Disclaimer: I am about the furthest thing from a foodie short of being anorexic. Heck, I’ve been known to request Skyline Chili for my birthday dinner, and I’ll even occasionally succumb to the temptation to indulge in (::hangs head in abject shame::) White Castles.
Unaccustomed as I am to doing much of anything creative by way of cooking and baking, I was recently inspired by some of my fellow Glibs to take a stab at creating a new taste sensation with which to sweep…this site. Or at least my kitchen (which almost always needs sweeping.) It all started innocently enough – Our Mr. Brooks had a slip of the finger while commenting, and we were off to the races:
And thus the idea began percolating in my head. I’m not really hip to what would be considered the best online recipe sources, but one I’ve consulted occasionally before, with a search for the terms “ginger” and “cookie” (and maybe “thumbprint,” too – I can’t recall) yielded this recipe for “Raspberry Molasses Crinkles.”
For my own diabolical purposes, I first decided to substitute the aforementioned combination of peach and apricot jam for the raspberry jam called for in the recipe. I later abandoned the peach in favor of strawberry rhubarb jam because that heavenly concoction presented itself to me at the nearby German Baptist farm market. My kitchen, my rules. Further, to up the “ginger” component (because that’s the point of this entire exercise, now isn’t it? Other than an excuse to make cookies, of course) I decided to add a little more ginger in lieu of the cloves. I love cinnamon (see earlier mention of Skyline Chili,) so I wasn’t inclined to reduce its presence. I’m less enamored of cloves, which may or may not have anything to do with memories of the college roommate who was partial to exotic cigarettes, including the clove kind.
Once I had procured those ingredients I didn’t already have and had summoned the energy to attempt this brazen act of culinary semi-creativity, I set about putting them all together. As I bake infrequently, the process went rather slowly. I’m certain a more experienced and confident cook could whip it up much more quickly. Also, once the flour went in, the dough acquired a consistency that was more than a match for my poor little hand mixer. In the end, I did the last of the mixing by hand. Or rather with a spatula, because, you know, cleanliness. I crossed my fingers that the spices (remember: I kept the cinnamon, skipped the cloves and substituted for it an equal part more of ginger) would be distributed evenly through the dough. Working a spatula with crossed fingers is awkward. Not recommended.
Ball o’ dough and obligatory spice mess
I eventually achieved a proper ball o’ dough:
While the dough was covered in the refrigerator for two hours, I did laundry because it was Sunday and that’s what one does. Then I divided the dough and rolled it into forty-eight little balls. [Pauses for inevitable jokes.] After dipping each ball in the sugar came the most important stage of the process:
A little blurry because I was photographing my dominant left thumb with my submissive right hand.
Applying the “gingerprints.”
For best results, it’s critical that you use the impeccably-manicured left club thumb of an actual ginger. Lacking access to this may produce edible cookies, but you may notice that they lack a certain something.
As you can see in the photo, the dough had a bit of a tendency to crack along the edge when I pressed on it. I took care to pinch the resulting gaps in the edges back together as well as I could, not certain if all the jam might not run out via the cracks or if the cookie might not crack more upon baking. But mostly I was being obsessive-compulsive and/or anal-retentive.
With strawberry rhubarb jam, pre-baking.
With apricot preserves, pre-baking
Time to jam! At the request of my resident guinea pig taste tester, I decided to do a third of the cookies with just the strawberry rhubarb jam, a third with just the apricot preserves, and a third with a blend of both. That way, if the two jam flavors didn’t turn out to play nicely together, only a third of the batch would be affected.
Nothing at all scientific about blending the two preserves – fill about half a measuring cup with one kind and the other half with the other…
I actually had BOTH flavors from the Farm Market, but SOMEONE ate all the apricot preserves before I got around to making the cookies.
…and blend it together.
Strawrhubricot…?
