Does it VTSOOBC to quote only your own words?
Happy Thanksgiving everyone. This really is a special community.
The long-term lurkers are grateful too. Happy Thanksgiving.
Happy reprobates, thanksgivers!
Happy Thanksgiving to all who reprobate?
So I guess no more reprobating to Alice.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone, and thanks for keeping this blog alive, heebie! I appreciate being only rarely resented, and I'll try to carry that spirit forward as I visit my family this holiday season.
Happy Thanksgiving. Sorry I overcooked the turkey.
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!
We're actually cooking for Thanksgiving for the first time in memory. It turns out there's a reason why we don't cook. We don't actually enjoy it.
I trust the eating will be enjoyable anyway.
We're also doing the cooking thing for the first time in many years, and have learned valuable lessons that we will forget before the next time we decide to do this.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Happy Thanksgiving!
Can't make me!
You do great work HG! Thanks, all!
For those of you wondering, I did find a place to put 1/15th of a ton or garbage. There may be junk mail in the bags, but I've chosen dumpsters that are only going to be used by minimal wage workers, and their trash bags are also white, so I think I'm going to get away with it. I'd better, because none of the judges here are blind . . .
See you soon on the Group W bench, Charley.
I am trapped in an Alexa-infested house.
I did get it to say "I like Amazon; without Amazon I wouldn't exist." And if you question its veracity it gets remarkably defensive.
We're having a Very Whole Foods Ordered Thanksgiving.
My family is having Thanksgiving tomorrow, because that's when my brother can be here, and M had to go to PHX at the last minute because his mom is sick, so it's not particularly festive here today. It's also suddenly very warm - mid 70s - which adds to the unholiday feeling. But the library just sent me the new (or new-ish -- it was a very long holds queue) Sally Rooney and Michael Connelly books, so happy Thanksgiving to me!
My dad is visiting, which makes four people at the holiday meal, and as usual I cooked for ten. It's never a problem until it comes to doing the dishes.
We're having a Very Whole Foods Ordered Thanksgiving.
We did this too, with my dad's cousins in Flagstaff. They ordered way too much so my mom and I dropped off the excess at the homeless shelter.
We went friends' and it was a large party. The couple hosting and her sister. Her two sons and their wife and partner. Daughter-in law's mother. Other son's partner's parents. 2 other friends from their church. 2 Ugandan friends N dithering wives and kids (4 + 2, for a total of 6 kids under 9). Way too much food.
Glad I wasn't hosting because we just noticed that our dishwasher is leaking.
People spent all their money on fancy gravy from Whole Foods when they don't realize how easy it is to make gravy. The hardest part was that someone has complicated feelings about the drippings, so I had to make a gravy without it.
The American (2010) is a really good movie. Almost startlingly good. On topic because title and also bleak emptiness.
Americans used to eat raccoon on Thanksgiving. And I threw away a perfectly good one just a few weeks ago.
18: that's how I feel about cranberry sauce. But both came automatically with the whole foods package of side dishes we got.
We had the Whole Foods cranberry sauce and the regular stuff from the cans was better.
We didn't actually open the can this year. I'm just going off my memory. So, I guess you are right.
I think I used a whole pound of butter on the turkey, gravy, and mashed potatoes combined.
Happy Thanksgiving. I'm very thankful you've kept this blog & this community going so that I can drop in occasionally.
Happy Thanksgiving to all who reprobate?
I've been enjoying this turn of phrase.
Continuing thanks to heebie for keeping the blog cranking. Has been my mostly online home for about 18 years I think. Previous "homes" had been alt.folklore.urban in the 90s and Michael Berube's blog (plus the short-lived WAAGNFNP spinoff where I was actually an FPP). So a definite "thing" in my life, like being a Mason, or a frottageur, or whatever. And maybe even a positive one.
I only ever lurked alt.folklore.urban. But I spent a lot of time there.
Context for hg's VTSOOBC was my expressing admiration/concern for the level of commitment that led her to post whilst in the throes of family travel. Which chaos led her to being wrong on the internet.
Not that it matters that she was wrong and I was right I should point out.
Happy Day-After-Thanksgiving, all! This community means so much to me, and I'm grateful to have you (virtually) around.
I know we weren't able to get it together for a 20-year meetup, but I think we should seriously start considering a 25-year bash in 2028. I need something to look forward to.
34 seconding the various sentiments about the blog and its community and J, Robot in 34.2 for a 25 year anniversary meetup
Despite spending the most time on here when things have been worst in my life, and when I've most needed to get offline, I'm very grateful for this place. My life is objectively pretty good right now, and I doubt some of the key things that brought me here would have happened without the mineshaft.
Not sure I can commit to being there (better chances if it's in the summer), but definitely support the idea of Unfogged25Con.
OT: The brother of the dead guy is Meryl Streep's son?
I'm familiar with several women that aren't Meryl Streep. Could you be more specific?
This is some quality vague-blogging.
Irregularly annual gluten-free holiday baking report:
The King Arthur Flour gluten free piecrust baking mix is really impressive. The dough was very crumbly and difficult to manipulate, but the end result was crisp and tasted good. I blind baked one crust for pumpkin pie, and used another crust for apple pie, and both were successful. Whenever I try to make a gluten free pie I end up concluding that the effort wasn't worth the result, but I would definitely make this piecrust again.
I made a cornbread out of equal parts mochi flour and cornmeal, and it was delicious. I would make this again even if I didn't have gluten intolerant guests.
Pumpkin muffins made out of Krusteaz Gluten Free flour baked up nicely, but they had a tinge of bitter aftertaste and a slightly gritty texture.
I bought corn bread and then it was turned into stuffing.
Paul Rudd has a nice hat. Meryl Streep does not.
which of the pickwich triplets did it? which of the spawn had the brawn to kill?
Have you considered that every one else is a season too far ahead?
I didn't tell the tragic part of my Thanksgiving dinner story in 48, which is that I carried my pies in a two-tiered tiffin, which is really cute but ridiculously unstable, and I must not have been holding it right because when I got out of the car it came apart and spilled its contents into the street. The pumpkin pie was still encased in its compartment, but the apple pie fell facedown into the gutter. I literally screamed. I was going to abandon it but my brother assessed that at least half the pie had not actually come into contact with the pavement and tipped most of it back into its pan. It looked very scrambled but tasted fine, at least for a gluten-free pie that had come from the gutter.
In TV news, I'm finally watching The Bear, and it's fine, but I don't see why everyone loves it so much? I don't really like the kind of show where everyone takes it in turns to talk about their Feelings in some kind of contrived conversation that people never have in real life, and that's what this show is turning out to be. I liked the episode where they fed a bunch of xanax to little kids.
Heretic starts fun but turns into meh horror tropes. 3/5, won't watch again. TBH 2/5 without the Mormon-baiting. Could have been really good if they'd followed the logic without the horror. Anyway, I hope the late Hugh Grant villain turn continues.
Give it back or I'm telling Putin.
Belated thank yous to Heebie for keeping the blog running!