Gregory Possum-Encounterer

hosted a bunch of boomer relatives last night for dinner and made a nice chocolate cake and i hardly knew how to decorate it without a small birthday-child issuing commands

one time i was at a fast food place in England and asked the teen counter clerk for some ketchup and she said, englishly, "ToMAHTo ketchup?" and by god that would be such a kickass response in order to be an annoying american fastfood clerk

wife: "oughhh.. i went too hard last night"
me: "you were in Party Mode"
wife: "i LIVE in Party Mode"

Black medium hair cat with green eyes

Black medium hair cat with green eyes

Miriam broke through my apartment screen door, jumped 3 stories down and ran away this morning while I was trying to give her medication. I am contacting all shelters in my area but if anyone in the Derry/Londonderry NH area finds a black female cat with no tags please contact me.

before the modern age of static actors green-screened onto cgi backgrounds, we took delight in the concept of a hangdog man moving gracefully through physical space

friday night

Thin White Duke/Thick White Duke

YES YES YES

of course i very vociferously emphasized that i was so happy to have every one of you kids because i love you all SO much, and then a bit later he brought me this and said "i made it because i love you greg!" why the fuck is my 4yo calling me Greg like he knows me from on line

she's pulling off a Freaky Friday style parent-manipulation caper with a time machine

4-year-old: "why are we going back to camp?"
me: "well, i forgot to pack the girls' swimsuits, so we need to go bring them"
4-year-old: "why did you forget"
me: "well, i mean, i got four kids, there's always a lot of stuff to keep track of"
other 4-year-old: "i'm sorry you have so many kids, papa"

every little kid has wondered: what if you could break the laws of physics by learning magic spells that gave you superhuman powers? what would you do then? and the answer for every child is: go to boarding school about it

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dang, it looks like LLMs can indeed produce reliably accurate output from time to time

i'm kind of a purist, so i only want to see him as Tolkien intended: doing the Michigan J Frog "Hello my baby hello my honey" dance across the entirety of Middle-Earth

4-year-old was like "i dont like porkosnissel" and i was like "YOU'VE NEVER HAD PORK SCHNITZEL, YOU'LL LIKE IT, IT'S JUST LIKE CHICKEN NUGGETS" but then the second they tried it all the kids starting shouting about how good it was. porkosnissel success

anyone can make a movie now! please do not ask to see any of the movies

this reminded me that i was going to get (the fucking phenomenal novel) Everybody Knows as a gift for a friend, but i just looked it up on amazon and well now i simply don't know which one to get

YEEEEAHHHHH

this is accurate, and similar to how it drove me bonkers when people said during the pandemic that kids were getting into Sea Shantys. it was just one song. they were not getting into Sea Shantys they just liked Wellerman, briefly

the weirdest thing about making a Harry Potter series now is that besides the books being absolute dogshit, they came out a quarter century ago and have no original concepts in them. you could make a much better series about "what if children could do magic" just starting fully from scratch

Cool Jock Leader: "Hey Poindexter! we're headed straight for that cliff! we need some kind of crazy contraption, pronto!"
Gifted Kid: "i know the capitals of over 14 different countries"

saturday morning cartoons really misled us about how every friend group has The Smart Nerd.. you figure he's gonna build a time machine or laser cannon, but it turns out he's just slightly better at spelling

I've been carefully cutting around the milkweed all year, trying to get more to grow just in case it can provide a food source for monarchs, and today i saw a little stripey payoff

my yiayia used to make rose jelly from the rosehips in her yard so i used to eat this all the time as a kid

one thing that's fun about Plague Marine lore is that the guys in Lords Of Silence are named Vorx and Dragan and Philemon and all the figurines are named Squishie Q Wetsblaster

this is the first time I've ever heard this song and it sounds like it Ookla The Mok started a novelty band based on the concept of "america" instead of "sci-fi"

my high school band briefly had the name "Chromiomax" because the guitarist thought it was a cool word Kurt Cobain invented in "On A Plain". It turns out the actual lyric was "quote me on that"

at some point when i was a kid i looked up the word "sex" purely for titillation value and it said "coitus" and i was like "what?"

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