#Greetings: Snoopy 2017

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snoopy stamps (2010, 2017)

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Solar System: 10 Things to Know This Week

Rockets We Love-Saturn V

Fifty years ago, with President Kennedy’s Moon landing deadline looming, the powerful Saturn V had to perform. And perform it did—hurling 24 humans to the Moon.

The race to land astronauts on the Moon was getting tense 50 years ago this week. Apollo 6, the final uncrewed test flight of America’s powerful Moon rocket, launched on April 4, 1968. Several technical issues made for a less-than-perfect launch, but the test flight nonetheless convinced NASA managers that the rocket was up to the task of carrying humans. Less than two years remained to achieve President John F. Kennedy’s goal to put humans on the Moon before the decade was out, meaning the Saturn V rocket had to perform.

1—“The only chance to get to the Moon before the end of 1969.”

After the April 1968 Apollo 6 test flight (pictured above), the words of Deke Slayton (one of the original Mercury 7 astronauts) and intense competition with a rival team in the Soviet Union propelled a 12-member panel to unanimously vote for a Christmas 1968 crewed mission to orbit the Moon.

2—Four Hundred Elephants...

The Saturn V rocket stood about the height of a 36-story-tall building, and 60 feet (18 meters) taller than the Statue of Liberty. Fully fueled for liftoff, the Saturn V weighed 6.2 million pounds (2.8 million kilograms), or the weight of about 400 elephants.

3—...and Busloads of Thrust

Stand back, Ms. Frizzle. The Saturn V generated 7.6 million pounds (34.5 million newtons) of thrust at launch, creating more power than 85 Hoover Dams. It could launch about 130 tons (118,000 kilograms) into Earth orbit. That's about as much weight as 10 school buses. The Saturn V could launch about 50 tons (43,500 kilograms) to the Moon. That's about the same as four school buses.

4—Christmas at the Moon

On Christmas Eve 1968, the Saturn V delivered on engineers’ promises by hurling Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders into lunar orbit. The trio became the first human beings to orbit another world. The Apollo 8 crew broadcast a special holiday greeting from lunar orbit and also snapped the iconic earthrise image of our home planet rising over the lunar landscape.

5—Gumdrop and Spider

The crew of Apollo 9 proved that they could pull the lunar module out of the top of the Saturn V’s third stage and maneuver it in space (in this case high above Earth). The crew named their command module “Gumdrop.” The Lunar Module was named “Spider.”

6—The Whole Enchilada

Saturn-V AS-505 provided the ride for the second dry run to the Moon in 1969. Tom Stafford, Gene Cernan and John Young rode Command Module “Charlie Brown” to lunar orbit and then took Lunar Module “Snoopy” on a test run in lunar orbit. Apollo 10 did everything but land on the Moon, setting the stage for the main event a few months later. Young and Cernan returned to walk on the Moon aboard Apollo 16 and 17 respectively. Cernan, who died in 2017, was the last human being (so far) to set foot on the Moon.

7—The Main Event

The launch of Apollo 11—the first mission to land humans on the Moon—provided another iconic visual as Saturn-V AS-506 roared to life on Launch Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Three days later, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin made the first of many bootprints in the lunar dust (supported from orbit by Michael Collins).

8—Moon Men

Saturn V rockets carried 24 humans to the Moon, and 12 of them walked on its surface between 1969 and 1972. Thirteen are still alive today. The youngest, all in their early 80s, are moonwalkers Charles Duke (Apollo 16) and Harrison Schmitt (Apollo 17) and Command Module Pilot Ken Mattingly (Apollo 16, and also one of the heroes who helped rescue Apollo 13). There is no single image of all the humans who have visited the Moon.

9—The Flexible Saturn V

The Saturn V’s swan song was to lay the groundwork for establishing a permanent human presence in space. Skylab, launched into Earth orbit in 1973, was America’s first space station, a precursor to the current International Space Station. Skylab’s ride to orbit was a Saturn IV-B 3rd stage, launched by a Saturn 1-C and SII Saturn V stages.

This was the last launch of a Saturn V, but you can still see the three remaining giant rockets at the visitor centers at Johnson Space Center in Texas and Kennedy Space Center in Florida and at the United States Space and Rocket Center in Alabama (near Marshall Space Flight Center, one of the birthplaces of the Saturn V).

