If you enjoyed our own Lady Pickpockets of the Barbary Coast, you’ll love Emma Donoghue’s new novel, Frog Music, which takes its plot from some of the events in question!
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Pulitzer discussion time!
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Since I’ve recommended the two first pieces in The Archipelago, a new Medium collection, I thought I’d tell you that the creator, Jess Zimmerman, is looking for contributors! You can email archipelago.pitches at gmail with pieces (reported or essays) on “identity, community, finding or creating or rejecting groups, and the search for belonging.” She’s paying.
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A Trader Joe’s is opening 13 minutes from my house (8 minutes from my gym), because Utah is GETTING IT TOGETHER:
Like the Salt Lake City store, the new Cottonwood Heights Trader Joe’s will not sell one of the company’s staple products of other national locations, the famous $2.50 “Two-Buck Chuck” bottles of wine (under the Charles Shaw label) or any other wine and liquor. Due to state liquor laws, Utah grocery stores cannot sell spirits and wine.
…somewhat.
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John Leavitt wisely emailed me this:
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Anne Helen Petersen on her time as a “liberal arts nanny”:
Usually, the people who hire liberal arts nannies don’t even really want nannies, or at least don’t like the idea of being the kinds of people who hire a nanny. They want to hire someone with the looks, behavior, and cultural capital they themselves had a decade before. Someone, in other words, to make them feel less weird, and less privileged, about engaging in their own personal service economy.
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Omigod, the US Airways thing! WHAT. I wasn’t on Twitter at the time, and arrived to people literally screaming and crying with laughter.
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Look at me, also recommending the third piece in that Medium collection! THEY ARE ALL TOASTIES.
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No, no. NO. No no no. Fascinating. But NO.
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Tags: feminism, link roundup, the internet
Ah, Utah! Good to know (I guess) that PA isn’t the only state where you can’t buy a dumb bottle of wine in a dumb grocery store…
Can’t do it in most of Massachusetts, either.
even dumber, you actually CAN buy it at some grocery stores! its so confusing.
Yes this is infuriatingly weird! Something about there only being a certain number of available permits per… county? Or something?
I mean, I’m from West Virginia, where you get your booze at Wal-Mart, so.
Yeah, it’s about permits-per-owner. So if you only own one liquor store, you’re good, but if you’re a state-wide grocery chain, like Shaw’s, you have to pick only 3 (I think) stores in the whole state where you can sell it. That’s why the Shaw’s in the Prudential has a huge liquor section (I assume it is still there 5 years later), but none of the other ones in the area do.
They actually had this up for a vote when I lived there, and it sounded good on paper, to just let everyone sell it, but guess who loses out? All small business owners who are already established with just the one store. So they mobilized and it didn’t end up getting passed. I don’t think it’s a bad rule, though it only works because MA is so densely populated.
Ahhh, that explains why none of the grocery stores out here in western Mass sell alcohol. THANKS A LOT, BOSTON.
I definitely signed a petition that was pro-more-liquor-in-stores when I moved here, and then came to regret it as I realized how wonderful all the tiny liquor stores (and their owners) are.
Nor in Massachusetts’s little brother Rhode Island.
To this day I get surprised when I see a wine/beer section in a grocery store. That’s what state stores are for!!!
You can by beer/wine/liquor basically anywhere in NM, including gas stations and drug stores (aka CVS/Walgreens).
I’m the opposite– the first time I went shopping in a liquor control state I thought I was going NUTS. Just wandering around the store again and again like “did I walk past it already? SOMETHING IS MISSING HERE”
I’ve also had this experience. “Ok, here’s the beer, here’s the mixers, WHERE IS THE FREAKIN LIQUOR”
In Texas, you can, unless it’s before noon on a Sunday.
There’s a Trader Joe’s near our synagogue, so I keep going over there to shop while my kid is in his Sunday classes, and I always forget about the noon thing. Noon is when I have to pick him up.
So my math is: pick up my kid from temple on time, or leave him standing there all alone so I can wait in the checkout line until 12:01 and buy my booze?
wine and beer but no liquor! ARGH
In Australia (at least in NSW), you have to go to the bottle shop (or bottle-o, as we call it) for booze. To be fair, there’s usually a bottle-o attached to the supermarket.
Minnesota too, though our Trader Joe’s works around it by having a wine store in the same building with a separate entrance. It is locked up all day on Sundays, alas.
