First things first: Your likes were at 67, which I'm happy to have ruined on behalf of all of the teachers our there who still dealing with that damn meme.
Second: If you were going to substitute a different alcohol for the Johnny Walker, what would you suggest? Whisky and I do not get along thanks to overindulging once upon a time.
Ooooh something else to do with lemon curd. I like to fold it into (shades of Moira Rose) whipped cream and use it to make icebox cake with thin ginger cookies. But this gives me something to wash that down with. :-)
Well, bless you for the wife thing. However, we came home from the coldest, windiest street corner protest yet, up here in Cheboygan, MI! We went to the Hive, where they heated up some Black Madonna Mead for me (no one else likes this hot!), and, after taking the Toomush son to Walmart, finally got home through the wind and slippery roads. I quickly made a Mount Gay and ice, and lit up a pipe. Now, for some reheated Olympic Opening Ceremonies. So far, I'm not impressed. But Skol on the Valentine's dinner! May there be many more. I hear the 14th is coming up...
I was at a winery I love that was sampling out mead they were flirting with. The staff, upon seeing my Winnie the Pooh backpack, declared the mead " Pooh Bear Top Shelf." I liked their mead and was gifted a few bottles.
Unfortunately I was one of the few because they did not continue their experiment.
One of the staffers was working their way slowly through law school and ( it was a slow day and they were, um, sampling the merchandise as well) and thought since I was involved in the naming I could "sue" them for taking my idea, so it was decided I should be bought off with a few bottles. Especially since I was buying a case of various wines, including the mead so if they gave me free bottles I could buy extra to replace the mead....I was not driving and deep into a wine tour and it was a slow weekday for them, and it somehow made perfect sense.
Because Valentine’s Day is hell for servers? I always tell my wife, please, please, let’s not go out for Valentine’s Day dinner, it’s like the worst possible day of the year to go out. I will boil live lobsters for you instead, ok?
To be clear, in case you can't tell from the name, I am female. One year a female friend who was visiting me from out of town and I decided to go out to dinner. We get to the restaurant and it is super crowded. There was quite a wait for a table. We're standing there wondering why on earth this middling chain restaurant (O.K., it was Applebys.) was so crowded on a random Tuesday night. Suddenly, we realized it was Valentine's Day. I said, "everybody probably thinks we're a couple". My friend said, "let them, who cares?" Of course, she was right. It didn't matter what other people thought. Not to mention that old saying about you wouldn't care so much about what other people thought about you if you realized how little they do.
I've never wanted to go out for dinner on Valentine's (and other holidays) for just this reason. Staying in is better and so many other days in the year to go out.
Have a sweet time with your wife. Maybe next week a hot drink that we can hold in our hands, for those of us who might have gotten frostbitten fingers at some point recently.
Oh no! I hope it goes much better than your anticipation. Do we have another storm of the century coming? I've been avoiding the weather reports as best I can bc all it does is fill me with dread.
Hooper, here's a question for you, not about this drink, and you can answer in your own time. I have saved the syrup from a jar of Amareno cherries. Is there a drink that I can use cherry syrup in? I have tested it with OJ with the thought of making a "sunrise" mimosa, and that seemed to work. But I am interested in other options. Any thoughts?
Daughter hired a company to remove a bunch of crap from her basement. I need to do that and asked her the company. This was a few years ago and I forgot.
FFW to today. Instead of telling her I forgot, I pulled a Jean-Luc Picard and said, "Please refresh my memory..."
I had a dream about Anna Elizabeth the other night. We were in the same aisle at Target trying on boots. Hers looked really cute. Mine looked like fisherman waders.
How's she doing these days, anyone know? If you hear from her tell her I'm apparently thinking about her. :)
Because of this opening ceremony BaconzMa said "if you ever bring [Italian slur] wine into this house again, I will buy a pistol and use it on you". And she means it.
Obviously she wasn't a fan of this Olympic opening
Spent several hours snowboarding again. Regular Friday evening crew.
Lovely evening. For, you know, values of lovely that work for that. Fairly heavy, steady snowfall. On a long lift you’d brush half a centimetre of the stuff off. On the way back from the hill a small car was in the usual ditch past the last lift and hopelessly buried. It’s tradition now really. Was saying to my companions: have we really experienced this hill given none of us have done that yet?
No photos or video. Didn’t even think to shoot until the last run and thought to do video then but somehow didn’t press the roll now button.
