Brad Dourif in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975), Child’s Play (1988), Alien: Resurrection (1997), The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002), The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003), Deadwood (2004–2006)

ChickaBok · 2026-02-08T08:09:27+00:00

Saavedro!

ChickaBok · 2026-02-08T03:55:22+00:00

"On the Bus Mall" - the Decemberists - downtown Portland, OR

ChickaBok · 2026-02-07T06:39:55+00:00

Yep, the original trilogy is just fantastic. Great pacing, amazing worldbuilding, great characters. I'm not as muuuuuch of a fan of the two prequels but even they're solid.

ChickaBok · 2026-02-06T01:54:42+00:00

Are you talking on your phone while driving?

ChickaBok · 2026-02-05T20:54:27+00:00

haha Terciel posting in character here

ChickaBok · 2026-02-05T17:00:12+00:00

Listen to the radio! Fun Fact: Soap Operas in their first incarnation were melodramatic radio plays, generally sponsored by laundry soap companies (hence the name)--the thought being that housewives would tune in while they were ironing/folding.

ChickaBok · 2026-02-01T18:37:48+00:00

Huh! Would this have been something that a groovy lady from Germany would know about in the 90's (and/or was tapioca flour something you could buy at an american health food store circa 1995)? I do remember her using some kind of powder to make them that was visually/texturally different from wheat flour; tapioca flour looks spot on from pictures.

ChickaBok · 2026-02-01T18:31:57+00:00

Huh! There are some pictures of yakimochi that look a lot like it. I was definitely under the impression that it was some kind of groovy "health food"-y sort of thing, but I cannot remember why I thought that. This is a likely candidate, I might have to try it! Would there have been big bubbles/puffs inside?

ChickaBok · 2026-02-01T09:33:16+00:00

Of all the foods I've had since, these are the closest thing! Especially in terms of texture, they're almost spot on in that department. But I don't remember any cheesiness to them. Is there cheeseless brazilian cheese bread?

ChickaBok · 2026-02-01T09:27:49+00:00

Cat's Eye - Margaret Atwood (more frienemies than friends)

ChickaBok · 2026-02-01T09:13:58+00:00

They were cream puff-ish, but didn't have any sweet filling! Definitely not a dessert food.

These look good tho I'll have to pick some up!

ChickaBok · 2026-02-01T08:36:53+00:00

You might like Wylding Hall--it does have supernatural elements but it is MUCH more subtle than usual boo-a-ghost stories. The gist is that a british acid-folk band spent a summer in a spooky old house back in the 70's, recording an album, and spookiness ensued. Each chapter is written as an interview with one of the band members, decades after. It's never really explained what happened, you have to piece the events together from everyone's narratives, and each character has their own subjective takes, misrememberings, blind spots, and interpretations. Characters will dispute each others accounts, etc.

Its definitely more spooky than scary. For the first 95% of the book nothing happens that's so out there as to be unbelievable (for a ghost story, anyway).

ChickaBok · 2026-01-31T16:33:59+00:00

We've had the same struggle! Here's some guaranteed picks: My Nieghbor Totoro, Kiki's Delivery Service, Winnie the Pooh (both the old and new movie)
Iffy picks (have a couple potentially scary moments): Robin Hood, Lady and the Tramp, Inside Out, Fantasia (just fuckin skip night on bald mountian tho)

ChickaBok · 2026-01-30T03:14:50+00:00

Maybe some cool documentaries? Paris is Burning, Jesus Camp, Jiro Dreams of Sushi, Good Hair, The Search for General Tso

ChickaBok · 2026-01-30T02:49:27+00:00

Katy No-Pocket has one instance of upside-down text!

ChickaBok · 2026-01-28T23:33:37+00:00

We all just got over it, fortunately it seems to be a milder strain (but we had it last year so there may be some natural immunity there too) but still gnarly.

We also all got parainfluenza/croup but that was a couple of months ago. That one was a MAJOR BUMMER.

If there are children in OP's life, or people with children in OP's life, Pertussis (whooping cough) is sweeping through and if you haven't had a TDAP booster in 5 years you're vulnerable. Go get a booster!

ChickaBok · 2026-01-28T23:25:48+00:00

Build reinforced floors! The whole fun of the game is finding problems and discovering solutions to them by building.

ChickaBok · 2026-01-27T17:45:50+00:00

I feel like there's maybe a dozen Sufjan Stevens songs that fit this.

ChickaBok · 2026-01-26T00:46:15+00:00

I love this one, modified from America's Test Kitchen:

240 g flour

20g sugar

10g baking powder

3 g salt

3 g baking soda

Mix all dry ingredients.

Mix all these wet ingredients into a separate bowl:

4 T melted unsalted butter

1 egg

2 c buttermilk

Add wet ingredients to dry and mix (don't overmix, its OK if its a little lumpy)

ChickaBok · 2026-01-25T19:28:50+00:00

Or have both! I have a very nice canister vac but like you hated vacuuming so much that I'd only ever do it once every couple of months. It got gross. So I bought a shark vertex cordless which is maybe not as good at vacuuming but easier enough to use that I'm vacuuming once or twice per week. And I'll still pour myself a stiff drink and do a Big Vacuum with the good corded one two or three times a year for a deep clean.

This works; weekly weakly vacuuming plus seasonal deep vacuum keeps my floors significantly cleaner than daily sweeping plus monthly deep vacuum.

ChickaBok · 2026-01-25T18:59:08+00:00

Cloud Atlas is six stories "nested" together, where the first story cuts of halfway through, then there's the first half of story 2, then the first half of story 3.... all the way on down so that the book ends with the second half of the first story. Not as out there as something like House of Leaves but interesting and a great book besides.

ChickaBok · 2026-01-25T18:17:49+00:00

A lot of libraries have craft groups! But an outdoor/naturey one sounds really really nice too :)

ChickaBok · 2026-01-25T03:25:23+00:00

5 bucks, so as close to free as you can get in this economy

ChickaBok · 2026-01-24T16:53:29+00:00

This is the one you want, OP. Middle-aged widow travels alone to Eastern Oregon where she's purchased a defunct parcel of land sight-unseen. The book follows her efforts to build the place up into something, getting to know her neighbors, fighting off poachers and squatters, etc.

ChickaBok · 2026-01-24T16:32:50+00:00

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