The Daily Adventures of Mercat

Happy Thanksgiving, y'all! Still here. Still alive. Still posting. Hope you're all doing okay, too.

Maybe have some pie?



Then there's turkey, or maybe some other birds if that's not your thing.

rolls
mashed potatoes
cranberry sauce
stuffing
green bean casserole

and, as always, yams.

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I had a whole song parody ready to go again this year... and now I can't remember what it was. But good news, I found an actual Thanksgiving song!



And now, the weather:

turkey
green bean casserole
corn
turnips
cranberry sauce
pumpkin pie
And, as always, the yams.



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I'm still around! Happy thanksgiving!

to talk of Thanksgiving!



(turkey source)

(...cranberry source)

"Of corn, and peas, and casserole,
off cabbages, and greens,
and why potatoes taste so great,
and gravy on stuffing."

"A lot of thanks," the Walrus said,
"Is what we chiefly need:
Friends and family besides
Are very good indeed--
Now if you're ready, fam'ly dear,
We can begin to feed."


Happy thanksgiving, all!

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It's here, kids! I hope you're having a wonderful day. (And yes, I'm still alive.)



Here's your turkey, Ohio-style.

Corn!
Mashed potatoes!
Green bean casserole! Also, apparently, a midwestern thing?
Stuffing!
Pumpkin pie!
I yam eternal on the thanksgiving road!



And now, the rest of the dozen delicious!

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The 2014 post...sort of.

It's the 30th anniversary of Temple of Doom! E]:D

If you want to read all my accumulated links and commentary, just head on over to the tumblr.

I've been saving up stupid stuff all year to whip up a really great Thanksgiving post for this one! Enjoy your meal folks, and happy holidays! Sorry I have kind of dropped off the LJ map... but you know where to find me otherwise, and I'll keep coming back nonetheless. Now, EAT UP! It's a weird menu... but that's the way it should be.



Cranberry sauce... er, cranberry zombie? Actually, that sounds delicioius.
Turkey
Potatoes
Stuffing
Ambrosia salad
Pumpkin pie
Croutons
and, by all means, the yams.



Happy Thanksgiving! :)

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I'm rather excited that I'm actually doing something for a holiday while living out here, for once, as Easter was pretty much a huge flop. The benefits of being forced to socialize! :D (As I predicted, the reason I would rather live with roommates.) We're making turkey, pumpkin pie, green bean casserole, and sweet potatoes. Keeping it pretty simple but there's only five of us so there you go. Would be nice to have some Hawaiian food or something but all of our final projects are due in a week, sooooo no time for big plans.

THIS YEAR'S MENU:
Turkey
Green bean casserole
Pumpkin pie
and, of course, the yams.


And here is a behind-the-scenes Temple of Doom pic I never saw before, so I stole it from the Indiana Jones facebook page that posted it:



Happy Thanksgiving!

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Looks like next year will be my TENTH ANNUAL thanksgiving post, HOLY SHIT. I'm actually going to have to sit down for more than 10 minutes in the morning while we're all trying to cook the meal and make sure it's super quality! ;)

So I was super excited all morning and then I was so burnt out from two straight work days and a four hour architectural drawing clinic (a ten week class shoved into four hours) and I've kind of lost the ability to formulate effective sentences.

But ONE I realized this is only the second time I've seen Raiders in a widescreen cut, THERE IS SO MUCH THAT GETS CUT OUT IN FULL SCREEN

Two oh my god I felt like I could have been right there on set fucking yes I love IMAX everything is beautiful

THREE:

a) they cleaned up the cobra reflection for Indy but not for Marion
2) I never noticed that Toht had a Magic Murder Bag, check my twitter for a hilarious joke regarding that
#) aahahaha so he drinks whiskey the whole time right? WONRG never noticed on the Bantu Wind before they have a bottle of MEYER'S DARK RUM fuck yes all the justification I need t become an alcoholic

Jesus christ lets' just appreciate m fucking lack of ability to type right now

that's how tired I am

righ t so speaing of alcoholics

I had a bit of a "gained perspective" watching this, and I want to call it peculiar, but I don't want to mean that it's negative. In any way.

It's a little odd watching a movie that you know SO WELL that you know the rhythm of the entire thing, every line of dialogue, every musical cue, every behind the scenes moment, almost literally everything. Because even when I don't watch it for over a year, don't go re-reading all the trivia and everything, it's basically a part of me. I can't "forget" it and go back to a time when it was new to me. Not complaining, just saying that I consciously had to sit back and just enjoy the ride without... expectations?! (I CANNOT ARTICULATE THIS I HAVE LOST THE ABILITY TO THINK.)

BUT.

What I realized, in years of idolizing and living and breathing and everythinging Indiana Jones, I somehow accidentally turned myself into Marion (minus a death from liver failure, probably). I DON'T KNOW, IT'S SO POETIC SOMEHOW, BECAUSE SHE IS TOTALLY BOSS AND HILARIOUS AND TAKING-NONE'YA-SHIT AND IT JUST MADE ME REALLY HAPPY TO KNOW THAT I HAVE, ON SOME LEVEL, ACHIEVED BEING A BELLIGERENT FOUL-MOUTHED ACTION HEROINE.

After a week of studying Buddhism and their religious design structures and theory it was like a small moment of self-enlightenment and SHUT UP. I AM AWESOME AND I AM SO BRAIN DEAD THAT I GIVE ZERO FUCKS RIGHT NOW, I JUST SAW MY FAVORITE MOVIE ON THE BIG SCREEN FOR THE FIRST TIME AND I CAN DIE HAPPY.

askjbflakdfjbalkfdbalkjfblakblakdflks GOOD NIGHT

I'll have to come back to that.

You know, after I've found time to hunt down all the opening and closing ceremonies that I mostly missed.

But can we just stop for a minute and say

motherfucking Isambard Kingdom Brunel

and the best part was when all I saw was the highlights and I shouted that name out in the middle of the living room and I was all NO IT CAN'T BE you don't just put the FATHER OF CIVIL ENGINEERING in the middle of a fucking Olympics ceremony but THEY DID and also my entire family was staring at me because one who the fuck is that two what kind of name is that three how the fuck do you just recognize someone like that I DON'T KNOW I'M A FUCKING CIVIL ENGINEER-SLASH-HISTORIPHILE I JUST FUCKING DID

OMG PROMETHEUS GO SEE PROMETHEUS. If you like Alien, go see Prometheus. If you find Alien to be too much of a horror movie, or not the right kind of science fiction for your palate, don't go see Prometheus.

( SPOILERS SPOILERS SO MANY SPOILERS )