10—The Next Generation

The Saturn V was retired in 1973. Work is now underway on a fleet of rockets. We are planning an uncrewed flight test of Space Launch System (SLS) rocket to travel beyond the Moon called Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1). “This is a mission that truly will do what hasn’t been done and learn what isn’t known,” said Mike Sarafin, EM-1 mission manager at NASA Headquarters in Washington.

Read the web version of this 10 Things to Know article HERE. 

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Halloween Gift Guide

♬ Darkness falls across the land ♩ ♪ The midnight hour is close at hand.♫ ♩Creatures crawl in search of blood ♬ To terrorize y’all’s neighborhood ♫ And whosoever shall be found ♬ ♬ With the cash for getting down ♩ ♬Will enjoy our Halloween Gift Guide...     ...And stay alive where others died

XENI

Skull Table Runner

A handsome 14x72" graphic banner that can be used for any number of pirate parties, Halloween hoedowns, or other dark festivities.

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MARK

Halloween Cat Favor Boxes

For your favorite trick-or-treaters, fill these 3.25-inch cubes with high-quality confectionery treats.

BUY

ROB

Digital Halloween Decor

At the Boing Boing store, we're proud to offer these spooky holiday decorations. They go in your window, startling passers-by. Now you too can frighten the neighbors without all the legal complications that come from standing there at the window naked in the dark.

BUY

JASON

Super creepy PVC Scooby Doo mask

This creepy Scooby Doo mask is both made of PVC and rather disturbing! Liven up your office party, or even better your spouses.

BUY

DAVID

Bag of 500 Self-Adhesive Googly Eyes

If only you could see what I’ve seen with your googly eyes.

BUY

CORY

Four anatomical models you assemble from 132 anatomically correct sub-components

The $45.28 Learning Resources Anatomy Models Bundle Set is a well-reviewed set of anatomical models: a 5" heart, a 3.75" brain, a 4.5" body and a 9.2" skeleton, all of which disassemble into anatomically correct sub-components that you assemble into the finished pieces.

BUY

JASON

Five fucking pounds of candy corn

I've heard from some folks they love candy corn when it is stale. They'll be thrilled with this 5lb bag.

BUY

XENI

Dia De Los Muertos Skull Swirlies

This 30-piece Day of the Dead decoration kit includes skulls and swirls in festive foils, and transforms any room or outdoor space within minutes of easy assembly.

BUY

JASON

Twelve cans of Barbisol shaving creme (sewing needle and lighter not included)

This halloween? Relive your youth! Prep a few cans of Barbisol for battle! Wait for those annoying parents who can't pick their kid up from a traffic circle to pass by the bush you've always thought would be a great spot for an ambush, then rain soap upon their parade!

BUY

CORY

Splorch ovipositor

For when you want to role-play stern schwa and sweet, submissive Whitley Streiber; comes in two models but the $120-130 Splorch is the clear winner.

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DAVID

It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (Remastered Deluxe Edition)

More than a half-century since it first aired, Linus is still waiting for the Great Pumpkin to rise "out of his pumpkin patch and flies through the air with his bag of toys for all the children,” Snoopy continues his battle with the Red Baron, and Charlie Brown can’t get a break. A masterpiece of animated television that, like the Peanuts gang, never gets old.

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ROB

Articulating lowpoly skull mask

Wintercroft offers this devilish DIY maskmaking kit (and more like it) for just $6 on Etsy: "Sometimes, we've just got to take life (or death) by the horns and do something a little different. The Horned Skull Mask takes our favourite symbol of warning, mortality, anarchy and independence and ups the ante with a pair of horns and a moving mandible."

BUY

JASON

Lion mane for your cat

This also looks very silly on small dogs.

BUY

XENI

Nightmare-black Nitrile Exam Gloves

Matte black nitrile gloves for cleaning up around the house, or whatever creepy stuff people do with

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DAVID

Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid: The Book of Scary Urban Legends by Jan Harold Brunvand

Brunvand, the iconic professor of urban legends, compiled some of the greatest and grisliest tales of contemporary folklore into one book and wrapped them in compelling context. It’s a wonderfully creepy collection of modern myths, except of course for the story about the teenagers in the parked car who narrowly escaped the hook-armed maniac. That totally happened to my brother’s friend’s cousin and her prom date.