You can’t do it in Ontario either. I honestly didn’t know grocery store booze was even a thing until I was like, 18.
Your neighbors just south of the Mason Dixon line can’t do it either, unless it’s a grocery store that predates.. I don’t know, the 1950s or something.
I got spoiled by living in Ohio for a few years where you can buy anything (under a certain proof) annnnnnywhere. Now I’m endlessly complaining about it.
I’ve only lived in places with blue laws (MD, MA) otherwise I would complain as well.
On the flipside, it’s always magical going to a state where you can buy any liquor anywhere, like CA.
Yeah, I get excited whenever I’m traveling and I see booze in, like, a Rite Aid.
Connecticut JUST changed their law recently and now allow alcohol sales on Sundays. All booze stores still close at 8pm though because there was a robbery/murder after 8 in the fifties. Everyone knows that nobody robs liquor stores before 8, how GAUCHE
As a lifelong Californian, these laws all horrify me.
The liquor selection at gas stations in my podunk CA town is better than most WA state liquor stores.
We just switched to being able to buy liquor in grocery stores that are larger than 10,000 square feet, and their selection is even worse than the old WA state stores. It’s horrifying how hard it is to find decent booze, and when you do it costs roughly double as CA price.
I stock up when I visit my parents on road trips.
NOT IN NEW ORLEANS
we are serious about drinking, alcohol is available 24/7 as god intended
They just passed legislation to bring liquor into grocery stores in BC. It’s ending up fairly controversial, surprisingly.
ugh, they’re doing it so badly! I think it’s just going to be a bcl style kiosk by the entrance, like it is in some Ontario grocery stores.
You can’t in New York, either. All the TJs here have a “separate” store for the wine and liquor.
Also in NJ you can’t buy beer OR wine in a grocery store. It’s totally stupid and lame.
OMG, that Starship Trooper video. Made my morning.
It is perfect. Also I do NOT remember Janeway going borderline Dietrich in that white tux but I like it. GAY STAR TREK.
EMMA DONOGHUE WROTE A NEW BOOK BRB REQUESTING IT FROM THE LIBRARY OH GOD nooooo there are already 10 requests!!!!
AUGHHHH no caving EVER (YES they have very cool gear NO it is not worth it)
Yes, yes, a thousand times yes. I am stepping away from the article because it’s freaking me out. Shall read in pieces through the day, though, because it’s interesting, even if it does make my brain think it’s having an asthma attack.
I am too claustrophobic to function most of the time but the article is SO fascinating. Except for this? “the first camp is a twelve-hour crawl from the surface, mostly on your belly.” NO.
NOOOOOOOOOOOO!
“Underwear is worn for weeks on end, the bacteria kept back by antibiotic silver and copper threads. ”
AUUUUGH GROSSSSSSSSSS. NOT HAPPENING.
Good ol’ Guardian going and getting a Pulitzer when they’re not even American. I like the ominous gap against ‘feature writer’. Why ‘no award’, was there a SCANDAL? Please let there be a scandal.
i was wondering about that, too! It seems like some kind of statement. “NO WE JUST DIDNT THINK THERE WERE ANNNNNNY GOOD FEATURE WRITERS THIS YEAR.”
UTAH: Liquor laws just like home. EYEIN’ YOU, LCB- wait, what? Micro-LCBOs in Loblaws stores? http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/lcbo-kiosks…
In rural Ontario the LCBO outlets can be in all kinds of weird places, like inside a video rental somewhere in northern Ontario, which I thought was amazing. Rent a shitty movie, get wasted, eat popcorn, great Saturday night! They should do that more places.
Also, pretty sure the LCBO outlets won’t be anywhere near me but I CAN’T WAIT TO VISIT WHEN THEY DO OPEN!
My favourite is the one in Carnarvon which is (I think) a Beer Store™, definitely a combo LCBO and gas station. Like: SUPER AMERICA ROAD-TRIP yet distinctly Canadian licencing.
This seems to be a good place to drop this rad video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gndAHcdO84w
“See you in Hull” was the refrain of my uni years
Oooh, caving! I never want to go spelunking ever (coolest word or what?), but I’m fascinated by it. I dunno, I feel like I ‘get’ why you’d want to do that, moreso than other extreme sports.
