Author Archive: Sarah Hoyt

SOMEHOW I DON’T THINK HE’LL LIKE MELONI ANY BETTER:   TDS Drives Jimmy Kimmel to Get Italian Citizenship.

But we thank him for this, and will totally help him pack and give him a ride to the airport.

Wait until he finds out the romans were a colonialist, slave-taking world power.

FAR BE IT FROM ME TO SAY WE DON’T NEED ANYTHING FROM THE PAST:   The Old Beast.

But that past should not be the neolithic. Or the paleolithic for that matter.

I WONDERED WHY THE RICH VARIETY OF PORTUGUESE PASTRIES HAD COLLAPSED INTO THE NEVER SUFFICIENTLY D*MNED PASTEL DE NATA:  Cultural malapropagation.

I mean my kids were in their teens and I thought it would be nice to take them to some of the Victorian-looking coffee shops where my grandfather took me for high tea. Because I thought — being in the hollow leg stage — they could safely enjoy all the strange pastries available. But of course it was full of English tourists which we don’t object to, and pasteis de nata, which I did, since we were in Porto and the never sufficiently d*mned pasteis de nata are a Lisbon specialty. And it collapsed everything onto itself like a baking black hole.
And now they’re doing something repulsive — glares at picture — involving some kind of frosting to the bolos de arroz that were my breakfast during my college years. Look, I realize that I no longer have a claim to the country and its culinary arts. But would it be possible for you zanies to leave me my memories.  I guess I’d best buy a book of conventual Portuguese baking. In case there are grandkids at some point. They won’t be taught the language (well, the kids — and my husband — never learned). They don’t much care for the history or the culture. And I don’t mind any of that. They’re Americans. But we have to stop the British destroying the cookery. We must appropriate it first!

OH, WE UNDOUBTEDLY ARE. SOME AREN’T. BUT THINK OF HOW FUNNY THEIR DEMISE WILL BE:  We’re not going to survive, are we?

Fine, I have a sick sense of humor. (What? This is news to you?)

PHYSICAL, I DON’T KNOW, BUT IT’S TIME TO RETHINK THE UTILITY OF FORBIDDING KIDS FROM WORKING FOR MONEY, WHILE ENSLAVING THEM IN PUBLIC FACTORIES OF INDOCTRINATION THAT TEACH NOTHING:  Yearning for the mines.

AS THE LEFT LOOSES POWER IT GOES LOONY TOONS. NOT ONLY HERE:  The Bugs Bunny Trial.

THEY’RE GOING TO TRY. IT’S NOT GOING TO WORK:  The Plague Next Time.

The Covidiocy was definitely a “funny only once” and some of us weren’t laughing even then. Since then they’ve tried bird flu and monkeypox panics. And they’re going to try again. And again. And each time has less effect.