Doug Jones and Danny DeVito in a buddy comedy about a couple of elderly former henchmen unwillingly dragged out of retirement for one last caper. There's a running gag where they claim to be the original duo that the "one of them is short and fat and the other is tall and thin" trope is based on.
Playing against the trope's conventions (but to the actors' respective strengths), DeVito's character is the talkative one while Jones' character hardly says a word. The former argues that popular media usually has it the other way 'round due to prejudice against short people.
Last month, when I visited my sister and her family, my nephew gave me a book of D&D Mad Libs.
I loved Mad Libs when I was a kid. When I couldn't get a Guess & Show book for a long road trip, I got Mad Libs. They tickle that part of my brain that enjoys clever surprises and really dumb jokes.
A week after I saw them, I went to a convention in ... I think it was Mississippi. When I got there, I noticed that I had my new Mad Libs in my backpack, and I had an idea: take it with me into my panel, and do a Mad Libs together with the audience. When someone asks me a question during my Q&A, I will ask them for a noun, a verb, or whatever is next in the thing. Then, at the end of my Q&A, I'll read the thing we made together.
It looks great on paper, but in practice, something isn't quite clicking. I'm not sure what it is. It feels like one of those things that will be so obvious if and when I solve it, and then this will work in practice the way it works on paper ... but I can't find it, so I'm going to retire this bit.
The ENTIRE reason I took the time to post about this, on Tumblr specifically, is so I can relate this moment that happened yesterday.
I was in my panel (in a room with the worst sound and lighting I have ever been in at a con) doing the thing. I asked the person at the mic to give me a noun. They thought for a moment, and said, "ship."
I said, "Oh, that's more of a verb for me," and there was DEAD SILENCE in the room.
And that's how I knew that nobody from Tumblr was attending my panel.
I'm in Atlanta for Comicon all weekend if anyone wants to come say hello.
r/knitting post of the day by u/Optimus_FineAsHell:
I started a blanket 10 years ago and put it down shortly after starting. It was on 30” circulars and I just kept casting on until I couldn’t fit anymore stitches. I was new to the hobby so I figured it would just be “blanket sized.”
I picked it back up about 6 months ago determined to finally finish this thing. I transferred it to 60” circulars to give myself more working space, and during that transfer I counted 450ish stitches, but that would just be a big king sized blanket right? So I kept going. But after about 9 balls of yarn and only 2 feet in length finished, I gave up and decided I would just crochet the blanket instead.
Halfway through my crocheted version, I ran out of yarn and made the sad decision to frog the knitted project for salvage yarn. After removing the circular needles, I thought it’d be interesting to see how wide the blanket actually was.
After straightening it all out I stared at my work, utterly dumbfounded, that I had been working on a 35 foot wide blanket this whole time. I am SO GLAD I did not finish this project as I would’ve cried at the monster I had brought into the world.
tl;dr - You should really pay attention to the size reference chart on your yarn and count the stitches when free-handing as a newbie.
And finally, the blanket:
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"Is this true?"
"Yes. I'm donating my fortune to things governments won't fund, like women's shelters and trans support."
"Why?"
"People call me a tech billionaire. Feh! I'm a villain, not a villainaire! And stop hugging me!"
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