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James Lileks' The Diner: Warning Lights on the Dashboard of Life

The Ricochet Superfeed

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News, Politics

4.4652 Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Ignore them at your peril.

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0:00.0

The weather. Tomorrow, expect a biting cold front. Hmm, how naughty. I wonder what I'll be

0:06.8

wearing or taking off. The night will be wild and untamed. Expect heavy, lashing rain

0:13.0

that'll soak you to the skin. By Monday, temperatures will rise slowly but surely reaching

0:18.7

their peak in the afternoon.

0:23.0

Not in the mood for miserable weather.

0:25.8

Fly cheaply to Turkey with Sun Express.

0:44.9

Sun Express, non-stop sunshine. Hot apple pie.

0:47.0

Simple as that.

0:48.8

That's what I'm going to have.

0:51.2

Maybe even with a piece of cheese on.

0:53.6

We used to do that at the restaurant. I never understood the attraction until I tried it.

0:57.2

And then I thought, wow, this is hot apple pie with cheese on it.

1:02.4

It was one guy who'd always send his back because it wasn't hot enough.

1:07.1

No, never good enough for him.

1:09.9

Even though the fact that the cheese had probably just melted away into nothingness, a little bubbly patina, a little cheese patina.

1:17.9

He'd still send it back, I want it hotter.

1:20.0

So they'd put it in the microwave.

1:21.7

They'd mic that thing for three minutes.

1:25.0

And when it came back, he plunged his finger into it,

1:28.1

and the Yelp was heard throughout the restaurant.

1:30.7

So I seemed to remember.

1:32.9

Or I read that in a book.

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