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Nov 27, 2023Liked by Martini Glambassador

🎶Sometimes I feel like a featherless child.🎶

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I can't be the only olde who remembers Euell Gibbons.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0N290zPrbA

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https://www.regina.ca/home-property/tree-yard/index.html

Imma let you talk, Central Park, but we hand planted 500,000 trees in the City That Rhymes With Fun.

Also, our park is bigger at 2300 acres.

Seriously though, Stephen, I love your AD videos. I always learn so much!

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Whatever you think about what happened to Derek Chauvin, at least he got competent medical care and his life was saved, which is better than what happened to his victim.

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"The Robinson family has secured this year’s Christmas tree, which we won’t attempt to eat because we’re not stupid."

Not even for a YouTube video?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1X0-bQpXvw

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Nov 27, 2023·edited Nov 27, 2023

I've ingested Christmas tree and all three times it was delicious.

The first time was a French speciality made by a friend from the southwest of France: L'Éclade de moules. Basically, you put a wire rack up on some bricks, pile the rack with a high pyramid of dry pine needles, insert mussels into the pyramid, and light the thing on fire. The burning pine needles cook the mussles and leave them with this delectable pine flavor.

The second was a fir ice cream I had at a restaurant in Truckee, California, and that still ranks among the best desserts I've ever had.

And the third time was Wonkette's own fault, because one of you recommended the excellent death metal vegan restaurant Kindred in San Diego, where I had a spruce martini I expected to hate, but which was totally delicious. However, they need to give an extra bonus this year to the person in the bar responsible for stuffing the olives with spruce needles.

I will add, though, that none of these "Christmas trees" was from inside my home; all were free-range, organic, and wild-caught.

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I think it was just brilliant to see DT back in the role of The Doctor, he was clearly enjoying every minute of it, as was CT.

And The Meep was adorable.

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love me some DT. i feel i'm betraying tom baker when i say DT is my favorite doctor but i think it's maybe true.

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Until it turned eviiiiiiiilllllllll

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It was still adorable, in the same way Smaug (the kitten) is adorable when he attempts to play fight with the dogs even though he's less than 1/4 of their size, and hopelessly out-matched.

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on the other hand, roughage is good for your colon!

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But Euell Gibbons used to say...

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And he died of stomach cancer. A great deal of craziness came from his appearances on th eTonight Show and other shows. Natural is GOOD, (even if it's twigs and gravel?)

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Ha! OT, but awesome post Thanksgiving hack. I'm out of coffee creamer and I hate putting milk into my coffee but I was going to do it since that's all I had... Until I noticed the leftover whipped cream canister! I am genius. Lol

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In a real pinch, try a spoonful of vanilla ice cream.

Nothing stands between me and my caffeine.

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That sounds amazing except for one small detail: I have 2 kids and our household does not believe in leftover ice cream of any flavor. 😂

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Sooooooooo the President of Israel is meeting with Elmo Musk? Odd bedfellows.

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so, Bibi taking Elno for a nice little fascist ride among friends?

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Big vacation day plans today: I’m going to call the dealership to take care of the two recalls on the Hyundai (both involve the car catching fir, burning down the house, scaring the horses, and beating the dog? Are you fucking kidding me, Hyundai? Oh, just the catching fire thing, as long as we park outside, not in our nonexistent garage, so that’s good), and maybe call on the Leaf recall, where if you perform a weird series of shifts or something, it switches into uncontrolled acceleration mode), and then maybe finally add my personal email address to my 401K account, so that I can access it if I ever quit/get fired. Oh yeah, total party day!

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F*king UAE! Wait, I don't know a thing about them. But I know this now.

"The United Arab Emirates planned to use its role as the host of UN climate talks as an opportunity to strike oil and gas deals"

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-67508331

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It's the only economic engine these guys have. Texas can fall back on exporting derp.

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Guess who is paying for Mayor Adams defense after being accused of a 1993 sexual assault? New Yorkers.

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Ughhhhhh 🙄

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This would be a good time for an alternate upfist icon, something like an angry emoji with flames on the side of its face...

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"Conservative groups have sued to shut down the Abundant Birth Project, which aids pregnant Black women. They say it’s discriminatory....."

This is more right wing horseshit. Let them explain and solve the problem that minorities suffer higher maternal and infant mortality rates than whites, instead of indulging their innate racism under the guise of "equal treatment". I am so sick and tired of all these assholes reverse engineering affirmative action and other remediation efforts to satisfy their own egos.

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Monday happiness is when you are reading the news before work and get an alarm that you took the day off! I got online and checked to verify that I actually took today off, because I totally forgotten.

Woo-hoo! A free day! I'd go back to bed, but I'm too awake to go back to sleep.

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