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JASON

Sugar Skull Ducktape

A lovely holiday variant of everyone's favorite fix-all.

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MARK

Vintage Halloween Scene Bobbing Apples Pill Box Pill Case

If you've recently purchased some esoteric research chemicals over the dark web and have been at a loss as to where to store them, this is for you.

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MARK

Spider Web Thigh High Stockings

These unisex stockings can complement any costume, or can be worn on their own for a costume everyone will appreciate.

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DAVID

John Carpenter Anthology: Movie Themes 1974-1998

Carpenter didn’t just direct some of the most iconic scary movies of the latter 20th century, he also scored them. The themes from Halloween, The Fog, The Thing, and They Live make for a fantastically groovy soundtrack for your own horror house. Available on vinyl for those who dare and CD or digital download for those who don’t.

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MARK

Ouija Planchette Lapel Pin

Summon Captain Howdy on-the-go with this cartoon occult ceramic pin.

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ROB

White Walker Halloween costume

Described as a "sexy white walker" Halloween outfit, this also doubles as a terrifyingly realistic costume of Sir Jimmy Savile in his current state of repose. It's $150 and comes in four sizes.

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ROB

Pumpkin Necklace

There's a lot of cheap tatty Halloween jewelry to be found, but ForTheCross's offers year-round quality at a reasonable price. This necklace, for example, comes in under $40.

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CORY

My Favorite Thing is Monsters: a haunting diary of a young girl as a dazzling graphic novel

Emil Ferris's graphic novel debut My Favorite Thing is Monsters may just be the best graphic novel of 2017, and is certainly the best debut I've read in the genre, and it virtually defies summarizing: Karen is a young girl in a rough Chicago neighborhood is obsessed with monsters and synthesia, is outcast among her friends, is queer, is torn apart by the assassination of Martin Luther King, by her mother's terminal illness, by the murder of the upstairs neighbor, a beautiful and broken Holocaust survivor, by her love for her Vietnam-draft-eligible brother and her love of fine art. It's a tribute to -- and critique of -- the classic monster comics and magazines of the era, which Karen is obsessed with, and through whose visual styles her story is told. It's a tribute to fine art and the pieces hanging in the galleries and museums of Chicago where Karen and her mysterious, womanizing, tattooed older brother Deeze brings her. It's a complicated story about friendship among girls, about gender identity and queerness, about family.

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DAVID

Liquid Ass

Invented by a high school prankster with a chemistry set, it’s described as smelling like a fine combination of "butt crack, kind of a sewer smell with a hint of dead animal.” Don’t buy this. But do know that it exists.

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CORY

Animatronic, maniacally giggling spooky eyeball doorbell

When you press the button, the eyelid flips open and a green, glowing, bloodshot eyeball peers around while one of several spooky recordings welcomes your visitors. It is surprisingly well-styled and the audio is surprisingly cool for a seemingly generic crapgadget, and I'm already scheming a teardown after 31st to see if I can program it with my own little recordings.

BUY

XENI

Ancestor Paper Dolls

FROM Tim Holtz, clipped vintage portraits that can be used to make collage greetings or party decorations, or added to a Day of the Dead art-altar.

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MARK

Satan Loves Me T-Shirt

A great way to remember who to thank on the most devilish of holidays.

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XENI

Goth Cotton Swabs

They’re basically really good quality ‘Q-tip’ swabs, with spiral heads, and they’re all black.

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ROB

Skullcap Tee Shirt

Designed by Sarina Frauenfelder, this scary scull is topped out with our classic logo and terrifies your friends with its spooky, staring eyes. $20 shipped.

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CORY

Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" - the pop-up book edition

Pelham and Wormell have serious pop-up/illustrated book chops. The seven pop-up effects they've prepared for this edition are extremely beautiful, and lend themselves to being "animated" by the reader -- for example, you can flap the Raven's wings in time with the "Nevermore's"or have Edgar throw wide his chamber's door at the precise moment you say, "here I opened wide the door."Poe's words are hidden on each page, nestled in fold-up/fold-down tabs that you have to open after each reveal, and as I read this to my 9-year-old daughter Poesy (it's not a coincidence that we call her "Poe"for short -- EA Poe is one of her namesakes), the double-reveal of the pop-up (not a dud among them) and the prose made for an extra bit of drama.

