OMG, adorable little thing. I’ve seen or even heard of one and have watched Mr S surf fish plenty of times.
ETA, I missed the deadly poison bit so just as well I’ve never seen one. “What on earth is that on your hook? (the weirdest thing I’ve seen is a sea robin) AHHHHHHHH!” *dies*
re steve millers house, it's like they watched every episode of hgtv renno/flipping shows and implemented it in the blandest way possible - the wood is beige, the handcrafted imperfect tiles in the bathroom are different shades of beige, the carpets are beige, the 'moody' rooms are grey - they have random shots of 'fancy' handles (which match the colour of the cupboard behind them but with a bit of gold on it), and the walls are painful white. Even the beige feature rock wall in the kitchen is boring
I just remembered to look at Stephen and Katie Miller's house. RIght, they have 3 little kids and white couches and dining room chairs. And a whitish rug under the dining room table. maybe the kids have to eat in the basement.
Top secret. Mz Lux's fantasy list of things she wants to eat for the holidays. Talk about eclectic!
XMAS MENU IDEAS*****
[ ] braised turkey breast (Save for January)
[ ] Dressing
[ ] Mashed potatoes and gravy
[ ] Little smokies pigs in blankets ¿crescent rolls vs puff pastry?
[ ] Pan spanokopita and walnut phyllo
[ ] Savory cottage/ricotta cheesecake, garlic and ¿mushroom onion tomato kale, with feta or chevre? Cooked like a galette?
[ ] Chirasushi with brown rice with miso soup (New Years morning)
[ ] Raddichio slaw with olives, cukes, & tomatoes & roasted beets( or apples) and cranberries
[ ] Tabouli salad with mostly parsley
[ ] Roasted tomato and onion and pepper dressed with oil and lemon over garlic green beans
[ ] Kabocha roasted agrodolce with olives (or cranberries) and walnuts
[ ] Creamy curried squash soup
[ ] Seafood salad ( scallops, shrimp, crabmeat and very firm white fish - like halibut, lingcod, mahi- with lemon, capers celery and peppers ¿vinaigrette vs mayo base?)over a bed of romaine with lots of stems, tomatoes, cooled roasted broccolini and radicchio wedges
[ ] Mini matzah and mini turkey meatballs in clear soup
[ ] Cranberry sauce with turkey meatballs
[ ] Stuffed cabbage rolls, salmon vs meatballs vs hb egg
[ ] Cabbage rolls stuffed with browned meatballs of grd turkey,wild rice&sticky rice, mushrooms, walnut, wrapped in yuba, embedded in a mix of wild rice. Sticky rice. Mushrooms. Celery, peppers, onion, green beans. All piled onto a lotus leaf lightly covered with another leaf,. Steamed over broth. Open top leaf, scatter with peas, browned onions, toasted walnuts. Close up and rest. Serve from cooking dish still edged with lotus leaf. Garnish with sour cream, lemon wedges
[ ] Pastitsio, moussaka/greece or mousakka/turkey
[ ] Lovers eggplant or eggplant in tangy sauce
[ ] Potato salad
[ ] Mac salad
[ ] HK Dim Sum: chinese broccoli, shin roll, baked hombao?
[ ] Teriyaki baked salmon
[ ] Fritatta filled with hummus & garlic & potatoes with thin sliced red radish, olives, and scallions on the side and drizzled with tzatziki and scattered sliced almonds
According to the official, certified Italian person in the Monster household (Mrs. Monster), Rome, like most of northern Italy has very bland food. The best food is down south in Calabria, which just coincidentally is where her family is from.
"Haha, Missouri good government types gonna try to force Missouri to let voters vote on their gerryfucked congressional maps, like California did (and succeeded). They got three times the necessary signatures!"
Slight difference - in California, the lege had not created any mid-decade gerrymandered map for voters to vote against, unlike the Missouri lege. Of course, you're right, the Missouri lege will find some way to fuck this petition up.
"Trump’s case for his pardon of the drug dealer Honduran president: “What? Who? I did?”
Apparently, the week before ( Nov 30th ), Trump claimed he agreed with some idiots:
"Last week, when asked about the Hernández pardon during a Q&A on Air Force One, Trump, again referencing unspecified people, declared, “They said it was a Biden administration set-up. And I looked at the facts, and I agreed with them.”
This is not the first time that the Felonious One has contradicted his own lies.
We just got back from Tuscany cities trip a month ago. It was amazing/kind of amusing to see all the old fortifications, everywhere you turned. Lucca’s 360 degree wall just screamed ‘Go ahead, try. Make my day.’ But fun fact: part of the wall in Piombino (very nice seaside town; would recommend) was designed by DaVinci. Well, of course it was.
