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Finished reading:

Lone Sloane: Gail by Philippe Druillet (Author) - This story is weird or something. This weird guy gets captured or something and he has to escape what looks and feels like hell. dont worry about the dumb story tho. This comic is all about the craziest art I've ever fucking seen. Its all like super mega detailed and metal as hell. I wish I had a van so someone could airbrush this art on the side of it (and maybe a sick wizard on the hood or somethin)

Currently reading:

Moby Dick by Herman Melville - More whaling minutia

Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters by Richard Rumelt (Author) - Focus on what sets your company apart. Make it your advantage.

Wonton Soup: Big Bowl Edition by James Stokoe (Author) - Some guy and another guy are space truckers that also cook food. This seems like its gonna be a weird one.

Currently listening:

Phantom Keys by Nakibemebe Embaire Group & Naoyuki Uchida - This is really rhythmic african percussion that is mixed live in some neat ways (i think its mixed live anyway iirc) Very trance. I like it a lot.

Observance by Primitive Man - Drone metal gods Primitive Man have a new album that rips. I'll actually see them on tour next month.

Currently Watching:

Lotsa packers. Saw them against the Giants two weeks ago, and i'm glad we won but we looked like shit. Then this Sunday against the Vikings where we looked a LOT better. Still, Vikings had slight success against us which was frustrating. It coulda been a different game if JJ Mcarthy didnt suck so much. Oh well, a W is a W. And another football game tomorrow!!

The AEW ppv has been really good thus far. I have about an hour to go still but so far I've really enjoyed all of the matches.

I watched the first gundam movie with Elen and Clara. It ends in a weird place, but its just 1 of ... 4 i think. So I guess we'll watch the other ones soon.

Currently Playing:

lmao i cleaned the tub but read books instead. Ill probably finish deltarune eventually... Also, GGDG's Soul of Sovergnty came out this week. I might play it over the weekend if i have the time.

Also I found this minesweep game which is a lot of fun, especially if you love minesweeping as much as I do.

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This is a rerun. What are you going to do, call the manager?

Greetings, Wonketeers, and Happy Thanksgiving! I’m Hooper, your bartender, and it’s quite a week. Blackout Night, dinner with the extended family … it’s exhausting. Let’s sling together some odds and ends from the liquor cabinet and make a nice whiskey sour with some holiday ingredients. Time for a Flying Turkey. Here’s the recipe:

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Flying Turkey

2 oz Buffalo Trace Bourbon

1 oz Ocean Spray Cranberry Cocktail

1 oz cinnamon syrup

1 oz fresh lemon juice

½ oz pineapple juice

2-3 dashes orange bitters

Shake all ingredients and serve in a double old-fashioned glass over ice. Garnish with a lemon wedge and cinnamon stick.

Cinnamon Syrup

1 cup white sugar

1 cup water

1 2” cinnamon stick

Heat all ingredients over low heat until the sugar dissolves. Bottle and store in the fridge. Will keep 4-5 weeks.

Okay, okay, the odds and ends of my liquor cabinet are a bit fancy. Don’t sweat the small stuff. This recipe is a sour, just like the Cosmonaut we made a few weeks [year/s] ago. Citrus + sugar + booze = tasty drink, remember? We’ve added some cranberry, pineapple, and cinnamon, but the core of a basic whiskey sour is still there. The bitters smooth over some rough edges in the flavor profile and tamp down the sweetness. If I was making this professionally, I’d sharpen up my ratios and play with some other ingredients. But for the kitchen table the day after Thanksgiving, it’s just fine.

When I started planning the cocktail, I had envisioned a cranberry margarita. But then my friend at the liquor store hooked me up with some Buffalo Trace, which is as rare as hen’s teeth here in Ohio. I couldn’t pass that up. The distillery that makes Buffalo Trace produces Pappy Van Winkle — a holy grail among bourbon fans. Bourbon hunters are desperate to snatch up anything from the Buffalo Trace distillery, even this very nice but not impressive core product from their line. I paid about $20, which is what it’s actually worth. Resellers will cheerfully double the price for a bottle of Buffalo Trace online. It’s completely out of hand. (I once offered to sell the cardboard box a case of Buffalo Trace came in to a customer for $5. He seriously considered it.)