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ROB

Bone-shaped battery charger

It's a bit of a reach, but it's the only other thing in our official store that's remotely Halloweeny. (We're all out of 99%-off lifetime subscriptions to Hell, but you can get one of those for free by voting Republican in next year's midterm elections)

https://boingboing.net/2017/10/13/halloween-gift-guide.html

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Happy Halloween Pictures 2017 | Happy Halloween Images & Photos For Facebook & Whatsapp

Happy Halloween Pictures 2017 | Happy Halloween Images & Photos For Facebook & Whatsapp: Halloween is originated from the ancient Celtic festival. It has a history which has been passed down through generations. Halloween is celebrated in a number of countries on 31st October on the eve of Western Christian feast of All Hallow’s Day. Halloween is also known as All Halloween, All Hallows’ Eve or All Saints’ Eve.Several activities like Trick or treat, costume parties, carving pumpkins, lighting bonfires, watching horror movies take place during Halloween. In this article, we are providing Happy Halloween Pictures.

On this page, we have the best collection of scary and funny Halloween pictures, images, photos, and wallpapers for Facebook and Whatsapp. Halloween is also known as Allhalloween, All Hallows’ Eve, or All Saints’ Eve is a yearly celebration observed in a number of countries on 31 October, the eve of the Western Christian feast of All Hallows’ Day.

The celebration of Halloween is a terrifying frightfulness commemoration that comes in the middle of fall and winter season. The scariest event is going to be observed on Tuesday, 31st of October this year. As only a couple of months left for the grand celebration of Halloween festival, so, here we have rounded up a series of happy Halloween pictures & Halloween pumpkin carving ideas. Explore our post and find more cute and charming Snoopy Halloween pictures to download and share with your beloved ones.

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SNUPER @ ISAC 2017

SUMMARY:

teammates with b.a.p, sonamoo, and heyne

only woosung and sebin participated in 60m dash

their aerobic performance without suhyun was michael jackson themed

woosung almost slipped during his race BUT STILL WON BINC H

the boys were kind of sleepy and seem to have came to isac without eating anything before filming

which is awful bc they just came back from japan?? after their hectic and busy promotion schedules wtf ???

“snuper’s wooseok”

“snuper’s wooshin”

“three-bin from snoopy flops”

this is so funny fu flakdjflk

hoNESTLY MY STOMACH HURTS FROM LAUGHING

thIS IS SO ICONIC THEY ORDERED PIZZA AFTER WOOSUNG WON EVEN THOUGH THEY KNOW HE HATES BREAD AND PIZZA LDKSJFASKLFJAS;KLD

RESULTS

men’s aerobics third place (18.8 points)

hERE IS THE VID I’M SO SHOOK (they sLAYED)

here’s a photo of their pretty outfits

practice video behind the scenes

update: here is the official practice video, here is a woosung focused fancam, here is the official aired performance!

men’s 60m dash (finals)

woosung first place (gold)

round before the finals

sebin fifth place (good job my son!!)

INTERACTIONS

UP10TION

came into the stadium with knk, up10tion, and seventeen

taewoong hugging sunyoul

taewoong, woosung, and suhyun talked with xiao

taewoong taking a photo of up10tion’s water bottle tower

sebin and taewoong sitting together with up10tion

sebin and woosing laying with up10tion in a giant cuddle puddle

sebin sitting and talking with xiao

taewoong and sangho sitting with up10tion

woosung gave wei a back hug

sebin let wei use snuper’s camera

sebin let kuhn use snuper’s camera to take pictures of wei’s weird “drunk” poses

suhyun held up up10tion’s fan slogan

sangil followed up10tion’s dance for “white night”

sangho, taewoong, sangil, and sebin played a water bottle flipping game with jinhoo; sangho lost and received a flick on the forehead

sebin talking with sunyoul(?) (there was no trans for this one so i just put it into google translate sorry)

jinhoo took photos of woosung sleeping

jinhoo played with water bottles with snuper

taewoong was cutely watching up10tion stacking water bottles

woosung and sangho sitting near up10tion’s wei and astro’s moonbin (also possibly up10tion’s kogyeol bc of the red hair ?)

