You know, many nights I go home at night and I am so wounded from the conversations that I've had on TV that my dog Chip(ph) has to help me lick them up.

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The leans came more and more frequently -- and even the occasional chin lick, which made me feel like the queen of the world (or at least the new Brooklyn apartment that we all now shared).

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Good ribs are all over the place, but the best brisket is in Texas, and to me that means The Salt Lick, a rock-your-world temple of fire, smoke and meat outside Austin.

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The owner told me that the mail order version gives 95% of the eat-in taste, which is a fair estimate, and believe me, 95% of the Salt Lick brisket is better than 100% of whatever you have in your neighborhood.

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"This is so good, something bad's going to happen to me, " Mayer reflects after playing a lick from "Bigger Than My Body" off his new album.

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' And he'd tell me everything about the album, how it came to be, why Jimmy Page wrote that lick, what it was like with them when he wrote it, because he was on tour with them!

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