Technically it's only Thursday, but thanks to the crucifixion of Our Lord And Savior, tomorrow is a holiday. So long weekend, baby. Focus: What's your preferred family gathering meal? Turkey, ham, roast beef, prime rib? Through a series of coincidences and bad communication, I'm having not one but TWO turkey dinners this week. I can't tell if that's a rant or a rave.
Maybe it was my truck ear acting up but I could have sworn I heard Axl Rose is the new lead vox for AC/DC now. AC/DC spokespeople won't cnfirm anything on it.
Runninnnnnn riiiight off the traaaaack..... You guys are in your 60s and NOW you fire Brian Johnson? They are LOSING IT.
I need to work out, but there's a purring cat on my lap. I can't bring myself to make him move! This asshole knows that he owns me.
Easter for us is always a potluck. We travel about an hour to attend mass at my dad's tiny country church in the town he grew up in. Easter mass there is a homecoming celebration and people who grew up in that town travel from all over the country to attend. People are packed in like sardines for a 30 minute (!!) mass said by an Irishman that you cannot understand and eat their faces off afterward. My personal favorite is the little Filipino lady who fries spring rolls for the masses. Get in line for that shit because even though she makes hundreds, they are gone instantly. I always enjoy Thanksgiving turkey and fixings the most out of the major holidays. The leftover potential is staggering. That being said, we had prime rib 2 Christmas's ago (I did not celebrate with the family this past December) and I made a sandwich out of the leftovers for everybody the next day: shaved/picked apart rib roast, sauteed spinach onions & garlic, and provolone cheese on french bread. That was pretty damned good, too. I think what I'm trying to say that any holiday that involves food is good by me.
My mom usually has ham. I hate ham. I think it tastes like a mouthful of sodium. I usually end up filling up on sides. Sometimes she'll prepare a turkey, but for me it's all about the mashed potatoes, various white trash, kitschy casseroles and desserts. My favorite Easter candy is Reese's Eggs. I buy a bag every year; it has the perfect chocolate to PB ratio.
All the candy. All of it. That's my favorite kind. I have a horrible sweet tooth and typically buy the personal sized candy in the checkout aisle because I have no self control. I really hope my mom did not make easter baskets this year because Danger Zone. Shit. She always makes the baskets. I think I had el husband hide it from me last year all around the house like a secondary easter egg hunt. It helped stretch the stash out a couple weeks.
Though we're Presbyterian, we recognize the Catholic tradition of a meatless Good Friday. So I will be scouring the stores for some octopus. Mario Batali has this recipe for octopus with a tomato jalapeno pesto sauce that is giving me a food boner. Can't find that, then snapper or salmon. Easter proper I'm getting a couple steaks, a few scallops (bacon and green onion relish courtesy Bobby Flay), maybe sear off this chunk of canned foie gras someone got me as a gift. There will be wine. Because Sacrament. Jesus must be wicked loaded 24/7. Ham and turkey are so boring on their own. Go big or go home. I picked up a ham and a turkey because they were on sale. I have something like 20 pounds of meat for $21. Both of those things will be used to make a shit load of New Orleans style dinners for the next few weeks. In bourbon news, picked up this sucker. It is really, really good. Vanilla, wheat, caramel, good burn.
Reese's eggs are the fucking shiznit, definitely my favorite too. I buy a bag and eat them in secret and shame like a greedy cave troll. This year both sides of the family are coming up to the city to spend Easter here and we are hosting. My wife is pumped cause she's excited to host, our moms are pumped because they are excited to not host.
This has to be the work of 4chan. Microsoft Chat Bot Goes On Racist, Genocidal Twitter Rampage http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/microsoft-tay-racist-tweets_us_56f3e678e4b04c4c37615502
Not 4chan. I watched it live, it was the anti-SJW community. Because they made it directly attack people like Anita Sarkeesian and Brianna Wu. It was really cool, it INSTANTLY replied to you with a hilarious troll-like response. Asked it a question about the dildo epidemic in Portland last summer and it said "msg me I dildos in private better."
But not here, though. Still trying to snow every once in while. One day it is warm enough for shorts [above 40 degrees Farenheit] and next day it is fucking cold and windy. Hell, the same day.
After almost two months with virtually no snow hete, today I got the pleasure of driving 45 miles to work in an ice storm. In the 401 in the dark. It fucking crystallized EVERYTHING and snapped mature trees and power lines. Took this on the way home: Zoom in. Every single blade of grass was an icicle. After MONTHS of freakish warmth. Then when I reach London it's thawing, and falls by the pound. A city covered by a tree canopy. It sounded like bodies hitting the roof of my car.