ASTRO

sunyoul was walking with sebin and slapped his butt + hugged sangil, astro’s sanha was walking with suhyun and sangil (who bowed to seventeen’s mingyu)

woosung standing next to moonbin sebin and moonbin patted each other

sebin with moonbin i think ??

the holy trinity strikes again

KNK

sebin with jihun (2x) (3x)

greeted knk together as a group

say next to knk

played around a lot with knk

“snuper and knk look like one group” (2x)

snuper clapped during knk’s rehearsal

knk and nu’est’s stands were on the same side as snuper’s

sangil, sebin, woosung, and taewoong took a selfie with up10tion’s jinhoo and knk’s inseong and seungjun

IMFACT

suhyun sat behind imfact

suhyun talked with jian and ungjae

jian also showed him the presents he got aw

SF9

they greeted sf9 as a group (?)

sangho standing in front of chanhee and hwiyoung

sangho standing in front of chanhee and dawon

sebin standing in front of dawon and youngbin

BTS

jin jimin and taehyung clapped for them when they entered

taehyung jammed to their aerobic performance

i literally don’t care for vmin but do y’all hear it’s raining playing in the background i am ascending

taewoong greeted bts’s jungkook but was rejected (this is fake lmao but op is cute and she only wanted to meme and i wanted to share)

OTHER

woosung bowed to b.a.p (on the right)

greeted b.a.p’s fans and told them to eat well during their meal

snuper sat in front of b.a.p during the aerobics portion ??

oh my girl jamming to snuper’s aerobic performance

snuper dancing oh my girl’s “windy day” point dance

gugudan’s sejeong accidentally hit suhyun in the back with her phone(?) while she was playing with it

y’all snuper fans threw chips and snacks down for the boys to eat and other groups (up10tion, victon, and astro) joined in and ate with them ??

MISC/ETC.

if you can spot snuper in the opening dance i’ll give you $20

jk here they are right next to victon... look at woosung spinning suhyun i am alive and thriving

snuper arriving at isac building

sangho receiving fan foods and gifts

sebin told the fans he was hungry

snuper takings selfies with swings

woosung was massaging his heart ;u;

the giant ass banner swings prepared

fan slogans that swings prepared

woosung and taewoong playing with swings

swings gave food to suhyun and he ate it immediately

taewoong was apparently really hyper

sangho and suhyun slept lmao same

sebin became a clapping and greeting machine

woosung and suhyun held hands

snuper’s trainer is really cool ? they made him proud i’m crying

snuper cheering with the fans !!

not isac related but here’s sangil imitating a frog

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#Repost @unothewonderdog (@get_repost) ・・・ #Repost @pitties3 (@get_repost) ・・・ 💔#NY #BROOKLYN TO BE DESTROYED 12/02/17💔 Publicly #Adoptable . Hello, my name is SIRI 🌺 My animal ID is #13078 I am a female black dog at the Brooklyn Animal Care Center. The shelter thinks I am about #2years 1 weeks old. 💔#ABANDONED as a #STRAY on 19-Nov-2017. #CIRDC . Basic Information:: Finder noticed a stray dog TIED UP TO A FENCE😢. Finder was #able to approach animal and put animal into a crate WITHOUT ANY ISSUES😊. Allowed finder to approach, handle, and place Snoopy into a crate. INTAKE - Counselor was able to approach animal in the crate and remove the animal without any issues. Once out of the crate, animal began to #wag her tail. Counselor was able to scan for a microchip, collar and take a picture without any issues. SAFER Summary:: Siri came into the room a bit #timid, she was #friendly towards the handlers with a SLOW APPROACH 🙂. PLAYGROUP - Siri is extremely #nervous around other dogs and #avoids them most of hers session. Siri displays #nervous posturing, tucked tail, lowered head and mostly avoids any interaction with the male helper dog. 11/21-22: Siri was introduced to a female dog today and maintained her fearful posturing- tucked body and tail. She mostly kept to herself, avoiding the other dog. When the helper dog would walk by her, Snoopy would allow her to greet. Due to Siri’s fearfulness around larger dogs, we brought her out with a group of SMALL male and female dogs. Siri was #soft and #social with a high tail as she explored the pens. She #solicited play and was a bit #bouncy. Siri seemed to become more comfortable as the session continued. 😊😘😘🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻💗💗💗 . ***CONSIDER #fostering, ALL expenses paid for. 🙏🏻EMAIL helpdogs@urgentpodr.org if you're local to NY/NE USA & can #adopt/#foster THIS pet.

