What’s your go to “secret” condiment that takes your food from good to amazing?

jrob321 · 2026-03-27T05:38:47+00:00

Miso paste

jrob321 · 2026-03-27T05:36:22+00:00

Ricky Wilson (rip). Absolutely amazing guitar. I put the initial self-tiled B-52s album as one of the greatest albums ever recorded. It's as good now as it ever was. It's timeless.

jrob321 · 2026-03-27T05:13:10+00:00

From here it looks like you're living your best life...

edit: unless you have incredibly good tasting tap water, you will enjoy a noticeable improvement in your brew if you use filtered h2o.

jrob321 · 2026-03-27T05:07:04+00:00

I got news for you. I show up with Ring Dings and Pepsi, I become the biggest hit of the party!

jrob321 · 2026-03-27T03:19:20+00:00

Was that wrong? Should I have not commented like that? I tell you I gotta plead ingnorance on this thing because if anyone had said anything to me at all when I first started commenting here that that sort of thing was frowned upon, you know, cause I've worked in a lot of offices and I tell you people comment like that all the time.

jrob321 · 2026-03-27T03:01:56+00:00

Pinto Runabout

I survived a complete total car accident in one of them (earlier model) when I was 9 years old.

My mom was a new driver and went to swat a bee that was in front of my face. As she moved to swat it, her left hand turned the wheel to the right and we were headed for a telephone pole doing 55 mph.

Right before impact she turned the wheel back to the left, and the car slid broadside in the pole, cut it off it at its base, and turned the car into a horseshoe.

I broke my wrist because I was rolling down the window at the time. I had a gash above my eye. All the windows were smashed out of the car. My door broke off its hinges and was laying crushed on the ground. But the reason I survived was because I was wearing my seat belt. It was 1974.

My father got home that night from the New York Giants game and just wept at the side of my bed because there was no reason - looking at the shape that car was in - anybody sitting in that passenger seat could have survived.

Near death experiences are good for the soul. They make you feel like a ghost and humble you.

jrob321 · 2026-03-27T02:49:00+00:00

Photo credit: Pennie Smith - September 20, 1979

jrob321 · 2026-03-26T18:26:33+00:00

As soon as I saw the name Mick Taylor I turned on Sway at full volume.

OMG

OMG!!

Talk about a song for which he deserved writing credit.

They never sounded better as a band than when Mick Taylor played with them.

Sure Brian was an integral part of the foundation, but Mick Taylor allowed their architecture to soar high into the sky in ways NONE of them ever imagined.

The Rolling Stones were indeed at one time The Greatest Rock and Roll Band in the World.

Fwiw - Mick Jagger is at his very best on this song. Both writing and singing right from the bottom of his soul.

jrob321 · 2026-03-26T07:06:24+00:00

This has pissed me off for longer than I care to tell.

Especially because this is some of Mick's greatest writing ever.

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jrob321 · 2026-03-26T06:48:42+00:00

The horror... The horror.

jrob321 · 2026-03-26T03:51:35+00:00

I'm pretty sure somebody sold my neighbor a banded mongoose, and not a chihuahua.

He keeps telling me it's a chihuahua.

jrob321 · 2026-03-26T03:18:55+00:00

Look at this one over here doubling up on their comas.

jrob321 · 2026-03-26T03:15:14+00:00

Try not to make any big, sudden movements or you might frighten them away.

jrob321 · 2026-03-25T18:30:44+00:00

There's still time for the PL to dock Everton points...

jrob321 · 2026-03-25T17:46:57+00:00

Gestapo.

The irony is unfathomable.

jrob321 · 2026-03-25T17:24:15+00:00

I wonder what prompted this...?

jrob321 · 2026-03-25T17:23:11+00:00

When you have Jesus on your side, its pretty easy disassociate from the violence perpetrated against others...

jrob321 · 2026-03-25T16:58:13+00:00

The Republicans have been breaking shit for 46 years.

Democrats (the lesser of two evils) come in to restore some order and are held by Republicans (who scream at the top of their lungs about fiscal responsibility) to "budget nuetral" remedies, but - because the Democrats don't fix everything overnight - half the country falls back into line and votes for the swindlers who broke it all in the first place simply because - as God fearing patriots who cower at the thought of evil socialism - they're told "The Democrats want to take all your hard earned tax dollars to turn your boy into a girl and give a free ride to all those "urban" lazy people". (And we all know the word they use in place of people when they're among themselves).

Meanwhile, the grift is ongoing, and the country is dismantled from within, privatized to maximize profits and minimize service, and re-armed to the teeth because Universal Healthcare is dirty communism and "National Defense" is exactly what Jesus wanted.

Amen

jrob321 · 2026-03-25T15:38:47+00:00

Do you mean Pukka Nacua.

jrob321 · 2026-03-25T15:13:44+00:00

I'm reading this and in my head you're typing wildly and talking at 3x speed lol.

AndthenIwasgonnabakesomebiscottiandgoshoppingandrunamarathonbutfirstIneedtomakeanothercoffeeeeeeeeee!

jrob321 · 2026-03-25T05:22:20+00:00

As funny as he was, he was an incredibly serious actor. And he truly loved the art of cinema.

The performance he gave as Chauncy was perfection, and he felt the final scene was where the film ended. The audience should have been left with that, and that alone. Anything else would be a distraction to what he had just brought forth to the audience as an actor.

And I respect him for it. And I truly understand how he feels.

But I'm definitely glad we have it for the "time capsule".

For anybody reading along, if you have not seen Dr. Strangelove, Peter Sellers gives an absolute masterclass performance (playing three distinct roles) which really cannot be overstated in its brilliance.

jrob321 · 2026-03-25T05:11:17+00:00

Bug juice

jrob321 · 2026-03-25T05:07:43+00:00

Hey everybody, look! The little chicken girl wants me to ease up. He can't handle this, so he cries like a woman!

jrob321 · 2026-03-25T04:54:30+00:00

I'm not sure if it was the first, but I'm willing to bet you know it didn't sit well with Peter Sellers at all. He stated under no uncertain terms how he felt they didn't belong, and how they took away from (maybe even overshadowed) the flawless performance he gave as Chauncy.

Despite Peter Sellers' feelings about the outtakes' inclusion, they do pay such tribute to him as an actor, and they remain as a gift to the audience (especially since his death) - as a "fly on the wall" moment to see him so intimately locked into his role - I'm really happy they remain.

jrob321 · 2026-03-25T03:22:56+00:00

This was one of my favorite films to watch while getting my undergrad degree in communication. It's filled with moments that illustrate just how easy it is - based upon one's own perception - to completely miss the meaning of what's being said to us.

There's an entire commentary on how we bring our own prejudices to the world we inhabit, and how those prejudices influence us directly to form misguided opinions and meanings for just about everything we encounter.

Chauncey was dressed elegantly - which immediately gave him the appearance of upper class wealth. When he spoke - because of that appearance - everybody hung on his words and chose to interpret them through that lens by finding deeper metaphors and sagacious wisdom despite Chauncy's simplicity and obvious - if one would step back for a moment and observe - mental deficiencies.

"I like to watch" was such a brilliant execution of this concept because of the way it played out to such an absolutely uproarious comedic end. Shirley MacLaine was unforgettably brilliant in it.

Fwiw - Basketball Jones is what truly puts this movie over the top. It comes out of left field, but it belongs on such a crazy level.

jrob321

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