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DIARRHEA IN A BOWL (BECAUSE IT LOOKS LIKE IT, NOT BECAUSE IT CAUSES IT) Ingredients 1 box of chocolate cake mix 2 boxes of instant chocolate pudding 10 Skor candy bars 2 (1 liter) containers of Cool Whip Directions Make and bake your cake mix as per the directions on the box. OR if you're making your own chocolate cake from scratch make and bake up that. You will want to make sure you evenly pour the batter into two round cake pans. While the cake is baking, whip up the instant chocolate pudding mix and toss that into the fridge to chill. Meanwhile, place the Skor candy bars into a bag, and using a meat tenderizer (or a rolling pin) crush up the candy bars. Once your cakes are cooled, break up the cakes into pieces. Then you can begin the layering process. In a trifle dish or any large bowl. Begin with a layer of cake pieces, chocolate pudding, Cool Whip, Skor candy bars pieces. Repeat the layering process about 3 times, maybe more depending on the size of your dish. On the very top should be Cool Whip with Skor candy pieces.

When I was in college, I worked for the NY Post, meeting the delivery trucks at 4AM(ish), then dropping off the appropriate bundles to the paperboys. I'd get home about 7:30. There was a little hole-in-the wall place in my neighborhood that sold bagels & some hot food. They had real pumpernickel bagels that actually tasted like pumpernickel, not just brown plain bagels like most places have. I don't know what possessed me, but one day I had them make me a cheeseburger on a pumpernickel bagel and YUM! The combination of flavors was great. Alas, it's been rare that I've found pumpernickel bagels with that authentic flavor during the ensuing years (although if I had, I'd probably be another 50 pounds overweight).

I nominate: OR:

The Washington Post called it the first great series of 2022. https://washingtonpost.com/tv/2022/01/14/somebody-somewhere-review/?tid=pm_entertainment_pop

Or it could have meant that you're not made of glass (so move your ass) because he made you.

You should've walked out of the room, saying "No, I'll just take them to go."

Fran Kranz is Jaclyn Smith's son-in-law.

Medieval castle with watchtower and drawbridge on sale for $2.3M https://nypost.com/2022/01/13/medieval-castle-with-watch-tower-and-drawbridge-2-3m/ Where’s Shrek when you need him? A faux-Medieval castle — complete with trap doors, a dungeon and a secret underground grotto featuring a jacuzzi — could be yours for $2.3 million. Entering the fortress requires visitors to traverse two gates, two watchtowers, a moat, a drawbridge and, last but not least, an actual portcullis. The kingly residence was built not during the Middle Ages in Europe — but in 1990, in suburban Detroit. A local businessman began construction on the castle for himself and his two children in the mid-1980s. Although he sold it in 2015, he lived in the castle through 2019. “It was a give and take between what really could happen — and a dream for a homeowner where money was no object. He wanted to have a home that was something he dreamed about as a kid,” listing agent Michael Kuligowski told Realtor.com, adding: “To live in the house would be like living in a kind of childhood dream for someone who grew up idolizing the Knights of the Round Table and living in the Renaissance era.” The castle is situated on more than six acres of land. Courtesy of Realtor.com At the entrance of LeBlanc Castle is a functional portcullis. Courtesy of Realtor.com A decorative suit of armor flanks the entryway. Courtesy of Realtor.com The grand foyer. Courtesy of Realtor.com Spanning almost 10,800 square feet, the castle features a total of 26 rooms with custom finishes and hidden surprises. “The trap doors, hidden passageways and hallways are just fun and unique. They wow your friends and your family,” said Kuligowski of the home’s more idiosyncratic attributes. “Pushing a bookcase and then realizing it it leads to a room. When it’s closed, you’d never know there was a room behind it.” “Even the door hinges are very Victorian-style and there are details around the home that are undoubtedly castle-like and timeless,” he continued. “It was custom-designed to be a 15th-century-style English castle.” The grand staircase. Courtesy of Realtor.com One of five bedrooms. Courtesy of Realtor.com One of seven bathrooms. Courtesy of Realtor.com A unique garage with lights meant to communicate an “under the stars” theme. Courtesy of Realtor.com Made up of five bedrooms and seven bathrooms, the castle is situated on more than six acres land. Still, it will take a special someone with a truly unrelenting thirst for adventure to want this place. First listed in September, the property has yet to find a buyer. “The frame is built with 60 tons of steel and construction took over 6 years utilizing artisans from all over the world. The castle is 60 feet tall, or taller than a 4 story building,” the listing states. A sitting area. Courtesy of Realtor.com The pub space. Courtesy of Realtor.com Another bedroom with golden wallpaper. Courtesy of Realtor.com The castle spans 10,790 square feet. Courtesy of Realtor.com “It features a moat, waterfall, drawbridge, portcullis, elevator, 5 fireplaces, 6 new furnaces, secret rooms, hidden doors, hidden passageways, hidden staircase, wine cellar, Tudor style pub, and a few more surprises,” the listing adds. What’s more, the primary suite features a custom-made bed that was assembled in the room itself and therefore impossible to remove. The full bar comes with 12-foot ceilings and unique details in the walls. “They plastered over [a stone wall] and then put some straw in it in the same style they would have done 500 years ago, when they would essentially do mud walls with straw as a bonding agent,” Kuligowski explained. The castle is the largest home in the upscale gated community. “This is the biggest lot, but also the first lot that was developed, so it’s in the very back of a neighborhood,” he clarified. “There are homes with different architectural styles but mostly Colonials.” In describing the ideal buyer, Kuligowski said: “Someone that grew up loving fairy-tales or stories would really fit this house.”