This is one the internet’s greatest gifts to this poor, anti-adrenaline soul: the ability to watch/read from my office cubicle all about what’s inside that cave/under that water/how to climb that tiny cliff-side path in China/etc. I can 70% understand why people would do such things and also have the power to NOPE NOPE NOPE my way out of the tab immediately.
Exactly!
Chevé has what cavers call a Hollywood entrance: a gaping maw in the face of a cliff, like King Kong’s lair on Skull Island… As you walk beneath the overhang, the temperature drops, and a musty, fungal scent drifts up from the cave’s throat, where the children’s bones were found.
Hot damn this caving article is awesome.
“Gaping Maw” is one of my favorite descriptions. I will not enter anything called a gaping maw
I was grumpy because I left my Kindle at home this morning, but that article was fantastic and got me through my entire train ride! Didn’t even mind the residual creeping feelings of claustrophobia!
It’s easy to see why the Cuicatec felt that some dark presence abided here—that something in this place needed to be appeased.
Yeah, this is really good!
Sooo many lines in this article that make me do a Neo-style “woah.”
I love the AHP piece about liberal arts nannies!
Me too! I was once a liberal arts nanny, it seems, and now I wish I’d had that vocabulary to define it!
Me, too!
Me too! I nannied summers during college and recently babysat for non-family for the first time since graduating. I’m gchatting about this with my liberal arts nanny friend now.
On the one hand, extreme caving actually sounds like it would kind of rule. On the other hand, I HAVE SEEN THE DESCENT NOPE.
This is precisely why I also refuse to scuba dive.
http://31.media.tumblr.com/62ff8d256e0b84273ec621…
What are your Trader Joe’s favorites?? I have my staples but I’ve been trying new (to me) stuff there lately and most of it has been not super great.
My favorite cheese of all time is from TJs! It’s the wine-soaked parmesan… I think the label says “Toscano?”
All my favorite cheeses are there. The Havarti Dill is a great people pleaser for parties. And I buy the little medallions of brie and goat cheese – more expensive, but then I don’t have to choose between eating the entire package of cheese in one sitting or letting it sit in the fridge and spoil.
Unexpected Cheddar! It is actually a little crumbly, but is DELICIOUS.
WHAT how have i never noticed this
I want to try that! My favorite is the toscano with the black pepper crust. It’s delicious with red wine.
the salted almond butter! (not the raw kind, ew) I sometimes buy the $4 pomegranate seeds because I am lazy and don’t like opening pomegranates and buying those pretty seeds makes me feel fancy.
I love love love love love the vegetable gyoza (or at least I did, before they switched from canola oil to palm oil (i have a severe palm oil allergy)). I also like the beef and broccoli, the spanikopita, I’m told the artichoke dip is great, and the tuscan pane bread is excellent for paninis.
Ditto the spanakopita, and the PB-filled pretzels. Their turkey burgers aren’t bad if you’re looking for dinner on a random Tuesday night when you have 10 minutes.
Chocolate and cocoa covered almonds with sea salt.
Cheese,all the cheese, goat cheese, aged goat gouda, aged super sharp cheddar, goat yogurt, greek yogurt, potstickers, white whole wheat flour..I could go on
Seaweed snacks! The checkout person told me last time that people buy cases of them constantly. The case is like 40 packages.
I’m a sucker for a giant restauranty Caesar salad and I’d eat their house Caesar dressing on like anything in the world (especially shaved celery nom nom nom.) Also their corn salsa makes an easy enchilada filling with goat cheese and the salsa verde is good when I wanna make huevos divorciados.
Dried coconut as a snack, Ak-Mak crackers, those stupid chocolate bars with the cookie spread in them, their Botwswain IPA and American Ales (in Chicago, anyway) and oddly these chicken burritos that I used to eat a lot getting off late from work. That’s just sentimentality though.
I do not go to Trader Joe’s a lot, srs. (I mean, all my money would be gone).
Triple ginger snaps! Also those lime and chili cashews, orange champagne vinegar, and their baked tofu. Have had absolutely no luck with their bread, though – it’s always dry and gets moldy real quick.
The garlic hummus that comes in the giant tub is basically a food group in my house. I also always buy almond milk, eggs, and coffee there because they’re all consistently cheaper than anywhere else (weirdly true of some things but not others).
It’s also a great place to get quick lazy-person meals (little stuffed pasta things, potstickers, pre-made pizza dough, that sort of stuff).