Kept everyone in frame tho. Woulda been lovely. See footage of previous powder nights, kinda like that. But, I mean, if I didn’t take pictures, did it really happen?
Oh right several of us were recording on the GPS capable watches everyone has now. So it’s official. 11.46km, top speed a mere 50kph. Kinda night you keep it mellow.
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I saw a few blurred-out frames. I think it was from the recent CGI remake of "The Lion King"; the Obamas' (and Hakeem Jeffries'? and maybe some other Black peoples'?) faces were superimposed over monkeys, and TFG over one of the lions.
TFG claimed that it was about election fraud. Which is... how? What part of "The Lion *King*" has anything to do with democracy?!?
The original Trump post is deleted. It's a re-shart of an X post, which is age restricted so I'd have to log into X with an account to see it. Fuck no.
I'm curious what others are seeing that's prompting these comments. I'm just noticing some pauses between people posting things, but I didn't assume that was substack fucking up.
I remember the days when I could scroll through Yahoo News and every 3rd or 4th article was something amusing or weird that happened somewhere in the world, like the man in Louisiana who tossed an alligator through a drive-through window at a fast food restaurant. At most, only 1/3 of the articles involved any actions of the federal government, and that only happened on Big News Days.
And now I scroll through and every single article is about Frump or ICE or Noem or Hegseth or Vance doing something illegal or telling lies or being racists and sexists. Every single article.
They ENJOY seeing everyone else suffering, for whatever reason. It's pure evil.
It's like the ST:TOS episode "Day of the Dove" when an incorporeal, alien life force that feeds on negative emotions, specifically fear, hatred and violence, takes over the Enterprise and all its crew.
I have the night off. I'm taking my wife to an early Valentine's Day dinner, because.. well, I'll explain next week. Questions here.
First things first: Your likes were at 67, which I'm happy to have ruined on behalf of all of the teachers our there who still dealing with that damn meme.
Second: If you were going to substitute a different alcohol for the Johnny Walker, what would you suggest? Whisky and I do not get along thanks to overindulging once upon a time.
CAN I GET A DEPTH CHARGE OF MIDORI IN A SCHOONER OF MICHELOB ULTRA? I CAN LICK ANY MAN IN THE HOUSE!
Why are the “hearts” we use on Valentine’s Day shaped more like prostates than actual hearts?
According to one theory, they're supposed to approximate, in upside-down form, the buttocks of an attractive woman. Not sure if I buy that one.
I’ll allow that.
Yum...thanks , Hoop!
Ooooh something else to do with lemon curd. I like to fold it into (shades of Moira Rose) whipped cream and use it to make icebox cake with thin ginger cookies. But this gives me something to wash that down with. :-)
…um, it’s a cocktail.
I think that's a bot , sir
Well, bless you for the wife thing. However, we came home from the coldest, windiest street corner protest yet, up here in Cheboygan, MI! We went to the Hive, where they heated up some Black Madonna Mead for me (no one else likes this hot!), and, after taking the Toomush son to Walmart, finally got home through the wind and slippery roads. I quickly made a Mount Gay and ice, and lit up a pipe. Now, for some reheated Olympic Opening Ceremonies. So far, I'm not impressed. But Skol on the Valentine's dinner! May there be many more. I hear the 14th is coming up...
The U.S. got cheered, JD Vance got booed, what more do you want?
I'm glad the athletes were cheered and very happy that the Couchfucker got the welcome he deserved.
Always a relief to know that the world actually SEES us
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H58vbez_m4E
(Has mead, never heated it up, though. Hmmm.)
I was at a winery I love that was sampling out mead they were flirting with. The staff, upon seeing my Winnie the Pooh backpack, declared the mead " Pooh Bear Top Shelf." I liked their mead and was gifted a few bottles.
Unfortunately I was one of the few because they did not continue their experiment.
Shame
Sounds like that would have been lots of fun
One of the staffers was working their way slowly through law school and ( it was a slow day and they were, um, sampling the merchandise as well) and thought since I was involved in the naming I could "sue" them for taking my idea, so it was decided I should be bought off with a few bottles. Especially since I was buying a case of various wines, including the mead so if they gave me free bottles I could buy extra to replace the mead....I was not driving and deep into a wine tour and it was a slow weekday for them, and it somehow made perfect sense.
Because you love each other, enjoy each other's company, and deserve nice things, it is hoped.
Because Valentine’s Day is hell for servers? I always tell my wife, please, please, let’s not go out for Valentine’s Day dinner, it’s like the worst possible day of the year to go out. I will boil live lobsters for you instead, ok?