The trickiest part of this drink was the pineapple juice. The cranberry and lemon needed something stable to keep the flavors harmonious. Pineapple juice will do that easily, but if you add too much it will take over a drink. A light hand with the pineapple is ideal.

I had considered using leftover cranberry sauce instead of Ocean Spray in the drink. Regrettably, what thrives on the turkey day table doesn’t translate well to the cocktail shaker. Strained cranberry sauce reads as dark and earthy, and doesn’t cooperate with the other ingredients well. Stick with the classic Ocean Spray juice cocktail. It’s a terrific mixer, and keeping a few small bottles in the fridge will save you in case there’s a need for emergency Cosmos.

I should also note, with mild embarrassment, that this cocktail is very similar to 2022’s Thanksgiving cocktail, The Cold Turkey. I used some fancy-pants rum and bigger juice proportions in 2022, but the base of the drink is similar. Easy to do when you’re using cranberry as your core flavor profile, I suppose. Enjoy the leftovers!

Let’s talk ingredients:

Ingredient shot. The cocktail disappeared mysteriously after this photo was taken, along with some very nice turkey hash.

Buffalo Trace Bourbon: Any decent American whiskey will do just fine here. I’d give some thought to using a rye whiskey like Rittenhouse Rye to add more spice notes. But the lingering oak and caramel finish from a true bourbon play out wonderfully. Despite the drink’s name, I do not recommend using Wild Turkey in this cocktail. It would be cute, but ultimately you’d regret it.

Ocean Spray Cranberry Cocktail: I’ve looked into using pure organic cranberry juice for cocktails. Unfortunately, it’s ugly expensive and unbearably tart. Stick to the classics. You won’t regret it.

Cinnamon syrup: Store the cinnamon stick with the syrup in your fridge. The cinnamon flavor will get more intense over time. This syrup finds its way into all kinds of cocktails when I keep it in stock, especially rum concoctions.

Lemon juice: Always use fresh. Lemons are a more intense flavor than limes, so I use them sparingly in most of my drinks. But when winter rolls in, the limes available in Ohio become small and dry. Bourbon and lemon don’t overwhelm each other in a glass, so I find myself making more whiskey sour variants when cold weather sets in.

Pineapple juice: Unlike lemon, you should avoid fresh pineapple juice for cocktails. It’s acidic to the point of being caustic. I use the little cans from Dole.

Orange bitters: The sugar in this glass is a bit much; the bitters tamp down the sweetness and let other flavors shine.

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Title: The Once and Future King
Author: T.H. White
Genre: Fantasy adventure

Last night I finished The Once and Future King by T.H. White, because I felt like it was time I made a real foray into the Arthurian legends. The actual first Arthurian book I read was The Mists of Avalon, but that was years ago and before I had heard the full story about Marion Zimmer Bradley. This book takes a decidedly different tone. I’m sticking to the most common name spellings for all of the characters here, because spellings do vary across all versions of these legends.

The first thing that surprised me about The Once and Future King is that it’s funny, and frequently in an absurd, dorky kind of way. Knights failing tilts because their visors fell over their eyes wrong, Merlin accidentally zapping himself away in the middle of a lesson because he was in a temper, the Questing Beast “falling in love” with two men dressed in a beast costume, that sort of thing. This silliness is largely concentrated in the first quarter of the book, which is about Arthur’s childhood, but it’s never fully lost.

The second surprise was how long the book focuses on Arthur’s childhood, but then again, it is setting the scene for Arthur’s worldview and the lessons he internalized as a child which shape his approach to being king.

