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This morning's featured Groupon is for Domino's Pizza. I may have loled.

And it's a dreadful Groupon -- $8 for a large pizza, online-order-only, carryout only. Which is not a groupon so much as a coupon you can get at Domino's pretty much half the year. Plus apparently you have to go to a special secret website they only tell you about once you've registered with them, which is pretty shady. Plus, Domino's Pizza is kind of gross.

Not as gross as the pizza I had last night from Apart Pizza, mind you.

I know I've wailed about this before, but I don't understand Chicago. Has nobody here ever heard of low-moisture mozzarella? Low-moisture mozzarella is what melts into delicious, creamy, soft cheese with a little caramelised crust on top, at normal pizza places. Chicago appears to have come to a decision, sometime before I moved here, that they preferred cheddar on their pizza instead. Setting aside the debate about whether deep dish is bullshit (though for the record, it is, and if you speak to most Chicagoans their only real defence of it when pressed is that it's good when you're drunk) every thin-crust pizza I have had in this town has had that disgusting grainy cheddar crap on it, the stuff that as soon as the pizza stops steaming fuses into a rubbery wad with oddly plasticine qualities to it. Pizza Apart has lovely crust, spicy sauce, nicely crispy pepperoni, and then ruins the whole damn thing with cheddar cheese.

Between deep dish and cheddar cheese, I do not understand how this town got a reputation for having good pizza. The one exception to the shittiness of our local pizza places is The Pie Hole, and The Pie Hole had to up sticks and move to Evanston, so I can't even get their Angry Pesto Pie anymore. Which for the record, if you live in Evanston, is amazing, and you should go and have an Angry Pesto and some parm twists in my name.

I would LOVE to support local restaurants, but it's very difficult to pay more than I'd pay at a delivery chain for pizza I actively wish to avoid.

I would make my own damn pizza, because I'm not bad at pizza crust and I have witnessed firsthand the glory of low-moisture mozzarella, but I can't get the stupid sauce right.

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And Lis Sladen is dead. Which I meant to address yesterday but kept avoiding or forgetting. I kind of blame it on the news breaking over Twitter. I think it's a shame that this is how we found out about it, and I kind of hope the people who actually broke it had permission, because otherwise that's a bit classless.

Um, but the point is, Elisabeth Sladen, who played Sarah Jane Smith on Classic Who, New Who, and in the Sarah Jane Adventures, passed away yesterday. She was awesome, and she played Sarah Jane as a badass and like a boss, and by all accounts she was a good person.

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Today has been somewhat difficult, and I have spent much of it frustrated...

BUT

I made Jeff Eastin LOL today with a stupid joke about pot.

So, not a total loss.

(Tim DeKay tweeted a photo and declared a caption contest -- you can see my caption on page two, under Ouija_Sam. The lulz itself is a longer and more complicated story, but that's the nugget of it.)