I liked Firefly well enough. Not as much as a friend who went to the local Serenity showing every year for a decade, but I wouldn’t have minded another season.

There’s a local Italian bakery, and I thought—yay, a panettone source! So I dropped by there today after my haircut. They’d never heard of it. I ended up finding it at Kroger, but c’mon, man. If you’re an Italian bakery, you ought to have panettone in December. Still, the local Kroger has pretty good bakery options. Loads of paczki options around Easter.

Yeah. I mean, broadly, I understand the disappointment...there is much more "Brilliant But Cancelled" in my viewing history rather than fixtures, aside from "Friends" and "Frasier" and, maybe "THe Golden Girls" which I watched because either grandmother liked it and because there was nothing on on Sundays but occasionally young fannish people ask me about it like I got to see Yalta first-hand. It didn't feel that way when I was watching it.)And, yes, I think I'm a Dorothy--she couldn't escape her mother either! (and most of that stuff didn't get a movie, y'all demanding bastards, I add with affection. And, yeah, the movie was, you know, exciting and stuff, but I go years without thinking about it, except that I see Morena in an ugly sheriff's uniform in a commercial now and then.) Wow, that's weird. Now I feel like Homer Simpson reading "Previous instances where I professed to like you were fraudulent." to Ned at the mental hospital(I guess that was a fixture once, too.)

An Italian bakery had never heard of pannetone? Who do they have working there?? It’d be one thing if they said “it’s a pain, we don’t make it” but…not knowing??

(I love pannetone but just get the Trader Joe’s version which is not amazing but oh well)

The local-to-my-work fancy grocery did a Reel or something of their holiday offerings and I think over half was variations on pannetone. But they don't bake it, they import it, I'm pretty sure. One of those things I don't really know what it is, I think because it's full of something I'm allergic to, but I have heard of it...