gnarl, grumble, murmur, mutter, croak - make complaining remarks or noises under one's breath; "she grumbles when she feels overworked"
grouch, grumble, scold - show one's unhappiness or critical attitude; "He scolded about anything that he thought was wrong"; "We grumbled about the increased work load"
You can grab a nitro cold brew ($5) and kvetch about politics with a friend, extend date night into the next morning with a hoecake ($13) and pork belly ($9) brunch, or hoist an after-hours Paloma ($7) with your cubicle mates.
Three that were not liked were Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods by Michael Wex; The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson; and American Dervish by Ayad Akhtar.
That same person--me--apparently spent only slightly less than a year in 40 years commuting, so it raises the question: Why do people kvetch more about wasting time in traffic than wasting time at work?
Starting with Issue 7, a theme is stated on the cover--from "Outlaws," "Women at Work," "International Fetish," and "Disastrous Relationships" to the "Kvetch" issue--and the comix within loosely relate to the cover subject.
In space, everyone one can hear you kvetch. That appears to be standard operational procedure aboard "Space Station 76," an Intergalactlc deadpan farce that suggests a daft mashup of "The Ice Storm" and "Space: 1999." With the aid of ensemble players who maintain admirably straight faces amid the absurdity, director Jack Plotnlck gets an Impressive amount of mileage from a concept--characters In a futuristic sci-fi setting evince 70s angst and attitudes--that might seem at first blush barely adequate to sustain a "Saturday Night Live" sketch.
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