That might have been true in 1935 when soap commercials aired on the radio with daytime dramas. That’s not what defines a soap opera some 90 years later.
I’m eagerly awaiting volume 2. As a former born and bred New Yorker, I can say she nailed it.
Blame the New Wave. I agree too much fantasy, but I have nearly every magazine and most books from the '50s and '60s, and the percentage of real science back then was not a lot greater than today. You might be fondly remembering Clarke and forgetting Bradbury.
I understand why they do that - if you had to write half an hour or hour of material every damn weekday you wouldn’t be rushing through plot points either. Not just TV - someone said that if you returned to Mary Worth 2 months later they’d still be having tea and talking about the latest crisis.
But weekly shows with now maybe 20 episodes a year don’t have to do that. I guess it is a function of how so much material is produced which makes it impossible to expect much creativity. It used to be reusing plots, not it is expanding them.
I was confused too, but I did then recall that inn some regions of the US anymore is used as synonymous with “these days” so maybe that’s what the OP meant?
OP: this!
synonym for nowadays,…
but thread is flowing nicely
Good observation. Pianist here (well, a few other instruments too, but not violin or guitar), and the ring finger is indeed the fourth, as I recall my long-ago piano lessons.
My ex-wife could play the violin beautifully, and we had a few discussions about which finger was the third and which was the fourth. Yes, we were that exciting.
Blame it? Give me Zelazny and LeGuin over Clarke and Asimov any day of the week. The only pre-1960 SF writer who’s still readable is Jack Vance.
The ubiquitous portion of rice that fills one quarter of the plate whenever you order a meal at a Mexican restaurant.
No matter where you go, it’s almost exactly the same. Unlike the beans, restaurants make no attempt to put their unique spin on the boring orange pile beyond a few crumbs of cotija. The best day of my life was when I discovered most places will let you substitute double beans for the rice.
Fast food Mexican rice in my experience is almost always terrible, either bland or over cooked.
On the other hand fast food Chinese rice in my experience is almost always great, either white or fried.
Maybe both those places should share tips.
I don’t get oversized burritos or sandwiches that are difficult to pick up with one hand and spill all over the place. Put that extra filling into a second one, instead.
Heh. My Wife and I went out for Mexican yesterday. I had a chili relleno and taco. About right for me. My Wifes burrito could have fed three. We brought it home of course, so that’s ok. But sheessss.
Yeah, add me to the list of those who don’t quite “get” burritos. I mean, I “get” them in the sense of a filling, easy-to-eat Mexican or Tex-Mex or Cali-Mex dish, but it’s just too much crap in a tortilla for me. Just way too heavy, especially the rice-stuffed ones. They just all seem out-of-balance to me. I’d much rather have two or three tacos or something else. Burritos are less messy, I’ll give them that. I’d prefer for them to be served something like a schwarma wrap, with a better balance between meat and vegetables. Two or three beats of a normal burrito and I feel like a brick has been dropped in my stomach.
(Now, I have had much more minimalist styles of burritos that are actually pretty good and balanced. But, for the most part, most burritos around here are of the “as big as your head” mindset.)
What sort of drinks?
When I was in college, cocktail parties were a big thing. Mostly we just served very simple mixed drinks - screwdrivers, vodka & cranberry, sex on the beach, gin & tonic, Jack & Coke. Basically anything that consisted of 1 alcohol + 1 or 2 mixers. Gin and vodka don’t really taste like anything by themselves, but in my experience the cheap stuff makes you feel like crap the next day.
Yes. Rice stuffed in bread is an abomination.
What kind of drinks?
The cheap stuff that makes you feel like crap the next day. This was not the sort of school where students drank cocktails. This era was heavy on Cisco singles.
They’re only local to Washington, but Taco Time NW, and more regional Taco Time (Eastern WA and adjacent states and Alaska), offer very minimal crisp burritos, just 2-3 ingredients and about and inch in diameter. Definitely an outlier and not what I think of as “traditional” Mexican food.
I wonder though if burritos were meant to be a sort of Cornish Pasty self-contained meal and just grew from there. Time to go look that up.
A burrito originated as a slightly larger taco. In fact, a burrito is actually just a type of taco.
This is a bit of my frustration as one who wants to support and display inclusiveness. The ever increasing acronyming has passed the point of representation and moved into sanitization, in the way that Black Lives Matter gets washed out by All Lives Matter. One segment with a voice and message trying to be heard is drowned out by the obligation to hitch every other segment to their message at risk of being criticized for being exclusionary.
There must be a better way to support inclusiveness than the ridiculously clumsy LGBTQ… Et al acronyming.
One of my favorites is from a place in Pheonix metro:
There’s a place around here called Burritos Juarez that used to have a style similar to that, but they closed. I’m sure there must be a place in the city that does that style, but I haven’t tried digging for it.
It seems to be a thing nowadays … what about the caps/no caps/caps/no caps/caps/no caps/ i feel i read ever-more-often…
e.g.
“TrAnSpHoBiC”
(concentrate on FORM, not MEANING)
what is this???