I got some at a friend's house on Thanksgiving. His son does the family recipe...it tasted a lot like the pie "mom used to make", although I don't think that my mom has been in contact with him.

Starbucks, Peet's, Stumptown...they don't have it. Maybe I'm not looking hard enough. They do have coffee cake that tastes like compressed sawdust.

Shari's probably has pie...maybe Safeway, too. Ugh...Safeway pie. I need to learn how to bake.

pardon me but I'm squeamish

if you don't believe in having 18 kids, don't have 18 kids

at any cost

applications to the bad actors club are no longer being accepted

much like you

Those who argue against the expression "if you don't believe in abortions, don't have one" (which was what I was satirizing) use exactly the same logic as you have expressed. And yes, I believe in legalized abortions.

BTW, good luck stopping people from breeding.

Really, I am amazed. My former significant other was obsessed with cleaning, specifically me NOT doing the cleaning...it wasn't very important to me, which eventually bothered her quite a bit. Then things went downhill in other areas and it became a huge struggle to deny the other person what they wanted, rather than just providing it.

Buying your partner a car? I can't imagine either giving or receiving a car as a present...some of us are programmed either by bad parenting or damaged genetics to be stingy by nature. "What are you going to do FOR ME?" we ask each other, right up to the point where one or the other is moving out.

Frankly, I can identify with this couple. I think their relationship is doomed. If they do stay together, she won't be very happy and he will always be thinking about that other person. They are beyond advice...maybe they will have it figured out on the next try, maybe not. I certainly don't have any answers in this area.

Some people seem to have a giving nature, others have to work at it more.

My ex was nicknamed Pie, and while I loved her I was not so crazy about her baked goods. However, she made a mean perogi (a Polish potato ravioli dish).

Eat to live, I say, not live to eat. But to each his own. If I wasn't so impatient maybe I would get into this gourmet cooking thing. Fish sticks for dinner again...sigh.

Liberals (with a capital "L") in public office are in short supply here in the states, especially ones who are celebrities. So maybe we forgive more than we should.

coming soon to the letters section...oh wait, it's here

mickey D will meet all your drive-by food needs

Joan Walsh's favorite coffee shop...I think it's on Kearney.

then I'll be ready to order that McRib sandwich to go

generally I take the western approach, seeing loneliness as a "disease" that can only be cured through the application of friends and family (who, as stated in the article, often make things worse).

So how magical it is when one experiences a brief respite from loneliness by de-emphasizing the self.

if we don't wave at Joan and make a scene

One can keep their friends, their family, their spouse, their coworkers, and the strangers at the supermarket, and still reflect on the idea of the over-developed self.

It doesn't take years of study on top of a mountain...maybe just some instruction at a local buddhist center. Doing this might decrease loneliness...it has helped me somewhat. Your mileage may vary.

GIGO

oh wait that's in our country

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I don't think she got along very well with her parents, at least when they were alive anyway. But guess what? A lot of straights don't get along with their parents either.

Once my mom called me a "drifter"...not what you want to hear from your mom, let me tell you.

The wife doesn't come off so well here, but neither does the girlfriend, really.

All the good ones are taken...indeed.

The kiddies will remain at the kiddie table, at least until they act and talk like everyone else.

YouTube is a perfect example of the evolutionary process. Everything that is non-essential is stripped away, leaving only viral videos and a long, unsorted list of meta-commentary that unravels like DNA. Like a disease from outer space, YouTube is free to grow stronger and more efficient every day, even as it bloats and distorts under its own weight.

YouTube is the freedom to watch, and to not think. It is better than tv because you get to "add value". It is evolutionary perfection.

The voxel (or volume pixel) has been around for a while, threatening to turn our placid world into a virtual reality wonderland. Instead, we have better weather maps.

Sure, maybe some people want to find better friends, better data and better sex online...but why not just "go to the barbeque" in person?

how about Batman on blu-ray?

well maybe not

it's only fair

In the trailer to Valkyrie it was obvious we were going to see Cruise Playing A Historically Important Nazi You May Have Heard Of. Yawn.

Without his bag of neurotic tics he turns to wood on the screen.

maybe I'll just see batman again

Mr. Cruise has made this difficult to do.

Second hand stores are all the rage with the youth of today, I hear, as long as the items purchased are used "ironically". I would suggest this approach with Marley & Me. In a dozen or so years, head on over to Goodwill and get this movie on dvd for an ironic blast from your own past.

Around this time of year I like to get my woolens used at the neighborhood thrift (completely without irony, I might add), since Nordstrom and Banana Republic are a bit too dear.

as such, not eligible to be POTUS until the US signs intergalactic treaty in Paris

it's like golf, or marbles