Y'all are freaks.
I like you anyway.
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I LOVE zucchini bread. Esp with chocolate chips.
surely that's...madness...
I actually like zucchini bread...
Same here.
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(As our daughter runs down a list of cookie recipes in the cookbook her grandparents gave her for her birthday...)
WW: "You know, Hermione, just because the book has the recipe doesn't mean it's a good idea to use it."
Me: "Yeah... I mean, the Anarchist's Cookbook has a recipe for napalm."
Hermione (ignoring us): "...here's one for zucchini bread..."
Me: "Nevermind. That's why we need napalm."
Heh, I mentioned this the other day in a different thread, but it sort of ties in. Way back in 2000, when my son was a second grader, his teacher called us in for a parent/teacher conference because he was telling other kids how to make Molotov cocktails.
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Well, what you said is true. My kid sister would also tell you I was a slave-driving paleontologist who made her carry all my hammers, brushes, handbooks, etc. Don't believe a word of it. Also, she murdered my sea monkeys.
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Also don't @ me, but I like oatmeal raisin cookies.
{stomps across Hoth tundra in an @-@} I also quite enjoy good oatmeal raisin cookies.
Whether this new knowledge makes you feel better or worse about your tastes in snackage, I leave up to you.
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Also don't @ me, but I like oatmeal raisin cookies.{stomps across Hoth tundra in an @-@} I also quite enjoy good oatmeal raisin cookies.
Whether this new knowledge makes you feel better or worse about your tastes in snackage, I leave up to you.
MUST you turn me on in this thread?!?
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Hey...Freehold...Yeah...Over here big guy...I also like oatmeal raisin cookies...*wink*
There. Does that help?
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MUST you turn me on in this thread?!?Also don't @ me, but I like oatmeal raisin cookies.{stomps across Hoth tundra in an @-@} I also quite enjoy good oatmeal raisin cookies.
Whether this new knowledge makes you feel better or worse about your tastes in snackage, I leave up to you.
All I have right now is Tollhouse cookies made with Ghirardelli chocolate chips. And the pork carnitas won't be ready until a bit after 6PM.
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Hey...Freehold...Yeah...Over here big guy...I also like oatmeal raisin cookies...*wink*
There. Does that help?
it was more the hoth and the @@...but oatmeal raisin cookies are a favorite of mine as well ESPECIALLY when warm
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What with that and having to regularly moisten Woran over in Fawtl, it really is Freeholdmas In August, ain't it?
I prefer them without raisins, but I seldom turned down fresh oatmeal cookies.
I can't say that I've heard it, but what little Bjork I have listened to over the years usually just makes me stare at the stereo speakers and wonder what on earth is going on in them...lol
My favorite Bjork is still Kristin Wiig's "Welcome to Iceland" song on SNL's Weekend Update.
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Also, the monthly drag competition that used to run at The Stud in San Francisco once did a Bjork Night.
The costumes weren't as good as they were on Cher Night, but they were still pretty outrageous.
I wouldn't consider myself a fan of Bjork, but for the most part I do like what I've heard.
And don't mind Cal - he's not actually bashing Bjork - his tastes run more towards classic rock/metal like Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, or Judas Priest (maybe not those *specific* bands, but from what I've seen from Cal definitely that genre). He's simply saying that Bjork isn't in his wheelhouse is all. Musically speaking, compared to bands like that, Bjork is an absolute alien.
And I mean that in a good way.
LOL thanks, Vanykrye. Yeah, I wasn't bashing Bjork. I just don't get her. Much like old bands like Captain Beefheart or Primus. I can certainly respect them for their talent (I can't sing, write music, or play an instrument) and I've always been awed by those who can do those things.
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Why does everyone pick on my lady? I'm sure it's all in good fun, and if I'm being honest I KNOW why, but still.