Now, doesn’t that make the loveliest color reminiscent of red hair? I may take this photo with me the next time I go to the salon and ask my hairdresser if she can match it.
…and here, of course, is how it looks in the cookie before it goes into the oven.
Now, I put 15 on my smaller cookie sheet for the first batch that got baked (strawberry rhubarb filling,) and they spread out rather more than I was expecting, such that they mooshed up against each other and thus got rather squared off.
The second batch was almost all apricot preserves-filled (with a few of the mixed strawberry rhubarb and apricot) and on my larger cookie sheet.
Again, as the dough balls were placed rather close together, they mooshed up against each other and thus got squared off.
The resident taste-tester was particularly fond of these, which is no surprise, since said taste-tester was the reason I had to buy a SECOND jar of apricot preserves before I made the cookies.
Last, but by no means least, the final batch was entirely comprised of blended filling, and with fewer left, they were not nearly so crowded on the cookie sheet, so they came out closer to round. I also baked them for one minute less than the recipe called for, as the first two batches were ever so slightly crispier than I would have preferred.
This batch was, for my purposes, the critical batch. I considered the color of the blended filling perfect for fitting the “Gingerprints” idea, but would the flavors play nicely together? Would I have to abandon my beloved strawberry rhubarb for a lesser flavor??
Happily, that unfortunate circumstance did not come to pass. Taste-tester (We’ll call him “TT”) and I agreed that the combination was actually quite tasty.
Now, having made four dozen cookies and living in a home inhabited by just two people, you might have thought that perhaps I would have sought to share my bounty with others and taken at least some of the cookies to work to share with my coworkers.
You would have been quite mistaken.
My cheap, tawdry excuse was that even though I liked them and TT liked them, I wasn’t sure how well they’d go over with others who perhaps have more refined culinary tastes. One coworker in particular is an accomplished baker herself, and while I’m sure she would have been kind in her assessment because she’s a sweetie, I still felt a bit self-conscious about putting these out for public consumption. That’s my story.
And yes, of COURSE I’m going to include a music link! Have you met me??? (Well…few of you have. Your loss.) This song is perfectly on-topic, especially in light of my mention of the “misshapen” cookies from the first couple of batches. Fun Fact: on at least one occasion Back in the Day, I strummed a ukulele and sang this song, dedicated to a friend’s granddaughter, who had been born with one of the rarer chromosomal disorders (i.e., NOT Down Syndrome, but I don’t remember if her condition had a name) with the consequent developmental disabilities. But really, just about all of us who survive to adulthood are at least a little bit broken, bent, twisted (::glares pointedly at the assembled Glibertariat::) or dented in some way, so it’s really for all of us.
Profuse thanks to Brooksie, UnCivilServant, and Toxteth O’Grady for the inspiration and suggestions for this edible experiment, to Tom Teriffic (sic) for taste testing, and to Tonio for patiently helping me to prepare this post. I welcome in the comments your suggestions for improvements or variations, your howls of derisive laughter, and/or your complete disregard of the topic to talk about whatever you have to say at the moment. (::wanders off to grab another cookie::)
Dr. Nefario once mixed jams…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rVLYKOu2qHc
MINIONS!!!!! 😃😃😃
(Heaven help me, I do love me some minions!)
Isn’t that just putting googly eyes on twinkies? Not exactly the most difficult baking challenge 😊
The trick might be finding edible googly eyes. 👀
One internet search away. And being just after holloween, they might just be on sale at retail locations looking to offload stock.
I have candy eyeballs. Usually they are at the dollar store.
How do you see?
Bobarian, I do believe R.J. uses hindsight.
For some reason I’m reminded of these things that I need to have now.
Googly Eyes!
https://external-preview.redd.it/doN83cndeiyfDRmRI_0jsgBYO4d034D7VZhy_e1gfYs.jpg?auto=webp&s=a9a3b8b0f26de67ab25f734994651e3d5b5aac11
(I used to drive by this every week)
(((Some people))) prefer minyans.