Freezer: We usually have a couple of the four cheese pizzas in the freezer– pull one out, bake it, top it with a sliced tomato, a bit of salt, and some hot sauce. Dinner! The spanakopita and orange chicken are pretty good, too.
Refrigerated: ALL THE STILTONS WITH STUFF IN THEM. Cranberry stilton. Apricot stilton. Avoid the string cheese, it seems to be universally disgusting, we just pony up for the metric ton package of Frigo at Costco. The pizza dough is great, the Napa chicken salad (or whatever the wine country chicken salad is, the one with chicken and cranberries) is good on crackers. Kefir! The variety packs of fancy sliced meats, the one with capocollo is really good.
Everything else: the pine nuts are cheaper per pound at TJ’s than anywhere else except Costco. The various dried fruits (specifically the mango!) and nuts are pretty cheap. I like the TJ’s unsweetened coconut milk, the tomato-roasted red pepper soup, the rosemary-raisin crackers (all cheeses work with them), the chocolate-covered peanut butter-filled pretzels. The Valrhona chocolate.
Wine: the Honey Moon Viognier is really good, the happy face wine is gross. the Chuck beaujolais is great, I will buy it by the case. My friends like the almond champagne but I think it’s disgusting. They have pretty good prices on my favorite cavas (Freixenet, Cristalino) and red wines (Snoqualmie).
I also buy their tea tree face wash and they have insane pricing on Dr Bronner’s Peppermint soap (aka Crazy Peppermint Reacharound).
yep, I buy my nuts and dried fruit from trader joe’s whenever possible – much cheaper than the regular grocery store!
Their chocolate-chip-cookie-ice-cream-sandwiches are DIVINE. Otherwise I like their dried orange cranberries, these lemon cookies with some chocolate drizzled on them, and the dark chocolate covered raisins. My mom gets all her cards there too.
My all-time favorite item was the “Three Plus Blue” flatbread pizza thing which has, naturally, been discontinued. I haven’t seen it in years but I still look whenever I’m there, just in case (and they still carry the other flatbread pizza flavors, so it’s not totally crazy).
I have a lot of favorites.
TJ Indian Fare (packets)- Jaipur Vegetables
Fresh raviolis (near the hummus), especially butternut squash
Garlic naan (frozen)
Frozen fruit, esp mango
Cookie butter (now with nutella!)
Wild mushroom and black truffle flatbread (frozen)
Marinated artichokes (jarred)
Masala burgers (frozen)
Vinho Verde (sparkling white wine)
ooh and a new-for-summer thing that just came out: Watermelon Cucumber Cooler juice. So good.
non-food: Mango and Honey Shave Cream
I’m assuming you know they have great prices for almond milk, OJ, greek yogurt, nuts, etc. Their trail mixes are also boss but a little $$ .
You guys, I am so hungry right now. I want all the cheese as soon as possible.
Cookie butter, chipotle salsa, pineapple salsa (I don’t even like pineapple but this stuff is amaaaazing), goat’s milk brie, those frozen pesto tortellini bowls, frozen gyoza, frozen char siu bao. And like five other kinds of cheeses as well. Oh, and the guacamole, if only because those little packets are so convenient.
I like their chocolate covered espresso beans and their EVOO, and I find that their bell peppers are cheaper than the other grocery store I go to.
Their condiments are great: Green Goddess Dressing, Dijon Mustard (very spicy!), Hot Sauce, jellies.
Soup! Tomato soup in a giant carton is my lazy-dinner go-to; Also, the miso soup packets which you can add egg/noodle/ stiff greens to and turns into instant deliciousness.
Frozen Desserts to bring to parties / eat by yourself because you’re a Grown Ass Woman and you can have luscious chocolate cake whenever you damn well please.
Steak! They have great cuts of steak for like $5 and the quality is much better than (at least my local) grocery store cuts.
Also their standard medium roast Trader Joes coffee is phenomenal and smooth and not too acidic.
Signed plspassthePinot / Unpaid Trader Joes PR Representative
Soy ice cream!!! I had resigned myself to a lifetime of shelling out like 7 bucks for small containers of coconut or cashew cream stuff because most soy ice cream is not great, but I just discovered theirs and it’s 3 bucks for a BIGASS CONTAINER of creamy delicious perfection. Just wish it came in more flavors.
