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Kristen Schaal is a goddess. A strange goddess of strange humors, voice to some of our favorite characters, and a wild muse. I could list her many accomplishments but I am only one man, and her accolades are so heavy. The clips below of her stand-up, they're fucking weird . Fair warning. The slayer goddess befuddling us for 8:41 in her set from 2022. Schaal slaying for 21:14 at Comedy Central's full set "Making Love to George Washington. 2010ish I think?? [AI images generated via Dezgo AI with the prompt "The comedian Kristen Schaal as a vampire slayer. She is wearing a complicated dress and wielding a crossbow."] Slayer Training Lore Reading in bed by 11pm - 5x/week ✅✅🔲🔲🔲 Meditation Ass on meditation pillow - 5x/week ✅✅🔲🔲🔲 Bodhrán meditation 3x/week ✅🔲🔲 Strength Squat - 75% 5x3 Front Squat - 60% 3x5 Paused Single Leg Extension - 75% 5x5 Yoga Life Stuffs Going on a FB diet for a month or so because Weltschmerz isn't useful when I'm upset and impotent to affect change. Writing letters to elected officials (likely a useless gesture), and volunteering in local queer groups, but sobbing over news and social media isn't helping anything. Korean food is amazing, and I had Jap Chae after a mediocre convention I visited last weekend. The convention was mostly an excuse for people to try beat sabers, but I hate people so even that was mostly an annoying thing to suffer through while waiting for delicious sweet potato noodles and Korean beef.

In defense of goblin days, sometimes they happen. Dunno the science behind needing the occasional day of your id driving your dietary decisions, but personally I think 1 or 2 days in 30 is a nice balance for me. 🤷‍♂️

Congrats on being decisive and kind to yourself. Fingers crossed for ob-gyn surgery!!

Sorry about the fatigue and congrats on the gorgeous puppy. Funny how those two always go together. Can you share your dogfood recipe?

Paula Poundstone is a mostly forgotten slayer who made her mark in the post-cold war era of American political humor. If Hoodo Hersi is the face of Zennial comedy, Paula Poundstone is a Gen X old guard who slayed in the shadow of Jay Leno, George Carlin, and Robin Williams. A trailblazer for slayers, but sadly her 80's and 90's stand-up don't translate well anymore; jokes about airline food and LA traffic did well in their day but we've mostly moved on. I had mentally re-assigned her to a successful second career in comedy podcasts and voice acting, until I found her brilliant 2006 special. 18 years isn't exactly contemporary, but it at least translates beautifully and her crowd work kills me. Our slayer's 43:49 special from 2006, "Look What the Cat Dragged In" Our slayer's breakthrough 5:31 set on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show in 1987. [AI images generated via Dezgo AI with the prompt "The comedian Paula Poundstone as a vampire slayer. She is wearing a sports coat and wielding a crossbow."] Slayer Training Lore Reading in bed by 11pm - 5x/week ✅🔲🔲🔲🔲 Meditation Ass on meditation pillow - 5x/week ✅🔲🔲🔲🔲 Bodhrán meditation 3x/week 🔲 🔲🔲 Strength Deadlift - 60% 3x5 Chinups - 3x3 Yoga Life Stuffs First deadlifts since March! Kept it light and wore sweats to give my leg more padding post-tattoo, just in case, but the bar contact happens over the adductors more than the quads with sumo style and I felt golden. I'm annoyed at the aphorism, "keep meditating until you can meditate," Annoyed because it's mostly accurate. After 30ish days of forced sitting, things are starting to feel good when I'm sitting. I'm grateful but I'll express that gratitude as grumbling. Weltschmerz is real. I'm open to the idea that brain chemistry post-lexapro has a non-zero amount of responsibility, but things in the news are bad. Depressing politics and humor discussion below - TW for ethnic cleansing and sexual violence:

Drum circle is amazing! Got a gen x hospice nurse that runs it and she brings a lovely grounded note to us wooly woo-enthusiasts. Houses are all potential while Liam is job hunting, but waiting doesn't feel hard while we watch American housing prices and interests rates climb to ridiculous levels; there's a planned interest rate cut in July, and a forecasted housing market price drop in November after the American Presidential election. 🤷‍♂️ Absolutely! Right?? Relatable as hell.

Beautiful plants! Latés and legends is quality. It's not like, a plotty book, or one you have to think hard about; instead it's deeply wholesome and cozy and gentle. It will make you want biscotti, fair warning.

