Happy Thanksgiving, and I'll meet you all after dinner at the Group W bench!
So I'm reading the Weisiger, which mentions the Navajo Reservation being repeatedly expanded, which surprises me. On topic because friendship with Natives, or something.
Speaking of friendship with natives, I watched Clearcut last night which I highly recommend.
Happy Franksgiving! Just learned about this from Kevin Kruse.
Also I can't remember the last time I had a Thanksgiving dinner with a bunch of people. Oh... now I remember about 15 years ago we had Thanksgiving at a restaurant with my mother-in-law and maybe my sister- in-law's family.
Happy Thanksgiving, and thanks to Heebie for maintaining the traditions.
After several years of making my own unsatisfactory gluten-free pastry at Thanksgiving, this year I bought premade GF pie shells. The pie-making process was a whole lot easier this way, but we'll see about the taste.
7: report back, please? I am always at a loss for GF treats to make (have one lab member with celiac).
I ran it in 40 minutes and was very proud of myself. The rest of my group all finished sub-30 minutes, and all did quite well in their respective categories of age and gender - Pokey got 5th place, Rascal got 4th, Jammies got 22nd. But I got 77th!
It felt great though - returning to health after illness, perfectly cool morning, I listened to Arlo and Lizzo - 10/10, no notes.
That's a really fast half marathon.
Congratulations, heebie!
Also, Arlo? Is that Guthrie or Parks?
2: Yes, it's probably 3 or 4 times the original size by now.
Played Alice's Restaurant for my nephew last night. His takeaway: "Man, songs used to be really long."
My kids do find it hysterical, but I walked them through the storyline ahead of time so that it would make more sense.
8: The pie crusts were fine. They weren't especially flaky, but they baked crisp, weren't gritty, and they tasted okay. I liked them better under the pumpkin pie (I did not parbake) than in the apple pie, maybe because one expects less from the crust in a custard pie. I think they were probably the best gluten free pre-made pie crusts I could expect to buy, and definitely better than any GF pie crust that I've managed to make on my own.
The brand I used was Wholly Gluten Free by Wholly Wholesome, and I bought the pie shells in a two-pack in the frozen section at Trader Joe's.
Saltines have to be better at preventing masturbation than Graham Crackers, but they had marketing people who were focused on soup accessories.
Wholly Gluten Free by Wholly Wholesome, and I bought the pie shells in a two-pack
Please tell me they have a Wholly three-pack.
24- Aren't saltines specifically involved in an apocryphal hazing ritual involving crackers, or is that just any old cracker?
I should add, hazing ritual involving crackers and masturbation.
Well now that googled it apparently the move common variant is a cookie, but I always heard cracker.
I'm not sure what you're talking about and I'm not going to google it. I was never in a frat.
Hey, speaking of schadenfreude, didjya hear what happened to a certain ex. MPD occifer? Heh. Heh. Heh.
American prisons are violent, uncontrollable hellholes by the standards of civilised countries but it's always important to remember that this is because a significant number of Americans (not all or even most, but some) like them that way, because they like to think of people suffering. The misery is the point. On the right this also leads to fantasies about shooting rioters and burglars; on the left, fantasies, equally unrealistic and masturbatory, about violent revolution.
Like the man said, it's as American as cherry pie.
31. So you're saying there are very fine people on both sides -- clever, didjya think that up all by yourself?
31. So you're saying there are very fine people on both sides -- clever, didjya think that up all by yourself?
31. So you're saying there are very fine people on both sides -- clever, didjya think that up all by yourself?
31. So you're saying there are very fine people on both sides -- clever, didjya think that up all by yourself?
31. So you're saying there are very fine people on both sides -- clever, didjya think that up all by yourself?
31. So you're saying there are very fine people on both sides -- clever, didjya think that up all by yourself?
31. So you're saying there are very fine people on both sides -- clever, didjya think that up all by yourself?
31. So you're saying there are very fine people on both sides -- clever, didjya think that up all by yourself?
31. So you're saying there are very fine people on both sides -- clever, didjya think that up all by yourself?
31. So you're saying there are very fine people on both sides -- clever, didjya think that up all by yourself?
31. So you're saying there are very fine people on both sides -- clever, didjya think that up all by yourself?
It's the opposite - there are very terrible people on both sides.
The corners are almost exclusively terrible. The edges are pretty cool.
8: The NYT has a cranberry curd tart with hazelnut crust. The curd isn't great (it's not tart and kind of bland but fixable if you're good at tasting and adjusting), but the crust is pretty good. Also, you can sub almond flour for regular in this tart crust, and it's quite good (probably not with pumpkin filling):
https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1020390-blueberry-cornmeal-shortbread-tart
We had a celebration of November birthdays at work and they had pumpkin pie so I got to have a bit of Thanksgiving food here.
Two things:
1. Tractors usually have a pretty high center of gravity.
2. Polite doesn't mean incapable.
I love how that article takes every chance it can get to say the tractor struck the police vehicle while also describing accurately what the video shows, which is that the police intentionally hit the tractor.
I read it as there was an initial collision caused by the tractor that was followed by the chase and the police driving into the tractor to stop it.
On the train home from the Thanksgiving family gathering, I met a retired couple from Huddersfield who frequently visit the US and usually visit a Cleveland Browns game; when I asked how they became fans of that team in particular, they cited their inclusion in sports compilation shows in the early days of Channel 4 in the 80's. (I didn't ask how the Ravens transformation affected them; they might not have been as big fans in the 90's.)