If you didn’t refrigerate the dough ball, would it have reduced cracking during application of the fingerprint?
Hmmm… refrigeration was called for in the recipe, for whatever reason. Maybe the dough started a bit dry or wasn’t covered tightly enough to retain moisture? This calls for a second attempt!
It would spread more, maybe too much. Aren’t ginger cookies supposed to crack anyway?
Yes, I am just thinking process improvement. Are they cracking because it is necessary, or has it just always been done that way?
By coincidence, I have both apricot and straberry-rhubarb jams that I don’t yet have a use for…
Strawrhubricot rules!
Your Rubric is strong!
I would think an apple-cinnamon filling would be most excellent for this endeavor.
Jamming good!
I have no suggestions, but I think they look amazing!
Thanks, GT!
Was expecting this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oqVy6eRXc7Q
Too easy!
Like pistoffnick
HEY!
*I’m cheap too!
Was not disappointed
NIce.
A glib named Malaise likes the jam.
Nice setup!
Was not disappointed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0U-ermF-tQA
Quite the delightful write up.
I like White Castle occasionally – it doesn’t like me so much.
It’s disgusting. We stopped after hockey one night and I was lucky to make it to the bathroom in time.
I’ve only ever had their boxed frozen sliders from the grocery store, because their physical locations are always closed whenever I’m near them!
Without fail.
I’ve seen the frozen veggie-burger sliders too, but the peas and carrots type, which sounds all wrong.
I’m somewhat picky in that I prefer my burgers to contain meat.
Yeah, that would have selective appeal around here.
Then why would you eat White Castles?
I tried the frozen ones you heat in the microwave once, seemed exactly the same as the real thing.
I do too. It’s a guilty pleasure. So bad its good.
I’ve never experienced the issues Tundra mentions, but I have a cast iron stomach…
So do I – usually.
The other one that always got me was Famous Dave’s (House of Dysentery).
Which is weird because I’ve eaten in many sketchy places with zero issues.
I can only think of two places that destroyed me, Denny’s and a KFC Buffet*.
*I deserved it.
A nice thing to add to any ginger based cookie (in my opinion), is some minced up candied ginger. You can candy it yourself, or pay huge amounts for it at most spice/food stores, or buy an 8 ounce bag from Trader Joe’s for about $2.
“Is it made from real Gingers?”
Uncrystalized and crystalized forms available.
Again… at a Trader Joe’s, the bags run about $2. Or you just mix up equal parts sugar and water, peel and slice your ginger root, and simmer it for 15-20 minutes. Put on parchment paper (or a silicone mat), and let cool. As a bonus to making it yourself, you’ve also got ginger simple syrup now, that can be used in quite a few cocktails, or used to punch up tea and warm apple cider.
Ooh! Nom! 😋
Adding it to cider you’ll have to be careful, as it’ll add more sweetness. You can store the simple syrup in the fridge for a couple weeks or so.
I buy 3 lb bags of crystallized ginger for use in making mead.
It certainly isn’t soul food.
Happy to have been of service.
Now, see? Isn’t it a good thing after all that we don’t have an edit button for comments?
Nice article, GT.
Those nails look high maintenance.
They’re adorned with the polish strips, so easier than they look. Sadly, I broke enough of them that I decided it was time to chop ’em all off and start over.
The wife is hooked on Color Street.
Those are the ones! Accept no substitutes! (I’m hooked on them, too!)
It’s a mini-event when new nails go on. We have to get under the bright lights so the glitter can be properly appreciated.
Glitter. Is. Evil.
The herpes of crafts.
But for self-defense, it makes a really effective form of pocket sand.
I love the “nail art” designs, but the glittery designs are WAY too hard to remove. Nearly takes that evil chemical “dip” from Roger Rabbit.
Great write up! Thanks GT
Looks scrummy.
