Saturday, November 26, 2022

hogfather 7 and 8

240
Susan and the oh God of hangovers go to deaths library to try find out what happened to the lady that works for the tooth fairy that has gone missing.  Fir a second I got real excited cause her last name starts with Bot just like mine.  I thought it would be my name and the book was about me and it was a never ending story kinda deal.  But it wasn't.   They find her book. She is in a prison.  She was abducted.  They're gonna go save her.

245
Death gies to a poor person house.  He wants to give them everything in their list.  Albert is there too and he says no, poor people don't get everything on their list. What he gets is a little wooden toy and an apple.  Death says that's not fair and Albert basically says life isn't fair with a lot more words.

253
Susan has a sword so thin that it's not visible to the naked eye.   It's deaths sword he uses to separate souls from bodies.

255
Hex is writing something. Mostly error messages like put of cheese or insufficient data.  Hex proposes the theory that once people believe in a big God that faith 8s solidified as a thing and when people stop believing in said big God that belief has to go somewhere.   
They get to talking about Santa clause and realize that none of them believe in Santa Clause and they accidentally bring the cheerful fairy to life. She has no self confidence. It's fun that they believe in her enough to bring her to life but not enough for her to believe in herself. 


267
The oragatang librarian is cold so he's stealing any fabricy thing he can to use as a blanket.  He left out sherry and a banana f9r the hogfather.  Bananas aren't fruit.  They're a type of fish.

270
There are hogwatch carolers in the big city.  If you haven't got a hay penny God Bless you.
Death tells Albert that it's better to give than receive.   Albert says it's a lot more expensive. Flavor from poor characters duckman, coffin Henry, foul Ole Ron, Arnold and a talking dog.

275
Ridcully is hanging out in the library waiting for the hog father to come.  

277
Albert and death are flying about and death is eating fancy food.  Albert asks where he got it.  Turns out he stole it from a fancy restaurant. 

279
Not sure how they got here, but Susan and the Oh God of hangovers are in a child's drawing with a green land, blue sky and yellow sun and blue water.  She has to find the house.  All child's drawings have a house.

283
We're in the restaurant that death stole from.  They now have muddy old boots where their fancy food once was.  The manager is gonna make it work.  9ld boots for Christmas at a fancy restaurant. Spectacular 

286
We're back with the assassins.  They're also in the child's drawing place, which is the tooth fairy house.  Turns out the tooth fairy owns a lot of property and makes tons of money renting it our.  
Banjo has the mind of a child in that he's naive.  Teatime is also childlike in that he does whatever he wants with no regard for consequences.  Medium Dave and chicken wire think about trying to run, but they know if they tried, teatime would find them and kill them.

291
Ridicullly's efforts to stick around in the wizard university library waiting for the hogfather have paid off.  Death shows up to fulfill the librarians wish.list.  Ridcully immediately recognizes him and is all WTF? And death is all, ok, I'll tell you.

294
The assasins are trying to get into the tooth fairy's safe.  It's hard.  The lockpick says he cant get past the magic locks and teatime has Banjo kill him.

299
Susan makes it inside the tooth fairy's house just in time to see the lock picker bounce down to the bottom of the staircase and die.  There a giant conical pile of teeth.  Also the.locksmiths body disappeared  

301 
chickenwire sees Susan and telks teatime about her.  Teatime says to kill her.

302
Susan runs up the stairs.

303
Fancy restaurant is selling boot mudpies like crazy.

304
Chickenwire and others go down the stairs after Susan and don't find her.  They also don't find the lockpick's body and thus is disconcerting.   They also discuss their childhood fears.

307
Susan runs down a hallway and into a room to avoid chickenwire and company.   She tells the oh god of hangovers that with all those teeth the tooth fairy can control all those people. 

308
Medium Dave and catseyye split up to go after Susan.  Catseye is attacked by shadows.

309
Violet is the name of the tooth fairy's underling that Susan is trying to save.  All that's left of the shadow attack on catseye is his boots.  They find vilet and she gives rhem the lowdown on the kidnapping crew and shat she saw rhem do.

313
Peachy is part of the assasin team and he has a crossbow.  So he points it at Susan and company and they are now his captives and he tells them to walk up the stairs.  Peachy also has a belief in the scissor man.  ✂️ when he talks to Susan about it, that's enough to really bring the scissor man into existence for real there.  So he runs away.

Saturday, November 5, 2022

hogfather ch 5 and 6

Ch 5
The wizards make something that sobers up the God of hangovers.
There seems to be a bit of that thing where a thing becomes real because enough people believe in it.  For example,  there's a little elephant 🐘  that eats socks.
There's a thing with the wizards and the computery thing turning dumb and being cured of dumb Ness.
In talking to the computer they discuss how these things people imagined like the God of hangovers and the sock eater seem to be coming into existence because enough people believe in them.
Albert and death have a really real conversation about the meaning of hogsmass.  Albert says it's the winter solstice and a celebration that this is as dark as its gonna get and the suns is  gonna get back to doing an honest days work again.  Death tries to argue something else, but Albert isn't having it.

