work in progress (technically)

(because technically I should be working) everything is in a state of disrepair; please have patience as i figure out where things ought to be. me llamo mill • any/ask; A = (3 + 1)(3² - (3)(1) + 1²); S = no, thank; L etc etc

[desert-palm]

[haaarpb]

well we got a haircut

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[bunnywand-z]

"the best laid plans" "i'm hatching a plan" so a plan is a type of egg ? 🥚

[daylights-rain]

all according to Japanese breakfast: keikaku

[millwr1ght]

jumping car battery in the pouring rain: not fun.

0/10, would not recommend.

[copperbadge]

Old school readers from my livejournal days may recall that I have an ongoing grudge against Magnolia Bakery for crimes against midwesterners (long story involving the phrase "We didn't realize people in Chicago were so attached to menus") and I'm cackling like a supervillain this morning over their health inspection issues.

It's a saying in Chicago that high health inspection scores are a great way to tell who is paying bribes to health inspectors, but I'm still just a little gleeful.

[bumblebee-madgirl]

...would you consider retelling the menu story for those of us who weren't around in the livejournal days? 🥺👉👈

[copperbadge]

It's not super exciting in retrospect, it was just funny at the time :) Magnolia Bakery had just opened in Chicago after being THE bakery that made Cupcakes Happen in NYC, and I had a friend visiting who wanted to try them out. So we consulted the website, which listed their flavor offerings including the daily special flavors, and I went down to the storefront with a list to buy them.

I started to give my order to the woman behind the counter and she immediately started shouting at me that we didn't have this that or the other, really aggressively given I was just placing an order. I hadn't been rude or asked for special treatment or something. I said "Sorry, that's what was listed on your website, what DO you have?" and she shouted some more and gestured at the display case.

So I picked out what I thought would be good from what was available and paid and went home, and that evening I made a -- I have to stress this -- entirely amused post about how if you're not going to carry a certain flavor on a certain day maybe don't list it as a flavor of the day. I get sometimes there are issues with ingredients, but by then there were multiple other cupcake shops in Chicago that did not seem to have this issue. We all laughed, we had cupcakes, life was fine.

A few days later, somehow the bakery manager found my post -- this was pre-algorithm, I had maybe 3000 readers at most, on a blogging site that was not all that well known. And she left a frankly rather nasty comment about how Magnolia Bakery originated in New York, and New Yorkers understood these things, and they hadn't realized when they expanded that Midwesterners were so attached to their menus.

Yeah. How dare we bumpkins out here in corn country see a menu and presume the establishment showing us the menu actually offers what is on it?

Anyway, I replied that I wasn't aware New York, a culinary capital of the world, was unfamiliar with the idea of a list of food and prices for said food. I suggested perhaps they could speak to their peer institutions in Chicago, like Sugar Bliss or Sprinkles, and see if they could help Magnolia Bakery out if they were struggling with the concept.

I did not receive a reply, but I laughed about that for days. We're too attached to our menus.

Anyway thenceforward they were added to the list of places in Chicago against which I hold a grudge, which also included Corner Bakery. If I had a nickel for every bakery I had a grudge against I'd have two nickels, which isn't that many, but it is weird it's happened twice.

[memprime]

Ok, I was around during your LJ days but I do NOT remember your Corner Bakery grudge.

[copperbadge]

That one's far less climactic or direct -- I just kept getting either bad food, or food that made me sick.

There was one near my work that was one of the few close places to get a sandwich, so I'd go there every once in a while, but I noticed I never really enjoyed the food or felt good after. The last time I got an actual meal there, I ordered a turkey-avocado sandwich. They gave me the bag, I took it back to work, settled into the break room to eat it, and realized they had made me a sandwich with the heels of the loaf. Which, of course, were stale, because they were the two oldest slices in the bread bag. Gross.

I thought, well, I'll pull out the turkey and avocado, make a little roll-up, and at least lunch will be salvaged. Then I realized the avocado was visibly unripe. Not like avocado where you bite in and it's a little crunchy but it's green; it was visibly so unripe it hadn't even sliced cleanly. Which meant for the price of a full sized sandwich, I was left with two slices of deli turkey for lunch.

So I swore off Corner Bakery, didn't eat there for literal years, and then one wet afternoon I was going to the doctor but I was early and hungry and there was a Corner Bakery in the ground floor of the building. I thought, at least it's out of the rain. So I got a bottle of water and a little lemon mini-bundt cake, and just after getting home from the doctor I became violently ill and puked lemon for the next few hours. No more chances for Corner Bakery.

I suppose it's less of a grudge than it is just a rule of thumb. Corner Bakery tends to set up shop in places without other good/healthy food options (museums, near tourist spots, in the less food-populated areas of the business district) so whenever anyone asks me what to do and see in Chicago (let alone where to eat) I feel compelled to warn them.

[anxnyaaa]

[postit-mikus]

[voskhozhdeniye]

[millwr1ght]

WSMV4 article link

[freakoutgirl]

i hate when something is in 20 minutes

[millwr1ght]

I can always tell when it's about to thunderstorm because on the day before the storm, management removes the "temporarily out of order" sign on the elevator.

[originalcrime]

dead wife who was MEAN and slept without a TOP SHEET and only went to the beach when it was OVERCAST to SCOWL at the waves

[draconym]

do you think two pennies is still enough for the ferryman or has inflation driven up the fare

[draconym]

if he makes me use an app I am simply not crossing the river Styx.

[lesbianwaves-deactivated2022021]

i love how much everyone cries in lotr like aragorn just had his boromir weep and we cut to frodo and he’s sobbing under the weight of his now entirely solitary task like yeah as an audience i need that cathartic placeholder!! well done i’m empathizing and processing my pain!! with big blockbusters today most of the time i come out of the cinema constipated and wondering if the men in them are even supposed to have human feelings 

[galpalkirk]

they better fucking weep tho that shit is canonical! you can’t read a page of lotr without a man crying! i was reading rotk a month ago and pointing out this exact thing, just look at all these men with actual emotions!

Éomer, to an army of crying men: Do not cry! We have work to do!

Also Éomer: cries as he says this

[veliseraptor]

#new rule: for a work of fiction to be considered a ‘tolkien rip-off’ or ‘tolkienesque fantasy’ every significant male character must cry #preferably multiple times (via @kareenvorbarra)

[batshaped]

poké-relics

bsky mirror

(for make a terrible comic day 2026)

[eelizabit]

Ok girlies time for our prescription 1-2 hour walk, imagine we r all in line like Madeline

[eelizabit]

in an old website on the internet all covered in vines, lived some lovely little mutuals in two straight lines..

[redstonedust]

how do you feel about communism? asking genuinely :)

probably my least favorite johnkat/junekat ship name. i get what people were going for with the hammer & sickle but i think homestuck ships are always really good for name mashing so trying to come up with cutesy wordplay ship names feels redundant and kind of forced. not as bad as breathalyser though.