Hm, GT, which is your nearest supermarket? I bet I can guess.
I know nothing about baking, but why crisco?
It was the only “butter flavored shortening” in stock, per the recipe. I would have preferred to buy a smaller can, but those were out of stock. Damn “supply chain issues!” 😒
I get butter flavored shortening in bricks rather than cans. It’s easier to measure.
Hmm… Are they in the baking aisle or refrigerated section?
Baking. No refrigeration required.
I’ve found them in the baking aisle, if they’re the same ones I’m thinking of they come in a stack of three wrapped together.
Sounds like the ones I get.
What a fun article GT!! I’m-a have to try these!
Come to think of it, I haven’t had ginger snaps for a while. Maybe I’ll look for them next time I go to the store.
I can’t allow them in the house.
But here’s a review!
Just got back from voting. It was a very Indiana experience. We’re still racist and require an ID. The line was about 15 minutes, all indoors and close together, but only two people wore a mask. I did get to vote for my friend, who’s running for school board. Later I’ll call my my and dad, and let them know between me and the Mrs., their votes have been basically negated.
About 80% of the candidates on my ballot were unopposed. Even ones for state office. My name is pretty long, so I spent a good amount of time typing on my machine for all the offices where I wrote myself in.
So there was road construction and you had to take a detour?
Everyone was asking each other what high school they attended.
… But none of them attended?
There were a lot of farmers, and they were talking about farm stuff.
This is the wife’s and I’s deal; you negate me, I negate you.
Win-win!
I negate you, you negate me,
We live in a kakistocracy
NH requires voter ID too.
I’ll be voting later today. Then I’ll hold a sign at the polls until close for a NHLA and Reopen NH endorsed state representative who is running for reelection.
Afterwards the NHLA results watching party.
So does NY. I’m curious where it isn’t required.
NJ – walk in and the compare your signature to the one on file.
Hm. Yeah it used to be that way here, now that I think about it.
But they wanted my ID the last couple times.
It’s not required here.
And the new poll worker didn’t recognize me
Oregon is 100% Vote by mail. With open air drop boxes.
Coincidentally, vote by mail became permanent in 1987, the last year there was ever a Republican governor in the state.
MLW!! aah! 💋!
No one asked me.
I was #242 at my polling place. I think there’s about 600 registered voters, and six hours to go.
Now I’m hungry for something sweet!
OT – This is either Tyson’s CFO before he climbed into that strange bed or today’s best of Idiots in Cars.
The mismatched wheels are a nice touch.
Although I hate drunk drivers with all my being.
Tossed aside, just like that
A former Twitter employee who was laid off while six months pregnant said she plans to sue the Elon Musk-led company over her firing.
Shennan Lu, a former data science manager at Twitter, was one of thousands of workers who were caught off guard last week as Musk began slashing jobs. She blasted Twitter’s handling of the situation in a series of tweets that have since been deleted – along with her entire account.
“My Twitter journey has come to an end, I got laid off while I’m 6-month pregnant. It has been a pleasure to work with all of you. I’m very thankful to lead such an amazing [data science] team, it’s been a fun ride. #LoveWhereYouWorked,” Lu tweeted in a now-deleted post, according to Insider.
“There is definitely discrimination here. So I will fight. My performance has been tracking ahead (top 30%) for the last quarters, and I know for a fact that other male managers don’t have this rating got stayed,” Lu added. “See you in the court.”
Lu’s Twitter handle currently displays the message, “this account doesn’t exist.” It’s unclear if she deleted the account or if it was taken offline.
Lu’s posts prompted intense scrutiny before they disappeared.
Poor thing probably hasn’t got two nickels to rub together.
But did they work in the same unit, Ms. Lu? I suspect not. You were laid off, not fired for cause, it doesn’t matter what your performance rating was under the old regime, because, despite costing you your job, this wasn’t about you*.
*specifcally.
Maybe her poor grammar.
