Rain Dog @Leucrotta@awoo.space

It’s been a while since I posted cooking. Here’s some Hainan style chicken I made with what chicken I could get cut price at the store.

okay, can I listen to "Take Me Down" without tearing up in public?

Nope.

fine, if it's gonna be THAT way, I may as well lean into it, and listen to "Fast Car," "Two Coffins" and "Kitty."

mood's moved to "I just wish I could die and get it done and over with" so I should wrap up and get some food.

It's always perspective to hear a small child have a complete meltdown. When you're 4, you're still feeling out things like having emotions, and you do NOT know that this isn't the only time you can get to play in this playroom, or that there might be other brownies to eat, etc, and it would be really easy for the adult around to really lose it and slam down. Everyone born human is potentially on a collision course with completely terrible emotional baggage.

Years ago, I worked in a payroll department. NOBODY calls payroll because they're happy. Sometime after that I was the point person for a small call center, and I thought people calling about furniture would be less upset than people calling about paychecks.

I suspect where people can MOST get upset lies somewhere in between the urgent - where most energy is going to resolve the issue - and the personally unimportant. Like sofas. Getting mustard. And what kicked this off, WH40K.

I'M YOUR LOVER! I'M YOUR ZERO!
I'M THE FACE IN YOUR DREAMS OF GLASS!
SO SAVE YOUR PRAYERS FOR WHEN YOU'RE REALLY GONNA NEED 'EM
THROW OUT YOUR CARES AND FLY,
WANNA GO FOR A RIDE?
#IsThatAnakinSkywalker

Time to tackle more administrativa, and listen to the Smashing Pumpkings and feel bad that I'm old, the 90s are long gone and there is exactly no hope.

Scotland Yard concluded the source as a small shiny bag of “Cool Ranch Mesquite Flavor Fritos” found some 30’ from the impact crater, which noted author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has since proposed to be some form of chips.

After 1884 saw the tragic death of little Alesteir Neville Brightley-Smyth, parents taught their children to be wary of anyone who might in fact *be* a time traveler.

clearlyIron Horse - The Thing That Should Not Be https://youtu.be/x_ZT6Qir2LA via @YouTube

Metallica: dude, what if I revamped The Dunwich Horror for Saturday's AD&D game?

Iron Horse: he went down to the crick ev'ry naht to meet his wife 'cause she was a REAL PRETTY CATFISH.

#drawings today, instead of thumbnailing to plan I just went with whatever (wanting to draw a haft strike, githyanki and devils). So; two adventurers face githyanki, and a fighter or paladin meets a devil in the Hells.

So I called to the Captain, please give me my wine.
He said, Captain, it’s Wednesday!

Hot take; BOTH Conan movies form a perfect encapsulation of D&D. Conan the Barbarian is about character background and growth in a world rich in history, and Destroyer is "fuck that, time for goofy fun with treasure, underground complexes, and big over the top villains."

So... you know the cover to Dragonlance Adventures, with Tanis Half Elven triumphantly seizing the crown from Lord Ariakis? This many years later it turns out what that was about is that canonically Tanis shivs Ariakis at Kitiara's request to save Laurana or something like that. As a kid who'd read all my Dad's 60s vintage DeCamp/Carter edited Conan books I was totally convinced that fantasy succession of power involved single combat with the prior king and that in this case Tanis was going to seize the Dragonarmies for his own.

not really a hot take;

People's need for housing, or peoples' housing options as determined by tourism, really should NOT be an option for someone's home business. Your small home business should be, "I'm gonna sell awesome Cantonese street food" or "the local comic shop! not "I'm going to completely dick the chances of other people even owning a place to live and I'm going to help jack the rents as well."

rewatching the space battle from Jedi, I'm struck by how little the capital ships actually DO, but in my mind it'd become this awesome sequence with the capital ships blasting away at each other like it's Trafalgar, while smaller craft zip nimbly between them.

"Artoo that rear deflectional stabilizer's broken loose again, see if you can lock it down."
"DWEE BOOP"
"Hang on back there." #MovieQuotes

"There's a lot of firepower coming from that tower!"
"You worry about those fighters, I'll worry about that tower!"
#MovieQuotes

* very BBC accent *
Red Five, you've switched off your targeting computer. Is everything quite all right?
* pushes blocks around map of southeast Britain *

Battle Of Britain (1969) : Scramble!/Battle in the Air https://youtu.be/BQJlwrncvA0 via @YouTube

"We count thirty signals. Enemy fighters coming your way."
"Pick up your visual scanning. Watch for enemy fighters!"