Unlike the last couple of years when negotiations dragged on until the end of the season, ABC has reached agreement with Ellen ('Don't Call Me Mike') Pompeo and renewed GREY'S for another year. And to think, two weeks ago she gave an interview in which she said she was doing everything she could to convince people the show should end. From comments I've read, more than a few fans would be fine with the show continuing without her.

I'll bet his father Darth used to tell him "Harrison, I am your father."

Bridget Everett didn’t want to make ‘Somebody Somewhere’ about ‘judgment or politics’ Comedian Bridget Everett said that she wanted to focus on more mature characters who are still finding their feet in her new HBO series “Somebody Somewhere” — since many other shows are all-about younger people. “Speaking for myself, that’s when I woke up and that’s when my life clicked into gear,” Everett, 49, told The Post. “That’s when I became more successful. I stopped waiting tables in my 40s, and I think that’s the story of a lot of people around me. We’re all in our 40s and hustling. We’re not bold-faced names, and we’re all in an HBO show now — together.” Premiering Sun. (Jan 16) at 10: 30 p.m., and executive-produced by the Duplass brothers, the seven-episode comedy series follows Sam (Everett, also an exec producer), a 40something woman who feels stuck in a rut in her hometown of Manhattan, Kansas. By day, she has a boring job at a standardized testing grading center, frequently clashes with her family, mourns her sister Holly who died six months ago, spends lots of time alone and unsure that she is “friend material” and doesn’t do anything about her passion for singing. But, soon enough — when she befriends her co-worker Joel (Jeff Hiller) — she gets involved in a group of misfits and LGBTQ people who gather in a church after-hours for an unsanctioned “choir practice” to socialize, sing and perform onstage. Sam (Bridget Everett) and her new friend Joel (Jeff Hiller) share a laugh in “Somebody Somewhere.” “We’ve never seen real queer folks who live in a small town in the middle of America,” said “Somebody Somewhere” co-star Jeff Hiller. “Parts of it [are based on my life] [and] some of the themes, liked the dead sister and the love of singing and being from [Manhattan] Kansas. There are differences and similarities, but enough to help me stay emotionally connected as an untrained actor,” said Everett, best-known for her appearances on “Inside Amy Schumer” and her bawdy live cabaret shows. “We didn’t want to do a ‘Singer goes to New York’ plot,” she said. “We wanted to do, ‘What happened if somebody like me stayed in a town like the place I grew up?’ I think her relationship to music is an interesting one. It’s sort of letting her dreams and the things that she loved slip by, and sort of waking up in her 40s and being like, ‘Oh, what happened?’” Sam (Bridget Everett) looks through a yearbook with her niece Shannon (Kailey Albus) in “Somebody Somewhere.” Co-star Jeff Hiller (“Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”) said that he could relate to his character, Joel, as well. “We’ve seen queer characters feel oppressed in a place that isn’t necessarily a city, and we’ve seen queer characters in a city, but we’ve never seen real queer folks who live in a small town in the middle of America,” he said. “That’s what makes this sort of a unique story to tell. My character loves the church, and normally gay characters will hate the church, or are oppressed by the church. There are barely any shows about people in their 40s at all — and if there are, it’s about people who are having a hard time in their marriage, or something.” Sam (Bridget Everett) and Joel (Jeff Hiller) take a stroll through Manhattan, Kansas. Photograph by Chuck Hodes/HBO Everett said that, since this is her first time as an executive producer, she got some advice from her pals in the industry. “I talked to Sarah Jessica Parker about how to sort of stand on your own and take your power, take your space, make your voice at the table heard,” she said. “She really helped inform me and give me confidence to do that. Just because you’re the person on camera, doesn’t mean you don’t have something to contribute behind the camera. “We didn’t want to make [the show] be about judgment or politics — I wanted it to feel like the people that I knew growing up in Kansas,” she said. “Little things, like feeling the military [presence], because I grew up next to Fort Riley. You want to feel the school, you want to feel the limestone buildings. I’m sure I’m still going to get s–t from some of my friends back home about how I didn’t nail this or nail that, but we really tried hard to make it as Kansas-y as we could.” https://nypost.com/2022/01/11/bridget-everett-on-finding-her-feet-on-somebody-somewhere/