I'm declaring page 207 is the end of chapter 5 and the beginning of chapter 6

Ch 6
Susan can feel death stop pretending 2 be the hogfather and doing some death business. 
The God of indigestion just drops onto the table Susan's and the God of hangovers are hang8ng out near.
Right before he stopped being a floating consciousness and became a human shaped manifestation the God of hangovers says he had this experience with teeth.  Lots of small teeth.  DEATH of rats knows EXACTLY who this is.  The tooth fairy.
Death finds a dead tooth fairy guard in the snow and sends him to the great beyond. 
Susan goes to igor's bar with the raven and the Death of rats to get intel on the tooth fairy.
There's a neat thing where an old poor man is getting ready to eat his hogswatch beans and potatoes.   The king shows up and offers him awesome leftovers from his table.  The old man isn't interested because he doesn't wanna be beholden to nobody.  His beans may be bad and his potatoes may be a bit mouse bitten, but they're his and he don't owe nobody nothing.  Death shows up and tells the king to fuck right off.  He gives the old an a pigs head.
Susan learns that some of the tooth fairy's 🧚‍♂️ subcontractors have gone missing.  A girl that collected teeth and guy that collected teeth to take them somewhere. She asks the God of hangovers (who is trying beer for the first time.) If he knows how to ride a horse.

Tuesday, November 1, 2022

hogfather ch 3 and 4

Ch 3 pg 84
Death comes to Susan house to give presents to the children cause the hogfather is dead and someone's got to do it.  Susan is upset by this and demands that death explain himself.  But he doesn't,  he just keeps on to the next house.
Susan stops time and goes to deaths house.  Death's house now has a cat door and it's full of cats.
She gies6to deaths hourglass room where the days of people's lives go by.  She finds the Hogfather's hourglass has been smashed.
There's a thing about a bathroom in the wizard place.  What's a verruca?
Death stops in at the maul to make an appearance so people will believe in the real hogfather.

Ch 4 pg 124

Susan finds the God of hangovers and I guess that's important.

Monday, October 24, 2022

Kwanzaa From Holiday to every day. ch 1 through ch 4

Ch 1 birth of a giant
The seven kwanzaa principles are
1 Unity
2 Self determination 
3 Collective work and responsibility 
4 Cooperative economics
5 Purpose
6 Creativity
7 Faith

There's also the five fundamentals
1 unity 
2 reverence for the creator (environment)
3 Commeration of the past 
4 commitment to African culture
5 celebration of "good of life"

Kwanza means first in kiswahili
They decided to add an extra a at the end


Ch 2 pg 17
Check out aaha-info.org
Ok, you can't, so Google African American Holiday Association and try to find Kendi's video about how a family celebrates kawanzaa.
This chapter goes into the details of the seven principles.

Lots of people's individual stories about their relationship with Kwanzaa. 

Ch 3 pg 45
Lots of good advice for planning a kwanzaa party.
They go over the many parts 9f the Kwanzaa table.
Mazao: crops.  Usually fresh fruit and vegetables. 
Mkeka: straw mat
Kinara: Candle holder.  7 candles 
Muhindi: ears of corn 🌽 to celebrate the children.  If you got a lot of kids, one per kid.
Mishumaa Saba: seven candles.  One black, three red, three green.  We light and extra candle each day.
Kikombe che umoja: unity cup. Usually hand crafted.  Wod or ceramic preferred. 
Bendera: flag, the red, black and green one conceived by Marcus Mosiah Garvey in 1920.
Nguzo saba poster: it's got a list of the 7 principles. 

Then you also add a couple other personal items. 

Kwanzaa is celebrated through the Kiswahili language.   They list some Kiswahili terms you can use to enrich you Kwanzaa celebration.

You gotta decorate to celebrate your African heritage. 

Kwanzaa gift giving is low key.  It's all about giv8ng something meaningful.   Hand crafted gifts are good. Also books, we're inspiring and educating people here.  
African Inspired clothing us a must 

Ch 4 pg 69
There's some stuff that's kinda formal with firm rules in a Kwanzaa ceremony like the ceremonial table and honoring the Olds and drinking from the cup of unity but largely it's kinda open to what you wanna do to honor your African heritage and the seven principles and what not.  But really it's all about celebrating the year that has past.

Wednesday, October 12, 2022

The Hog Father ch 1 and 2

Ch 1 pg 1

A floating robe hires assasins to kill the hogfather.  They get Mr teatime on the job cause he's a psycho.  There's also this lady named Susan who's a nany and I assume must be important later.

Ch 2 pg middle of page 40 to middle of page 84
Teatime has figured out a way to get to the hogfathers domain and he kills the guy that helped him do it.  
Death is playing at being the Hogfather 
I think Susan is death's granddaughter.

Friday, October 7, 2022

hog father schedule

@everyone Hogfather schedule
October 19: ch 1 and 2
November 2: ch 3 and 4
November 16: ch 5 and 6
November 30: ch 7 and 8
December 14: ch 9 and 10

Disney 20220925

Cars stories
Avengers flight
Remmies thing
Tower of terror
Vegan sandwiches and fellafle