A Negroni...Ratbliato

Internet round-up from the week of October 17, 2022

Oct 21, 2022

Morning, friends!

I’m up early today because, being the good wife that I am, I got up at 5:30 to take my hubby to the airport. He’s off to Chicago this weekend to see some shows with friends and is also conveniently going to ship some of our last remaining items to us from our storage unit there.

Yes, Chicago, the Rattiest City in the US™. It just reminds me of the story I told some weeks back about riding around and seeing a monstrous rat right before we left. Surprisingly, though Chicago’s “award” (8th year running!) actually came to my attention because of a press conference in NYC (or really, just the quotes, like "This is not Ratatouille. Rats are not our friends.") — they’re also dealing with rats, and are trying to reduce the amount of time the city’s trash is out on the street.

NEW, SHORTENED HOURS AT THE RAT KING’S RAT BUFFET FOR RATS! THIS AIN’T RATATOUILLE, BUT IT’S STILL ALL YOU CAN EAT GARBAGGIO!

Lukas (computer) @SCHIZO_FREQ

Wow, okay, that was kind of an immediate rat onslaught. My b.

I spent Tuesday through Thursday this week in an in-person work conference (sponsored by work, with coworkers as speakers) which has been interesting but I’m also very glad to be working from home today and in sweatpants. My human contact limits have been drastically reduced since 2020, and I’m not mad about it. Plus I’ve got the whole house to myself this weekend, so it’s just silent in here. *chef’s kiss*

I’m *virtually* attending the keynotes for the Erma Bombeck conference this weekend, plus taking an online class, so it’ll keep me busy but in a quiet, I-can-still-wear-house-slippers-and-no-makeup kind of way. The dream.

Okay. Enough about me. Onto my selections from the drama of the internet this week.

Salad Freak

Lettuce start with Liz Truss.

Lee 🖖 Carter @carterforva

Liz Truss came into office, killed the queen, destroyed the Pound and the British economy, and then quit. I think we need to face the possiblity that she might have been an Irish sleeper agent.

Brodsky @a_drewsky

data is my passion

Graph depicting number of people named Elizabeth leading the United Kingdom. Graph spikes at two following appointment of Liz Truss as Prime Minister and before the death of Queen Elizabeth II. Graph falls to one following the resignation of Liz Truss 45 days later.

spooky!sum 👻 steves sweet ghoul @moththing97

IM IN TEARS THERES NO WAY CHANNEL 4 DID THIS HAHAHAHAHAHAAHAB #LizTruss

axaxaxas lmäo @demarionunn

hope king charles is well because there’s only one thing in the world rn that could make this funnier

And now, onto some dressing drama.

sarah ☕ @sarahthetaurus

"why does anyone even care about celebrity gossip?" I just read a headline that said jason sudeikis laid down in front of Olivia wilde's car to stop her from bringing Harry styles a salad with special dressing. I'm just supposed to scroll past that and go on about my day???

ilana kaplan @lanikaps

🚨olivia wilde gave us her salad dressing recipe which is from nora ephron🚨

Kelley Greene @kelleygreene

Making my special salad dressing for Harry Enten

Sorry to report that my husband yells “Your boyfriend’s on!” every time he appears on CNN to talk statistics.

Nisha Chittal @NishaChittal

yolk only omelette with special salad dressing and a negroni sbagliato

I couldn’t even get to everything in this tweet in this newsletter if I wanted to. James Corden’s wild omelette order and bad behavior, PLUS Emma D’Arcy’s drink of choice. I am online too much. But…this is why we are here.