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sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2021-02-14 11:52 am

Spend your whole day without watching no TV

Happy Valentine's Day! Under normal circumstances, [personal profile] 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!
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[personal profile] swan_tower 2021-02-16 09:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Chocolate chip -- nothing fancy, just the Tollhouse recipe. But ages and ages ago, before we'd really gotten together, Kyle baked me cookies on Valentine's Day because he decided it would be too cheesy to ask me out on that day. Despite this decision, ever since then he has tried to retcon that into our dating anniversary (whereas I argue for either the 12th, when we had dinner together for the first time, or the 16th, when he officially asked if I was seeing anyone).