Recent content by Cadence

I just binged all of the Lynley TV seasons the last two weeks. After they fade a bit in my memory I think I will try the books. The TV version of Havers is currently my favorite DS across all the Britboxing I've done. For reading, I need to get to all of those you mentioned still.

A few more "Josephine Tey Mysteries" by Nicola Upson... #4 Fear in the Sunlight has some things about Hitchcock that are neat, but it struck me as a bit too well wrapped. #5 The Death of Lucy Kyte is vying with Two for Sorrow with being my favorite so far. I had to google if some of the things...

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We start by watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and then watch the dog show. Might watch a feel good movie in the afternoon. Traditional Turkey dinner at night. (Babe? Peanuts Thanksgiving?) On Friday we take down the orange strings of outdoor lights that have been up since early...

Our Christmas-eve dinner has always been the big one for our family, with a standing rib roast at the center Dessert has always included a grasshopper pie (the liqueurs not the insects). Christmas dinner itself could be whatever.

I find my internal $ pricing evaluations are sometimes overly influenced by when I first started buying things decades ago. These all seem much better if I convert the monetary units to "new comic books" or "quarter pounder meals" instead of $$.

Using cultural things seems more useful to me too. I'm 1/3rd of the way through Gen-X (1970), but my end-of-X sister a decade later was too young to really be hit by the Atari 2600, Star Wars figures, B/X, 1e, Commodore 64, episodes iv-vi, and Ghostbusters that hit me squarely in middle...

There is one in @Sacrosanct 's "Twilight Fables". The picture seems to match the Wikipedia description anyway, (Yeuch!).

The Hodag. We drive through Rhinelander every summer to the town just to the northeast of it. It shows up in the Pathfinder (1e) Bestiary 3, but doesn't look authentic there. It also shows up in a Scooby Doo episode. The Nuuttipukki. Borrowing on my Finnish ancestry we use it as an extra...

Now I want to go finish watching the seasons of Leverage I never finished... In any case, does it not need Thieves nearly as much as it needs Rogues (or something equivalent with a better name)?

Gamma World 1e

Oh they built a sister ship, the SS-92, and its bow was painted red and its stern was painted blue, and they christened it with beer and it sank right off the pier, it was great when the sad ship went down! - memories of the final verse in the "The Titanic Song" as used at summer camp (and not...

"The hiss of the surgeon's knife, the gnawing teeth of his saw, Wheeze, cluck, swash of falling blood, short wild scream, and long, dull tapering groan, These so, these irretrievable." - Walt Whitman, from Song of Myself 36, a decade before the end of the Civil War.