Happiness is a chocolate cake cooling on the rack.

[st_aurafina]

1. SO MUCH RAIN. And so much wind. I've heard chainsaws all day, when the wind dropped low enough, which means a fair few trees must be down. But none of the giant eucalypts out past the back fence shifted, so we're all good. Those things are *massive*. Watching them bend and flex in the wind is awesome and a bit terrifying. If one came down, I don't think it would mash the house, but it would certainly fill up the backyard.


2. This fandom secret from a few days ago: Teen Worf. Most of the comments in the post, here, said they'd watch the heck out of a show about an angsty teenage Klingon living with Russian parents on Earth. I'm with them on that.


3. My sister, who is twenty years younger than me, borrowed my Twin Peaks DVDs, and has been hilariously amazed:

"I can't believe something so weird existed back in the eighties!"

"This log lady is lol!"

"Was that David Duchovny in drag?"

(And then she independently invented moussaka - "I want to make a vegetarian lasagne, but, like, with eggplant as the pasta layers." So proud of her cooking adventures.)


4. I don't actually pay football much attention - sorry to the one AFL fan I have on my flist - but I am eternally amused that there's a player called Steele Sidebottom.


5. I ran out of yarn for my afghan. I guess I fell for the fatal error of buying exactly the right amount of yarn. (But that was all they had, and according to the pattern, it should have been okay?) Anyway, this is apparently the world's rarest of yarns, because I can't find any, anywhere. But I'm going to add a strip of the colour I was going to use for the trim at each end, and that should round it out. Argh! Never again!


6. I still haven't caught up on Night Vale, but I found this: Night Vale Weather, a list of musicians who have contributed to the weather section, with links to their music.

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[king_touchy]

6. Thanks for the link. I'm part way through Welcome to Night Vale and the weather reports are delightful.

[st_aurafina]

Not every weather report is to my taste, but I love the variety they come up with.

[jb_slasher]

I am terribly amused by Mr. Sidebottom, I am.

On a ridiculous note (for I am a bit hard of hearing), there is an AFL player called Ivan Maric playing for Richmond and I kept understanding it "marriage" and a few times, I swear, I heard "gay marriage" and the game was very confusing because how does AFL relate to gay marriage, you know?

[st_aurafina]

Mr Sidebottom! It's the best!

I have no idea what they could have been saying about Maric! I doubt that it had anything to do with gay marriage - they're not very gay-friendly as a rule.

[ignipes]

TEEN WORF. I would watch one million episodes of that.

Ah, Twin Peaks! I haven't watched it since it was actively airing on television, but I always love to see when people discover it.

[st_aurafina]

Teen Worf: six seasons and a movie!

Twin Peaks is just so mind-blowing.

[vass]

Tell me more about this cake. :9

[st_aurafina]

It's this: Everyday Chocolate Cake.

But sadly, I over-baked it and it's a bit dry. It should be all moist and gooey! Fortunately we have some cream to serve it with.

[lonelywalker]

"I can't believe something so weird existed back in the eighties!"
...is she aware of, you know, everything else that happened in that decade?

Teen Worf! That would be amazing.

And you just know Steele Sidebottom must be the manliest man who ever manlied.

[st_aurafina]

...is she aware of, you know, everything else that happened in that decade?

She sleeps in one of my old t-shirts from the Billy Joel/Elton John tour. But other than that? No, probably not. Ah, the youth.

I want Teen Worf on my screen now! It would be amazing - full of angst and Klingon acne.

[laurenthemself]

Twin Peeeeaks. I want to rewatch that but I want to rewatch everything, and I just don't have time to do that as well as watch all the new things that I want to watch.

I've been reading the Night Vale transcripts as I'm not great with listening to things, but I'm going to give the podcasts a listen this morning.

[st_aurafina]

We schedule our rewatches in a stupidly organised way - Friday nights for X-Files. Sunday for DS9. But we can never rewatch Twin Peaks - I have to do it on my own, because lilacsigil cries when she hears the David Lynch ceiling fan sound.

I don't normally like podcasts or audio books, but Cecil Baldwin has a fantastic voice, so I'm enjoying Night Vale with no embarrassment squick. It's great to have the podcasts, though. Very handy!

(BTW, thanks for the ticket in Candy Crush! I was so desperate! Pathetic.)

[mossybomb]

2. I have this reaction sometimes to shows I used to watch as a young un (I still can't believe Northern Exposure was as quirky and funny as it was). Is she enjoying TP? Was there any correlation between her viewing experience and the eggplant idea?

[st_aurafina]

She is loving Twin Peaks! I gave her the caveat that it is very set in the eighties and that there are no cell phones, and she seems to be dealing with it otherwise. I guess she's seen the fashion come around a few times - I know she had a bubble skirt when they had a revival.

No, the eggplant thing was not connected - I'm just really excited about her cooking adventures.

[seeksadventure]

Teen Worf! I want that to be a real thing I can watch for hours and hours.

[st_aurafina]

It's the best idea EVER. Teenage Klingon growing up in 24th century Russia with space tech and acne. How can that not be awesome?

[thirdblindmouse]

I'm now heartbroken that this doesn't exist. (Nitpick: Worf grew up on a Federation colony, not on Earth itself. ETA: Oh, apparently I misremembered! Nevermind, then.)

[cosmic_llin]

TEEN WORF. OMG I would so watch that. Not least because Worf's parents are the BEST.

[st_aurafina]

I love the Rozhenkos! Mrs R learned to cook Klingon food! My head canon is that borscht is a warrior's soup.

[cosmic_llin]

Stealing that head canon! (She is one of my favourite guest stars EVER.)