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Rice noodles (forgot to check whether I had any soba, and no!) with braised lion's mane mushrooms, toasted nori, miso glazed turnips, turnip greens and mizuna oshitashi, pickled cucumber, kabocha, five spice tofu, squid, half-cooked (more like quarter-cooked) egg. Buffet in a bowl is my favorite meal.

Word on the street is that he taught critical race theory to 5-year-olds.

Does "fascist" just not have a definition now? It just means "a thing we don't like"?

In my experience, the charge rarely happens. I don't think I've ever been a no-show, but I've had guests cancel due to illness or whatnot pretty close to reservation times, and I was forgiven.

Even local-er!

No, but I (and my doctor) don't think it's bad enough yet. I keep hoping yoga will fix it. I don't like taking pain killers, which is what my doctor keeps telling me to do. I also don't like recovering from surgery (I'm sure I'm not alone in this). Eventually I suppose it will get worse, and I'll be forced to do something other than complain about it. Actual reason to be cheerful: found a ladybug on my balcony.

If you've only watched the first few episodes of Younger, know that it gets better in the second season. It's not a great show, or anything, but it's not trash. And I was actually surprised that Hillary Duff wasn't worse.

I went immediately to the site to see if I can do anything about my stupid hip, and one of the titles on the first video I watched tells me to see if doctor if I'm "unable to bare weight." This is how I lose faith!

White asparagus with oyster mushrooms, fava bean scafata with the first of the balcony chard, and a nice piece of skate. I think this might be the first time I've had white asparagus. I see what all the fuss is about.

Wise. I just did that with the Pose finale. Two hours of Pose is a lot of Pose.

Hulu. I have a pretty clear recollection of a scene in which Jennifer Jason Leigh was on the operating table, talking to the doctor. The scene ended with a shot of her POV, looking up into the overhead light. I can't say who made the edit - it might have been the production company at some point before Hulu even existed (a la Steven Spielberg swapping the guns for walkie-talkies in ET).

In the Heights. It's no Hamilton, but it's diverting. Also long. And (mostly) predictable. The salon scene was the best part, according to me.

I rewatched Fast Times recently (medium sized H had never seen it) and it holds up surprisingly well. The abortion scene got cut - not the plotline, just the scene - which both surprised me and didn’t. I remember reading it serialized in Rolling Stone (I think).

Had you not seen it before? I loved that movie when it first came out. it's a whole movie inspired by a song!

I am relieved to hear this. We had a husky when I was a kid, and while he did like being outside (because it was colder), he also enjoyed the company of humans. My mom did quite a bit of obedience training with him, and she even showed him a few times.