New Games, New Movies, and New Recipe Modification

[livingdeb]

This weekend I got to farm, build cities, run my own monastery, and rob highways while playing "Carcassonne." My farms were wonderfully large, but my cities were--shall we say--misshapen.

Then I got to make people in my own family miserable and then kill them off while playing "Gloom." Well, except for two of them who just wouldn't die.

And all while feeding on deviled eggs, stuffed mushrooms, brownies, and salsa (all home-made).

I also saw the new Indiana Jones movie. It's about what you'd expect.

And then we saw "Speed Racer." I used to like that cartoon when I was a kid, but I liked a lot of cartoons. It's embarrassing that I used to like "Scooby Doo" which I got to see again a couple of years ago and discovered is just really, really awful.

They showed one of the old "Speed Racer" episodes before the movie at Alamo Drafthouse, and I got to see that it's not embarrassing at all that I liked that as a child. It's goofy, it's very goody-two-shoes, and the characters squeal and use funny-sounding interjections. Some of the car lingo was even realistic, according to Robin. Basically, it's good clean fun kiddy-fare. Unlike so many other cartoons I see nowadays that sound the same when you hear them from the next room, but but that are not preferable to dental work, especially if your dental workers have interesting monologues for you.

The movie was as fun and mysterious and scary and exciting as the cartoon, but with all the annoying bits removed. They had lots of fun with the laws of physics. And you get to see auto gymnastic racing and demolition derby racing. (How much weight can you add in car-destroying accoutrements without slowing you down so much that you never get to use them? Now I want robot demolition derby racing. All the fun without any of the death! Only I don't know how to build robots.)

I also made another batch of pumpkin butter, this time using half the spices of my original recipe and substituting water for the apple juice (since the ingredients lists of the pumpkin butters I've bought include water but not apple juice). This tastes better than last time, when it was too strong, and is still very, very spicy and plenty sweet. I think I'm going to try to cut the sugar by 25% next time and see what happens.

Comments

[pamwheatfree.livejournal.com]

Oohhh,I liked Speed Racer as well. I don't think I will ever get John to go see it with me, but there is always hope. Maybe, I will find someone else to go with. I also used to watch Scooby Doo. I think this is much less embarrassing than admitting to watching Mighty Mouse. But didn't we all watch those cartoons growing up. I even remember some silly super heroes like - Rubber Man and Baby Man but I can't remember what show they were on.

[livingdeb.livejournal.com]

I also liked "Mighty Mouse." And I also recognize Rubber Man. Baby Man sounds familiar, but wasn't it Diaper Man? How could it possibly be Diaper Man, though? "I'll get you, my pretty, with my disgusting used diaper! Mwahaha!"

[pamwheatfree.livejournal.com]

I think you are right, it may have been Diaper Man. I thought he used his baby bottle as a sling shot kind of weapon. Maybe we should look it up.