No, I'd always play it while cooking. It's a good song to put on when you're doing something with messy hands, because it goes on a long time.

I love how all woodpeckers have a dress code but they do their own thing with it.

A dear friend from Boston would always share the lyrics to Alice's Restaurant, first on the bulletin board where we met, then on LJ. So I'd play it every year, and it wasn't until much later that I realised that this song is quite region-specific, and it isn't something that all Americans just know.

Half the fun of having out-of-towners visit is that it gives you an excuse to do these things with them! (Unless it's the kind of bullshit "museum" that exists purely for taking selfies at. Screw that.)

I feel like I'm being forced to take part in someone else's humiliation kink.

Rain on the roof is the best for reading.

Worth knowing: If you set up your preferences to prompt for alt-text before posting, it will NOT automatically accept the generated alt-text. This makes it easier to always put in something useful.

The dreaded "I know you have $HOBBY, which I don't know anything about, so I got you this!" present. And what makes it worse is that the intentions are always so kind.

Ottobus gives me life.

Oh God, what a line.

I remember seeing some MAGA crafting ladies on Facebook who were FURIOUS that their precious Hobby Lobby had been shut down under lockdown rules "because we need to buy sewing supplies so we can make masks, that's essential!"

You know something, John Snow

It looks like something found in a Little Free Library. Perfect.