sumwah.bsky.social
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Can you feasibly make a Rice Krispies knockoff that tastes worse than the original? You'd have to really put your back into it.
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When I went in November, the wig maker was this progressive, passionate historian who spent well over 20 minutes making wigs incredibly interesting. Then he fielded all sorts of questions about process, fashion and historical context.
Highly recommend. Hope he's still there.
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Are you from SILS?
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Do you measure having the raccoons stand on each others' heads or go with shoulder height for the bottom 2?
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Horse Meets Dog has two stubborn animals who refuse to acknowledge each other as different animals. It makes them look ridiculous for it and it's fun to read with toddlers.
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This has been sitting with me for days, that I've been carrying some of these relics of a mild Christian upbringing without question.
It's scary to know that at middle age, I still have weird antisemitic weeds deal with. Thanks a lot for going through the trouble of writing all this.
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Sounds like Cheshire, but I guess the point is it could be pretty much anywhere in CT.
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Growing up, I didn't know what the regional food specialty was until I realized it was weird for a town to only be able to sustain only a mcdonalds and dunkin, but somehow have 4 legit sit down pizzerias and 2-3 carry out places.
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I don't appreciate how no shoes in the home is on the list alongside all that other stuff.
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Hard mode seems more interesting. It might be possible to make a functional Esper version where people don't even notice the theme. It'd just seem like a deck that hasn't been updated for their
last 5 years of sets.
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You have enough on there from Merge Records that I'd bet you've already given The Mountain Goats a try. I think the song Alpha Rats Nest might be one you'd enjoy though.
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🔘 `m going to go home and sleep with my wife
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That was close to a haiku
Tripped over large dog
Small dog stepped on testicles
Now at the E.R.
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I put it in hold shortly after it came out and got it months after I'd forgotten about it. It was a really pleasant surprise in that way.
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Aside from all the great fruit and local food in Taiwan, it's hard to pass up on all the weird flavors of Lay's chips and Doritos you can't get in the States.
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The moment that sticks with me is when the girl figures out Superman is holding himself back to try to fit in with humans and tells him that it'd be better if he'd fully embrace who he is.
There's a similar moment in his comic ABC and it also hit really hard there.
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Will have to try it if I ever get back there. Joe's Shanghai seemed like the frontrunner 30ish years ago
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I greatly appreciated your shout out to the Flushing Chinatown and what seemed like a reference to Joe's Shanghai soup dumplings.
Really took me back.
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Once a player's life total goes 5 points above what they started at, anything you do to them is both permissible and encouraged.
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At least UNC still has Bart Ehrman for now.
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It seems like The Grinch got better legal advice than Drake though. www.npr.org/2013/12/12/2...
Credit to Linda Holmes
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The one where he keeps waking up to the turkey in the toilet and almost stumbles into a relationship with the deli guy over the course of buying replacement tuekeys is incredible.
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This has been a rough year, but having @lindaholmes.bsky.social on two episodes puts a lot of weight on the right side of the scale.
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I'm thinking mostly about their kids. As they grow older and more aware of the country that's been dumped on them, I want them to know that their parents chose this for them.
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You don't need to bother making his life worse. He'll get there on his own .
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I can't imagine this passing the milk test and have little hope for the soak test.
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It's not annoying. I needed to see this, and appreciate it coming from you.
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We're the rude wayward, children of the NYT, being told not to upset the inscrutably awful guests and to instead to try understand and accommodate them.
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I'm glad he remembered and brought up his response to Chait. Probably the most carefully-measured and brutal thing I ever saw.
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Not saying it's good or healthy, but it's hard to come out of CT without baseball having messed you up a little.
It's the bleeding Kansas of baseball.
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The Yankees have been kind a bummer for so long, most of the fun for their fans is in seeing how badly they broke the spirits of Sox fans who came of age prior to 2004.
No amount of success for Boston sports can heal it, and it's all we have now as NY fans.
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I had to turn it off. My kids were watching and were actually interested, but I can't handle having to explain to them all the ways people can be that hateful.
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Was too young and stupid at 21 to be aware of it, but there it was.
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A Masters in Accounting program that feeds you into the meat grinder of external auditing firms isn't great at any age, but I think it's designed for the young and gullible.
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Broke my right wrist twice in six months when I was 14. First time walking on monkey bars and slipping through. Second time falling backwards off the edge of a trampoline.
Both times landing on my head. I guess reflexes will sacrifice your off arm to protect your neck.
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I think you've mostly described a Taiwanese night market. Don't recall as many fresh veggies there though.
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Yes, and while they're not Asian, I'm just leaving Taiwan and upset that their casual snack chip selection laps us so many times over. I couldn't back up in the aisle enough to capture all the flavors of Lay's.
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Asian snacks are great, but the gifts of Carly Rae are immense and unending. Also, her ouvre covers the entire relationship life cycle, so there's always a song for where you're at.
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At the cost of ruining it, was the original joke the willful misinterpretation that he rode the bike both to the train and then all the way to the hotel, not bothering to ride the train itself?
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In humid places, they need to cool the air down to remove moisture and then heat it back up to a tolerable level.
I once asked HVAC about why UNC libraries were so cold in the summer and it turns out it'd cost more to warm it back up.
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I think you're getting him mixed up with the actor who had that part in the indy movie Velour.
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It can be a complicated feeling as a minority who's had that otherness pushed on you from all sides.
You can both identify specifically with the Asianness of the Asian-Americans who won and also want to lessen the loss of the country people say is yours.
It's a bummer to think about.
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Dean Smith's old church is full of people from the NC civil rights crowd who have held tight to their ideals the whole time. He wrote about it in his autobiography and, when I went there, it was exactly as advertised.
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When I was a kid, I was always terrified of being taken in by a charismatic AntiChrist figure. My nightmare version had unassailable, persuasive arguments and a cloak of compassion hiding their true nature.
It's both relieving and dismaying to see someone like Trump making a case for the gig.
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For me, the upside of seeing his name is getting reminded of the time Ed Yong told him to STFU in the most gentle and devastating way.
Fond memory I managed to screenshot before leaving the old site.
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I imagine Mr. Protector was the first, maybe in the Next Door line of the Maci Rowan romanceverse.
Then when he spun off into his own series, it got branded as the Protector line and the change in font reflects that. Then it all makes sense.
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Wait, but Protector flips the font convention when it gets to Mr. Protector. Was that a miscommunication for the cover designer?
Also, is Mr. Protector his dad or something?
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Protector is in a different font. Is that the name of the series or maybe the name of this installment in the Forbidden Single Dad series?
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To paraphrase something Stuart said about Fury Road, if there's a better episode this year, it'll be the greatest year of the Flophouse ever.