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Michael Grunwald, We Are Eating the Earth: The thing about land is that they aren’t making any more of it, and although you can make more farmland (for now) from forests, it’s not a good idea. This means that agriculture is hugely important to climate change, but most of the time proposals for, e.g., biofuels or organic farming don’t take into account the costs in farmland. The book explores various things that backfired because of that failed accounting and what might work in the future. Bonus: the audiobook is narrated by Kevin R. Free, the voice of Murderbot, who turns out to be substantially more expressive when condemning habitat destruction.

Tony Magistrale & Michael J. Blouin, King Noir: The Crime Fiction of Stephen King (feat. Stephen King and Charles Ardai): Treads the scholarly/popular line, as the inclusion of a chapter by King and a “dialogue” with Ardai suggest. The book explores King’s noir-ish work like Joyland, but also considers his horror protagonists as hardboiled detectives, trying to find out why bad things happen (and, in King’s own words, often finding the noirish answer “Because they can.”). I especially liked the reading of Wendy Torrance as a more successful detective than her husband Jack. Richard Bachman shows up as the dark side of King’s optimism (I would have given more attention to the short stories—they’re also mostly from the Bachman era and those often are quite bleak). And the conclusion interestingly explores the near-absence of the (living) big city and the femme fatale—two noir staples—from King’s work, part of a general refusal of fluidity.

Gerardo Con Diaz, Everyone Breaks These Laws: How Copyrights Made the Online World: This book is literally not for me because I live and breathe copyright law and it is a tour through the law of copyright & the internet that is aimed at an intelligent nonlawyer. Although I didn’t learn much, I appreciated lines like “Back then, all my porn was illegally obtained, and it definitely constituted copyright infringement.” The focus is on court cases and the arguments behind them, so the contributions of “user generated content” and, notably, fanworks to the ecosystem don’t get a mention.

Stephanie Burt, Taylor’s Version: The Poetic and Musical Genius of Taylor Swift: ( longer )

Kyla Sommers, When the Smoke Cleared: The 1968 Rebellions and the Unfinished Battle for Civil Rights in the Nation’s Capital: Extensive account of the lead-up to, experience of, and consequences of the 1968 riots after MLK Jr.’s assassination. There was some interesting stuff about Stokely Carmichael, who (reportedly) told people to go home during the riots because they didn’t have enough guns to win. (Later: “According to the FBI, Carmichael held up a gun and declared ‘tonight bring your gun, don’t loot, shoot.’ The Washington Post, however, reported Carmichael held up a gun and said, ‘Stay off the streets if you don’t have a gun because there’s going to be shooting.’”) Congress did not allow DC to control its own political fate, and that shaped how things happened, including the limited success of citizens’ attempts to direct development and get more control over the police, but ultimately DC was caught up in the larger right-wing backlash that was willing to invest in prisons but not in sustained economic opportunity. Reading it now, I was struct by the fact that—even without riots, fires, or other large-scale destruction—white people who don’t live in the area are still calling for military occupation because they don’t feel safe. So maybe the riots weren’t as causal as they are considered.

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Jill is still full of doubt, however fleeting.

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Good morning, we love you, and we hope you are with people you love. Oh, that’s right, YOU’RE WITH US!

All the years since I bought this joint in 2012 (!), we’ve rolled out the Thanksgiving recipes all morning, mostly so you’d have something to comment around. Well fuck that noise, you can all comment here all day till we bring you a 3 p.m. cocktail for a job well done.

Hop in Obama’s time machine (whoosh whoosh wavy lines) and let’s revisit …

Nancy Reagan! I can’t remember if we took out the references to her oral sex skills or not, and I don’t have time to check, but we are nicer and less sexist now so please no references to her blowjobs in the comments!

Juli Weiner has a grownup job now, last I heard! That’s so fun!

As I recall, this one might accuse Mamie Eisenhower of aggravated lezzery? It might not though. Again, no time to check! I slept in till eight!

