Rebecca
MartinRunning a home server: Easier than you might think and very useful to do
The best place to find poetry is on vacation
Winston reading every sign in Target
Zampiceni's Marketplace, by Margaret Szumonski
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Hot dog research thursdays and bad dracula nightsTomato season: the tomatoes look pretty good.
Mozart in the Park.
Actors: they're not fussy like cellists.
Ancient Greek plays where they stab each other.
10 hours of Star Trek engine noises.
An illicit hacker breaking into your Jellyfin server and watching your Star Trek.
Listen to Data putter around.
A recurring thing with a database that you have to keep debugging.
Building a normal computer out of normal parts.
Everybody being each other's encrypted off-site backup.
Opening books and closing them, then opening them again and closing them again.
The one about the horny grocery store.
Having a difficult time finding delicious food in Massachusetts.
The kind of food they feed you on a weaving retreat.
Sitting in a Starbucks, staring at the internet and rotting.
Walking into an indie music store and perusing the local music section.
Getting mad on vacation because you miss your cats.
Nothing Beats Doing Nothing.
Buying grape juice from vineyards and making wine at home.
All the little guys that help you make wine and cheese.
Wrapping your wine fermentation vats in blankets so all the bacteria are more comfortable.
Folks who assume you know about wine because you're from California.
An advertisement exhorting you to go where you already are.
Abag & Iclei?? What does that mean?
Puzzling out the vanity plates.
Growing up watching only PBS and then falling for every ad as an adult because you have no ad literacy.
Seeing a targeted ad and feeling like you failed as a person because you want to buy the thing.
How Instagram ruined hash tags.
Getting off-topic but it's okay because it's a different topic.
Prose poems and deconstructed sandwiches.
Absolutely! No parking! For Buca di Beppo!
Having notes on this sign.
Seeing a sign and thinking "hmm, someone must've parked for Buca di Beppo here."
Your tight five on East Coast Fallouts ruined the Fallout TV series.
The grocer cutting open the pomegranates so you can touch them.
Muscles building like coconuts, lifting whole regimes of bananas.
Why are husbands so wrong about Zampiceni's Marketplace?
Moammar Gaddafi's obsession with Condoleezza Rice.
Getting curious what Danny Devito was doing in the 1970s.
The invention of No-Fault Divorce.
Be sure to marry someone you can go to the grocery store with. (Especially the sexy grocery store.)
Saving the horny onions for your next appearance.
What to do with all the write-in topics now that we don't have a write-in segment.
Who to turn to for pizza research now that the Pizza Research Institute has shut down.
A pizza that's more like a heaping roasted salad.
Inventing the peanut butter and pickle hot dog once a week.
Putting peanut butter on noodles.
Food wizards.
As much star anise as you could possibly ever use.
Learning to cook in a no-onion environment.
Fermenty Black Beans.
Medium to high-effort hot dogs.
Dracula just trying to be a good dad.
Quitting Bad Dracula Day for good.
Lucy pulling the football away. (The football is good Dracula movies.)
A movie where karate guys do kick-ass moves while children are being trafficked.
Michelle Yeoh as Cop Lady.
Fast forward 200 years and it's 1972 and there's a funk soundtrack.
Hosting your own patreon, and other ideas that will definitely work.
Being on the Fediverse to post and on Bluesky to cry.
What Gene Siskel thinks of the Blacula sequel.
