I think an ideal triple-threat 70s movie night would be:
Network (1976)
Three Days of the Condor (1975)
All the President's Men (1976)
For the 80s:
War Games (1983)
The Terminator (1984)
Videodrome (1983)
For the 90s:
Grosse Pointe Blank (1997)
Crash (1996)
The Fifth Element (1997)
Remove Drumph from power.
Don't just remove the power. But also, remove the power.
Cancel ICE. Get rid of the Patriot Act. Defund the police.
Let's start from the rotten fish head and work our way down into every crevice of corruption and abuse, and exorcise it all.
I'm not into "pretend poor" but the affordability crisis is pretty intense for anyone who pays monthly bills. We are definitely paying attention; like yours, our margin is getting sucked toward serving someone else's. (This morning I held in my hands a small jar of mayo PRICED AT TEN US DOLLARS. AND THEN I PUT IT BACK. LMAO.)
Anyway, I'd love to hear your tips, tricks, and magical know how. I think we are in for quite a winter, northern hemisphere side.
And finally, there are some specific recipes that are amazing value for work involved/$ spent
This is why I posted my hilarious costo fries frittata 2 months ago and why I tell you I make amazing chicken broth with our saved vegetable scraps (big ziploc bag in the fridge, everywhere and always) every time I buy a rotisserie chicken or bone-in anything--because IT'S EASY, GOOD FOOD THAT IS ~ FREE
One hack: buy "split top chicken breasts"- your grocer/butcher can point them out to you. They are huge, bone-in, and you probably don't know what to do with them.
Here's what (trust me): Oven @ 350, Peel 4 carrots and 3 medium potatoes. Cut in thick slices (yes, THICK, the carrots, too). Put oil on a baking sheet- we like to use foil too, for easy clean up- put the carrots and potatoes on the sheet, flip once to coat, salt and pepper, put chicken on top of the veggies, salt, spice, oil on chix to taste, bake for like 50 min; BOOM. Amazing dinner for ten bucks. Leftovers. Bones for broth. 🙌
Do you have any idea how much food you are wasting? Did you know that is money into the trash?
It's easy to think you solve this by pledging not to ever waste food but in reality YOU SOLVE IT BY HAVING A FOOD BUDGET THAT FORCES YOU TO PLAN.
You will, I promise, waste SO MUCH LESS FOOD when doing so is what's coming between you and Friday night dinner and drinks at the place you love. You will HATE food waste. And you will pivot your thinking and buying to have less of it. This saves money. Real money. Possibly serious money, depending on your household.
Its just 22 days before Rep. Ilhan Omar faces reelection.
"The timing is notable because DOJ’s own rules caution prosecutors and agents against actions that could affect an election — or even create the perception that they are doing so."
We put ourselves on a food budget, with an eye toward both weekly and monthly, and then game the shit out of it. This takes some margin, but if you can set your goal where it's actually doable without suffering ... you want PLANNING and following through, not pain ... then you can make it flexible enough to reward yourselves if you stick to it.
I see people do this in ways that assume they are either super human or get off on being punished and I mean, whatever floats your boat, but I like to set it up so that we LIKE the thing, and I think we get just as good of results. So
*ANYTHING YOU ALREADY OWN IS FREE AND FAIR. Eat out of your pantry. Eat your freezer stores. Eat your leftovers. So much winning.
*Anything you can stretch farther, so long as people want to eat it, is also winning. (Do not push any limits as far as food safety and quality; jeez I hope I do not even have to say this ack. YOUR HOME EC TEACHER IS WATCHING YOU.)
*Extra money at the end= eating out AND TREATS
Somebody reposted this interview from Conan O’Brien and I’m struck by an immutable truth: some of us feel better when we read Ecclesiastes, and some of us feel worse. (I’m in the former camp, and I guess Conan is too).
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Sorry. Calvin Coolidge was a pretty popular president. I've
been to his grave in Vermont. It has the presidential seal on
it. Nobody was there. And by the way, I'm the only late-
night host that has been to Calvin Coolidge's grave. I think
that's what separates me from the other hosts.