And that’s what happened to Rush Limbaugh.

Now for the good ones!

Hi Ken! Hiiiiiii! Here’s mine, it’s better.

It’s really really really ridiculously good.

Hi Mojo! Hiiiiii!

My son is making the greens today. And asparagus with bacon, and Brussies, and mac and cheese! My husband is making everything else, except the cranberry sauce, which is the only thing I do all day, unless I can find Wonker Whitefish Renee’s sweet potato nonsense souffle in my very old texts!

EDIT/UPDATE OH NO, WE LEFT OFF THE PIEEEEEEE.

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HEAR YE HEAR YE, what are we doing for the holiday this weekend? Here’s your schedule!

At 9 a.m., I’ll put up all our Thanksgiving recipes in one post instead of doling them out on the hour (why was I doing that???). Then you will have a cocktail at 3.

Tomorrow, it’s Dok’s classic post, rewrote each year for relevance and whatnot, and then at 5 p.m., ZiggyWiggy will be joining you for a late matinee of Alice’s Restaurant. What a good idea, ZiggyWiggy!

On Friday, we’ll have a post-Thanksgiving breakfast recipe and then all your crafts and nonsense, for buying things from people instead of Target or Walmart or Temu or Be Best Buy!

On Saturday and Sunday … we will figure it out.

And Monday, we’ll be back to normal except for me; I’m taking my husband TO ROOOOOMMMMEE.

Now, with all the further ado, on to our TABS!

December elections? In this economy??? (Bolts)

Gender-affirming care posts BIG NUMBERS in reducing Bad Thoughts among kids. Remember a few years ago when everybody was fucking normal about this and wanted trans kids to be well-adjusted, healthy, and happy? That was nice! I liked that universe we lived in then. (Erin in the Morning)

Renewable energy rudely refusing to sit still for its murdering! (Clean Technica)

Here is a review of John Fetterman’s autobiography. It is not complimentary! (Defector)

Why is Lisa Needham being so mean to poor Pam Bondi and Lindsey Halligan? LOL :) (Public Notice)

Should other reporters stick up for The Ladies when Donald Trump, who is somehow president, of the United States, calls them names and is otherwise grotesque at them, or nah, fuck those The Ladies? (Dean Obeidallah)

Pope Bob from Chicago throwing raves at the cathedral lol :) (Indy100)

You all saw this one right?

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VIEWS on Instagram: "This photo depicts the current Pope Leo XI…

Viola Fletcher survived the Tulsa Race Massacre. She has died at one-hundred-eleven. It’s almost illegal to talk about it anymore. (Qasim Rashid)

It’s Woke 2, and it’s the backlash to the backlash against having to wear masks sometimes so people don’t die :) (Bad Faith Times)

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I ended up taking a few more days away from the cursed witch to edit the fic I'm writing for the sunflower_auction, which was good both because I really like what this fic turned into!!! :D I hope the recip does, too! And I guess it gave my brain more time to think about the ending of the cursed witch.

And the conclusion is that it wasn't enough time and I still don't know. There are elements of the resolution I'm still unhappy with, no matter what angle I look at them from. And in the last post, I was thinking that removing the more obvious f/f bits to better set up the f/f/f endgame in the sequel would work well, but the thought of removing the most obvious queer bits and ending up with a story where the queer storylines are all subtext or background massively, unexpectedly bummed me out. Huge downer, mentally. So I'll have to work out a different solution. I'm playing with different ideas that could work to set things up without making it all look dusted and done (and may incidentally "solve" the "relationship is too perfect!" comment I got) but I have to be careful because it is the end of the story and I want a generally hopeful ending, and not something half-baked that leaves the reader frustrated and opens up new narrative question marks way too late in the story.

