#princehal9000

[amarguerite]

for the first impression ask: first "good lord, she's nerdy. curls. vaguely intellectually intimidated." now "good lord, she's nerdy. slightly different curls. DEFINITELY intellectually intimidated."

aw, thank you!!! Though nowadays the curls are done by professionals and the chemicals I put in it merely change its color rather than its shape and texture. 

[lifetimeinafist]

to me, you are a bonfire against a sky of brilliant stars, the milky way searing its way across the firmament. bonfires are being slightly grungy in a satisfied way, covered in bug spray, that sore ache in your marrow of a day well lived. bonfires are warmth and a beacon. in a bonfire you can roast a fish, a lamb, and see the flickers of blue around the hot edges. being near you asks people how they will roast their marshmallow; I like to bronze mine, caramel and slow by the coals.

Crying a little, no big deal.

[copperbadge]

artzbots replied to your post “Peak Bachelor”

But: did you mix whatever sour cream was leftover with the Udon noodles?!

Oh, it was empty of sour cream long since -- I rinse out the plastic tubs and reuse them. Sour cream and cold udon does sound kinda good though. 

princehal9000 replied to your post “Peak Bachelor”

this is mildly reassuring, actually. thank you for posting.

Well, I do what I can. :D 

thexturtle replied to your post “We're watching The Shadow tonight.”

Holy crap, Sam, bringing back the JSG memories. Now I gotta go scour wayback.

I think Gossamer has them...Aha! Indeed they do. I should go back and do a nostalgia-read sometime. 

[lifetimeinafist]

If you could cook one meal that symbolized July/October/January/April, what would they be, respectively?

July

High summer means tomatoes and zucchini and barbeque. I’d make you my tomato tart with Comte, a tomato salad with fresh mozzarella. Then flank steak with a grilled zucchini succotash situation. Grilled peaches with vanilla ice cream. Alternately, peri peri chicken with the works. 

October

The first roast chicken of the season, roast potatoes, baked apples stuffed with dried figs, dates, and golden raisins. 

January

That’s right, motherfucker it’s brisket season. Macaroni and cheese. Mashed potatoes. Roasted carrots in ginger. A mild coma instead of dessert.

April

Rack of lamb, beets and sauteed beet greens. The first fresh greens of the season. Berries and meringue, drizzled with balsamic vinegar.

[lifetimeinafist]

what I associate with you? orange & purple. kendrick lamar, hamilton (yelling, not singing), the blaring brave beautiful opening chords to A New Hope. Off-duty negotiator for The Resistance, floppy hats. Practical boots but also lace somewhere, like a particularly efficient, yet effete, pirate. The golden hour, the smell of rosemary, the wallop of garlic cooking to the face. standing in my peripheral vision humping ghosts. hair oil and cooking oil. warmth, joy, grit, hugs.

I lost it at “standing in my peripheral vision humping ghosts.”  I love you. A lot.

[lifetimeinafist]

princehal9000

  @princehal9000 DONT TELL ME WHAT TO DO. IM GONNA...

babe. sweetie. my proud brave brisket. close the laptop, dim the phone, dream.

I am a brave brisket. A very brave brisket.

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princehal9000 replied to your post “etakyma replied to your photoset “I am staying with a friend who has...”

oh my god lawson e-cards. EVERY HOLIDAY, sam. Every last one. Turkeys doing the cancan. Sheep doing jigs. Otters celebrating independence day. Kill me nowwwww.

My mother has sent me the “soup recipes made by a disembodied spoon” one twice. :D I love it. 

[electricalice]

1) i've followed you for years and i really enjoy occasionally seeing incomprehensible italian news and attempting to glean meaning from cognates of spanish, the only romance language i understand, so thanx 4 putting it on my dash 2) if you feel up to it could you PLEASE summarize the pompeii thing, I am dying to know (altho i wouldn't blame you if you refused to answer just to preserve the inside joke)

I’m absolutely astonished by this. my italian posts are usually so dependant on context that I’m surprised you actually managed to get anything!

Anyway, no it’s not an entirely inside joke but it’s definitely a ‘we italians are fucking assholes’ kind of situation. 

1. it was announced that a food vendor counter was found in pompeii. Said  counter had an homophobic insult on it. 

2. Said insult is ‘Nicia cineade cacator’ (Nicia inverted shitter) which is basically an insult about Nicia being a bottom because not sure how versed you are in roman history but society was ok with sex between men as long as you were the one giving. Bottoming was shameful.

3. Then these comments happened and italian lgbt tumblr basically lost it at... idk... the whole of it. The concept that we needed proofs that queer people existed in roman times (there’s a lot), the concept that an homophobic insult scribbled on a desk actually means someone’s actually gay (like, idk if people have ever been in public middle school but... dude), the concept that if you were smart enough you could have survived pompeii.....

4. now the memes are about... idk. everything. I haven’t reblogged a lot, if you’ve lived yesterday only through my blog it was but a very small part of it all. but both blogitalianissimo and silenttccries and estperpetua have a several posts about it. Some faves are:

4a. I would also like to point out that bi-icon julius caesar was also accused of being a bottom at some point so he made his way through this whole mess. 

4b. Also a lot of jokes about alberto angela, who is a tv science communicator basically our entire nation is in love with. His specialization is ancient rome & pompeii and of course a lot of jokes are about him as well.

5. it bears repeating that we as a community are fucking assholes piling up on that poor person. But at least some of us reached out to the person of the comment to apologize and reassure it’s all in jest

6. to add it all, apparently they found the body of the tavern owner close to it anyway. Who knows if it was Nicia himself.