I saw her in concert in Chicago once, at the Orpheum. I managed to get right down in front of the stage. She did Hunter, her voice freaking exploding, and when she was finished she thanked the audience with her short little "thank you" comments. Like watching a little girl bloom into a brilliant, beautiful woman and a force of nature for a few minutes, only to shrink back to her original form as it ended.
In my book she's amazing. I can get past bald caps, swan dresses and crazed airport scenes if I have the privilege of her voice. I'm... kind of a fan.
Anyway, I think yesterday's Army of Me reaction was more me getting inside my own head. I gotta stop finding excuses to yell at myself.
I'm not really picking on her, Mark; my best friend in high school and I used to listen to The Sugarcubes in the car Every. Single. Time. we drove off campus for lunch. I've been a fan for a loooong time.
I've used her for ambient music as the voice of the merfolk skald in my current campaign.
But (and Vany and Freehold will attest to this), I like to stir the pot.
Sorry; I'm a sensitive boy I guess.
Cal, I also enjoy Primus. Do you remember back in the 90's when they toured with Rush? I made it to an arena show on that tour, it was crazy fun!
I also grew up with Eddie on my wall; went through a jean jacket and hair metal phase; still have a couple early Metallica CDs. My older brothers taught me to appreciate Sabbath, Dio, Ozzy, and so on.
At my heart though I guess I'm a sucker for strong female vocalists.
I do remember that Primus/Rush tour, at least reading about it. It never came close to where I lived or I would have definitely seen it.
I love strong female vocalists. When MTV, which pretty much determined what the musical trends were in the 80s, dropped metal and switched to grunge then hip hop I lost complete interest in new music. The 1990s were dead to me musically, with very few exceptions. But in the early 2000s, I discovered symphonic/operatic metal, most of the bands being fronted by incredibly talented women singers. Popular, more mainstream metal today is all about blast kickdrums and growling, screaming vocals. I know I sound like my dad, but it literally all sounds the exact same. Operatic metal has a uniform sort of sound, too, but I can at least understand the lyrics. Pretty much the same with power metal; a common stylistic thread running through the genre but the songs are often pure epics and are great fodder for gaming inspiration.
Regarding early Metallica, I still have their first two LPs on vinyl, on the original Megaforce label. I'm kind of over the band, though. They haven't released anything I've liked since "Load" and "Reload" and heck, if I hear them on SiriusXM while driving I just change stations anymore.
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It's why I tend to prefer European rock and metal over American, because the "female vocalist over rock and symphonic music" style is extremely common over there.
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I recently started listening to more Bjork, she's definitely more of an acquired taste.
I love the EP she did with the songs that were in the musical she was in (I believe she murdered a swan or Mila Kunis at the end).
I only ever knew Bjork from that song from Tank girl. Which I did like.
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If this is what Twitter is like, I'm glad I'm not on it ;)Wow. That was charming. Are you related to the Vagrant Erudite?
You reference me without even telling me? And...and as an insult?
:-(
I thought we was cool, LM.
OK yeah I badmouthed Texas a lot. Fair. Fair.
And New York...
Geeze. I used to be a jackass.
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If this is what Twitter is like, I'm glad I'm not on it ;)Wow. That was charming. Are you related to the Vagrant Erudite?You reference me without even telling me? And...and as an insult?
:-(
I thought we was cool, LM.
OK yeah I badmouthed Texas a lot. Fair. Fair.
And New York...
Geeze. I used to be a jackass.
Lol I respect you coming to terms and using it as a learning experience. Also making me laugh which is really the important thing.
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If this is what Twitter is like, I'm glad I'm not on it ;)Wow. That was charming. Are you related to the Vagrant Erudite?You reference me without even telling me? And...and as an insult?
:-(
I thought we was cool, LM.
OK yeah I badmouthed Texas a lot. Fair. Fair.
And New York...
Geeze. I used to be a jackass.
Oh, heck, I badmouth Texas all the time. Texas gets what it deserves.
*At the time*, I often found the way you wrote on the boards to be abrasive and irritating. And I said this. And I apologize, because I didn't have the courage to say anything to you at the time, I was just snarky on a separate thread, which was both cowardly and mean.
