Sunday, October 15, 2017

427 - Rock & Roll Hall Of Feh, Yule Love The Peas, "The Grinch Clause", Why We Love A Scots Accent, I Dobn't Know How To Discribe This, and Holiday Traditions We Cannot Stomach

[3:26 PM] Mr. Silver:
Of course you know that Pearl Jam made the Hall of Fame
[3:28 PM] Ms. Rose:
Duh. I've been dancing in my chair all day.
Along with Tupac (he must still be alive!) and Yes and Journey (who should have been inducted eons ago.) Will be a interesting induction ceremony, at the least.
[3:28 PM] Mr. Silver:
Joan Baez also got in.
[3:29 PM] Ms. Rose:
Oh yeah, Joan Baez too.
[3:29 PM] Mr. Silver:
Because when I think “Rock and Roll”, I think of a woman who (I believe) has never composed or performed any Rock and Roll.
The list I saw mainly illustrates the following:
1. No one can actually tell you what Rock and Roll is
and
2. The Hall of Fame has a chronic history of not inducting groups and individuals who should have already been in the Hall of Fame decades ago...like "Yes".
I swear they have to go through a list every year, write down everyone ever involved in music since the Blues Age who is not already in the HoF and say "Hell...we can't induct ALL of these!"
Then they pick 10 at random out of The Pinball Wizard's hat.
[3:33 PM] Ms. Rose:
I really don't give a crap. The band I have loved and followed and been obsessed with since I was 11 (through many boyfriends, a marriage, two dogs, countless cats, and all of the Golden Girls episodes) is getting into the Hall of Fame. THAT is rock, to me, mostly. (rock)
[3:33 PM] Mr. Silver:
"Emo Philips did that 'Downers Grove' song!"
"Put him in the hat with K.I.S.S and Pink Floyd"
"Ok"
[3:36 PM] Ms. Rose:
And yeah - Journey and Yes. How are they not already in there?
[3:37 PM] Mr. Silver:
Yup



[8:18 AM] Mr. Silver:
Went to and had a Yule feast/party/ceremony last night.  Was a good time.
[8:30 AM] Mr. Blue:
What'd you have?
[8:33 AM] Mr. Silver:
Well it was very American Thanksgiving/Christmas turkey traditional.  We contributed mushy peas.
Well received.
A couple guests there had tried it because we'd brought it to other dinners they'd been to.  But the one guy was excited about it because he hadn't had mushy peas since he was in England.
(tastes...tastes again...) "Actually, this is the best mushy peas I've ever had.  Better than anything over there."
Merry Egomas to me.
[8:43 AM] Mr. Blue:
Was this with the Unitarian church?
[8:44 AM] Mr. Silver:
Yeah, there's a whole segment of the UU that have pagan inclinations
Which the UU has no issue with because they are UU...
So after getting stuffed we went out to the fire that was going all evening and had a little opening ceremony.
Went back in and decorated a couple logs with boughs and sage and hemp twine and tags labelled with all our crap from 2016...
Then we went back out, burned them.
Had a couple rounds of toasts and good wishes and inspirational thoughts with a couple bottles of high proof alcohol - "drink, dribble, or spit on the fire...your choice" 
Had some good fireballs...hehe
Then we finished the ceremonial bit to end it and people went in to keep socializing for who knows how long - but we went home.
[8:54 AM] Mr. Brown:
My friends have a Yule party
I never seem to make it though
Oh, and Mr. Silver I found out somebody my wife works with lives near you is from England.
She calls her lovey at work
[8:56 AM] Mr. Silver:
I'll make her mushy peas if she'll show me how to make proper chips.
[8:56 AM] Mr. Brown:
LOL
When my sister in law's sister comes from Scotland, we always have to tell her people call them fries here
[8:58 AM] Mr. Silver:
Chips aren't fries though
The recipe I've tried is from the same source as the peas – they're like steak fry wedges, oiled and baked.
I just can't tell at all if I'm getting them right.
(dead of night, I knock on the door of the guy who liked the mushy peas) 
"Hi.  Could you try these chips please?" 
"Hrmmm?  Its...2am." 
"I couldn't sleep til I knew." 