I have a short list of things I buy at TJ’s because I have also had your experience of buying new stuff and finding it not very pleasing. What I do like is pretty idiosyncratic:
– blood orange soda, grapefruit soda
– three-layer hummus: plain, cilantro, and red pepper
– speaking of red peppers, TJ’s has cheap jarred red peppers
– smoked mackerel, in a can near the sardines
– chocolate peanut butter pretzels, known chez nous as Period Kibble
– bagged frozen spinach, which is much less leggy and stemmy than frozen spinach from my supermarket
– gyoza, which aren’t great but make a mighty fast dinner with a head of broccoli and a dash of soy sauce and sesame oil
– during the holiday season, the peppermint JoJos
– I usually pick up a cheap log of goat cheese there, just in case
– red Lambrusco, which is sweet and soda-poppy. It tastes like grape soda decided to play dress-up as wine and I LOVE IT. (I found the white Lambrusco undrinkably sweet.) Five bucks, worth trying to see if you like it.
In general, I do better buying ingredients than prepared foods there. (Though I do have a weakness for the Mandarin orange chicken. Don’t bother telling me how awful it is; my small city is notorious for its dearth of even half-decent Chinese restaurants, so a dish of fake orange chicken tarted up at home with extra garlic and ginger and scallions and served with a pile of stir-fried broccoli is the best I can get without actually pulling out the wok and cooking a whole thing from scratch, which just isn’t worth it some days.) Every prepared meal I’ve tried from there needed some serious add-ons at home to make it worth eating.
I don’t buy fresh produce there unless I’m planning to use it w/in ~36 hours; I don’t know if it’s our location, a company-wide problem, or just plain bad luck on my part, but even the freshest-looking TJ’s vegetables (and sometimes milk) that I pick out goes bad pretty fast.
Unsweetened Cranberry Juice- last forever, use it with water and as a g&t mixer.
Dried coconut strips as a work snack, freeze dried fruits too.
I like the tuna curry packets as an emergency stash. You can stir fry whatever veggies you have to hand (broccoli, bell pepper, etc) and then pour the tun curry packet on top, Make rice and it’s a dinner for 2.
Lentil curls. Strangely addictive.
Cheap booze all the time.
Goat gouda! Also the gruyere here is the cheapest you are gonna get.
Steel cut oats.
This is the place for Grade B maple Syrup. And Grade B stands for grade best. (It’s the darker richer syrup from later in the year). if you live on the East Coast or in Canada I’m sure you get your maple syrup somewhere else, but as a New englander in the wastes of SoCal, trader joes is a blessing.
Mushroom turnovers are my favorite little thing to shove in my freezer.
Tea tree soaps for my gentleman caller.
Corn and Tomato soups in the boxes are both good.
Huh, nobody has yet mentioned the frozen rice that you zap in the microwave. The best one is a mixture of red rice, white rice, and black barley, but the brown rice one is good, too. I use it for the nights when I’m in a rush and just don’t have 20+ minutes for making rice — just want to pan-fry some fish quickly and have rice with it.
I also like the tiny frozen ice-cube trays of fresh chopped basil, and fresh chopped cilantro that they sell — *very* handy and thrifty.
I HATED Room a lot, but Frog Music sounds like it will be pretty good!
Also, who’s gonna make me a supercut with the Starship Troopers song but for Mass Effect? It must have ME2 awkward Shepard dancing.
When we, (native Californians and Trader Joe Cult members since childhood) moved to Virginia for career reasons there were no Trader Joe’s here. It was a culinary wasteland. We wrote, we begged, we pleaded with them.Then they opened stores here, now life is good.
I like this story.
That Archipelago piece hit me right in the feels. Time to write some postcards to long-lost friends.
Ohhhhh man, I just read it and I might have to go cry a little in the work bathroom. This is like reading a sideways alternate-universe story of my own life, except my Isaac isn’t dead and I need to go write him a letter immediately.
Thank you. It was hard to write, but I’m really glad to be able to pay tribute to Isaac and the different kinds of friendships that are possible.
I started reading that caving article and started panicky-breathing a few paragraphs in. NO NO NO. No small dark very crowded very underground very tight very dark very unknown places please and thank you. More for everyone else. Never take me caving.
ANYWAY, AHP’s article on liberal arts nannies was really interesting! I would like to read/hear a lot more on that.
The thing that really got me was that they spend days underground. Like, twenty days. In a row. GAH.
NO NO NO NO NO. Everybody else can go caving and not tell me about it. I still have regular horror flashbacks to:
1. The part in Cryptonomicon where they swim out through the underground tunnels and one guy takes a wrong turn and that’s the end of him.