However, I can't leave the draft alone any longer. Letting projects hang midway is the worst thing for me, I just really struggle to pick them back up and remember all the threads I was working with. (One of the reasons I'm dreading returning to the Soul Thief because I was midway or two-thirds of the way through creating the post-draft outline back in January, and I don't know where to pick it back from. I can't just pick up that outline again. My brain will try to remember what I meant to do and think then, rather than just do it. Realistically, I probably should restart that step from scratch and treat all previous notes as extras, as if someone else (vriddy from the past!!) had taken a look at it and left me a few partial notes, but redoing work I know I already did before is also a bummer.) (I'll figure it out for sure, it's just more energy and way more activation energy required overall, so I really don't want to do that to myself when I can avoid it at all.)

So! My current plan is to leave the ending as is with no major changes. Just do the smaller edits, add the conversations and easy missing bits that had left people with questions in a couple of places, and leave myself good notes about the problems I see and the potential solutions I have in mind. Then let it rest, don't even do the pacing stuff yet. I'll do a reread in a couple months (without reading the notes!) and see what I think then.

That way, I'll still have a complete story to work with when it's time to hammer down the final pieces. I'm not overly worried either because I'm happy about the changes I made up to now (well, also worried it all sucks, but happy generally). It's only the epilogue and the last bit of the previous chapter I'm gnawing on, so about 5k words out of 57k that'll likely need reworking. Hopefully my brain comes up with something cool in the background XD Counting on you, brain!!

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Team A, sanjou! Katayama Haruka was not one of the original first members, however, auditioning in December 2006 and being introduced to us first as a member of Team B alongside our girls, Kashiwagi Yuki and Watanabe Mayu, Inoue Naru, Nakagawa Haruka, Ota Aika, Kikuchi Ayaka, and more than a handful of members we haven’t spoken about yet.

Haachan

Haachan built her reputation on being a ‘charming woman,’ due to the spelling of her name, and whilst she was not present on any of the A sides during her moment in the group, she’s very much one of those members, often in the back line, who help make the idea of the group work, a girl whom maybe you have overlooked but was consistently voted into the undergirls and next girls by her fans, ensuring that she always had a place on the B sides of each release from Baby! Baby! Baby! onwards. Disclaimer: I really like Baby! Baby! Baby!

A lot of those B sides on which she appeared are AKB standards in their own right. Songs like Shonichi—so good it appeared on two different releases—because instantly recognisable as both an identifiable Team B song and an AKB song, whilst Namida no SeeSaw Game captures a moment in the history of girl groups that I don’t think Americans fully realise they should be more nostalgic for whilst also providing a song that sums up the best of what idol music can be. Sometimes, both tsunku and Akimoto get too misty eyed about the nostalgia of their own musical loves, but Namida no SeeSaw Gamesoul. Ahem.

In 2009, during AKB’s first team shuffle, Haacham was moved over to Team A for the first time. It sounds a little silly, but her entire career was moving back and forth between A and B, never once joining Team K or the newer Team 4, and because of this, it feels as if both of those groups kind of have equal claim to her, which is kind of wonderful. I too wish for dual citizenship in AKB’s Teams A and B! No one was spared in the 2012 shuffle that followed after, and Haachan returned to Team B, then captained by Umeda Ayaka, and despite her time away, it must have been nice to return to Shonichi, a song so much about Team B that it contains the thoughts and feelings of the original members in those moments before their debut, Haachan included.

Although Haachan was her most common nickname, something I stumble over because it reminds me of a small, red robot, another of her nicknames was ‘Showa,’ as a result of her familiarity with prior idols, and II love this. I wish this was my nickname. Of all of AKB’s members, Haachan seemed to carry that connexion with an earlier moment forward. I think it was her understanding that really helped shape her career and gave her the poise and character of her stage performances. Whilst there are some really big famous idol fans who became AKB members, Haachan had a real technical understanding of idols.

Haachan

In 2014, after the release of Labrador Retriever, Haachan graduated, but I’m willing to bet she still dreams of that stage.

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Work today was a lot, but I got done everything I needed to get done and got out. There are stories I could tell but I'm too tired right now to rehash some of the nonsense my coworkers get up to.

