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\n \n What a long, dumb trip to get here. But man, it tasted so good. \ud83d\ude01<\/p>\n
E<\/p>"},{"id":"urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:foenix:2390551","link":[{"@attributes":{"rel":"alternate","type":"text\/html","href":"https:\/\/foenix.livejournal.com\/2390551.html"}},{"@attributes":{"rel":"self","type":"text\/xml","href":"https:\/\/foenix.livejournal.com\/data\/atom\/?itemid=2390551"}}],"title":"A Trail of Breadcrumbs","published":"2026-02-25T10:37:20Z","updated":"2026-02-25T10:37:20Z","content":"Thanks for the suggestions, to those who made them. Oatmeal was the most common, and is indeed the sub I would have made if it's going to come to that. Good lord, happy birthday, my Livejournal. A quarter century today(ish).<\/p>"},{"id":"urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:foenix:2389388","link":[{"@attributes":{"rel":"alternate","type":"text\/html","href":"https:\/\/foenix.livejournal.com\/2389388.html"}},{"@attributes":{"rel":"self","type":"text\/xml","href":"https:\/\/foenix.livejournal.com\/data\/atom\/?itemid=2389388"}}],"title":"Oh Look! Actual Content!","published":"2026-02-04T08:27:32Z","updated":"2026-02-04T08:27:32Z","content":"Sorry, I know I don't personal post as much as I like to, I am astonishingly boring. =D
Fortunately, it looks like the shipment is finally on it's way, and should be here this morning. Fingers crossed. It messes up my schedule but it ultimately just ends up with me having extra for leftover meatloaf sandwiches, and that's not a bad thing. ;)
\ud83d\udc8eE\ud83d\udc8e"},{"id":"urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:foenix:2390394","link":[{"@attributes":{"rel":"alternate","type":"text\/html","href":"https:\/\/foenix.livejournal.com\/2390394.html"}},{"@attributes":{"rel":"self","type":"text\/xml","href":"https:\/\/foenix.livejournal.com\/data\/atom\/?itemid=2390394"}}],"title":"What a Loaf","published":"2026-02-24T12:52:06Z","updated":"2026-02-24T12:52:06Z","content":"So I intended to make meatloaf Sunday night (And starting a story off like that kinda lets you know where this is going...) but when I got home from grocery shopping Friday morning with the ground beef, I realised I didn't have bread crumbs. Hadn't even thought to check.
I didn't really want to make another trip JUST for that, plus the \"snowstorm\" this weekend. I hesitate to call it that here, since it wasn't THAT bad in my location, but still not exactly something to go out traveling in.
I could substitute stuff, but didn't reeally want to, so I scrambled around the internet and found what I wanted for a stupid price of shipping (Actually not THAT bad, probably as much or less than I would have paid to get some coffee and a bite to eat if I went out to get it) BUT it would be here Monday.
Well...my schedule has been so messed up lately, instead of making \"dinners\" shortly after getting up, I usually will swap \"dinner\" and \"lunch\" and make it in the AM, so that was probably when I'd end up making it ANYways.
Plus, I always make multiple meals at once, and switch around them, so I had another plate of food ready to go, if I had to push to Monday NIGHT.
But then! uh, the item hasn't moved from it's last location. In Connecticut. Where it probably WAS buried in an actual snowstorm. Got the notification late in the afternoon that it was delayed and not showing up Monday.
And now I'm sitting here, having had my lunch, and uh, having NO idea what to make for dinner, because I don't know if the ingredient I need will arrive or not, and I'm *also* worried that the meat could go bad, since it's been sitting in the fridge since Friday, and wasting all that meat, and messing up my meals, is not really something I can handle right now.
And I COULD go back to the substitutions idea, but that would have been SUCH a waste of money.
And I can't even be mad about it, because hey! It's the winter, and there was a snowstorm! Whataya gonna do??
I do actually have a backup plan involving the leftover chicken wings, which might be my go to if worse comes to it.
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Trisk's<\/a> newest review is up, and since it's the day before Valentines, it's time for our \"Just Wrong\" love story, in a tale of friendship taken to obsessive extremes, in Naked Fear<\/a>.
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As I'm sure most of y'all are aware, parts of the US have been covered in bitter cold for some time, and ugh, I am just so done.
I loved listening to the recently ended Doctor Demento Show, and one of his frequent plays during this time of year was the spoken word comedy poetry bit by Rob Magnuson, \"It's Time for Winter to End\". And it has been on my mind a LOT lately.
I love in a very rural area, and can't drive, so have to walk some distance to get to most things, or a bus, and I have been WAITING for temps to get anywhere near warm enough for me to stand and wait for a bus, so I can get groceries.
I think today is finally the day.
\ud83d\udc8eE\ud83d\udc8e"},{"id":"urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:foenix:2389198","link":[{"@attributes":{"rel":"alternate","type":"text\/html","href":"https:\/\/foenix.livejournal.com\/2389198.html"}},{"@attributes":{"rel":"self","type":"text\/xml","href":"https:\/\/foenix.livejournal.com\/data\/atom\/?itemid=2389198"}}],"title":"Dream Police","published":"2026-02-01T13:16:27Z","updated":"2026-02-01T13:16:27Z","content":"Trisk<\/a> just posted the latest review, featuring a late 80s British supernatural horror, that features a young Jemma Redgrave, called Dream Demon<\/a>.