I'm truly sorry about that.
It's also hypocritical, because my own abrasiveness is what pushed Mort off of FaWtL.
I've come to really like you since then. And I hope we're still cool.
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We 100% are! And 100% forgiveness! :-D
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Who doesn't bad-mouthed Texas? It's Texas, they get everything they deserve.
Wisconsin too for that matter.
And let's not forget Florida. (FYI they have 7 of those!
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Who doesn't bad-mouthed Texas? It's Texas, they get everything they deserve.
Wisconsin too for that matter.
And let's not forget Florida. (FYI they have 7 of those!
Three of the four states I've called home.
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Who doesn't bad-mouthed Texas? It's Texas, they get everything they deserve.
Wisconsin too for that matter.
And let's not forget Florida. (FYI they have 7 of those!
Three of the four states I've called home.
No wonder I'm a mess.
The fourth being California. And everyone knows we're loopy!
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California at least deserves a "You Tried" sticker.
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Who doesn't bad-mouthed Texas? It's Texas, they get everything they deserve.
Wisconsin too for that matter.
And let's not forget Florida. (FYI they have 7 of those!
Three of the four states I've called home.
No wonder I'm a mess.
Two of those three are milkmaid states. Freehold approves.
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Who doesn't bad-mouthed Texas? It's Texas, they get everything they deserve.
Wisconsin too for that matter.
And let's not forget Florida. (FYI they have 7 of those!
Three of the four states I've called home.
No wonder I'm a mess.
Me too! We can be trauma buddies!
I call curling up and hiding under the bed!!
The fourth being California. And everyone knows we're loopy!Who doesn't bad-mouthed Texas? It's Texas, they get everything they deserve.
Wisconsin too for that matter.
And let's not forget Florida. (FYI they have 7 of those!
Three of the four states I've called home.
No wonder I'm a mess.
My fourth is Washington state.
Let's not forget I was born in Illinois.
And I also lived in Georgia.
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With the exception of one less than stellar year, I've lived my entire life in Arkansas. And quite often we deserve the bad press. We're not Florida level, thank goodness.
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I have only ever truly lived in New York, California and Pennsylvania.
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California at least deserves a "You Tried" sticker.
The funniest thing to me is the level of vitriol I see being aimed at our state by conservatives who've never set foot here. We're actually a remarkably well-run state ever since we went to "top two" voting (which I admittedly opposed).
The issues are that being one of the nicest places in the world to live plus Proposition 13 plus a huge tech sector so salaries get stupid leads to ridiculous housing prices. And this leads to massive homelessness, plus having no winter leads to a large influx of homeless from other states, so yeah, we have more homeless than any other state... because we have no winter.
Stupid housing prices. Gross overpopulation. Massive homelessness. Other than that, a great place to live!
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California at least deserves a "You Tried" sticker.The funniest thing to me is the level of vitriol I see being aimed at our state by conservatives who've never set foot here. We're actually a remarkably well-run state ever since we went to "top two" voting (which I admittedly opposed).
The issues are that being one of the nicest places in the world to live plus Proposition 13 plus a huge tech sector so salaries get stupid leads to ridiculous housing prices. And this leads to massive homelessness, plus having no winter leads to a large influx of homeless from other states, so yeah, we have more homeless than any other state... because we have no winter.
Stupid housing prices. Gross overpopulation. Massive homelessness. Other than that, a great place to live!
One thing I have heard folks hear trash-talk California over is the ballot measure/state proposition thing. There's a lot of "Bless their hearts" head-shaking about how "you can get a proposition for just about anything on that ballot and people will vote for it!"
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California at least deserves a "You Tried" sticker.The funniest thing to me is the level of vitriol I see being aimed at our state by conservatives who've never set foot here.
