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  • NOGWATCH 2012
    If you don't like drinkable mayonnaise I mean egg nog, does that make you an atheist or just straight up a devil-worshipper. For that matter, if you like egg nog, does that make you a devil worshipper?
  • NOGWATCH 2012
    love that biblical reading of egg v soy nog
    "when egg nog's mother saw Mary approaching the child in her belly leapt"
  • NOGWATCH 2012
    Egg Nog anticipates a messianic beverage which will be greater than itself, and, in the Books of the Old UHX, Soy Nog (Silk Nog/etc.) is the one whose coming Egg Nog foretold. UHXers commonly refer to Egg Nog as the precursor or forerunner of Soy Nog, since Egg Nog typically predates Soy Nog's coming.
    Egg Nog is also identified with the prophet Steve, who speculates along with some scholars that Soy Nog is itself but a poor dairy-free substitute of Egg Nog (but this view is disputed).
  • NOGWATCH 2012
    The only result I have come up with as I tried to decipher what you said is:
    "Egg Nog is the beheaded version of Soy Nog".
  • NOGWATCH 2012
    I feel like Egg Nog is the John the Baptist of Soy Nog.
    I'm buying some armagnac today.
  • NOGWATCH 2012
    I SAW THE NOG!
    I took a picture of it.
    image
  • NOGWATCH 2012
    Today is Canadian Thanksgiving.
    A little mouse told me there might be some nog.
    I am crossing my fat little nog fingers.
  • NOGWATCH 2012
    Nog goggles!
    Noggles!
  • NOGWATCH 2012
    pour some nog in your eyes.
    blur it all out!
  • NOGWATCH 2012
    way too sunny. straining my nog muscles....
  • NOGWATCH 2012
    Wow, feels like nogwatch 2011 just happened!
  • NOGWATCH 2012
    oh boy, I FORGOT
    WHERE IS THE NOG
  • NOGWATCH 2012
    I can't wait to slurp the nog u guys!
  • NOGWATCH 2012
    ok folks, you know the drill.
  • Halloween is coming!
    I don't care about Halloween, but whenever I start seeing its iconography in my culture I get excited because it means FALLLLLL
    hootin' owls!
    crunchin' leaves!
    chilly eves!
    Do you think it will ever rain again?
  • The Candidates Meet At Last
    @joey. Just image googled 'Zingers' and picked the one with UHX-affiliated iconography. Lazy.
    Maybe Mitt will sing some Al Green?
  • Musicians Making a Living: What's Coming That Works?
    I hate when people use stuff without permission to advertise a product. I also mostly hate it when they do have permission.
    Still, I find myself thoroughly enjoying poorly made wooden Looney Tunes characters, or weird Soviet-era "Disney" animals. I also love shirts like the ones Froknog is making. I love an ugly reggae Bart Simpson wallet. I want to silkscreen my own favorite cartoon character on a shirt.
    I have very black and white opinions but sometimes the greys challenge me in ways that I feel more grown-up, or even more decided afterwards.
  • Uniquely great retail experiences in Portland
    Good suggestions above by all!
    For odd, collection-like, not necessarily retail http://www.hiddenportland.com/
    We have many indy clothing stores with PDX designers.
    And Velocult bike shop, Palace of Industry, Ampersand, Monograph Bookwerks, Metagnosis, Hellion and Compound Galleries, Pony Club, Hand Eye Supply, Hippo Hardware, Land Gallery/ Buy Olympia.
  • Weekend Plans
    I found a loop of four estate sales near each other
    added some red furniture to my collection! other finds...
    - Mt. St. Helen's eruption videotape
    - "Sportsmen are Conservationists" bumper sticker
    - book about Irish archeological sites... crannogs and mottes!
    stuff i wanted to buy but didn't
    - a spanish sword
    - a harpoon
    - "marquetry" tables from someone's trip to istanbul
    - a clothespin with an embossed gold sticker that said "G.D. BILLS"
    - a 2 foot wide homemade wooden heart that said "welcome home sweetheart"
  • Books for Girls!
    Damn, pretty much every single thing I was going to recommend is on here! I was like "surely no one's gonna say Boxcar Children" but then BOOM, bocko, there you go, I shoulda known.
    I was definitely reading Stephen King in 3rd grade, and with no namby-pamby censoring of pages either!
    I think (with that in mind, I mean, considering I am obviously not some sort of genius) that the 10 year old mind can really rise to the occasion. For that reason I would not shy away from something like The Hobbit even though it seems long and complex. I have very intense memories of having it read aloud to me as a 5 year old and totally digging it--surely 12 can go deep. Definitely I had read it again by myself by 12. It can skew young because there's SO LITTLE PSYCHOLOGY. Just heroic deeds, bad guys and good guys, and cool beasts. Also MAPS.
    Evie, very similarly, at age 9 I read a nuclear holocaust book that obsessed me more than probably any other book I've ever read. I still think about it probably weekly, and can see the cover vividly. There's a part where they have to shoot the family dog. Then everybody dies of radiation poisoning. YOUNG ADULT SECTION OF THE LIBRARY.
    There was a Drew-like series for young girls called Trixie Belden that I was furiously into. It's like an updated Nancy Drew--way fewer dresses and fat jokes. The main character is a tomboy. I remember in particular one scene where she wears a dress to impress a boy and everyone is like "OMG LOOK AT YOU IN A DRESS" and she's so filled with rage, it really struck home with me. "My god it's like she's known me all my life"
    Also!!!
    ENCYCLOPEDIA BROWN!!!!!!!!! Riddle-solving pre-teen sleuth!
    And The Great Brain, which was about turn of the center Jesuit school boys and a weird genius who played clever pranks. You can read the book then play the pranks on your own friends (they are harmless and largely math based). There's a scene where they see a basketball for the first time.
    Ralph S. Mouse, isn't that by Beverly Clearly? The mouse drives the car by saying the word "Vrooom!" WTF?!
    At her age I also read The Plains of Passage series but I don't recommend that necessarily (best kept secret of my generation's girlhood: totally pornography. But your parents would still get them for you for christmas because they seemed vaguely education and certainly did not indicate their porniness up front. Such good memories though)