Jilli, I was in a BevMo today, skimming through the minibottles section, and I lit upon Absente. Is it any good?

Absente is pretty good. It's not the ZOMG wonderful stuff, but good. Miles better than Le Tourment Vert or Hills; avoid those two.

So how do you recommend I drink the Absente, oh, mannered Lady?

Well organized, well executed Walk of Shame for UC Davis Chancellor Katehi who authorized police force to remove protesters on Friday.

Oh, that is amazing. I'm so proud of them. I hope she felt the weight of that silence.

So how is Grimm doing ratings/having-a-future wise? Hubby has become enamored of the show, and I've caught up with it online. It doesn't suck.

Paging Jesse: was it Williams-Sonoma hot chocolate you were looking for a while back? It's available again [link]

Thank you! I imagine my family will be clearing them out. Also, ooh! Salted Caramel??? Yum.

Not Jesse. but I think I just added a W-S stop to my to-do list this morning.

Salted Caramel??? Yum.

Well, now I'm in trouble.

Yikes, with friends like these who needs enemas. A positive review of the Kindle Fire on Slate:

The Fire—which is both smaller and lighter than the iPad, but also chunkier and uglier—feels chintzy and ungainly in your hands. In portrait mode, it’s too narrow to hold with two hands but too wide for one. It has one of the worst speakers I’ve ever encountered on a mobile device. (If you want to do anything involving audio, you’ll need to use headphones.) The Fire also lacks important hardware features—like physical buttons to go back to the home screen and adjust the volume—which would be OK if its touch interface worked well. It doesn’t. You sometimes have to press on-screen buttons repeatedly to get them to register, and even then you’re not assured of success, because the Fire often misinterprets what you wanted to press.

The software is plagued not only with bugs—its built-in apps crashed on me a couple of times, including once when I was simply trying to search the Kindle bookstore—but also design flaws. Getting around from app to app takes too many taps, and there’s no easy way to customize the Fire to your own preferences. Among other things, you can’t delete certain icons from your home screen; the Fire’s front page shows a large icon for each bit of media you’ve encountered on the device, and if you want to show something else, tough luck. (Since I wanted to see how well the Fire handled full-color magazines, I bought a copy of Maxim from the Fire’s Newstand app. Now I can’t get the Maxim cover to disappear from my home screen. Embarrassing!)

Hey, have we had this totally-banal-yet-potentially-polarizing conversation yet? How do you cook bacon?