That or Mother’s Day.
Also, avoid any Irish pub on Paddy’s Day.
To be clear, in case you can't tell from the name, I am female. One year a female friend who was visiting me from out of town and I decided to go out to dinner. We get to the restaurant and it is super crowded. There was quite a wait for a table. We're standing there wondering why on earth this middling chain restaurant (O.K., it was Applebys.) was so crowded on a random Tuesday night. Suddenly, we realized it was Valentine's Day. I said, "everybody probably thinks we're a couple". My friend said, "let them, who cares?" Of course, she was right. It didn't matter what other people thought. Not to mention that old saying about you wouldn't care so much about what other people thought about you if you realized how little they do.
I've never wanted to go out for dinner on Valentine's (and other holidays) for just this reason. Staying in is better and so many other days in the year to go out.
Or a Mexican joint on Cinco de Mayo.
Amateur night is what we always called New Year's Eve, St. Paddy's, and Cinco de Mayo.
When I worked at the bookstore a million years ago we almost always went to various local dive bars for a drink on the closing shift.
And every year we collectively forgot why not to go out on the night before Thanksgiving.
But the amateur drunken louts!
This sounds delicious!
Have a sweet time with your wife. Maybe next week a hot drink that we can hold in our hands, for those of us who might have gotten frostbitten fingers at some point recently.
Frostbite will be the least of my worries next week.
Oh no! I hope it goes much better than your anticipation. Do we have another storm of the century coming? I've been avoiding the weather reports as best I can bc all it does is fill me with dread.
I have high hopes. I'm flying to Tampa for an adventure.
Bon appetite.
Hooper, here's a question for you, not about this drink, and you can answer in your own time. I have saved the syrup from a jar of Amareno cherries. Is there a drink that I can use cherry syrup in? I have tested it with OJ with the thought of making a "sunrise" mimosa, and that seemed to work. But I am interested in other options. Any thoughts?
"Cocoanut Woman" - Harry Belafonte
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifIqn85gsio
𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵'𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘪𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶'𝘳𝘦 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘯' 𝘨𝘭𝘶𝘮
𝘐𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘶𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘢 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘳𝘶𝘮
𝘐𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘵𝘪𝘱𝘴𝘺, 𝘧𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘧𝘪𝘷𝘦
𝘔𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘢 𝘨𝘺𝘱𝘴𝘺, 𝘧𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘧𝘪𝘷𝘦
𝘊𝘰𝘤𝘰 𝘨𝘰𝘵 𝘢 𝘭𝘰𝘵𝘵𝘢 𝘪𝘳𝘰𝘯, 𝘧𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘧𝘪𝘷𝘦
𝘔𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘢 𝘭𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘧𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘧𝘪𝘷𝘦
Hemmingway would approve.
I have both lemon curd AND a couple little bottles of that Fever Tree flavor in the house (I always have Scotch). Time to go out for coconut water…
Hmmm, it seems I also still have a little Uncle Nearest rye - think that would be a decent spirit in this one, Hooper?
Enjoy your valentine's day!
No explanation needed for that. Good on you.
Another OT.
Did you know what we need in Pittsburgh? More snow and cold dreary weather. See we only had it for a month. NEADZ MOAR shoveling.
Then I have good news.
Daughter hired a company to remove a bunch of crap from her basement. I need to do that and asked her the company. This was a few years ago and I forgot.
FFW to today. Instead of telling her I forgot, I pulled a Jean-Luc Picard and said, "Please refresh my memory..."
Oh hey! I feel like this is right up Wonkette’s alley!
https://substack.com/@letsnotdate/note/c-211098330?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=6ankw2
Helping the homeless, cats, and activism on behalf of a Very Good Human.
I recently saw that a group of urban DAs have formed a group called the Federation Against Federal Overreach.
Nice acronym.
Mrs. Hero is binge-watching "Yes to the Dress".
Ima listen to some old-school 70s funk now.
I had a dream about Anna Elizabeth the other night. We were in the same aisle at Target trying on boots. Hers looked really cute. Mine looked like fisherman waders.
How's she doing these days, anyone know? If you hear from her tell her I'm apparently thinking about her. :)
I thought of her the other day and wondered how she’s doing.
I hope she’s well and happy.
I hope she is well and will reappear.
She tends to post frequently and then vanish and then return, but it's been a longer time than usual.
I feel like the absences were getting longer even before this one.
