Polygon got me to seriously consider spending $150 on a new version of one of the best graphic novels ever -… [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by thecjm, Artw
MeFi comment - 12 days ago

I have a couple of conspiracy minded people in my friend circle and they're all like "they won't let you drink raw milk, but they'll let you eat twinkies" and I always shout at them "because raw milk can actually immediately kill you,… [more]
favorited 16 times, recently by Lexica, Yowser, baho, May Kasahara, Orkney Vole, corb, knotty knots, adrienneleigh, edithkeeler, CrystalDave, interogative mood, Kitteh, caviar2d2, SaltySalticid, hydrobatidae, emf
MeFi comment - 13 days ago

My mom is at the stage where she's started winnowing down and explaining things to me. It will fall to me to handle her estate since my sister cut her off. I don't want to deal but I will and my mom knows there are lot of family antiques that we have… [more]
favorited 5 times, recently by chicofly, mersen, jzb, Ber, pracowity
MeFi comment - 14 days ago

I do admire that they avoided the easy trap of "god like character from your dreams/alternate reality/etc explains it all and delivers the moral" It's a nice little slice of dreaminess mixed with the utter despair of feeling like you're… [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by GenjiandProust, librarina
MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

King has always been a better short form writer than overlong novelist (particularly as he's gotten more senior and beyond an editors control) And yes, it was always a thing amongst my friends to see who was or wasn't scared by his latest… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by whir
MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

I used to be a daily reader of Sinfest and was increasingly baffled at the hard right turn that it took. For a while I kept thinking, this is him just goofing on the extreme attitudes these people have, right? right? Only to find that no - this is… [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by WaylandSmith, adrienneleigh
MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

Time Team: Dig Two - Secrets of Wytch Farm - Dorset
favorited 1 time, recently by amtho
FanFare post - 2 weeks ago

Sorry, you're right - I was looking at my Chi/Pom mix and crossed the streams. She is BC/Pap and apparently that jump is how she always ends her runs. [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by mostlymartha, dlugoczaj
MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

I've expressed my lack of love for conforming competitions, but I would definitely pet all the dogs. And in other Westminster news - Nimble, an "All American Dog" (aka mixed breed and in this case a purposeful mix of Pap and Border Collie), blew the… [more]
favorited 21 times, recently by mostlymartha, rjs, TrishaU, tavella, marxchivist
MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

Ok, I love Carson and want to snorgle his poor dead self. We routinely have a family of possums that invade our backyard and the kids have scared me so many times with the playing dead routine. I leave them some food and they enjoy my waterfall. [more]
favorited 5 times, recently by adrienneleigh, Orange Dinosaur Slide, symbioid, Don Pepino, Glinn
MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

I think she catches it from both sides - from the right for being an outspoken black woman and from the left for espousing some disagreeable things like her support for Polanski, defending Cosby, comments about the Holocaust, etc. I still like to… [more]
favorited 5 times, recently by grog, Lexica, thecjm, idb, potrzebie
MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

This morning (early morning) was a very lively time in my house. I was preparing to fall asleep finally - 2ish or so when suddenly a heard a piece of glass *clink*. Now earlier I had heard some scrabbling and I had seen a dropping in another room… [more]
favorited 22 times, recently by Barbara Spitzer, cooker girl, clew, epj, coldhotel, dragonplayer, jedicus, dutchrick, From Bklyn, ninazer0, martin q blank
MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

I always feel like Django is two movies and the split point is when Schultz gets killed by Candie. The first part is a great Western full of mood and imagery. After Schultz's death, it becomes a grindhouse revenge flick. I definitely prefer the… [more]
favorited 6 times, recently by johnasdf, snsranch, Tom Hanks Cannot Be Trusted, abraxasaxarba, jzb, riruro
FanFare comment - 2 weeks ago

@luckynerd - funny that runs right into Grand and I have never once in 28 years of living in LA been on it! Death really is the kicker that makes life seem cruel. Cancer took our Betty girl a while back and we still feel it. [more]
favorited 4 times, recently by DirtyOldTown, y2karl, luckynerd, TrishaU
MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

Went and listened to the demo examples and the Sky voice doesn't directly hit my ScarJo bell until you get to the way words and phrases get ended and then it's dead on. Very weird. [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by corb, JoeZydeco
MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

luckynerd - you didn't happen to go on Grand Ave through Diamond Bar and up over the hill? That's a fun drive. [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by luckynerd
MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

Fine, I guess I'll make some more pizza. :) [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

Off the topic of the chicago deep dish pizza. My wife has a long standing nostalgia for old school Pizza Hut pan pizza like it used to be. (It's gone from being meh back in the day to "wth is this crap" today). This recipe is really damn… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

Good on her for speaking up after having bought in to the noise. Also, there's a whole slew of people who just want to be angry about something - doesn't matter if it makes sense. [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

That's a lot of work to be very very petty and I'm absolutely here for it. [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

Saturday, early morning, a little after 2:30 AM, I heard a loud band and my power went out for 90 minutes. There were a bunch of sirens (mixed bag of police, fire and ambulance) and the helicopters came out. I knew pretty instantly that boded a bad… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

Seconding suq-q's as a boon for elderly cats. My dear, grumpy, angry Rita let me wrap her up in a towel every morning, place her in the bathroom sink and run a dose of fluids into her for nearly 2 years before she finally was done with everything. [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

Oh and while my treatment suggestions - if you have an older arthritic dog, look into Librela. It's a monthly shot of a monoclonal antibody treatment and it's given my ancient grumple butt a bit of his pep back in his step. Was just approved last… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

I would say that mediocre pie is far better than even good cake, but great cake? When it's tender and moist and full of flavor (or maybe perfectly dense like a good torte) Well, there's no reason to choose. Cut me a slice of both! But all this… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

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