I read that hearing Tricia Takanawa from “Family Guy”.
Am I a bad person?
Yes, but for so many other reasons. 😉
“Asian reporter Trisha Taknawa”
Is poor Grammar pregnant too? You’d think she’d be a little too old…
She’s getting paid through February! With benefits!! She will have that kid on Elon’s dime!
“Caught off guard” 🙄
I don’t care that she’s knocked up.
You will when the registered letter comes.
I have a vague memory from the H&R days of reason covering that California uses first class mail for such things.
Sucks to be you if you don’t get it because the courts assume you will.
Elon Musk has a moral duty to ensure that this unborn child is provided for, at least through graduate school anyway. Also, I’m perpetually mystified by what constitutes a news story these days.
A real woman that believes in Democracy would have Planned Parenthood take a look at that clump of cells in her uterus.
I can’t allow them in the house.
Is that because you can’t stop eating them?
In the driveway, before he reaches the door.
On the way home, in the driveway, finishing off in the kitchen.
Not pretty.
Tundra… have you heard of lebkuchen? They should be hitting the Aldi’s and the like soon… gingerbread cookies with either chocolate or sugar glaze. I have to be careful how many packages I allow in the house.
It doesn’t help that right next to one of our breweries is an import store that brings in all sorts of German treats.
God damn you.
😉
It was really bad when the import store had them on clearance come St. Patrick’s Day… and we stopped in after several pints.
Locally, Aldi’s, Trader Joe’s, and World Market are where I’ve seen them. I’ve never been ambitious enough to make them myself.
Lebkuchen…. yum
Wait…are you talking about cookies or sex?
Yes!
Another on-topic song! 🎶 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=R_MQfyNnS9c
That’s wonderful!
“I’ve tried therapy and LSD and been lost and now I’m found!”
Some people do not get the joke.
Oh no, they suspended @danielradcliffe’s Twitter account! Wasn’t it obvious he was doing a PARODY???
It requires a lot of context, so I only understood after someone explained who Daniel Radcliffe was, what his connection to Wierd Al was, and why the comment was made in jest.
Short answer: Daniel Radcliffe was not on Twitter in the first place.
Harry Potter stars in a biopic of Weird Al’s life which is actually a parody of biopics.
Oops. Just realized I misunderstood your comment. You already figured it out.
That’s okay, it’s funnier this way 😜
Lu began working at Twitter last January. Prior to joining the company, she held similar roles at Facebook parent Meta and Comcast.
OMG the Twatterverse was her life’s work.
She’s getting paid through February! With benefits!! She will have that kid on Elon’s dime!
Nonsense. She was cruelly cast out; unceremoniously dumped in the street with nothing!
I don’t even want to know how much she was making. Eugh
It was the only “butter flavored shortening” in stock, per the recipe. I would have preferred to buy a smaller can, but those were out of stock. Damn “supply chain issues!” 😒
Might be good for cooking pancakes, if you’re into that sort of thing.
*I have been thinking about pancakes, lately; I wonder if that Kodiak(?) “high protein” mix is any good.
For a while, I was using Kodiak’s maple almond butter syrup on my Sunday brunch waffles to try to cut carbs a little, but my Meijer stopped carrying it. 😞 https://kodiakcakes.com/products/power-almond-butter-maple-syrup
Currently using maple syrup infused with coffee beans! 🙃
Very cool, GT! They look like circular hamantashen.
Im trying to adhere to low-carb after a summer of indulgence.
But Ill be over to get Jugsy’s cookies in the morning.
These euphemisms…
Someone’s gotta deal with them demon babies.
