Brown Sugar Kitchen in Oakland. They had a corn meal waffle that I still dream about. And the smoked pork hash 🤤 Business was a COVID casualty.

When I worked conferences our instructions were " hold it like a news anchor not a rapper"

It's also a modern way of gathering intel. What you're searching for people saying, "oh my God a bomb just dropped on X" and then you know you hit your target.

One of orson scott card's lesser known books, the redemption of Christopher Columbus, posits what the future would be like if he had gone on a crusade instead. It makes the case that the timing was right and the powers that be basically had a 50/50 chance on where to send him to get rid of him.

If I remember correctly, he had actually left the hall because they do the vote alphabetically and he wanted to be last so that everyone would have to wait for him and he could be the deciding vote.

I remember watching this live and it was one of the funniest fucking things I'd ever seen

I once got dinged for boozing my way through the first 10 minutes. I think you're safe.

One of my favorite things I ever saw in the Metro was a child probably about four who was refusing to hold his dad's hand so they were each holding the hand of a stuffed animal (rainbow chameleon if I remember correctly) hovering about a foot off the ground.

Purple Teddy?

I have some guesses as to what my special skill is.

I agree, but then I got wondering how many shots of people in armor are actually Maximus.

I want to say AOL but I think my first personal email account was Juno?