I had a great conversation with Albert Brooks once. When I
met him for the first time, I was kind of stammering. I said,
you make movies, they live on forever. I just do these late-
night shows, they get lost, they're never seen again and
who cares? And he looked at me and he said, [Albert
Brooks voice] "What are you talking about? None of it
matters." None of it matters? "No, that's the secret. In 1940,
people said Clark Gable is the face of the 20th Century. Who
[expletive] thinks about Clark Gable? It doesn't matter.
You'll be forgotten. I'll be forgotten. We'll all be forgotten."
It's so funny because you'd think that would depress me. I
was walking on air after that.](https://spaces.hcommons.social/media_attachments/files/117/430/453/746/539/882/small/6e18cdb6698974ee.jpeg)
Some of ours ... I can't tell if these are manifestly obvious or things that are very habitual for me but maybe not so much for those raised differently or during different eras, so here goes
*think 'filler'- we serve things with meat IN them rather than, like, a cut of meat. Tons of ways to do this deliciously and healthily, from "hot dish" casseroles to one-pot stove top cooking to omelettes/frittatas to burritos and enchiladas
*We let the instant pot or crock pot do what it does best, buying cheaper, less tender cuts that need to be slow simmered for a long time, put them in with liquid and spices, and then enjoy barbecue sandwiches, chicken tinga, etc.
*We wait to plan meals for the week until we've gone to the store and seen what is fresh and cheap for both meat and produce, and then we build around that. This prevents disappointment if you can't get there in time to grab an advertised special, but does take some background cooking knowledge and self-restraint. We have those.
Tonight's movie is a classic adventure-romantic-comedy. Romancing the Stone (1984) is free to stream on Tubi.
"A mousy romance novelist sets off for Colombia to ransom her kidnapped sister, and soon finds herself in the middle of a dangerous adventure hunting for treasure with a mercenary rogue."
Stars Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito, Manuel Ojeda, Mary Ellen Trainor, & Alfonso Arau (El Guapo).
Directed by Robert Zemeckis, who also directed Back to the Future, Cast Away, and Forrest Gump.
Music by Alan Silvestri, who composed the music for those same movies and 140 more.
grocery store prices are absolutely off the hook bonkers and I'd love to hear how you're managing as well as you can
what are your best tips and tricks when things start to take this much bite out of your budget
to use a covid-era metaphor, we are not all in the same boat, but we are all in the same storm, and most of us are feeling it in one way or another
what adaptive hacks are you using?
I've picked a pair of movies for tonight.
First, A Bigger Splash (2015), directed by Luca Guadagnino, starring Tilda Swinton, Matthias Schoenaerts, Ralph Fiennes, and Dakota Johnson, is a drama about jealousy and murder.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Bigger_Splash_(2015_film)
Second, The Lover (1992), directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, starring Jane March and Tony Leung Ka-fai. It's a romantic drama set in 1920s Indochina.
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Time to get my other kid into Kraftwerk
U.S. Audiobook Sales Grew 9% in 2025, to $2.43 Billion (news from June) https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/audio-books/article/100588-u-s-audiobook-sales-up-9-in-2025-reaches-2-43-billion.html
It has turned into a beautiful, sunny day outside, with a temperature of 71F (21C). I have all my windows open, and up until an hour ago I was working on the book.
Then the flu decided vaccine to hit me hard with fatigue: I can hardly keep my eyes open. Luckily, being retired, I can just lean back and close my eyes and fall asleep. Talk to you guys later....
I got some rainbow suncatcher/rainbow maker clings for my work windows and it's brought me an outsized amount of joy
Liz Davidson dropped her latest @beyondsolitaire Solitaire podcast and YouTube talking with me about Designing Historical Games
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5cxS3m9r7s
Podcast: https://www.beyondsolitaire.net/
It's always a great time talking with Liz!
Last Week in the #PleiadesGazetteer (5-12 October 2026): over the course of the last week the Pleiades editorial college published 11 new and 136 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Catherine Bouras, Anika Campbell, Damian Noah Dimitrov, Tom Elliott, Greta Hawes, Brady Kiesling, Chris de Lisle, Gabriel Mckee and R. Scott Smith.
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