2. The bit in the Lemony Snicket book where they stuff Sunny into a diving helmet and roll her along the ocean floor.
Minnesota is on the no booze in grocery stores train too. I always buy beer at the gas station when I’m home in Iowa, just because I can.
Speaking of MN – MPLS Toasties, there’s a meetup on Thursday! 8pm at Zeke’s on Lake Street. Triviaaaaaa!
YAY I AM EXCITED
Also our Two-Buck Chuck is Three-Buck Chuck ($2.99) but whatever, still cheap.
I would do it. The caving, that is. That is some fucking awesome shit!
New Emma Donoghue! New Emma Donoghue!
Also here in the lawless and debauched great state of Florida you can buy booze everywhere. Drug store, grocery store, bail bondsman, you name it. So we do have that going for us….
That AHP article was really great. I mean, as always. She has a knack for saying really smart things in a really straightforward way. It’s super impressive.
Also, let that be a lesson to you kids. If you are in charge of social media for a major corporation, keep your clipboard clear. 😀 😀
Technology has opened up new vistas in embarrassing yourself at work. That poor USAirways twitter person!
no way was that an accident!
I have a pressing question about caving stuff that I have never, ever seen addressed. Surely somewhere along the line, female spelunkers/mountain climbers/desert trekers/etc (basically anything where the phrase “Underwear is worn for weeks on end” is roughly applicable) menstruate. How on earth does that square with week long underwear? Most methods that come to mind would be wildly unhygenic/untenable in a cave, if even feasible. And why do pieces like this never discuss this? (Because only the dudeliest of dudely dudes go exploring, I know.)
Also, given that the undies involve metal threads, has anyone been electrocuted by them?
I think the menstruating ladies would either wear tampons or diva cups? Or they could fiddle with their hormonal birth control so that they skip a period? I don’t know! I have the same questions as you!!!
But tampons are far from leakproof, and divacup require sufficient wrangling that I’d imagine that’d be less than hygenic. My guess was the birth control idea, but even that presupposes that you’re on the sort of birth control that you can do that with and you don’t drop it down a crevasse. (I am sufficiently clumsy that I would totally do that on the first day.)
I WANT TO KNOW THIS TOO
I knew I wasn’t the only one!
Dear Toast Editors, Please find a Gal Scientist who can answer this burning question. Love, all of us.
There was a National Geographic article probably ten years ago about some months-long trek across a jungle somewhere, and that was honestly the first thing I thought about.
Honestly, I just assumed that – given the physical condition they would have to be in – they likely don’t menstruate. Right, like, if you lose enough weight, or your body fat content is low enough, it can mess with your cycles.
I have a Mirena and am one of the SO LUCKY people who don’t have periods while it’s in. I’m not kidding – I have had one, maybe two in the seven years I’ve been using the things, and both of them were at the 5-year changeover mark.
(I’m well aware of how blessed this makes me, although I will say that I suffered through 14 years of different
BC’s before my cramps no longer had me bedridden for 5 days/month. I passed out once while driving.)
So anyway, maybe they also have IUDs?
Why would you invite me to discuss the Pulitzer? You know I’ll just start bitching about that book again.
Oh, sure, Ted the Caver loved the thrill of exploring caves too, SEE HOW THAT TURNED OUT
hahaha can we review that there is both a link to the spelunking article AND mention of the US Airways twitter fiasco? Ahem. There were also some pretty funny responses on Twitter.
http://mashable.com/2014/04/14/us-airways-best-tw…
I really enjoy the paper plane landing next to the cat as the SFW translation.
Can we discuss GoT spoilers here? In general terms, I would like to state that before Sunday, I never realized how perfectly that world was positioned to become a misandrist utopia. Valar Morghulis, except Tyrion, who is only a half man and consequently exempted.
No, I am watching it tomorrow night, and then I will do a thread on Thursday for EVERYONE.
THAT VIDEO. Everything makes SENSE now.
PERIOD KIBBLE omg that's brilliant
CAVES.
I am mildly claustrophobic but I have always liked exploring. I would try it, were I in better physical shape.
Is this where I complain about how the government shut down the day before I was supposed to go to Carlsbad Caverns? Good. Because I’m still pissed about that one.
I like caves, but only in a “we made this one so your grandma can safely walk around in it and we added electricity” kind of way.