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Working around different ... thresholds, such as around spicy heat, can be challenging. We could (and have) get a pizza with jalapenos on half of it; I've taken to seasoning food I cook differently--where possible, keeping track of which item is hers, and seasoning it less than mine. I still...

I might put bacon jam, or onion/garlic jam on it, sure. :LOL:

That stuff, to me, isn't licorice--it's certainly not the flavor that makes me gag. It's not my favorite, either, but it's not horrific. Alas, I'm not a fan of any leafy greens, and how I feel about tomatoes as a topping will depend on how thoroughly they get cooked (I don't like raw tomatoes)...

I can't stand licorice at all, in any form. I can barely tolerate anise/star anise/fennel, even in contexts they belong. Jalapenos, pineapple, bacon/ham, onions. That's my own jam.

I like jalapenos on pizza, but my wife doesn't have as much tolerance for capsaicin as I do, so we don't do that much. I'm not normally a person to sprinkle red pepper flakes on my pizza, but I've come to appreciate Burlap & Barrel's Diavolo spice blend as a pizza sprinkle.

Licorice is an abomination, in any context. I could go with jalapenos and pineapple on a pizza, though.

I wouldn't be surprised to hear of someone using butter on top of a burger--this is a thing I have a vague sense I've heard of--and especially compound butter seems as though it'd be nice.

I think the closest you can get is to purchase a "smart" TV and just not hook it to your home network. I gather they're working on closing that loophole.

My wife and I make extensive use of our local library systems (we live in a place where we have ready access to four). This past Saturday I came home from the library with seventeen novels, it'll take me probably a couple weeks-ish to get through them.

Didn't he write essentially a self-caricature in "The New York Review of Bird?" (I don't know how to feel that I was able to pull that short story title out of deep storage, even if it seemed to take forever.)

Yeah, he blew up a lot of professional relationships. Like, really a lot. That seems plausible, all the way around.

That's the one Harlan Ellison was associated with, right? I remember reading a thing he wrote about some TV series, and all his conflicts (shocking!) with the producers, and I think that was it.

Yeah, anything that leaves people stuck overnight seems like a bad situation.

There was a thing in the DC area that was afterward referred to as "Commutageddon," when the snow A) was preceded by rain, to wash the melt-treatments off and B) arrived just as evening rush hour was starting. It took like eight hours for my friend and I to get home--and we knew someone who...

Dunno if someone's already answered this, but even by Guards! GuardsI Rincewind is at most a very occasional presence.

Honestly I think I gave up on Koontz for good sometime in the 1990s, though I saw inside a couple-three of his books since, when I was working at a studio recording audiobooks. If you read one of his books, it's probably OK. If you read some number of his books, especially if he wrote them...

I've driven all the way across North Dakota (from west to east, on I-94) and my dad was from North Dakota so I've spent time other than that, there, and I can confirm.

As someone who drove from suburban Maryland to Big Bend National Park ten months ago, I was going to have a response, before I re-read you and saw you'd included Texas. :LOL: I might include parts of Montana and/or the Dakotas in that, as well, though I don't know the geography of the Central...