Tomorrow, I am heading out to the island for Thanksgiving, and also to see Baby Miss L. She turns three on Monday! THREE! How is that even possible!? (I'm sure I will be posting the same exact thing on Monday.) But they are not having a family party for her, just a friends party, since she has so many friends now! She is quite the social butterfly! So I've packed up the books and clothes that are her birthday gift (and 1 toy - a magnetic tile thing she can build things with), and tomorrow she can open her presents! They go to my niece's in-laws for Thanksgiving (so they spend Christmas day with us), so I might not see her on the day itself, but that's okay I guess, especially if I get some time tomorrow. Plus, middle niece is going to stop by since she is working on Thursday (she's a nurse), so I will get to see her as well. All in all a good time, I hope!

If I don't get a chance to post tomorrow, I hope everyone celebrating has a Happy Thanksgiving! And everyone else has a great Friday Eve, also known as Thursday.

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I had just been thinking about Jack Shepherd because he was one of the founding members of the Actors' Company which had sparked off in 1972 with Ian McKellen and Edward Petherbridge, whose memoir I was re-reading last night. He'd left the company by the time of their adaptation of R. D. Laing's Knots (1970) and thus does not appear in the 1975 film which seems to have been their only moving picture record, leaving me once again with strictly photographic evidence of this sort of reverse supergroup experiment in democratic theater. (Shepherd at far right resembles a pre-Raphaelite pin-up in jeans, but I like to think if I had Caroline Blakiston's arm round my shoulders I wouldn't look that brooding about it.) Then again, I missed most of his film and famous television work, too: my reaction to his death is derived entirely from his astonishing Renfield in the BBC Count Dracula (1977), who holds more than a candle to the icons of Dwight Frye or Pablo Álvarez Rubio, a heartbreakingly weird and human performance of a character who may not be entirely sane in a world with vampires in it, which doesn't mean he's not to be trusted about them. I loved how much of his lucidity slides between his Victorian hysteria and his careful impersonation of a reformed lunatic which is not always and for good reason convincing. I loved his kiss of Judi Bowker's Mina, not his master's initiatory drink, but a damned soul's benison, the offering of his life. Not just because he became my default horror icon on this site, I thought about him more than any other character from that sometimes surprisingly faithful adaptation. His bare wrists, his shocked hair. His actor had such a knack in the role for the liminal, death seems on some level too definite to believe.

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AO3 Link | Following the Fortunes of War: Chapter 4 (100 words) by Merfilly
Chapters: 6/6
Fandom: TOS - Dreadnought! - Diane Carey, TOS - Battlestations! - Diane Carey
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Piper/Sarda
Characters: Piper, Sarda, Judd "Scanner" Sandage, Merete AndrusTaurus
Additional Tags: Friendship, Slice of Life, POV First Person
Summary:

Various stories, following the friends from their novel adventures

Even I have my limits on 'winging it'. Scanner had been inventive, but we still had deteriorating dilithium crystals and were in, to use a Terran saying, B.F.E. near Gorn space.

I didn't lose my temper, something Sarda reassured me across our bond was for the best. I left the bridge, went down to our poor engineer, found Dyson had beat me there.

"Tell me what to do; Sarda has the conn."

"Aye aye captain," Skellus said, giving me tools and directions.

It was going to mean minimal power, and Scanner had saved us, but we'd get back to base.

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Quinn Slobodian, Hayek’s Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right: ( it's always racism )

Corinne Low, Having It All: What Data Tells Us About Women's Lives and Getting the Most Out of Yours: ( self-help from an economist )
Cory Doctorow, Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It: ( Doctorow in fine form )
Tim Wu, The Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity: ( Another account of enshittification )

Kim A. Wagner, Massacre in the Clouds: An American Atrocity and the Erasure of History: ( written by the victors )

Mary Roach, Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy: ( strange but true )

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