I just found out that the Amy's frozen dinners brand is now making a vegan mac and cheese that, according to everybody who's tried it, comes pretty close to approximating the Stouffer's frozen mac and cheese in taste. Unfortunately, it comes pretty close in nutrition info, too, so this is going to have to be a very occaissional treat.

Well sure, it's not like the Donner party had woks.

Now I'm wondering if they used spices.

"A little oregano, some garlic and pepper, and you'd never know it's grandma."

I'm a sick, sick person, huh?

This particular song features the line, "When you're fifteen, don't forget to look before you fall." Which isn't quite as bad as "You were Romeo, I was the scarlet letter," but still pretty bad.

Um, what? If you're going for meaningless incoherence, you need to go all out. "You were Little House on the Prairie, I was Wind in the Willows" or some shit. At least then you sound deep. Or crazy, but it's about the same thing.

The first few times I heard that song, I tried to convince myself that she was actually saying "I wore the scarlet letter," because that actually makes some sense as a sentence, even if it doesn't make any sense with the rest of the song, since the rest of the song is all about how young and innocent she was. But, no. It's definitely "I was the scarlet letter."

Full lyrics of "Love Story," the Romeo and Juliet song: [link] Also, note how one of the great tragedies of English literature is solved by "I talked to your dad."

On that a capella show from a few months ago, a group of women in their forties and fifties sang this song, and they made it actually make sense -- they sang it as older women looking back on the silly drama of youth, and it actually works when it's sung with some awareness that it is silly drama. It sounds ridiculous when sung seriously from the midst of that drama.

You were Romeo, I was the scarlet letter," but still pretty bad.

Wait, what? That is nonsensical.

I'm still reading the archives of Questionable Content, BTW. I'm about halfway through.

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I'm still reading the archives of Questionable Content, BTW. I'm about halfway through.

Heh. I went through that a year or two ago. Of course, there were fewer archives back then.

I'm going to the sweet and sour place. Will I get a seat? Stay tuned....

Heh. I went through that a year or two ago.

Marten and Faye have had The Talk.