Quick, someone file to make it the turkey before this paperwork can go through!

... this can change once you get to, like, Michelin Star restaurants, where everyone just wants to be called chef because it sounds cool. But in a diner? Cook makes food. Chef tells cook how to make food.

I am not well-versed in Blondie, but "chef" and "cook" are oddly contentious terms in the modern kitchen. Chef is usually management, while cook is usually the person actually making food for each customer. But there is overlap, and the terms aren't clearly defined.

I'm pretty sure Flirsting was the name of Beowulf's sword.

Surely you mean "seize the *memes* of production."

"How Deep Is Your Berm" (Bee Gees, 1977)

Yes! That's precisely what it was!

I saw a thing with Eric Idle recently, where he said that George Harrison would visit him on the set of Life of Brian. One day Idle was complaining about how hard it was to work with Cleese and Palin when they would argue. Harrison goes, "Think of what it was like with John and Paul in the studio."

Not *nearly* as grand as the above scheme, but my mom pulled me from public school in the middle of 8th grade, and my new school just... didn't offer the math class I was taking. So I was given a free study period instead of math. Plot twist: I did not study. But I did pass the end-of-year exam.

Speaking as Alaska's foremost expert at Billy Joel, I can tell you that Springsteen has always been like a weird uncle to me. So, uh, see you at the reunion, cousin.

"If you want to write a song about the moon
Walk along the craters of the afternoon
When the shadows are deep and the light is alien
And gravity leaps like a knife off the pavement"
-P. Simon

Oh, you laugh. And don't get me wrong, I laughed too. But last year I got a job with my state government that involved (among other tasks) lugging a stack of six clunky iPads from one building to another and back every day. Now I don't laugh about Star Trek's clunky data pads anymore.

Ugh, thank you! I was legit looking for him, but when "Randal Milholland" and "R.K. Milholland" didn't turn up any search results I was like "I guess he's not on here yet." I didn't even think to search for Randy.