“Herschel Walker. Holy fuck! They’re saying he’s going to win in Georgia. Are you fucking dummies? They always talk about another Civil War, well, I think there is going to be one. I mean, how the fuck could you elect that guy. You got to be out of your fucking skull.” …
“Are you fucking kidding me? I don’t care what party, what you believe, what you think would be good for America, would you vote for this fucking … I don’t know what the fuck he is. I was going to say like mental case, but I don’t even know if that’s fair to mental cases. I just don’t know,” he said. …
“Everyone is feeling really empowered to say whatever dumb fucking thing is on their brain and then they go, ‘Oh, c’mon! C’mon, man! Give me a break. Heil Hitler, now let’s move on. Heil Hitler! Hitler threw the Jews in the ovens, leave me alone. I just want to say things like that. I just want to say what I have to say.’”
Case in point…
Sounding unhinged doesn’t aid whatever case you’re trying to make.
Wow. I guess he never met Herschel Walker? Just sees him as some kind of boogeyman?
Did they change the rules of sportsball again? Where on the field does the Boogeyman start out?
Where on the field does the Boogeyman start out?
Professionally?
In the USFL, playing for Donald Trump.
I thought that was the XFL, Where they had their nicknames on the jerseys.
Walker was drafted #1 in the USFL by the Jersey Generals in 1983, bypassing the NFL.
Howard Stern- former advocate of free speech
He was a fucking free speech warrior. Now he’s a pathetic tool.
I don’t think he was ever a free speech warrior. That dramatic of a change? He was never dedicated to the cause of freedom.
Rhett Butler: …My dear, Rhett Butler’s the only cause I believe in*.
*or something like that
Sounds right.
Regardless his motivations (and I assume it was money), he fought very hard for free speech and was a groundbreaker.
The SiriusXM money broke him. When he stabbed Cumia in the back, he was dead to me.
I bet Howard will be the first one to sign up to go fight the Georgians to keep them bound to New York.
Will we still be able to hire substitutes in Civil War 2.0?
He would probably just send the wack pack*.
*I watched the late night TV show because I was a naughty boy.
He doesn’t see the irony in declaring there will be a civil war if a black person wins an election?
Why does the weird old rich dude who never leaves his house even care? It’s the Howard Hughes show.
Well Herschel Walker really is kinda a midwit…. who easily defeated Warnock in a debate.
Which tells you everything you want to know.
Does seem that way, but he says the right things. 🤷🏻♂️
Average intelligence, plans to vote with his party every time…
Really, he’s perfect senator material.
Funny that making fun of Fetterlump is ablist, but making fun of Walker is just fine.
Hush You!
I’m not saying he’s bad. He’s just not gonna be winning in Nobel Prizes in Physics.
A. They look delicious!
2. I really like your writing style. Very engaging. It was like you were in the same room as me telling me all about your new recipe.
What was she wearing?
A Green Mountain apron.
That part was for you!
This is actually pretty good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP0XnfC1jVM
I generally expect anyone else’s Top Sci-Fi List to be awful, but he has most of my favorites on his list, including some I wouldn’t expect to see (like Blood Music).
I did not like a fire upon the deep that much
For some reason I just can’t finish anything by Vernor Vinge. They’re good stories, and I get the feeling that I should like them, but the connection never quite closes…
Excellent list.
Not a bad list, but Peter Watt? Fuckin’ space vampires? Fuck off with that shit.
In space no one can hear you bleed….
I fucking love that book and I will make no apologies.
Ignore the vampires, the observations about our limitations as sacks of meat and chemicals still sticks with me.
Full book available here:
https://rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm
I just read it a short while ago because somebody here recommended (maybe you? can’t remember who it was), and I thought it was excellent. I thought the vampire thing was a cool idea, though the right angle phobia came across as a bit silly. But nothing that couldn’t be overlooked.
Ginger snaps* are in the running for my favorite cookie. And the wife makes a raspberry thumbprint cookie for the holidays. I’ll suggest these this year.
*As I tell my (red headed) wife often, “I like a snappy ginger.”
Ginger Snaps will always lose out for me because I prefer soft cookies. The snap part condemns them to being low tier cookies.
Dunk ’em in tea or coffee?
