That CNN piece is awesome Jilli!

I can't eat Coq au Vin anymore because it has mushrooms. Damn it.

Well, you can make Coq au Vin without them. I love mushrooms, but I do think the necessary ingredients there are: bacon, chicken, red wine. Everything else can be swapped out or substituted. Can you do it with eggplant instead? I've found it a moderately successful substitution.

Of course, this doesn't resolve the problems of ordering it in a restaurant.

Are you allergic, or is this merely recommended? I don't think I've heard of mushroom allergies.

Oh, I should have warned you, shrift--I'm coming to Chicago the weekend of Sep 7. My SIL got us tickets for Springsteen--9th row at Wrigley Field. However it's also the 1st anniversary of the opening of my brother's restaurant, so I'm not sure whether I'll have time to see any Buffistas...

Well, you can make Coq au Vin without them.

It's being served for lunch, so I'm out of luck.

Are you allergic, or is this merely recommended? I don't think I've heard of mushroom allergies.

Apparently I'm a special 1% of the population snowflake? I have an anaphylactic reaction. I'm also allergic to pollen and mold, so I think it's related.

Oh, I should have warned you, shrift--I'm coming to Chicago the weekend of Sep 7.

I should be in town if you do end up with spare time.

flea, if I were in your shoes, I'd bring Dillo tonight to meet the K teacher and let him know that you were hoping to enroll him and have the two of them at the same school. If he throws a fit and/or you don't think the K teacher is set to handle a K/1 split, you can always switch him back to his old school.

If you get a chance, I'd talk to the K teacher about how she plans to meet the needs of the first graders in her room. I could see it working out nicely for them. They'd sort of naturally rise to leadership positions in the class.

WTF. She's getting fired from jobs for screwing around???? In HOLLYWOOD???

That's my reaction. It reminds me of the treatment of Ingrid Bergman after her affair with Rossellini except that this isn't the fucking 50s anymore.

I don't know the details of the Snow White sequel, but it sounds to me like the studio was committed to the director and for whatever reason, the director felt that he couldn't work with Kristin Stewart again. Perhaps it was because his wife threatened the continual health of his balls.

I also heard tell that they had been planning a Huntsman spinoff anyway (without SW), so maybe that was there excuse?

unrelated to everything, I love the new No Doubt song and cannot stop singing it.

What to do? We can 1) tell him tonight and introduce the K teacher (who is very nice) and elide the whole uncertainty thing; 2) keep pretending he is going to the old school and tell him either when the situation is settled or the day before school starts, whichever comes sooner; 3) say to hell with this insanity and switch him back to our old school.

I'm with Jesse. Go with 1) with the introductions and elisions.

I concur with the group.

I'm never sure with Dylan how much information is enough. If I tell him something is certain and then plans change, he gets completely wigged out. If I tell him something is uncertain, he worries about ALL the options. So I would introduce him to the K-1 teacher and then if they hire a 1st grade teacher after all, deal with that separately.

Hey, do I win some sort of prize because one of the comments on the CNN article was about how I'm fat? I think I should get a prize.

your prize is a giant cluestick for use on trolls of your choice.

ETA. Really, there should be a troll bingo board.