From my years among the conservative mindset, it basically comes down to California being a bastion of liberal thought that hasn't collapsed into Mad Max. According to many of their doctrines, any place being run like CA is - much less something even further left - should be crumbling under the weight of its own infrastructure and consist of nothing but useless layabouts living off the government dime.
This is, of course, blatantly not what is happening. So they have to come up with some way to explain or disparage it, otherwise their whole idea of "liberal ideas will lead to the collapse of society" just doesn't pan out.
California is therefore just basically a very visible huge thorn in the side of reactionary ideology and the only way they can reconcile that with their established worldview is mockery and disdain.
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One thing I have heard folks hear trash-talk California over is the ballot measure/state proposition thing. There's a lot of "Bless their hearts" head-shaking about how "you can get a proposition for just about anything on that ballot and people will vote for it!"
citizens? getting other citizens to vote their ideas up or down? the horror!
They should leave that lawmaking to the legislators!
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One thing I have heard folks hear trash-talk California over is the ballot measure/state proposition thing. There's a lot of "Bless their hearts" head-shaking about how "you can get a proposition for just about anything on that ballot and people will vote for it!"citizens? getting other citizens to vote their ideas up or down? the horror!
They should leave that lawmaking to the legislators!
I didn't say I *agreed* with them.
One thing I loved about living in the Bay Area was just how egalitarian the democratic process could be.I attended San Francisco Board of Supervisors meetings where the public comment section of the agenda could go on up to two hours with folks lining up clear out the door... biker grannies, norml advocates, anyone who felt like raising their voice. You don't get that here. Texas is full of "That ain't the way we do things."
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One thing I have heard folks hear trash-talk California over is the ballot measure/state proposition thing. There's a lot of "Bless their hearts" head-shaking about how "you can get a proposition for just about anything on that ballot and people will vote for it!"California at least deserves a "You Tried" sticker.The funniest thing to me is the level of vitriol I see being aimed at our state by conservatives who've never set foot here. We're actually a remarkably well-run state ever since we went to "top two" voting (which I admittedly opposed).
The issues are that being one of the nicest places in the world to live plus Proposition 13 plus a huge tech sector so salaries get stupid leads to ridiculous housing prices. And this leads to massive homelessness, plus having no winter leads to a large influx of homeless from other states, so yeah, we have more homeless than any other state... because we have no winter.
Stupid housing prices. Gross overpopulation. Massive homelessness. Other than that, a great place to live!
I'm going to have to side with LM here -- political blocs will forward a proposition titled, "Protect Grannies' Homes" and it'll be a constitutional amendment to ban rent control for anyone over 65 and people will just look at the name and vote for it anyway.
We even had a proposition to require that proposition names match proposition content... and it lost...
EDIT: OK; I'm not 100% sure that it lost. I just recall that enough people voted against it that I was appalled.
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Aw man, my state just has boring legalese for the referendum measures. It'll be something like "Proposition for [financial gobbledy g+#$ gobbledy good] to allow a five year [gobbledy g+$!] with the State to permit the Department of Parks and Recreation for the permitting, zoning, and [gobbldey g@$$ gobbledy g%$%] for recreational facilities appropriate to pre-adolescent humans." And it takes good few minutes of reading to realize that all they want is permission to borrow money from the state to build a playground. The wording will always make it sound terrible and onerous too, so you're about to tick no when suddenly the meaning kicks in and you're like, Oh! Playground, playgrounds are good.
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I honestly couldn't tell you what my state's political apparatus is, my brothers are all involved in politics, either as bill writers, fund raisers, and one is a lobbyist, so I try not to pay too close attention.
I'll read about the candidates and vote accordingly, but I'm not digging into the minutiae.
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I will admit I did like the west coast political system, chaos breeds excitement, and excitement leads to more participation which leads to some b*@*$*@ crazy results, because excitement, unfortunately, doesn't lead to education or forethought among humanity.
"Prop 689, f~++ yes, I'm on board!!.. wait, is that the one that funds the crackdown on Hummingbird drug dens or is that the one that funds the desalinization plant in Fresno?".