You had me at blame Henry Ford.

I feel like The Librarian would take a lot of pleasure in finding University students with pristine collections and slipping in beaten up old paperbacks among them every now and then. The students think it’s a magic field around Unseen University but it’s actually an orangutan.

Violent World: Tribute to Misfits was a regular part of my CD rotation in the early 00’s. There’s a bit of pop punk, industrial metal, even a rockabilly track if I remember. It was a fun one.

Damn they made that leaf look so tasty.

My wife and I were having fun doing co-op on the Trine games. Coordinating your character switches to cross obstacles can be pretty fun. The Lego Star Wars games were also fun for us both to just mess around and cause chaos.

One of my favorite Halloween costumes is still a college acquaintance who came to the party as a banana slug. It was so sincere and heartwarming!

Brutal, I just beat this the other day. Must have been stuck on it a month.

Anora. The first half hour or so has a lot of party and club scenes and after a bit it feels like a tiktok feed. When it really dives into the story it gets good, with a lot of conflicting interests and very good performances. Overall my wife and I enjoyed it, and being rarely able to sit and watch a movie together lately that’s worth a lot.

You can candy the ginger, which will preserve it a bit and can be used in baked goods or eaten alone!

I have less experience with the curcuma but I’ve seen it added to smoothies. I think it can flavor some toasted nuts for a salad topping, or it can be made into a paste like you’ve done for a curry.

If you just got a point for never having written a postcard, go write a postcard! And mail it to someone that you appreciate in your life. It doesn’t need to be from anywhere exotic or say anything profound, it just takes a few sentences. If you really want to get fancy about it, a lot of little art galleries sell postcard sized prints and you can give someone a tiny little piece of art that speaks to you. Or go to a museum and buy like 10 at the gift shop and keep a stockpile to send when you want to reach out. People love it, and you probably will too.

Our rescue was a “lab/beagle” on paper, but yeah she’s definitely got some American Staffordshire Terrier. Our HoA is very dog friendly and she’s a favorite around the neighborhood. If you adopt a mutt in the US they’re going to have at least some kind of pittie in the mix.

“Most Egregious Truth Stretching About Breed to Skirt HoA Regulations Against Pit Bulls”

“What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Royal Capital, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on Caelid, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I’m the top sniper in the entire armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before in this world, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You’re fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the loyalists and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You’re fucking dead, kiddo.” - Soldier of Godrick

I caught this in theater and it was really an experience. The sound was designed to rotate speakers around the audience in the third act to add to the disorienting effect of the lighthouse. I can’t say I love the movie overall, though I appreciate how ambitious it is, but it was the kind of theater experience that took me back to being a kid and watching the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park on the big screen. I haven’t had the heart to watch it since in case it doesn’t hold up on my humble home system.

Got the Hot Date achievement on Steam the other day for romancing Karlach and it’s only at about 5% of players. Y’all sleeping on the big red woman.

Nice to see Discordians represented. Lousy Discordians. They ruined Discordia.

Don’t know about this Peat fella but his bog is sorely lacking cranberries

Had an edible on a snowy Sunday and rewatched Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind with my family. It was a damned cozy afternoon.

This is why the DPH awareness campaign referenced in the article is so important. This is some predatory bullshit interfering with people’s healthcare. Ain’t always fun being in MA but this is leading by example.

It’s a portmanteau of Pennsylvania and Kentucky referring to rural parts of the state, specifically Appalachia, being more culturally southern than the rest.