I didn't say I fast forwarded, I said I WANTED TO fast forward. I've never really understood why some comedies think it's entertaining for the audience to watch unlikable characters. Bev on ROSEANNE was like that, too. If her own family couldn't stand to spend any time with her, why would the viewing audience want to? There's a difference between a character being difficult and being unenjoyable. Lynch seems to specialize in the latter. As for her Emmy noms for the show, I said I know she's good. My comment had nothing to do with the quality of her work, just the annoying characters she's played. Just like I thought Tony Shalhoub was very good as Abe, another character I wanted to see brutally mugged and beaten to death... over and over again.

Mahomes is disqualified because his dad pitched for the Mets at one point. That's an automatic negative vote for him. What about https://www.companyofmen.org/topic/128598-nick-foles-big-dck-nick/ ?

Another mild criticism: I was thrown out of the era's atmosphere by the occasional use of words and phrases that weren't used back then. For example, I don't think people said 'back in the day' (a phrase I HATE) back in the day, but somebody on the show said it.

I know Jane Lynch is good, but (starting with GLEE) I've despised every character she's played. I wanted to fast forward every scene she was in in Mrs. Maisel, and she almost ruined ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING for me. The last character she played that I didn't hate was Charlie's shrink on 2 1/2 MEN. I think Lois Griffin is the best part of the show. Joel's mother is the worst part, Abe the second worst, and Sophie the third worst (because she had much less screen time than Abe). If Joel really wants to impress Mei, he should buy her a phone from AT&T. Yeah, that Wanda Sykes may have a career ahead of her.

Finished it & was very happy to see Midge finally get some comeuppance for always being so glib and talking shit about every person in her life while onstage. I found it off-putting after awhile.

DEAR ABBY: My niece is getting married this spring, which has created a dilemma for my immediate family. When the save-the-date cards went out, she addressed them only to the women in the family. We thought it was a mistake at first, but now the invitations have arrived, and they are also addressed to the women only. My husband and my son (her first cousin) feel slighted. My son’s wife was invited, but she doesn’t know the bride at all. It seems the bride has a limited number of guests she can invite for the venue. She also has a large number of friends and the groom’s family attending. Out of respect for my son and my husband — and a son-in-law who was also excluded — we all will respond that we will not attend. I feel terrible not being able to see my niece walk down the aisle, but I’m not used to my spouse being ignored. Am I doing the right thing? — PUZZLED IN FLORIDA DEAR PUZZLED: Before you refuse the wedding invitation, call your niece and ask if she is intentionally excluding the men. Because women make most of the social arrangements, she may not have realized that EACH guest’s name must appear on the invitation. Rather than an attempt to exclude family members because their chromosomes are not the same as hers, this may simply have been an etiquette boo-boo. a lesbian. You know how man-hating they usually are. DEAR ABBY: I have been married for 35 years and have a recurring problem with no solution in sight. My wife sets frozen meat on the counter to thaw. She says she can’t count on thawing it in the fridge because it takes too long and interferes with her meal planning. Her mother has always done it this way, and no one has ever gotten sick. I try talking to her but it only ends up in a fight. Any suggestions would be appreciated. — RISKY IN ILLINOIS DEAR RISKY: The Food and Drug Administration has issued guidelines about food preparation because people have gotten VERY sick when it wasn’t done properly. Over the last 10 or 15 years, conditions in some of our slaughterhouses and agricultural operations have deteriorated, and consumers have died because of it. Whether you can convince your wife to change her ways, I can’t predict. But you might be doing her a favor if you visit fda.gov and print out some information for her and your mother-in-law. Better to be safe than sorry. Prepare your own food, and make sure your wife’s will is up to date.