It's quite British, but solid for what it is. Check out all my thoughts though at the link.
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Check out my words.
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Check it out.
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Check it out."},{"id":"urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:foenix:2388152","link":[{"@attributes":{"rel":"alternate","type":"text\/html","href":"https:\/\/foenix.livejournal.com\/2388152.html"}},{"@attributes":{"rel":"self","type":"text\/xml","href":"https:\/\/foenix.livejournal.com\/data\/atom\/?itemid=2388152"}}],"title":"Cold Hearted","published":"2025-12-26T11:34:18Z","updated":"2025-12-26T11:34:18Z","content":"Trisk<\/a> has a new update, with our final review for the year, and as is tradition...well, it's not Christmas related, but it's our backup theme of wintry monsters, with this look at the early 2000s creature feature, Ice Queen<\/a>
\ud83d\udc8eE\ud83d\udc8e"},{"id":"urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:foenix:2387937","link":[{"@attributes":{"rel":"alternate","type":"text\/html","href":"https:\/\/foenix.livejournal.com\/2387937.html"}},{"@attributes":{"rel":"self","type":"text\/xml","href":"https:\/\/foenix.livejournal.com\/data\/atom\/?itemid=2387937"}}],"title":"30 Years a Filker","published":"2025-12-15T20:23:23Z","updated":"2025-12-15T20:23:23Z","content":"So, for those who don't know, back in college is when I got into online communities, and met many wonderful people in the comics and X-Men fandom, whom I am still friends with today. I dropped out of college though, and the night before going home, I stayed up VERY late, because I did not have internet back home, and had no idea when I would see these people again. If ever.
I had been noodling on a kernel of an idea for a song parody of Elmo and Patsy's \"Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer\" and with the help of a few others, we banged out the song. It was the very last thing I posted from college, and it turns 30 years old this month. I uh...forgot to post on the actual day, but close enough.
I post it regularly around the internet, but when I went to find it here on LJ, it seems I have not posted it here since *2009*?? Well, what better time to rectify that than it's 30th anniversary? So, without further adieu...
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Here's the holiday classic \"Cyclops Got Run Over by His Ex-Wife\" by yours truly, mindset, and dkphoenix. And CRETIN, wherever he is. Sung to the tune of \"Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer\" by Elmo and Patsy. Duh.
Chorus:
Cyclops got run over by his ex-wife,
Patrolling 'round the mansion Christmas Eve,
You may say there's no such thing as cloning,
But as for me and Essex, we believe.
He'd been swigging down his eggnog,
And we begged him not to go,
But Scott (that dork)'s so dedicated,
So he wobbled out the door into the snow.
When we found him Christmas morning,
At the scene of the attack,
There were claw-marks on his forehead,
And Infernal-looking symbols on his back.
Chorus:
Cyclops got run over by his ex-wife,
Patrolling 'round the mansion Christmas Eve,
You can say there's no such thing as cloning,
But as for me and Essex, we believe.
Well, we're all so proud of Cable,
He's been taking this so well,
Not a tear to rust his metal,
He just sits there playing cards with Sis Rachel.
It's not Christmas without Cyclops,
All the X-Men dressed in black,
And we just can't help but wonder,
Should we go to Sinister and clone him back?
(CLONE HIM BACK!!)
Chorus:
Cyclops got run over by his ex-wife,
Patrolling 'round the mansion Christmas Eve,
You may say there's no such thing as cloning,
But as for me and Essex, we believe.
Now that Scott is six feet under,
Jean's conscience is clear and clean,
My! Her luck is so uncanny,
At last she can go out with Wolverine.
I've warned all my friends and mutants,
Maddie could be after you,
They should have never given powers
To a gal who had Phoenix to live up to.
Chorus:
Cyclops got run over by his ex-wife,
Patrolling 'round the mansion Christmas Eve,
You can say there's no such thing as cloning,
But as for me and Essex, we believe.
Sing it, Nathans!!
Chorus:
Cyclops got run over by his ex-wife,
Patrolling 'round the mansion Christmas Eve,
You may say there's no such thing as cloning,
But as for me and Essex, we believe!"},{"id":"urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:foenix:2387691","link":[{"@attributes":{"rel":"alternate","type":"text\/html","href":"https:\/\/foenix.livejournal.com\/2387691.html"}},{"@attributes":{"rel":"self","type":"text\/xml","href":"https:\/\/foenix.livejournal.com\/data\/atom\/?itemid=2387691"}}],"title":"It's Hard Being a Nightmare","published":"2025-12-13T08:22:45Z","updated":"2025-12-13T08:22:45Z","content":"Trisk<\/a> has a new review up, and around this time of year, it has become tradition to do some horror movie in the sub sub sub genre called \"rocksploitation\". This year, that dishonour fell upon a little known movie from the late 80s called Hard Rock Nightmare<\/a>.
It's somehow about a rockband being terrorized in the woods by a werewolf, until it isn't.
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It's tongue is planted firmly in cheek, and while it's style isn't going to be for everyone, there's a charming purity of purpose to this movie that just hits me where I live.
But! Read all about it at the link!
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It's an indie movie from the early 2000s, and boy does it show! But it's one of those movies that's doing its best with limited resources, and I was just tickled to see what Jason Carter was up to after Babylon 5.
Check it out!
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