THE HAM IS ON FIRE DEAR GOD NO NO NO THE HAM IS BURNING
My uncle-in-law is now adding beer in an attempt to quell the grease fire.
Strangely, and against all odds, the beer put the fire out. Our Canadian guest is ecstatic that she has now witnessed a Real American Thanksgiving.
I have begun drinking Cuervo Gold out of airplane bottles. It is not a good tequila, but also the ham was on fire.
WHY DID IT TAKE THIS LONG TO THINK OF A CHURCH THAT OFFERS TEQUILA AS COMMUNION
Thanksgiving bonding has progressed to the stage where @lasrina and I have drunkenly agreed that in the event of a disaster, we would eat each other last.
Hey @jason0x21, our Canadian Amazon friend posed with a Turkey leg because we said it would make you happy.
WHEN DID MY IN-LAWS BUY A KAROKE MACHINE
My uncle-in-law, having torched the ham, is now crooning “Come On Baby, Light My Fire.”
My older stepson is trying to tell a story. This is not a skill he possesses. “So there’s this guy at work who was just not good. I’m gonna call him…
…dumbass.”
For anyone at home concerned, the ham survived with only minor charring and was delicious. We brought home many leftovers. My aunt-in-law tried to press more airplane bottles of Cuervo on me, but I forgot them in my dragon-like attempt to hoard the remains of the ham.
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Had to pull out PALADIN’S GRACE to look up what I’d previously said about some of the characters and I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t touched by the notes on what readers have highlighted.
A LOT of you liked this line.
And nearly two hundred knitters really liked the discussion of murdering someone with sock needles.
Honestly, I find this argument fascinating. Almost everyone agrees that yes, the books are also deeply humorless, yes, the movie is true to that, but many people seem annoyed if anyone mentions that fact.
That was the single most humorless movie I have ever seen. There is one joke, delivered by Jason Momoa, in the first ten minutes. Cherish it. There will not be another.
Uh…let me think. Okay. You know those big concept art books that are like THE ART OF THAT MOVIE and THE ART OF THAT OTHER MOVIE? If you flip through one of those, called THE ART OF DUNE, while listening to Philip Glass, you would largely replicate the experience of this movie.
Basically it’s very pretty and very long and everyone dies.
(That’s not a spoiler. It’s Dune. What did you expect?)
I have been playing around with #Townscaper, a neat little building...toy? game? thingy?...which recently ported to mobile, and spent probably too much time thinking about these odd little towns on the water, which meant that eventually a little weird fan comic came out. 1/11
I do in fact read everything on ebook, as my eyesight’s not what it was, but I do NOT want bookstores to get whalloped. Also, kid books are gonna be hit just as hard.
There are currently no good cheap e-readers that fill the niche of print for small children. I’ve been saying one’s probably a few years off since like 2010. I’ve been wrong every time.
And kids NEED books. For adults, it’s an annoyance, an emotional loss, a hit to our well-being. Kids, though, have windows of language acquisition, and they very much have windows where you can convince them that reading is not an instrument of torture.