Long winded, as usual. But I’m glad you had a good trip. Yeah, we also found getting meals we liked to be kind of hit or miss.
Floaty, polka-dotted little baby trunkfish. More info 'bout your gif here: https://martiniambassador.substack.com/p/tiny-trunkfish
And your meme chat: https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/43f20f36-c427-4a85-aa40-a59b3ff4d882
It freaks me out how wonderful and magic nature is.
Also, Martini, you're so beautiful!
Aww! You are too sweet! Thank you!
Those squarish little fishes
That look a lot like dice
May be quite delicious
As well as looking nice
But I would eat one never
No matter what the price
The poisonous little bastard
Would likely kill me twice
🙌🏼
OMG, adorable little thing. I’ve seen or even heard of one and have watched Mr S surf fish plenty of times.
ETA, I missed the deadly poison bit so just as well I’ve never seen one. “What on earth is that on your hook? (the weirdest thing I’ve seen is a sea robin) AHHHHHHHH!” *dies*
It's the play Shakespeare never wrote, but should have.
"Gods blood! Thou hast caught a pretty little fish!
<dies>
<exeunt all>"
*exit, pursued by fish*
Enter first and second murder fish stage left, hautboys cymbles etc.
Try sleeping with that fish!
"known to poison an entire aquarium population with their skin secretions when not kept stress-free at all times."
MAGA Karen fish!
Boo!
I wish I had that power.
🙇♂️😂🤣
Bouncy!
LOL
Roman holidays? I'm forum!
Sounds like Martini Walked a Mile, at age you might say it was a golden one.
I had to think about that fora morment.
I Caesar what you did there.
Romans are responsible for perpetuating puns.
OUT!
Groan!
young smooth trunkfish...
I was once both young and smooth. Never a trunkfish though. They are gorgeous creatures, that dice fish stage! Too cute.
"...they will secrete a toxin when threatened, which can be deadly to humans"
Don't bug the fish....
Pfffttt! No way THAT is a fish! Some other sort of deep sea abomination. Don't be fooled by it's cuteness, those spots mean danger!
Normal words cannot describe
The whimsy of the fishie
So we ask the Jabberwock
To help us fill our wishie
'Tis floomfy an' booncy
an' ploofie also too
Jus' cutesy and spootsy
an' cuddlish 'tis true!
But little fishy, beware the Walrus and Carpenter. Those guys are shady.
"The Walrus and the Carpenter
Were walking hand in hand.
'If only,' said the Carpenter,
'The Law would understand.'"
ROFL!
Got that from Monty Python.
I brake for trunk fish and their babies!
Little critter going with the flow!
I wondered what happened to the other die of that pair of dice.
Teeny little feesh!
What? No coffin in the bedroom?
Kelly can do pull-ups, but Trump wears them!
re steve millers house, it's like they watched every episode of hgtv renno/flipping shows and implemented it in the blandest way possible - the wood is beige, the handcrafted imperfect tiles in the bathroom are different shades of beige, the carpets are beige, the 'moody' rooms are grey - they have random shots of 'fancy' handles (which match the colour of the cupboard behind them but with a bit of gold on it), and the walls are painful white. Even the beige feature rock wall in the kitchen is boring
I just remembered to look at Stephen and Katie Miller's house. RIght, they have 3 little kids and white couches and dining room chairs. And a whitish rug under the dining room table. maybe the kids have to eat in the basement.
Top secret. Mz Lux's fantasy list of things she wants to eat for the holidays. Talk about eclectic!
XMAS MENU IDEAS*****
[ ] braised turkey breast (Save for January)
[ ] Dressing
[ ] Mashed potatoes and gravy
[ ] Little smokies pigs in blankets ¿crescent rolls vs puff pastry?
[ ] Pan spanokopita and walnut phyllo
[ ] Savory cottage/ricotta cheesecake, garlic and ¿mushroom onion tomato kale, with feta or chevre? Cooked like a galette?
