Spend your whole day without watching no TV

[sovay]

Happy Valentine's Day! Under normal circumstances, spatch and I would be observing the conjunction of the holiday with President's Day from the balcony of the Somerville Theatre, watching as close as we can manage to twenty-four hours of science fiction film with the rest of the Boston Sci-Fi Marathon. It is our oldest shared tradition. We have been celebrating it together since 2012. Under circumstances of plague-time and considerations of technology, we are not even attending virtually this year. Instead, with recourse to our trusty handful of streaming services and a few ringers, we have programmed ourselves the Black Cat 'Thon 2021: Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century (1953), Escape to Witch Mountain (1975), Matinee (1993), The Hands of Orlac (1924), Humanoids from the Deep (1980), The Brother from Another Planet (1984), The Silent Star (1960), Fantastic Planet (1973), Born in Flames (1983), Prospect (2018), Cherry 2000 (1987), The Atomic Submarine (1959), and Destroy All Monsters (1968), plus trailers and shorts as intervals throughout the night and last-minute substitutions as needed. We have no Atomic Fireballs, but Rob made cookies heavy on the cinnamon. For extra authenticity, we can leave the house and run around the block in the freezing dark at unwise hours of the morning to find no restaurants open. Wish us luck!

Comments

[sovay]

Well, it’s been eight hours, you alive?

Not yet asleep, but definitely alive! And pleased with our programming.

The tar cookies reminded me I should send you the recipe for The Original Name Is Racist So We Call It Porn in Your Mouth Which Is Only Tacky Instead. It does require white candy melt. Which is also tacky.

I have no idea what confectionary you are talking about, but you should definitely send us the recipe. I keep white chocolate chips around.

[selkie]

I think the Protestants invented it. I had never had it until introduced to it by the flaxen Saxons who gave the world my spouse. They have always very very sheepishly called it by its non-racist name but you know, that's a word they don't say, so usually they mouth it.

I will email you the recipe because it is likely you have everything, and it is surprisingly amazing stuff for the sum of its parts, but you may or may not need to really homogenize your kind of peanut butter for it to do anything not-unattractive when it hits lukewarm white [melted cocoa butter product of choice].

[sovay]

I will email you the recipe because it is likely you have everything, and it is surprisingly amazing stuff for the sum of its parts, but you may or may not need to really homogenize your kind of peanut butter for it to do anything not-unattractive when it hits lukewarm white [melted cocoa butter product of choice].

Our peanut butter is Teddie's which needs to be homogenized every time you take the lid off, so I suspect we will manage. spatch has been using it for cookies and even penuche variants quite successfully. (His best penuche variant is basically just maple.)