Also, in honor of the cyber truck recall and the very concept of schadenfreude:

Micky Overman is a Dutch comedian, writer, and slayer who works as a nanny in the UK. She slays with her unique perspective on all things British, even having lived in the commonwealth for a bit where her Vancouver improv experience gave a slightly Canadian edge to her English accent. An accomplished slayer, she was a finalist in Funny Women and Leicester Square New Comedian in 2016, and in 2018 she was a Chortle Best Newcomer Nominee, and then wrote and performed her first solo show 'Role Model' at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. About her career, she writes: "When I was 3 years old, I tried to impress my sister's friend Jesse by falling off my chair. I like to think my passion for comedy was ignited at the same time as my passion for boys, and as Jesse did not respond to my advances in any way, both are firmly rooted in failure." A 7:06 slay set from 2019 at the Hot Water Comedy Club 2022 set of our slayer killing for 11:21 on Laughing Around [AI images generated via Dezgo AI with the prompt "The Dutch comedian Micky overman, but as a vampire slayer. She should be wielding a battle-axe and wearing a pair of oversized overalls."] Slayer Training Lore Reading in bed by 11pm - 5x/week ✅✅✅✅🔲 Meditation Ass on meditation pillow - 5x/week ✅✅✅✅🔲 Bodhrán meditation 3x/week ✅✅🔲 Strength Squat 75% 3x5 60% 5x5 Leg extensions 75% 3x5 Yoga Life Stuffs I'm very concerned that Dezgo AI believes that all Dutch women are insane clown hillbillies. @TimovieMan, please report on the murder-y-ness of your neighbors? First leg day in two weeks on Tuesday. The doms are still real, 3 days later. da fuq Cutting my duolingo-by-noon goal for the rest of the challenge. Still a behavior I want as a habit, but I'd rather enjoy the success of the other habits that are going green this month, and wait until May to work on the early duolingo habit. Went to see a cute and v modest little house on Wednesday, but our poor realtor was still recovering from a cold and accidentally walked us through a mansion that we could never afford. The raw pornography of how much space that place had, all three of us got slightly drunk on the feeling. When we finally got to the modest little house afterwards, it had no yard ✅, was across the street from Liam's jujitsu gym ✅, and was walking distance from a great park and great coffee and my drum circle ✅. Plus the neighborhood is safe enough for Laura to walk the dogs at night, if she feels like it ✅ (our dogs are pad trained so Laura can take care of them if the boys are out of town and she has an FMS flareup). Buuut it's over the boundary line into the more posh area, so it's also a budget stretch. Still nice to see the different options well before we plan to make an offer on a house later this summer. Bury Me Beneath the Willows - getting used to more rounded picks lately and enjoying the softer feel but it's def an adjustment. Banjo bob says that me learning to have a more assertive sound is pulling my beginner banjo strings out of tune mid set, and that I've maybe outgrown my beginner banjo. Makes me happy to hear but now I need to save pennies for a better banjo. Good news is with Bob's connections, I'll pay half price on a performance banjo once I have a little nest egg. Liam is at a Chicago event this weekend and I'm a bachelor. I'm torn between binging Solasta or Pillars of Eternity I. Hrm.....

been there. Sucks losing talk time but I still prefer it over the 60 mins of commuting round trip. last time I BG1’d, i did a Druid and I didn’t mind the sprite options for the class.

sigh, correct athousandwords is correct I'd wear that T-shirt

late to the party but here!

Oooh I love that brand!!

It is, just teasing you!

Today's slayer is a rare case of a triple threat talent whose slashes are actor/comedian/mathematician. Zainab Johnson first trained as a mathematician before moving into acting and production, then while working on a comedy show as a production tech, she felt the call of the slayer. Years later with comedy credits include Ramy, Black Lady Sketch Show, and Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, our slayer earned the crowning jewel of her own comedy special just last year. Johnson's tight-ten 12:35 set on Don't Tell Comedy 2023 Johnson slaying with an efficient 5:41 set on Seth Meyers in 2018 A 4:14 clip from Johnson's 2023 Prime special "Hijabs Off" [AI images generated via Dezgo AI with the prompt "The comedian Zainab Johnson as a vampire slayer, wielding a battle-axe."] Slayer Training Lore Reading in bed by 11pm - 5x/week ✅✅🔲🔲🔲 Duolingo streak by noon - 5x/week ✅🔲🔲🔲🔲 Meditation Ass on meditation pillow - 5x/week ✅✅🔲🔲🔲 Bodhrán meditation 3x/week ✅🔲🔲 Strength Bench 3x3 95% Chinup 3x3 Inverted Rows 3x3 Yoga Life Stuffs Too sleepy for this shiz today. Much love, I'm going for a nap.

It's such a gentle game!!! If you have a crush on any one fantasy race, play a party of just that race and maybe explore what a dwarven princess has to say to a dwarven union organizer in the mines? Okay, 50% of that happens in head cannon, but the other 50% is diegetic!

