On a lighter note, I love how the standard Star Trek food naming convention of "<bizarro alien adjective> <totally normal food noun>" implies that all foods were invented on earth and the entire galaxy is just riffing on human dishes.
Dominic Armato
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Voice of Guybrush Threepwood. Homeless dining critic. Old-school community food guy. Influencer culture can get bent. Defender of pears. Cubs devotee. On the path of devolution back to Web 1.0.
To expand on this, over the past few years I've watched what seems like an explosion of people complaining about restaurant food getting worse and worse and worse. Which at first seemed *insane* to me. But it all made sense when I realized that we're living in different worlds... (1/8)
Nearly all of the responses that disagree cite fast food and corporate chain restaurants. Been trying to tell y’all for decades, but keep on putting your hand on the stove, I guess.
Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 21h agoFood, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.
Iiiiiiiidunno. I'm not sold on this whole "lunch" thing. Midday meals make me suspicious. I'm going to need some convincing.
Looooootta people out there need to learn that the difference between capitalism and socialism isn’t “government spending I like” and “government spending I don’t like.”
She's right. Forget feeding people. My hard-earned tax dollars should subsidize things like bailouts for banks that cause economic meltdowns to maximize profits, or paying energy companies billions to not build wind farms, or no-bid infrastructure contracts for cronies. Y'know. Free market stuff.
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 3d agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
Kinda digging the Cubs' playoff strategy of acquiring 73 pretty good pitchers and starting whoever happens to wake up feeling like Superman that day.
As always, stars are a measure of personal enjoyment, not objective criticism. letterboxd.com/dmnkly/film/...
A ★★★★ review of The Odyssey (2026)
It was fuuuuuuuun! I saw badass stuff on a big-ass screen and left happy. Rather than hoping for the definitive retelling of an epic classic, I decided to go in looking for a good time, and I got it. ...
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I love how Troi's kid goes from fetus to 9yo overnight, then conveniently holds there for maximum cuteness and minimum casting.
This drives me effing bonkers. Can we slay this tired trope that books demand more imagination than film? *Visually*, of course. A film shows us things a book does not. But a book *tells* us things a film does not — things only perceived by active, engaged, empathetic, imaginative viewers. (1/3)
Me, in a public restroom: “Wow… clean restroom………… weird…. no urinals…….. pardon me, ma’am….. OH SHIT.”
Just bought a Bic lighter at Fry’s to use on shrink tubing and got *carded*. Is that an actual AZ law, or a corporate CYA thing?
FFS, this isn’t complicated. No matter how broken the system, you don’t fix it by screwing over the most vulnerable people within it. I am astounded by the number of people who seem to feel that punishing the people who are already being punished *even more* is a good way to advocate change.
For years, there was a beaten up white murder van that would park near our house and sell shrimp a few days a week……. in Phoenix…….. in the summertime. I have never been less tempted to test the black market.
Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · last wk.I love the people who are like "there's gonna be a robust, seedy black market for meat purchased from Zohran's Communist grocery stores." These people have never been aggressively pitched stolen steak out of the back of a Honda Civic before? Non-desperate people don't buy random sidewalk meat.
The rationalizations from people who don't want to tip but also don't want to seen as assholes are wild, man. I get it, restaurants are expensive. I agree, our tipping system is dumb. Nevertheless, if you don't tip, guess what? You're an asshole. Sorry, buddy. You're just going to have to choose.
Gene & Jude's is my favorite hot dog. But Superdawg will always be my favorite hot dog stand.
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What is going on? Why the hell am I suddenly weeping uncontrollably in the middle of dinner at a fine dining restaurant— oh, Hamnet soundtrack.
Jayson Stark owes his entire career to the fact that if you add enough arbitrary conditions, you can make absolutely anything look like an incredible once-in-a-lifetime occurrence.
So, my wife got a set of cat toys as an offering to her sister’s family’s cat, who we are visiting this weekend. It includes corn, eggplant, chile pepper, carrot and……. what the hell is that?
Dumb but awesome proposal: The winning team selects one player from the losing team to join them for the rest of the tournament.
Related story about a high school roommate who shall remain unnamed. He was assigned a paper on Hamlet, but kept falling asleep while reading the play. This went on for about a week, and his due date was fast approaching. So on Tuesday, with his paper due on Friday, he made his first move... (1/7)
Amy Mode Activated 🪷 ᓚᘏᗢ ಇ.@activateamymode.bsky.social · 4w agoKids today have lost the fine art of bullshitting a 10 page paper from a single Funk & Wagnalls entry or from reading only the CliffsNotes. 🤣
I am an elder who pushes back against “Today’s kids are soft!” as the same old tired, geriatric bullshit. But holy shit, kids, help me out a little bit, here.
Amy Mode Activated 🪷 ᓚᘏᗢ ಇ.@activateamymode.bsky.social · 4w agoKids today have lost the fine art of bullshitting a 10 page paper from a single Funk & Wagnalls entry or from reading only the CliffsNotes. 🤣
U Can't Touch This will be the popular take, but Miami Vice Theme will be the connoisseur's selection.
MLB Trade Rumors@mlbtraderumors.bsky.social · 4w agoNot that I needed another reason to avoid them, but good lord, the Cybercabs have to be one of the *fugliest* vehicles I have ever seen on the road. From a pure marketing standpoint, who looks at one of those and thinks, “That’s what I want the future to look like!”
Listening to adjacent tables of guys getting lunch — in my area, at least — is just depressing. The topic is *always* money. Not art, not sports, not music, not their families, not games, not travel. Always money — business, investments, marketing, gambling or some variation thereon. Feels like 80%.
I am mostly ignorant about soccer, and I am neither for nor against England, but I find myself praying for their swift demise based solely on the fact that they've resurrected Wonderwall, which was perfectly snug and secure in its whiny, whiny grave.