YESSSSSSS you are brilliant (the purple has tripped up even my smartest testers)
Seattle folks, I made a game for you! (The rest of you can play too, but it's like 8/10 hard for Seattleites, it's gonna be real tough for anyone else) www.seattlemet.com/news-and-cit...
I read an interview last week with the CEO of the company that owns America's Test Kitchen and bought Food52 and he was saying their relevance is that "AI doesn't have tastebuds" which is a great soundbite but... yeah.
"why did you become a writer" because no one gave a shit about my special interests growing up. now i make them everyone else's problem. next question
Re: that last reskeet, just thinking about the fact that WA has had the same two senators my entire voting life and I am... not particularly young.
I hope there's a plan in motion for someone to primary Cantwell in 2030. She keeps pulling this type of thing, and Washingtonians are noticing.
😬 In my research, I, uh, did not get the sense that it was great pizza, per se.
I recently fell down a truly lovely internet rabbit hole, and I am hashtag-blessed to have a job that sometimes is just braindumping after crawling out of such a rabbit hole. Please meet the nearly forgotten Mrs. Pizza Express. www.seattlemet.com/eat-and-drin...
The first episode of this is wild because a) I know most of the people interviewed (and knew them well at times) and b) provides such a perfect glimpse at Garfield in that era.
Lol. I was (walking) down there yesterday and noticed a car with like a hand made sign in like three colors and four fonts about “ok to park friend museum” and thought “huh that is weird, there is tons of parking and also it’s just a city street?” But combined with this rant…
I didn’t so much as open a social media or touch a browser this morning to not have an event spoiled for me, then I opened the peacock app to play the event and it was promoting “[winner] medal ceremony” and I was ready to do a murder.
This is the most Encyclopedia Brown-ass shit I've ever seen in real life and I fucking love it.
I have a distinct memory of running into a friend’ mom at the SLC skeleton training runs and she was like “[friend’s sister] does skeleton now! But doesn’t really have a chance, she is pretty new to it.” Then she won a gold medal the next day.
My fun fact about skeleton is actually that they (used to, at least) recruit ex-ski racers because they already lived in park city (where the training facility is) and were clearly already stupid enough to hurl themselves head-first down an ice mountain.
I came to suggest that skeleton was most likely to have been invented by someone who did too much coke, but this works too
Pedantic update: I have been reminded that pierogi is plural. In fact, they held a stuffy perog.
Ski racing is an insane sport and it fucks with your head. It is wildly dangerous and it is a lifelong obsession and people have been injured (and at least one died) trying to make late in life comebacks because they can’t give it up.
(Alternatives are generally allowed to do training runs, teams often use them to pick the final team). Also, while she did well in training runs, they aren’t always done all-out.
2nd: you qualify individually but each country only gets 4 racers, so if the US had a 4th qualified racer (which I don’t actually know off the top of my head) AND they had raced at least one training run, they could have taken the spot as recently as last night.
Biggest things: yes a fall is always a possibility and a 20 yo Vonn could have made the same mistake. But she was off line and off balance (her skis are pointing the wrong way, hand hits the ground before it gets caught in the gate) and she would have been much less likely if skiing 100% healthy.
Big day for people who know nothing about ski racing talking on the internet. (Doesn’t help that the announcers said a few things that, while not wrong, are misleading.)
Ok as someone who knows a lot about downhill skiing (former racer, current coach) and (relatedly) tearing up knees, it is pretty absurd, not entirely because she is skiing without an ACL (people do it), but because she is doing it like a week and change after tearing it. That is insane.
2) VP Pooper Pance bringing his own food to Italy (??!!) presumably to avoid getting booed in restaurants?
Those of you who followed me on Twitter may remember that my absolute favorite beat in the world is the intersection of food and the Olympics. Things are just getting warmed up, but stories we are following now: 1) the pierogi plushie held by the Polish figure skating team in the kiss ‘n’ cry.
Lol the scaremongering of the Wallingford council is cracking me up. I live in a craftsman next door to a six story apartment building, I promise it’s actually pretty awesome?
Hear me out: White Lotus fan fic of a travel writer on a press trip who decides to actually look into why people keep dying at the resort.
A totally healthy and thriving industry!
As someone who built a career and much of my community on that app and feels, largely, like I have lost great swaths of both since leaving, I still cannot fathom someone still being on there.
This is who runs this account
