On Defending Manhattan From America: Pete Wells and Guy Fieri
@ContainsHotLiquid Yeah, I think the review is more FOR the flyover folks who visit NY. This argument that no tourist reads the Times is weirding me out - lots of people who don't live here read them Times, and lots of people who visit NY and read the Times are susceptible to visiting a shitty celebrity restaurant.
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On Liveblogging The New Citibank Commercial
@Dan Stewart@twitter OH MY GOD WTF IS UP WITH THAT COMMERCIAL. Not okay. Not okay at all.
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On Dear Pamela Geller, If Someone Rips Down Or Otherwise Defaces The Disgusting Racist Advertisements You Have Won The Legal Right To Display In New York Subway Stations, I Will Not Know Anything About How That Might Have Happened
@SkinnyNerd I believe in freedom of speech, but I don't believe that the city has an obligation to display it. Particularly when that speech is designed to inflame psychos and paint a target sign on a heavily populated, difficult-to-evacuate area as a place for said psychos to direct their rage.
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On The Mindy Kaling Problem
@Pop Socket Mindy Kaling is a bigger success than Tina Fey? I don't think so.
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On 'Naked Came The Stranger': The Dirtiest Book Ever Written By A Group Of Newspaper Guys
Hm. I'm thinking that this God isn't vengeful per se, but perhaps overly paternalistic? Anyway, I watched the first episode of Miss Advised, because Julia Allison is a close friend's college nemesis, and she needed someone to cackle with. It's sooooooo bad. But also kind of entertaining? JA comes off as a terrible person, not that I'm biased, but she asks a guy to help her move with the full intention of dumping him right after, so what else am I supposed to think?
Also refreshing is that since the three leads are in different cities, they can't scream and throw tables at each other. It's basically a sixty-minute time out before we head back to a rerun of the Real Housewives of Atlanta reunion show part two.
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On What TV Character Have You Wanted to Be?
@JennFizz Ahhhhh I wanted to be all of them too! Dangerous, though - a bout of West Wing convinced me to sign up for the LSAT, and that leads nowhere good.
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On What TV Character Have You Wanted to Be?
How did no one say Sydney Bristow?! Beautiful, ass-kicking, multilingual, loyal friend, able to break into top secret labs in Taiwan without any intra-agency help in order to prove her fake loyalty to the evil SD-6 directorate, patriotic, apparently impossible to bruise, possessing an amazing fuck-you swagger, lusted after by both Michael Vartan AND Bradley Cooper, and the daughter of VICTOR GARBER???? Also: wigs.
Cons: constantly a target of violence, must deal with Sloane's creepy paternalism, somehow immune to Bradley Cooper's charms (?).
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On 'The Thorn Birds': When Young, Sexy, Straight Priests Roamed The Earth
@Meg Morrison@twitter Same, right down to "ignored the whole seducing-a-priest bit." I always found it confusing... isn't the character's real name Margaret? Why isn't my name Margaret? I also know a Margaret whose nickname is Megan. Oh, the Irish.
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On How To Make Weeknight Pasta Sauce
@AnonymousHoward I disagree with most of this, except for oregano (oregano sucks). You will pry the onions I'm using in my sauce out of my cold, dead, onion-y hands, and only after you get through the fresh pasta I keep in the fridge (I work near a specialty shop where an actual Italian grandma makes it in the back. It's $2.50 a pound). But my purism and your purism clashing is a beautiful thing.
Oh also - a little pasta water in the sauce AND a little pat of butter will make it smooth and glossy. I recommend.
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On The Tale of Laurel Touby, Bold Millionairess, So Far
@jolie What about that rubberized dust magnet of a chair???