That knife looks ... seductive. On a different note, I’m going to do preserved lemons this year, just to try ‘em out.

As an ex-Navy Marine Engineer, I’m fully qualified to report on this: Booze is a depressant, yes, but with precision drinking and accurate application, the first thing it depresses is inhibition. The professional will drop back on consumption once they hit the right amount of uninhibited behaviour, and, with the help…

Favorite Salad: Originally found at Louie’s, the restaurant at the Upham Hotel in Santa Barbara, which was a couple blocks down from my apartment for a dozen years.

1) Red Onion, diced and broken up - I leave it up to the knife and whim, but it needs to be easily forkable.
2) Toasted Pine Nuts - experiment with what you…

Nor Canada. I served for years and never saw a Yank on deck unless we had Nicklers Night in San Diego. And, oddly, they drank more milk than booze.

That’s because Americans cost more than twice as much as any other human to treat for illness or cure of disease.

I voted for you this time. if that counts.... I’d like to see it, too.

I don’t know if this is helpful, useful or worth posting, but they seem to be around $50 CDN up here and you might be able to get them. I could be wrong.

Still good for curing leather, though.

As for tongs - The best I’ve ever used, privately or professionally, are from OXO/Good Grips. They are very stiff, have a easy to use locking mechanism for storage, hang from hooks if you want, and come in three sizes. Very strong - far more so than anything I’ve encountered with wooden bolsters along the handles [BBQ…

Lancelot was a superhero. As you also point out down-sceen [I’m slow, my bad] it’s been an immortal archetype since we first gathered around fires in caves.

No Hounds of Tindalos? They are lean, and athirst! Also, my personal favourite monster from the RPG ‘Call of Cthulhu’.

All these people need [the ‘churchers’] is a captive bolt gun to the forehead. <Kachunk!> Repeat until there’s none left.

Photography is both a hobby and a passion for me, and has been for about a decade-and-a-half. I’m what was once called a ‘serious amateur’ - not quite pro-level equipment, but a strong enthusiast for best-in-slot gear on occasion. But I didn’t start that way. Let’s forget my 3-5 years in film as I basically had to…

Isn’t his sister Magik, aka Iliana?

Take a look at any of the solid planets with atmospheres. They may be jagged and cracked, but they’re not pock-marked. As polluted as our gas canopy is, I for one, am glad it’s there.

I wasn’t including them politically into the Empire, but I was using the ‘Empire’ to describe pretty much the non-Rebel Alliance. I could have been more accurate by saying: Those Guys With Helmets.

It’s always bugged me [in a small, annoying way] just how horrible all the field of vision must have been for the Empire with those virtually blinding helmets. And by ‘Empire’ I include the Mandaloreans.

Sort of like the Tar-Ayim Krang. I like that idea.

Considering the entire world, if she didn’t perform where ‘human rights’ were trespassed upon, she wouldn’t perform anywhere.

Maybe as an antidote to the interminable saccharine overloads that are rammed down everyone’s throat? Maybe as a bone to be thrown to someone who might want to see an actual future of human evolution [even fictional] that’s not all ‘Happy Holidays - may they never vary, change, or anything!’