Dunk ’em in tea – gay. sorry I mean too English
Evening, Pie.
Tomato, tomato.
But it’s so much easier to get these soft ginger cookies the store has that I have to avoid because I’d eat the whole container in a single sitting.
/points upthread at lebkuchen.
But these are square (and not covered with frosting)
I think you need to be over 50 in order to enjoy ginger snaps.
*eyes the room
inorite
I am with Unciv. No snappy cookies. Must be soft and chewy.
And even better warm out of the oven.
I prefer my ginger snaps snapless, too. I will sometimes place a wet paper towel wrapped in foil in their container to soften them.
Remember these?
Sadly, it doesn’t look like they are available anymore.
These look delicious.
I went. I saw. I conquered. New glasses, new senator*, new potatoes.
*I hope. Roy Blunt retired and a Busch princess is running for the Donks, on a platform of abortion, because as we all know, that is #1 on everybody’s minds. *gives grocery receipt the side-eye*
GT WROTE AN ARTICLE!!!! YAY!!!!!!
Now I’m thinking about gingerbread.
Do the potatos have anything to do with the reason you needed new glasses?
Silly. I don’t buy spectacles for potato eyes.
I am still trying to conjure up a comback.
I think you’ve won this round.
To the victor go the spoiled potatoes!
Great job Mo!
:: sends pats on back ::
Dammit, Mo, now you’ve got me thinking about schnitzel, potato pancakes and cinnamon-flavored applesauce *mourns lack of good German restaurant close by*
Yeah, I miss that authentic German food.
on a platform of abortion, because as we all know, that is #1 on everybody’s minds
They sure seem to think so in Oregon, based on the incessant advertising which called abortion “our most basic freedom”
Back to the OP for just a sec. GT captured my reactions exactly, loved the cookies. They were scrum-dilly-icious and didn’t last long. I can also aver that GT had big fun doing this and her OCD streak actually served her well in this endeavor. It was kinda cute. Oh, and “I’m a Little Cookie” was in the band’s regular rotation until taking and tuning the ukuleles on top of the crap-ton of other stuff that is necessary to put on a show was just a bit much.
Back to the usual off-topic rants aaaaand…. GO!
Hi TT! Set a spell, willya?
Howdy Tom
Yo Tom!
What’s the deal with ukes, anyway? My bass-playing daughter has like three of them.
Ukes!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZJMUsXxRJY
Well, they come in soprano, alto, tenor, and baritone (the latter tuned like the top four strings of a guitar,) maybe even bass(?) So you really need at least one of each!
Musical GAS* is real.
*Gear Acquisition Syndrome
I have a tenor and a baritone uke. Both 8 strings.
“Hehehehe. She said ‘Musical gas.’
Hehehehehheheheh
Hey Beavis, pull my finger for a concerto…”
FYI
NYT is reporting that there was a winning powerball ticket sold in CA.
So, it’s over.
Great. Not even worth buying a ticket for those lame $100 million jackpots.
WTF is up with that? This morning there was no winner.
Not sketchy at all.
BREAKING: Winner donates his winnings to Gavin Newsom….
“Winner Kevin Newbum looks familiar to this reporter…”
What a fetching lady.
Virginia Republican congressional candidate Yesli Vega rallied supporters on the eve of the election, saying, “We have to take our country back. It’s insane that we’re talking about jailing parents for protecting their children.”
At a large event in Triangle, Virginia — just minutes away from Quantico — Vega was joined by Attorney General Jason Miyares (R), Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears (R), and Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) to rally voters on the night before the election.
Far-right bigots gather to get out their bigoted base.
Great writing GT.
They look delicious and I can really see the jelly combo working well.
This is not a serious person.
Ukraine is prepared to negotiate with Russia to end their ongoing conflict once Russian President Vladimir Putin is out of office, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday.