The Yankees have made a groundbreaking hire in their minor league ranks, as The Athletic’s Lindsey Adler (Twitter link) reports that Rachel Balkovec will manage the organization’s lower-A team in Tampa next season. Balkovec will become the first woman to ever manage an affiliated minor league club. This is the latest of several barriers broken over the course of Balkovec’s decade-long career in baseball. Beginning as a strength and conditioning coordinator in the Cardinals’ farm system from 2011-15, she then moved to a similar role with the Astros from 2016-18, working with both Houston’s Latin American prospects and then the Astros’ Double-A affiliate. She has spent the last two seasons working within the Yankees’ minor league system as a hitting coach, following some time spent working with Driveline and in the Netherlands working with the Dutch national teams. Along the way, Balkovec has routinely been noted as the first woman to be hired in these positions, whether in her strength/conditioning jobs or as a hitting coach. The 34-year-old will now take yet another step forward managing some of the Yankees’ top young prospects, and Balkovec is undoubtedly already familiar with many of these players due to her coaching work. As Balkovec told The Associated Press’ Ronald Blum in 2019, “I have aspirations of being in a more leadership role from a broader standpoint,” mentioning the possibility of one day being hired as a “director of baseball operations or farm director or GM.” Such goals aren’t as remote as they once seemed for women in baseball, considering that Kim Ng is the Marlins general manager, Eve Rosenbaum is the Orioles’ director of baseball development, and Sara Goodrum was recently hired as the Astros’ director of player development. As for on-field personnel, Alyssa Nakken is a member of the Giants coaching staff, while Bianca Smith (Red Sox) and Rachel Folden (Cubs) have worked coaching jobs in the minor leagues for their respective teams. https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2022/01/yankees-name-rachel-balkovec-as-manager-of-lower-a-affiliate.html

I binged the first 2 seasons of THE MESHUGANAH MRS. MAISEL in a day and a half over the weekend, so obviously I enjoyed it, but I have a few criticisms: 1. The entire cast kept mispronouncing her name. I knew a family growing up named Maisel, and it's pronounced myZELL. They could've just had her use MAYzle as a stage name, because the audiences & club owners kept calling her that. 2. The end of the 2nd season was supposed to mark a year since Joel left. I know that's a good milestone to use for dramatic effect, but it seemed far too quick for everything that happened in the 2 seasons to happen, given the era & the lack of successful women stand ups at the time, especially considering Midge's complete lack of experience & Susie's lack of experience as a manager. The first season ended with Midge's boffo set at The Gaslight, & using her name onstage for the first time. That should've been the one year mark. Then the telethon appearance & subsequent offer of a 6 month tour that ended season 2 should've been the 2nd anniversary of Joel leaving. 3. Joel's mother seems like one of those characters writers come up with to throw every stereotype and eccentricity at, figuring the audience will find her so ridiculous they'll laugh at her on sight. EPIC FAIL! I found her character extremely annoying any time she was onscreen. 4. Midge's mom seemed like a believable character for me, except for her reliance on psychics. Nothing about her character seemed 'old-world' to me, she didn't seem massively tied to 'the traditional ways' and she was fairly cosmopolitan, so the psychic visits did not ring true to me. 5. I think Tony Shalhoub did a good job bringing the character as written to life, but he seemed more like a caricature than a character to me. I originally thought his scenes in Paris when he stayed with Rose for a while were kind of a saving grace for the character, but when I thought about it, nothing else in the 2 seasons made it seem like he'd have the patience or social graces to have that in him. Did anybody recognize Midge's (& Abe's) lawyer? It was Doogie Howser's best friend, Vinny Delpino.

I binged the first 2 seasons of THE MESHUGANAH MRS. MAISEL in a day and a half over the weekend, so obviously I enjoyed it, but I have a few criticisms: 1. The entire cast kept mispronouncing her name. I knew a family growing up named Maisel, and it's pronounced myZELL. They could've just had her use MAYzle as a stage name, because the audiences & club owners kept calling her that. 2. The end of the 2nd season was supposed to mark a year since Joel left. I know that's a good milestone to use for dramatic effect, but it seemed far too quick for everything that happened in the 2 seasons to happen, given the era & the lack of successful women stand ups at the time, especially considering Midge's complete lack of experience & Susie's lack of experience as a manager. The first season ended with Midge's boffo set at The Gaslight, & using her name onstage for the first time. That should've been the one year mark. Then the telethon appearance & subsequent offer of a 6 month tour that ended season 2 should've been the 2nd anniversary of Joel leaving. 3. Joel's mother seems like one of those characters writers come up with to throw every stereotype and eccentricity at, figuring the audience will find her so ridiculous they'll laugh at her on sight. EPIC FAIL! I found her character extremely annoying any time she was onscreen. 4. Midge's mom seemed like a believable character for me, except for her reliance on psychics. Nothing about her character seemed 'old-world' to me, she didn't seem massively tied to 'the traditional ways' and she was fairly cosmopolitan, so the psychic visits did not ring true to me. 5. I think Tony Shalhoub did a good job bringing the character as written to life, but he seemed more like a caricature than a character to me. I originally thought his scenes in Paris when he stayed with Rose for a while were kind of a saving grace for the character, but when I thought about it, nothing else in the 2 seasons made it seem like he'd have the patience or social graces to have that in him. Did anybody recognize Midge's (& Abe's) lawyer? It was Doogie Howser's best friend, Vinny Delpino.