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It’s Joe! @joeatwork.com · 7d
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Page 1, photograph of a yellowed page of a recipe book. Recipe follows: LOUISIANA GUMBO (BIG JIM'S) Note (JWB): This is a dish with the most humble of beginnings that has become fashionable, and our family has always liked it for special occasions. At its heart, however, it is nothing more than a vegetable stew made with roux, using whatever vegetables and left-over meats or seafood you have in the kitchen. We like it best with seafood (crabmeat, crawfish and shrimp), but have eaten wonderful versions made of chicken or turkey, andouille (smoked sausage or Kielbasa) or even wild duck meat. The secret is really plenty of vegetables and the spices. With some hot french bread it even makes a good meal for company. Ingredients: Chop up about four-six cups of green and leafy vegetables. We use about the following, but it varies (i.e. you can use leftover green beans or green peas, for example, and perhaps a can of corn, etc, depending on what you have on hand. Lots of folks use a few tomatoes or a can of peeled tomatoes): 1 cup chopped celery. 2 cups chopped onion. 1 cup chopped green pepper. 1-2 cups cut okra. (I usually buy it cut & frozen). 1/4 cup chopped parsley 6 cloves of garlic chopped finely 3-4 cups of water 1-2 Tablespoons of Tony's Gumbo spices or an equivalent amount of gumbo spices of other sorts. 2-4 Teaspoons "File" (sassafras powder?) 1 lb. of small peeled shrimp 1 lb. of crabmeat or leftover chicken, or whatever 1 lb. crawfish tails 1 qt. shucked oysters in their liquor. 1/2 Cup vegetable oil 1/2 Cup Flour Second photo of a recipe. Recipe is too long for alt text, an abridged version follows Directions: Make a Roux out of the oil and flour. The foolproof method is to do the roux in the microwave which will not scorch unless you simply get incredibly careless. The technique is to whisk the oil and flour into a paste with your gravy whisk, and put it on high for about 4 minutes in your microwave. Take it out then, whisk it some more, and put it back in for about 2 more minutes. Then take it out, whisk it some more, and put it back in for consecutive 60-90 second bursts until it gets brown and bubbly. (I do this in the bottom of a 1 quart pyrex measuring cup.) When you have the roux to the color you like (and it begins to have that slightly acrid smell of gumbo flavor), then you scoop out the roux into your bowl of cut vegetables. Stir the vegetables up so they get coated with the roux, and then heat the roux-coated veggies for about 5 minutes at high in your microwave to begin to soften the veggies. (If you insist on the traditional black-iron skillet method from the beginning, you saute the vegetables in the browned roux for a spell.) Then, add the softened veggies and roux mix to the water and the Tony's seasoning in a big microwave bowl. (I use the big corningware covered casserole dish 6" deep). Let the veggies and water and roux cook on high for about 15 minutes in your microwave. (or boil them for a spell in your black-iron skillet). Next: Add your uncooked meat or seafood. (i.e. the shrimp, or crab or crawfish, or sausage, turkey, etc. but NOT the oysters). Let the stew of vegetables and meats or fish cook for about 25 minutes on 50% power in your microwave, or else simmer on low for a long while in your skillet. Final, brief page of a yellowed, three hole punched three page recipe. Text follows: After the seafood or meat has been cooked like this, add oysters if you're doing the seafood variety, and cook for the last ten minutes on high in your microwave, or until the oysters curl in your skillet. Sprinkle the file' on top of the stew and let it cool for about 5 minutes before you serve it. (I make no warranties about the skillet method, being a lazy microwave type myself.)
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WAKE UP DEAD MAN is good
December 14, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Pittsburgh penguins you break my heart
December 13, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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This is an achewood plotline
December 13, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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I thought I was remembering a dream but I was actually just remembering playing the Forgotten Temple from Breath of the Wild
December 13, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Turns out the one where Billy Ocean performs in a Great Value Mos Eisley Cantina has kind of a problematic ending.
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Billy Ocean - Loverboy (Official HD Video)
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December 13, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Twin Peaks: Sarah’s vision of a white horse.
Sarah’s vision of a white horse. Twin Peaks S02E07 - Lonely Souls.
December 13, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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My friends all worked at a movie theater, and they arranged for a just-friends midnight showing of MORTAL KOMBAT (1995). There was a great deal of hooting, hollering, irresponsible drinking, and general shaking our fists at the yawing abyss of adulthood.
mattfnwallace.bsky.social Matt Wallace @mattfnwallace.bsky.social · Sep 28
What’s your best memory of watching a movie? I’m not asking what the best movie you’ve ever seen is, I’m asking about the experience of watching that movie. Doesn’t matter if it was in a theater or at home. What’s your favorite memory associated with watching a movie and why?
September 29, 2024 at 12:31 PM
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Funniest McSweeney’s piece I’ve read in awhile: The Mastermind Box Cover: What the Hell Were They Thinking? “Warmth is for Sorry! This is not a hug. This is a chess clock in a stranger’s living room telling you your parents are getting divorced.” [mcsweeneys.net]
The Mastermind Box Cover: What the Hell Were They Thinking?
