Thad wrote:All grumpiness and snark aside, I love you guys, all of you, and I love this community. For all that this world can seem like a rotten place, it's better for having each and every one of you in it.
BEATING YOU WITH MY COCK UNTIL CANDY COMES OUTOf you. Not my cock. That'd be fucked up.
But seriously, yeah. These past couple years have been pretty bleak, and the world wasn't too rosy before either. Makes you want to cling to everyone like wreckage in an ocean storm.
And I'd only heard of Bourdain in passing before, probably during a Hayes/Maddow/O'Donnell commercial break. In that situation, it's kind of like something cool as you're getting hit with a tennis ball launcher: "OW! Trump-Russia! OW! ISIS and Nazis! OW! Wow, is that an okonomiyaki truck? OW! Tax cuts for the rich!" Still, damn. He seemed like a neat guy.