[9:13 AM] Mr. Brown:
I have to set the gifts out on Saturday night all by myself
[9:14 AM] Mr. Silver:
(Santa, singing)
"Mr. Brown...with your jaundice so yellow...”
Won't you take my place, my fine fellow?"
[9:15 AM] Mr. Brown:
I'm just hoping Brown Jr. does not have a bad dream and come out while I'm putting them under the tree, 'cause then I will have to think fast on a comeback
"Uh, Santa was in a hurry and threw them at me and said 'here you do it'."
[9:22 AM] Mr. Silver:
"And he got all pissed off when I asked him not to leave all these bags around, Junior, and said 'Ho Ho!  OK big shot! You think YOU can do it better?  Here's the sack! Figure it out!  Ho ho ho!'. And he LEFT! So I've been trying to get this right for like an hour, Junior...an HOUR. Could you help me out? Never sass Santa, kid."



[2:11 PM] Mr. Brown:
Mr. Silver, what do they call the black suit aliens in Doctor Who?
I forget
Ah, The Silence
[2:15 PM] Mr. Silver:
The fact that you wrote "I forget" is absolutely hilarious.
[2:15 PM] Mr. Brown:
Yes going on how they work
LOL
Shit.  Unrelated, I've got a pen mark on my arm. I must have seen something.
[12:34 PM] Mr. Blue:
That Karen Gillan is soooOOOoooOOOooo good lookin'
She was definitely the highlight of GotG... her character was badass.
Nebula
She reminded me of the lady cenobite, with a little Borg queen mixed in.
[12:40 PM] Mr. Silver:
Yes, Gillan is marvelous.
Thing that comes to my mind usually second about her behind 'yum!' is how amusing it was listening to her talk in a heavy Scottish accent online.
[12:53 PM] Mr. Blue:
She’s from Inverness
Nice town
That's where we got our flat tire fixed... they said it'd take 24 hours to get the tire in but when we gave them our sob story the mechanic found a replacement in an hour
Otherwise we'd have had to scratch Wales & Stonehenge off the list
[12:56 PM] Mr. Silver:
The prospect of two Americans hanging around for a full day lit a fire under him, eh?
[12:56 PM] Mr. Blue:
LOL
That was the guy that was like "Ahh what state ye from?"
"Pennsylvania."
"Ahh!  Deel Unter."
"What?"
"Deel Unter.  Robert Deniro."
"Oh! Yeah."
(Filmed in the Mon Valley)



[12:47 PM] Mr. Brown:
i dobn't know exactly how to discribe the voice of this last client
but sounded like the very backwoods african american old man sittin no a pourch talking gipperish
[12:51 PM] Mr. Silver:
... sittin ... no a pow-rch ... talking jipper-ish ... ?
[12:52 PM] Mr. Brown:
I had lots of touble figuring out what they needed
[12:52 PM] Mr. Silver:
Me too
;)



[3:23 PM] Mr. Blue:
We're doing our Thanksgiving thing - spicey sausage pasta whatever
[3:24 PM] Mr. Silver:
The longstanding traditional Blue Family meal that Mr. Blue doesn't know how to make or what all is in it.
[3:24 PM] Mr. Blue:
We've been makin' it for nigh on 8 years - I actually think it's from Martha Stewart
[3:25 PM] Ms. Rose:
Her 1980's Thanksgiving show? If so, I think I may have had it.
[3:26 PM] Mr. Blue:
[3:27 PM] Ms. Rose:
Oh, sorry. My brain substituted "pasta" for "stuffing." I was thinking of Martha Stewart's turkey stuffing with sausage and apples and some kind of mushroom.
[3:27 PM] Mr. Silver:
The Silver household had a traditional Easter breakfast when I was a kid.
Had it every year...
Until I successfully pointed out that it was disgusting and didn't taste good.
[3:28 PM] Mr. Blue:
LOL
We had one of those inedibles like that every Christmas but it was fruit bread
"Mom, I can't choke this down any more"
"Yeah. Okay."
[3:29 PM] Mr. Silver:
I wonder how many generations of Silvers had been just sucking it up without saying anything
[3:37 PM] Mr. Blue:
"make use of leftover hardboiled eggs"
Finally! Got so many sittin' around
[3:38 PM] Ms. Rose:
This says it all: Pour creamed eggs over buttered toast pieces; sprinkle with yolks.
[3:38 PM] Mr. Blue:
I like eggs but they should only be one consistency, and never "creamy"
[3:39 PM] Mr. Silver:
"Like dippy egg yolks?”
SURE!”
Well try dippy egg WHITES...with dried out yolk on it!"
[3:39 PM] Mr. Blue:
Reverse-sunny-side up
[3:40 PM] Ms. Rose:
I bet it was great at Easter, too, since the colored egg dye sometimes seeps into the hardboiled whites. Like a barfy rainbow!
[3:40 PM] Mr. Silver:
I dubbed them "Golden Rotten Eggs" for the psychological suggestion part of my anti-tradition campaign. I won in a couple years.

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