OT
Because of this opening ceremony BaconzMa said "if you ever bring [Italian slur] wine into this house again, I will buy a pistol and use it on you". And she means it.
Obviously she wasn't a fan of this Olympic opening
It doesn't take a genius to stomp grapes.
Lucy Ricardo agrees
Spent several hours snowboarding again. Regular Friday evening crew.
Lovely evening. For, you know, values of lovely that work for that. Fairly heavy, steady snowfall. On a long lift you’d brush half a centimetre of the stuff off. On the way back from the hill a small car was in the usual ditch past the last lift and hopelessly buried. It’s tradition now really. Was saying to my companions: have we really experienced this hill given none of us have done that yet?
No photos or video. Didn’t even think to shoot until the last run and thought to do video then but somehow didn’t press the roll now button.
Kept everyone in frame tho. Woulda been lovely. See footage of previous powder nights, kinda like that. But, I mean, if I didn’t take pictures, did it really happen?
Oh right several of us were recording on the GPS capable watches everyone has now. So it’s official. 11.46km, top speed a mere 50kph. Kinda night you keep it mellow.
𝓦𝓸𝓷𝓴𝓩𝓸𝓸𝓶
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Singing the one opera song Donald Trump knows!
Is it that stupid Andrea Bocelli song?
Yes but, not long ago, Mariah sang Volare!
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DBHhKZIPEAf/?hl=en
Someone made Lolita into an opera?
It's the one Trump's MAGA tenor sings at Mar-A-Lago and rallies after Lee Greenwood finishes his one song.
*snerk*
In a Gadda Da Vida?
There's no way young Don Trump would have been into Iron Butterfly.
I want to see the racist video that Trump posted and then deleted.
The news orgs say it was racist but then deleted and so they won't link to it. Nice way to cover Donald's tracks.
Fucking SHOW WHAT HE POSTED so we can see it.
Here's how you journalism: you say "here's the video that Trump posted. warning; fucking racist"
I saw a few blurred-out frames. I think it was from the recent CGI remake of "The Lion King"; the Obamas' (and Hakeem Jeffries'? and maybe some other Black peoples'?) faces were superimposed over monkeys, and TFG over one of the lions.
TFG claimed that it was about election fraud. Which is... how? What part of "The Lion *King*" has anything to do with democracy?!?
Its not the video but at 0:25 in, they have what they say is a still from it. Since its CBS, my assumption is that Bari toned it down.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rSSUaGlz0Y
Apparently it had the Obamas' heads photoshopped onto monkey bodies.
The original Trump post is deleted. It's a re-shart of an X post, which is age restricted so I'd have to log into X with an account to see it. Fuck no.
All of that sounds like a no-go for me. I don't want to give any of that my traffic.
I know, but SHOW US. Don't just bury it.
Their job is to bury his shit
Brief whine break. I really hate when Mr Cookie is gone.
Okay resume talking amongst yourselves. Reading the comments which are not allowed helps me immensely.
Nonsense. You eat cake and watch crap on netflix and laugh.
Not tonight. I’m having a “very fuck this very much” kind of night.
That's also a very valid night.
This. I know for a fact Mrs. Hero watches movies she knows I will hate when she's by herself.
Broke down and ordered some minoxidil.
To kickstart your ski-jumping career?
No. To hopefully regain some hairline.
A little paraffin for the kickstand.
Subsnack seems...um...finicky tonight...
And when is it *not*?
I'm curious what others are seeing that's prompting these comments. I'm just noticing some pauses between people posting things, but I didn't assume that was substack fucking up.
I remember the days when I could scroll through Yahoo News and every 3rd or 4th article was something amusing or weird that happened somewhere in the world, like the man in Louisiana who tossed an alligator through a drive-through window at a fast food restaurant. At most, only 1/3 of the articles involved any actions of the federal government, and that only happened on Big News Days.
And now I scroll through and every single article is about Frump or ICE or Noem or Hegseth or Vance doing something illegal or telling lies or being racists and sexists. Every single article.
I miss the amusing and weird stories.
The way this administration has sucked all the air out of the room for ten years, in large ways and small . . .
Agreed. It's bullshit.
Fascist bullshit ruins every thing, and I don't mean to trivialize it, to be clear.
They ENJOY seeing everyone else suffering, for whatever reason. It's pure evil.
It's like the ST:TOS episode "Day of the Dove" when an incorporeal, alien life force that feeds on negative emotions, specifically fear, hatred and violence, takes over the Enterprise and all its crew.