More than eight months after Russia invaded Ukraine, the two countries continue to battle. While leaders from both Russia and Ukraine have named their terms for peace talks to begin, negotiations continue to stall.
Yeah, Putin isn’t going anywhere.
If he were to concede what is now considered Russian territory, Putin would be quickly be gone and replaced with somebody far less friendly towards the west.
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Putin is the Russian moderate.
In the House race in my district, neither candidate says anything about gun rights. The R says he “backs the blue” but nothing about self defense. I’ll be leaving that one blank. It matters not, the R is going to clean the floor with the desultory afterthought of a D candidate.
I’ll be voting one of the write-ins for Governor. Again, it will make no difference, DeWeasel will win handily. I suppose I’ll vote Vance for senate, mostly out of spite for Democrats.
I typically vote against constitutional amendments, but I’ll vote for the one that explicitly excludes non-citizens from voting in elections (screw you Yellow Springs). I’ll vote against the one that allows judges to “consider public safety” when setting bail, because appeals to “public safety” usually mean trampling individual rights.
That’s about where I am with my plans to vote today.
I voted a straight ticket for the first time in my life. Fuck the donkeys.
Nope. Can’t vote for DeWine.
I wouldn’t either, if I was still there. Fuck that guy.
I wouldn’t have, but I’m too familiar with Nan Whaley, so I held my nose…
Yeah. I’m not voting for Nan either.
I’m hoping that Vance gets more votes then DeWine, it’ll entertain me.
It truly is Giant Douche v. Turd Sandwich
Similar – I will not vote for Sununu.
I did too. First time in 30 years. Some of the candidates were out front of my voting station and so I met them. I felt better for it. And fuck the donkeys.
ditto
Straight ticket for me too. I usually vote for at least some L candidates, but not this time.
I almost voted full R. BUT, I liked the LP candidate for Senate, so… Hopefully my vote doesn’t matter lol.
Didn’t help that Cruz was bragging about voting for PPP. which is intimately linked to allowing the shut downs and inflation right now.
Yes. There is that.
No LP candidates on my ballot this year. Usually there are at least one or two.
I know Sharpe couldn’t get on in part because zeldin challenged the signatures.
Oh, right. I forgot about that.
It might just work out for him.
We didn’t have any LP candidates, because New York changed its ballot access laws to make it harder for third parties to get on the ballot.
Which I always thought was a violation of the equal protection clause. But what do I know.
I went and voted for the hell of it.
My Congressman and State Rep were both running unopposed. The Dems didn’t even bother putting somebody on the ballot.
I kind of laughed at the school supervisor election. Who in their right mind would ever voluntarily put a Democrat in charge of schools ever again?
The teachers?
The school board elections are always separate and poorly attended. Must be nice electing your own boss.
Thanks GT, now I want to go bake some cookies — with the original raspberry, though.
It’s not the length of the stalk, but the magic in it.
Farmers Find New Short Corn a Tall Order
But let’s not stop FedGov from mandating this stuff in gas tanks across the country.
Masked man cheating in front of the cameras on the mainstream media.
You can’t make it up. Make him famous.
It’s an “off” year in Spotsy. Only one item on the ballot: Spanberger v Vega no-holds-barred.
Oh, and GT, with all of the jams and jelly, you may want to look into aebleskiver.
Thanks to all for your kind and helpful comments, and thanks again to all the Glibs who helped make this post possible! I was having some pretty serious “stage fright” as “post time” approached, but I feel much better now! 😊
Oh come now, you know this audience.
It was a wonderful article! I enjoyed and and I hope you write more.
Late as usual. Rough workday, but Boiler is installed just in time for tonight’s freeze warning. And now I want cookies to celebrate! Those cookies would disappear in short order at Casa Patzer, the eldest spawn cannot resist a jellied center.
Just found out that the renters before us were running drugs or fencing merchandise through this house. Our landlord is thrilled with us.
Because you’re giving him a cut?