Pizza and Pasta the Homemade Way

Great choice! That make and model are extremely durable.

I'm loyal, too. I've owned three vehicles in 50+ years:

- My HS/college/military car ('74-'89) was a '72 VW Superbeetle
- Drove a Chevy Silverado pickup from new in '89 to ancient in '14
- And for the past 11 years, I'm in a '14 Toyota RAV4

It was my first (and still only) car. I’m very loyal. Also, I had the wretched credit of a college student & ended up paying over 20% interest on it so I will be driving my truck until the engine drops out of the bottom.

That was when I first arrived in MX four years ago. She’s looking pretty rough these days, but I still get people stopping by the house a couple times a week offering to buy her. My highest offer so far has been $5000 USD. Cars are very expensive here.

Not even tempted.

That's a great story, a little touching even, but tell us... why is she so clean? I'd think you'd want to rub some mud on her, just to preserve your/her street cred.

We were talking about long term relationships & I blurted out, “With my truck!”

1997 Nissan. Bought it in 2000 w 43k miles on it. 114k 26 yrs later. Hills, mountains, deserts, floods, hail, snow storms, adventures, it’s never let me down.

My longest & most joyful relationship.

Beverly Killbilly

My favorite such phrase was coined by Tery Fugate-Wilcox, who designed the now-defunct Fulcrum Gallery (NYC) and contributed its motto:

"Without Art we are but Monkeys with Car Keys".

Long long ago I was hanging out with a girl who would often say "We're all just dogs wearing sweaters" as if that was a common saying. She had made it up, but we all know what that means I think. Now I, too, say it as if it's a known idiomatic phrase. And now it is.

Gotcha. Well now I want one of those, too!

Some favors are easier to do than others

Beautiful dog! Franklin is an English Springer Spaniel. He’s my niece’s and we were dog sitting him. ☺️🐾

I just saw a TV commercial for this. Not only does food appear to be a mashed-up, plasticized simulacrum of SE Louisiana cuisine, but, although they show brass instruments being played, the music has nothing to do with the place.

Or maybe you're after something different from that?

Yeah, no, I understand. What I'm saying is that in the late 70's and early 80's, I had offices that were what you describe. Small, quiet, comfortable spaces where I'd work (and sometimes indulge personal interests), where no one would bother me without an assistant buzzing to check it was ok.

Offices used to be like this.

The "bullpen"-style open-plan office layout was the beginning of the end for American society.

Hee hee. Done well, amazing things are possible.

This is hilarious and true. MLB must know how bad the platform is. I suspect that there's no $$ incentive for them to improve it.

I mean, it's not like people will stop watching baseball because the app sucks. No, that will happen because of extra-inning ghost runners and defensive shift bans.

On one hand, I’m so glad that the MLB app exists; on the other hand, it’s a total piece of shit

Paper mache face in gold and copper with snakes around it because it’s a Medusa.

I don’t think so - I can give you a brief, non-human, tutorial. This is Athena’s aegis, which I made for a school play (occasional costumer). It’s paper maché and I made it by using a doll as a mold. The doll didn’t have the contrast I wanted, so I used paint colors to create depth. The forehead

I've occasionally watched one woman or another applying her makeup. I'm always astounded, and sometimes scared, by what I consider a dark and deceitful art.

Got a light highlight, as did the cheekbones and the chin and nose, while I did darker colors on the parts I wanted to recede. Then I darkened all around the face to make it look in greater relief.

People do this on their faces, with varying degrees of success.

Tammy Bakker is terrifying,

No even the worst haircut in the last 5 years of hunnery, mind you

Believe me when this guy came to our national attention, we PRAYED that it wasn't his real hair. That it was some kind of charity bit to raise money. We were left dismayed

That's a hat. It's got to be a hat. Like one of those 1950's Davy Crockett coonskin caps.

I don't know what any of this means, but I remember Tammy Faye Bakker's face, and wonder if her problem was this problem?

There is little MLB hates more than a baseball fan trying to enjoy baseball.

Our local GS switched to outbound telemarketing during COVID.

I'm of two minds about it.

On the one hand, it was cool when they'd show up at the door, a sign that Spring was coming, and their excitement at our usually sizeable order was heartwarming.

OTOH, ordering by phone is damned convenient.

Have a friend in search of a Girl Scout cookie hook up if someone has a connection! #nolasky #nolatwitter

From @EntergyNOLA: All customers have been restored. Pictured is the Mylar balloon that caused the outage.

Fucking hell…

I meant to say yesterday what a gorgeous dog Franklin is. Is he a Cavalier King Charles?

This is my long-gone English Setter, Harlequin ("Harley"). She was a good girl.