Here’s the IOU for Jed Clampett https://www.instagram.com/reel/C50-8UeubKq/?igsh=NTNraGdpcDVyZGZr

Can I drop a brief plug for Solasta for the isometric RPG fans in the room? Made by a French kickstarter campaign, the games' release predates BGIII by two years but featured increased tactical play / environmental interactions options, only some of which were mirrored in BGIII. The gameplay conceit is that you design an entire 4 person party, instead of just a single player character. Obviously this is going to change how dialogue works, removing any single character as the sole point of narrative focus, it has you select character and conversation traits for all four PC's, and then their differential personalities generate all your possible responses in NPC dialogues. It also handles "companion quests" by assigning a more generic personal quest to each of the 4 pc's, depending on what backgrounds you selected in the 5e char creation process. Storytelling is a bit more linear that BGIII, and because of the 4 PC thing, I find lower re-playability once I've finished a module. Good news is the game is 3 years old now, but the studio is still releasing quarterly plot/class/race bundles as DLC. This means I re-install the game every year and try the latest goodies, usually while telling a fairly niche story with a party that sometimes is mono-species or mono-class, just to draw out different gameplay approaches. The 3 rangers and 1 green mage party I played through the Lost Valley content, it was a treat in tactical gameplay and ambush setups, and obviously I had the party of wood elves romancing each other as a messy messy polycule (yes the green mage was the party/polycule sub but he resented everyone just assuming that the spellcaster would be the submissive).

I am not the boss of you, but I vote that one or all of your summer challenges have an outdoor reading component. Something to trick you into shooting us pictures of the Cornish summer countryside. (You're near Cornwall, right? I'm not discounting that pre-coffee Jon is misremembering shiz) Yes. I think that's like HIIT swearing. Well done. I feel that, except about local chocolate. Great tragedy of mine is that local chocolate is Nestle. This is why I start flame wars with @TimovieMan over Danish and Belgian bakery, the only local chocolate here is Nestle. 💀🔫 Yeah, "Katsup" is kinda a joke spelling, but turns out there's some history behind UK sailors importing a Chinese fish sauce around 1690, and it eventually hitting the US and UK markets as Catsup and Ketchup, respectively. I guess the TV show Mad Men did some plots around the condiment so people began to again notice the differential spelling, and now we have a boring food anecdote to share at all the parties that we don't attend. 🤷‍♂️

Thanks for the download @ViperN7, I'll look for game 1! And sad day on the limited Chinese content, I wonder if the userbase for English->Chinese are suburban American mom's looking to enrich their kids out of school opportunities? That'd explain the limited content if the course is primarily used by grade-schoolers.

Slaying for 7:35 on comedy central in 2020 2024 set of our slayer killing for13:39 on Comedy Central [AI images generated via Dezgo AI with the prompt "The blond comedian Amy Silverberg as a vampire slayer, wielding a microphone as a weapon and wearing an oversized LA dodgers jersey."] Slayer Training Lore Reading in bed by 11pm - 5x/week 🔲🔲🔲🔲🔲 Duolingo streak by noon - 5x/week 🔲🔲🔲🔲🔲 Meditation Ass on meditation pillow - 5x/week ✅🔲🔲🔲🔲 Bodhrán meditation 3x/week ✅🔲🔲 Strength Travel weekend Life Stuffs St. Paul was lovely and the friends who hosted Liam and I were so gracious. Actually our first weekend away as a couple; some combination of extreme his and his introversion, and we started dating just before covid, it means the couch is everything in our relationship. I'd normally assure you that I am in fact a fun person, but that is a lie. I identify as a bummer and I mostly hate travel. Road trips mean audiobooks and we finished this Kingfisher novel and it was a delightful take on the fall of the House of Usher, with some Jeff VanderMeer influences. Road trips mean audiobooks and we did 60% of the below Emrys and this book makes me angry at other sci-fi that wastes my time, by comparison anyway. It's beyond good, it's beautiful and human and haunting and funny and a glimpse of what we could be as a species. Some family emergencies had us head back a day early and our hosts were so gracious with the plan changes. But before we left, we took in the Walker Art Center and some lovely exhibits in their sculpture garden below. Also, I hate hate most plaques in a sculpture exhibitions. I want to know the medium, the artist, and maybe factual details I might have missed because I went to a state college and watched too many cartoons to know who is being referenced in the installation. I don't want to be told how a 7.5 meter blue chicken can stand for all kinds of things in the viewer's life. STFU and let me enjoy my chicken. IOU a version of Jed Clampett tonight. I traveled with my banjo but didn't get a chance to play this entire weekend and I could use the motivation.

Sorry! Poor quality pic. Here's a closeup of a similar piece from Tanaka Yu. It's just clay and 4-6 layers of glaze.

They made me cry. This past weekend, I visited a friend in nearby St Paul to see the Tanaka Yu piece below at the Minneapolis Art Institute, but it wasn't on display. It was kinda fun to email them and ask for a private showing, even when they obviously said no. Felt like a big shot just for asking lol

Color me interested! Should I start from title 1 in the serioes before I approach the latest game? Good to know! I had two semesters of Mandarin back in the late 2000's and I daydream about returning to the language. I just found the calligraphy so soothing and the hiphop was very fun. Pics plz!