- - -INVICTA GAMES, LTD. Packaging Team — Official Minutes Project: Mastermind / New Cover Presentation MARTIN SMITH (Marketing Senior Vice Presi…
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December 11, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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An gritty RPG with a complex intimidation mechanic that takes place in the shadowy and dark world of The Eradicator youtu.be/0uERxXNmoV4?...
Kids in the Hall - The Eradicator!!
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December 8, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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Nintendo’s Hideki Konno directed Ice Hockey and Super Mario Kart. He was assistant director on Super Mario Bros. 2. The man has a passion for letting players decide how much their character weighs.
December 8, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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The line goes from DEVO to They Might Be Giants to THE ADVENTURES OF PETE AND PETE. Also David Lynch is rattling around in there somewhere.
December 7, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Not even in the neighborhood of the point of the quoted post, but compare and contrast to the wild Green Action, as American as a truck commercial : defector.com/green-action...
December 7, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Magic is everywhere for those who have eyes to see
A photo of a snow covered car parked on the side of a street under a gray winter sky. The snow on the windshield of the car looks disturbed. A close up of the snow on the windshield. It is the face of popular comic strip cat Garfield.
December 7, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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The most perfect form of social media is, and I am deeply serious here, the 1970’s church charity cookbook
December 5, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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I just need one shot at demonstrating my natural talent for that thing at the aquarium where you lead all of the penguins on a tour of the facility after hours. I’m sure I would be great at it.
December 5, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Titlecard from the television program DAN AUGUST. In the soft focus colour of an aged multigenerational VHS recording, the words "DAN AUGUST" are written over two diagonal lines in a large red IMPACTful font (which may be Compacta) atop a pure black background. Overlaid in white Eurostyle text centred over three lines, "Tonight's Episode Prognosis: Homicide." (© Copyright MCMLXXI QM Productions All Rights Reserved) #tvsky #TVSky #classictv #ClassicTV #filmsky #tvhistory
November 18, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Met a poor soul with a terrible case of Cop Dad
December 4, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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Day 337: the YOUTHS!
5-panel comic drawn in pen with crosshatch shading. Panel 1 starts with a caption saying "This is such a tired subject, but I still hear people of older generations complaining that 'kids don't even learn cursive in school anymore!' and while penmanship is an artform, most people really don't need cursive in daily life." The panel shows a hand practicing the cursive alphabet on one of those dotted-line grids. Panels 2 through 4 are on the same row and are all overlaid with the following caption: "As someone who's spent years in jobs that actually use cursive & penmanship a lot," and panel 2 shows me wearing a black chef's coat and bandana while writing "Happy Birthday" on a sheetcake with a fat bag of icing. Panel 3 is a closeup of a hand using a triangular scale ruler and aimes guide to make straight lines for lettering comics, with the words "ass butt fart" barely legible on the paper beneath. Panel 4 shows my hand writing a thank-you note in cursive, next to a stack of envelopes and stamps. Panel 5 starts with a caption saying "I'm using my skills to deliver this message:" and below is another cursive grid with the words "It's time to stop bitching about the youths" written in beautiful calligraphy. Beneath the comic is my signature (Kat Baumann), today's date (12-4-2025) and the time I spent drawing this (50 minutes)
December 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Carol from Pluribus has a lot of problems, but she has a really nice whiteboard
December 3, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Pro sports arenas should have at least one very special food you can buy while you’re there. You can have bottom of the barrel nachos and hotdogs and whatnot but there should be one stand with a ridiculous grown-up sandwich or Detroit style pizza or extra fancy pierogis or what-have-you.
December 2, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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Cyborg Monday
December 1, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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You think you want Ska but you actually want Earth, Wind, and Fire
December 1, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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A story Stoppard told several times, in several places:
"Years and years ago, there was a production of The Tempest, out of doors, at an Oxford college on a lawn, which was the stage, and the lawn went back towards the lake in the grounds of the college, and the play began in natural light. But as it developed, and as it became time for Ariel to say his farewell to the world of The Tempest, the evening had started to close in and there was some artificial lighting coming on. And as Ariel uttered his last speech, he turned and he ran across the grass, and he got to the edge of the lake and he just kept running across the top of the water — the producer having thoughtfully provided a kind of walkway an inch beneath the water. And you could see and you could hear the plish, plash as he ran away from you across the top of the lake, until the gloom enveloped him and he disappeared from your view. And as he did so, from the further shore, a firework rocket was ignited, and it went whoosh into the air, and high up there it burst into lots of sparks, and all the sparks went out, and he had gone. "When you look up the stage directions, it says, 'Exit Ariel.”
November 29, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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with the holiday season now officially upon us, it's time to start playing our favorite christmas songs

here's one of mine
Ebenezer Scrooge: Goes outside 500 Muppets: There goes Mr Asshole! There Goes Mr Bitch!
November 28, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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This thread is the greatest cultural work of the 21st century
emath.bsky.social Elephant Mastodon @emath.bsky.social · 16d
1 like equals one Rod Stewart tribute artist.
November 28, 2025 at 2:46 PM