[ ] Chirasushi with brown rice with miso soup (New Years morning)
[ ] Raddichio slaw with olives, cukes, & tomatoes & roasted beets( or apples) and cranberries
[ ] Tabouli salad with mostly parsley
[ ] Roasted tomato and onion and pepper dressed with oil and lemon over garlic green beans
[ ] Kabocha roasted agrodolce with olives (or cranberries) and walnuts
[ ] Creamy curried squash soup
[ ] Seafood salad ( scallops, shrimp, crabmeat and very firm white fish - like halibut, lingcod, mahi- with lemon, capers celery and peppers ¿vinaigrette vs mayo base?)over a bed of romaine with lots of stems, tomatoes, cooled roasted broccolini and radicchio wedges
[ ] Olivier salad
[ ] Ecuadorian Encebollada soup: tuna/not canned, yucca, potato
[ ] Ajiaco
[ ] Mini matzah and mini turkey meatballs in clear soup
[ ] Cranberry sauce with turkey meatballs
[ ] Stuffed cabbage rolls, salmon vs meatballs vs hb egg
[ ] Cabbage rolls stuffed with browned meatballs of grd turkey,wild rice&sticky rice, mushrooms, walnut, wrapped in yuba, embedded in a mix of wild rice. Sticky rice. Mushrooms. Celery, peppers, onion, green beans. All piled onto a lotus leaf lightly covered with another leaf,. Steamed over broth. Open top leaf, scatter with peas, browned onions, toasted walnuts. Close up and rest. Serve from cooking dish still edged with lotus leaf. Garnish with sour cream, lemon wedges
[ ] Pastitsio, moussaka/greece or mousakka/turkey
[ ] Lovers eggplant or eggplant in tangy sauce
[ ] Potato salad
[ ] Mac salad
[ ] HK Dim Sum: chinese broccoli, shin roll, baked hombao?
[ ] Teriyaki baked salmon
[ ] Fritatta filled with hummus & garlic & potatoes with thin sliced red radish, olives, and scallions on the side and drizzled with tzatziki and scattered sliced almonds
[ ] Hueuvos haminados
[ ] Salatim, the salad array served with kabob in Israel. https://jamiegeller.com/travel/israel/salatim-23-israeli-salads-and-spreads-you-need-to-start-making/
[ ] Rughlach with Apricot jam
[ ] Russian tea cakes
[ ] Jam thumbprint cookies or linzer cookies
[ ] Gingercrinkles
[ ] Oatmeal crispies
[ ] Spiced creamy rice pudding with soft fruity curd top ( house of gyro)
[ ] Kheer with cashews
[ ] Pineapple fluff
[ ] Mandarin orange fluff
[ ] Coconut cake
[ ] Panforte
[ ] Spiced almonds
[ ] Tamarind mocktail- make very sour
----
Zooks! I've never heard of half these things!
According to the official, certified Italian person in the Monster household (Mrs. Monster), Rome, like most of northern Italy has very bland food. The best food is down south in Calabria, which just coincidentally is where her family is from.
"Haha, Missouri good government types gonna try to force Missouri to let voters vote on their gerryfucked congressional maps, like California did (and succeeded). They got three times the necessary signatures!"
Slight difference - in California, the lege had not created any mid-decade gerrymandered map for voters to vote against, unlike the Missouri lege. Of course, you're right, the Missouri lege will find some way to fuck this petition up.
Could there even be a more apropos accompaniment to this Tabs?!
https://youtu.be/Wv1pl423LDk?si=Bda20bw6VMog1vRU
🙏💀
"Trump’s case for his pardon of the drug dealer Honduran president: “What? Who? I did?”
Apparently, the week before ( Nov 30th ), Trump claimed he agreed with some idiots:
"Last week, when asked about the Hernández pardon during a Q&A on Air Force One, Trump, again referencing unspecified people, declared, “They said it was a Biden administration set-up. And I looked at the facts, and I agreed with them.”
This is not the first time that the Felonious One has contradicted his own lies.
Wot? No Daniel?
I LOVE Rome!
Did you see Daniel? Did you see my best friend from elementary school?
My God--you're all so happy and gorgeous! Between this and the Color of the Year thing, I'm just so happy, despite having a horrible day--thank you!
Fuertaventura is a nice place to go in winter if you don't mind not having any trees!
We just got back from Tuscany cities trip a month ago. It was amazing/kind of amusing to see all the old fortifications, everywhere you turned. Lucca’s 360 degree wall just screamed ‘Go ahead, try. Make my day.’ But fun fact: part of the wall in Piombino (very nice seaside town; would recommend) was designed by DaVinci. Well, of course it was.
Long winded, as usual. But I’m glad you had a good trip. Yeah, we also found getting meals we liked to be kind of hit or miss.
Beeeyoootiful, as my dad would say.
Ooo, a face eating leopard. Rome has everything.
https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/12/impeachment-articles-filed-against-rfk-jr-claiming-abuse-of-power/
🎉🎉🎉