who is the most famous person you’ve interacted with either online or in person?
In person? Jimmy Buffet, Larry Drake, Dee Dee Myers, Robert Prosky, Bernard Shaw. Very brief interaction with Jimmy Connors, John Madden. Also a night of bar crawling where we kept seeing Glenn Frey but never talked to him? Online: Darrel Green, Brent Butt, Diedrich Bader and a couple others I’ve forgotten. On, and I’ve known Sunny Mabrey online for years now and more recently, I’ve talked to her husband Ethan Embry a few times.
James Van Der Beek was at my house when I was a kid but he wasn’t famous yet, just went to school with my brother. Casually I’ve met Dennis Leary, Big Show, Sean Astin, Chelsea Handler, and 50 Cent.
I had drinks with Gabriel Inglesias (I’m not fat I’m fluffy), which was awesome but he has a rule where he’ll only buy your drinks if he picks what you’re drinking and that was my only interaction with Jaeger.
Oh and when I was 14 I had lunch with Eli Weisel? That was neat.
One time I randomly met Keenan Thompson at a haunted house and talked to him for like 20 minutes.
I would like to hear about your Thanksgiving menus and traditions.
Our menu usually includes some real turkey and a fake turkey roast (Trader Joe’s does a really good one), stuffing (Pepperidge Farm bagged mix with diced celery and apple and pecans mixed in), mashed potatoes, fresh and canned cranberry sauce, corn, some sort of bright veggie situation (either green beans or a shaved Brussels sprout salad with citrus vinaigrette) and always, always crescent rolls from a can. Sometimes we do sweet potatoes for the people who like them, sometimes we don’t bother. Sometimes Andy’s mom brings squash that almost no one eats. Sometimes we do a green bean casserole if we’re having a bunch of people who will miss it if it’s not there. Dessert is always multiple pies, at least one fruit and one with chocolate (this year it’ll be a chocolate pecan and an apple and a store-bought pumpkin).
We always have the parade on in the background and someone pops over to the corner to buy a newspaper so we can go through the ads. We aim to eat dinner around 4 so we mill around and eat snacky things and sometimes I bake scones or biscuits for brunch.
Last year we made a layered leftovers pie in got water crust and it was so good that we immediately announced it was going to be tradition and we’re already looking forward to that.
Turkey from Gozzis rubbed with butter and herbs, cooked in an oven bag. Home made gravy.
Porchetta for variety.
Mashed potatoes, russets, extra thick and creamy.
Sausage stuffing made from the Pepperidge Farms crumb type and fennel.
Regular stuffing made with bread cubes (boring).
Mashed turnip with butter.
Broccoli casserole, with velveeta and ritz (amazing).
Fresh green beans with almonds.
Wild rice with mushrooms.
Cranberry sauce and the canned jelly.
Snowflake rolls from Big Y, anything else will cause a riot.
Honey butter.
Dessert is various pies, usually pumpkin, apple, chocolate cream, and Tollhouse.
The helping team arrives at 11am, food is out by 12pm, take a break and play games, go outside, round two of eating (the same food stays in sterno racks) around 2pm, then there’s napping on the floor, testing the limits of the plumbing, pie around 4pm, clean up, sober up, everyone gone by 5:30pm.
We have 60+ people for Thanksgiving at my Uncle’s house. Food includes but is not limited to:
Multiple turkeys, ham, roast beef, mashed potatoes, Mac and cheese, hash brown casserole, butter peas, blackeyed peas, green beans, turnip greens, squash casserole, broccoli casserole, cornbread dressing, shrimp and grits, broccoli salad, regular salad, cowboy caviar, cranberry sauce, chicken and dumplings, deviled eggs, biscuits, and more I can’t think of off the top of my head.
Dessert includes probably a dozen pies, pound cake, caramel cake, chocolate cake, pumpkin cake, fudge, and various cookies and bars.
Plus gallons of sweet tea.
We eat around 1 pm and hang out for the rest of the day. Usually we’ll hang out, play outside, and eat again around dark-thirty.
what is your eye color. what is your favorite color. what is the color that appears most frequently in your wardrobe. what color is your favorite blanket. what color is your water bottle.
Green, grey, black, grey, I hate water and refuse to drink it.
books that take me months and i Know i have to think v hard and look up so many things to appreciate it properly. and maybe i will never fully appreciate it but it’s about the process ! the language!
rereading a childhod favourite and it still holds up <3
^ and in fact is better for it !
late night reading a whole book from start to finish and then not being quite sure if it was actually good or when my dreams started and would it be as good in the light of day… probably not and that’s ok
when you know NOTHING about what a book is about, and so it’s about the trust exercise of it all
books that change your mind about entire genres and suddenly it’s the only genre you want to read
