@barbarmar22 love Jell-O shots any color with or without whipped cream. With vodka of course. ??❤️
@journeywithme2 -use vodka in place of water. Usually they were made in little Dixie cups. It really was a college thing, and made for fun parties.
@barbarmar22 Our local pub in a small mountain town always served jello shots during Bronco games. Orange, of course. A friend of mine always said we all grew up in the jello mold generation. I think I've had every combination possible. Iowa Sunday dinners at my aunt and uncle's farm with a big family always had a variety of jello salads to choose from. I actually still crave my mother's rasberry jello salad topped with blended marshmellows and sour cream she did every Thanksgiving.
For a change of pace, as noted upthread, cole slaw is used as a sandwich topping here in the south. Try it as a substitute for sauerkraut on a Reuben. Yumm...
So I had a weird dream right before I woke this morning.
Apparently I was the host for the upcoming season premiere of SNL.
HAHAHA.
(I have no idea how my mind came up with that scenario, there was no day residue involved for anything SNL related to have made that be the focus of my dream).
While we were not technically having our first meeting to discuss/write the show I did meet many of the cast members at a pre-rehearsal social event. I started exchanging cell numbers with some of the cast and Beck Bennet and I were doing a little improve acting for fun to see what might work down the line when we actually did begin rehearsing for the show. I was hoping I was somewhat funny. He was thinking through what could work. haha
Bowen Yang and Kyle Mooney were there and for some reason so was Kristen Wig, though I think she was either just visiting or going to pop in to do a single surprise scene for the season premiere. I have no idea why I was the host but the cast seemed accepting of me and not judgemental. I think they were trying to figure out who I was, this unknown person, but in a nice way.
One thing I noticed which was interesting was that we knew there was some type of small natural or man-made disaster taking place as we were gathering and we knew we might be referring to it in the season opener as most news worthy things are referenced. By the time our gathering was finished however, the news worthy event had gotten bigger and I thought it was going to be trickier to make comedy out of it. Then I thought: "lots of things are tricky to do comedy sketches out of but that is what SNL does best every single week."
I've got to say it... just this once...
"It's great to be hosting Saturday Night Live!!"
Even if it is in a dream.
hahaha
@jeanne-mayell I needed to hear this about crows. Last summer, the crows had a big party in the trees behind my house, just a squawking and a carrying on. I even videotaped it, it was so amazing. Next step: I need to befriend them.
Okay, I just re-read your post and need to warn you about befriending the crows.
If you start leaving them food, they can become quite demanding. And then they can resent it if you stop. So I suggest something modest for them. And not too regular, unless you plan to continue for years or know you are going to move then. This is based on what I've read. I'm sure there are those here who have extensive first hand experience to share. I do not mean to demean crows.
Today I saw a series in The New Yorker about donating old clothes and house hold items. I couldn't believe they knew my experience on this subject. https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/instructions-for-donating-clothes-and-household-goods? If it's a paywall, I will post the rest. It is worth it just to see what you think.
@jeanne-mayell Oh, I haven’t befriended the crows. I talk a good game and then forget about it. Actually, I’ve noticed that the murder of crows has not returned this year. Was it something I said? Dunno. This year we have goldfinches, purple finches and humming birds entertaining us and our bird bath is a happening place. LOL
Oh, and those instructions for donating household goods is spot on! Right now I have a chandelier and two pendant lights in the trunk of my car and let me tell you, they’ve been there a while.
Today I saw a series in The New Yorker about donating old clothes and house hold items. I couldn't believe they knew my experience on this subject.
@Jeanne-mayell Jeanne - This used to be us. What we finally ended up doing was, on clean out days (or right after watching some Marie Kondo) we bagged, boxed, and put things directly in the back of the car to drive to Goodwill. When we were done we'd drive to Goodwill, make the donation, and then treat ourselves to our favorite coffee drink across the street.
Otherwise - pre-pandemic, this cartoon is SPOT ON for the Dannyboy family.
SIDE NOTE before I make someone grumpy: I'm aware people have feelings about Goodwill - we have very few donation options in our rural area unless you want to drive 45 miles to the bigger city and our local Goodwill has done a lot of good work for the community over all.
@dannyboy So I grew up in a house where I remember my mother carrying on for a couple of years about how she should never have jettisoned that typewriter. This was a manual old-fashioned typewriter with the big keys you had to punch down really hard to get one letter to type. That regret keeps haunting me and makes it hard to throw out stuff. But I do. Just slowly, in phases, like in the cartoon.
@lovendures Hahahahahaahhhhaa..Love it! most of the time this tired single mom was asleep buy the time SNL came on...but I managed to catch a few... "Live!!!! from New York.. it's....Saturday Night!!!" Cheeseburger,cheeseburger,Pepsi, No Coke." days. Also always used to watch Rowan and Martins Laugh-in in my high school days. Saturday Night definitely evolved with the changing times... and well.. many of us have good memories of Laugh-in. Who can forget the comic genius of Lily Tomlin's many characters, Arte Johnson's old men,Goldie Hawns body paintings and bet your sweet hippy. Thanks for the walk down memory lane!!
@lovendures Just now reading this incredible dream of Yours of being a host of SNL. I think your dream is about this thread and our need to laugh about what’s going on in this world. Uncle P, (my audio app’s translation of @unkp which I kinda like) more than anyone, brought humor here and your psyche is trying to figure out how do that given what you expect will be more crazy news ahead.
You led the hurricane predictions which we now know have revealed at least one possible doozy of a storm in the fall. But even if it’s not a storm that lies ahead, we’ve come to expect more zingers Down the road. What’s it going to be? Another building falling down? An armed conflict at the polls?
And underlying that expectation of more crazy and even tragic news, how the hell to keep us emotionally afloat with humor? I have no doubt, that you have tuned into the SNL folks who daily are dealing with that very question.
PS I love how are you put yourself in the dream where all the staff treated you like it was normal for you to be the host. Reminds me of the movie Peggy Sue got Married where kathleen turner’s middle aged character found herself back in her highschool class and no one noticed she was middle aged.
I purchased a pendulum yesterday and will come in a few days. Will post some pendulum readings when it comes.
@enkasongwriter Test out the pendulum for several months and keep track of your hits before posting readings from it on this platform. Intuition is a subtle process. The Read the Future system I use on people here helps to weed out some of the overt thinking we have in our heads that some can mistake for intuition. Eventually it's great to find your own best intuitive system, and perhaps the pendulum will be one you can use. But pendulums are easily swayed by the person's thinking rather than some deeper knowing. You can even get the pendulum to swing in the opposite direction if you consciously change your mind about something.
@lovendures Your SNL dream might be a prediction hit. Today, The New Yorker announced a upcoming July 22nd New Yorker event with SNL star Jason Sudeikis and New Yorker's cartoon editor Emma Allen, discussing comedy amid chaos, namely humor and hope in uncertain times.
https://www.newyorker.com/new-yorker-live/tig-notaro-jason-sudeikis?
You know, this is interesting. I actually "thought" Jason Sudeikis in my dream, I just didn't see him. He was there though, enough presence that I thought of him while posting about the dream too but since I didn't actually see him in the dream, I didn't mention him.
@lovendures And I knew that you were thinking of Jason Sudeikis when you wrote down the dream. I really did. I even had to check to see if you had mentioned him, but you hadn't. So there. I want to be sure to watch that session he's doing on how to keep it funny and hopeful in the midst of chaos. July 25th New Yorker event.
I can't think of Jason Sudeikis without remembering his impersonation of Biden debating Sarah (Tina Fey) Palin on SNL.