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How You’ll Get Through Thanksgiving, 2017

1.      Visualize being alone with a fork and bowl of leftover stuffing.

2.      Go to grocery store and buy obscene amount of food.

3.      Return to store six more times, swearing each time is your last trip.

4.      Make final trip to store for single ingredient, preferably limp parsley.

5.      Fantasize about alien abduction in store parking lot.

6.      Wonder if watching Macy’s parade this year will make you feel better about things, or leave you weeping on the kitchen floor.

7.      Feel deeply disturbed that the Rockettes now make you think of Leni Riefenstahl.

8.      Decide that if Snoopy or Underdog balloon is still in parade, all is not lost.

9.      Pick up relatives at train station.

10.  Gently request one night of no depressing politics.

11.  Contemplate the cruelty of a holiday that requires you to simultaneously roast a large turkey and five side dishes in 9 x 13-sized pans.

12.  Decide that Thanksgiving is somehow linked to misogyny.

13.   Feel slightly bad that despite being a woman, you still have to look up the correct spelling of “misogyny.”

14.  Lie down and do deep breathing exercises when relatives ask what’s for lunch.  

15.  Vow that after today you won’t peel root vegetables for another eight months.

16.  Greet guests.

17.  Profusely thank person who brings station wagon-sized pan of mashed potatoes.

18.  Be overly polite to person who brings any dish containing quinoa, tofu, or lettuce.

19.  Fantasize about absconding to bedroom alone with fork and entire pan of mashed potatoes.

20.  Send telepathic message to mother and mother-in-law of no talking politics.

21.  Resent cultural expectations of hors d’oeuvres shortly before obscenely large meal.

22.  Power through the disappointment that once again, you were not invited to Ina’s.  

23.  Feel set up to fail in trying to simultaneously heat up twenty-seven different foods.

24.   Decide that really, when you get down to it, only the gravy needs to be hot.

25.  Go around the table and give thanks.  

26.  Be dismayed that once again, you’ve made too many green beans.

27.  Realize that despite your varied offerings, all people really want is more stuffing.

28.  Raise eyebrows at mother and mother-in-law as reminder of no politics.

29.  Realize this means you also can’t discuss John Oliver, SNL, the N.F.L., most of the world and men, in general.

30.  Conclude that even the weather is too depressing.

31.  Wonder what the hell to talk about.

32.  Ascertain that more than half the table has never watched Rick and Morty.

33.  Decide you don’t care and talk about it, anyway.  

34.  Feel stoked that dessert has been served, and no one has mentioned the Supreme Court.

35.  Fantasize about absconding to bedroom with fork and entire pumpkin pie.

36.  Commandeer anyone under age 50 into cleaning up.

37.  Pack up leftovers for guests.

38.  Feel miffed no one took home any green beans.

39.  Wait for family to go to bed, then head to refrigerator with fork.

40.  Push aside giant container of leftover green beans.

41.  Find tiny bowl of leftover stuffing.

42.  Dig in.

43.  Feel deeply grateful.

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Pets like "Snoopy" and "Abby" Recovered by Humane Society

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Pets like "Snoopy" and "Abby" Recovered by Humane Society

A rescuer soothes a dog recovered from Harvey

(CNN)Rescuers have not only saved stranded residents, but have been plucking pets from the floodwaters in the aftermath of Harvey.

Over recent days, dramatic images have surfaced of humans and animals struggling in floodwaters — from acowboy trying to rescue a horse to drenched Texans clutching their beloved animals through rising floodwater.

Belinda Penn holds her dogs Winston and Baxter after being rescued from their home as floodwaters from Tropical Storm Harvey rise Monday, Aug. 28, 2017, in Spring, Texas.

Photo of dog carrying bag of food goes viral 01:03

Pets have comforted their owners in their time of distress. And in the case of Otis, the dog spotted carrying a bag of dog food, a moment of levity amid a major disaster.

Steve Culver cries with his dog Otis as he talks about the “most terrifying event in his life,” when Hurricane Harvey destroyed most of his home while he and his wife took shelter there on August 26, 2017 in Rockport, Texas.

Finding pets separated from their owners

Amid the chaos of Harvey, owners and pets have gotten separated.

With their neighborhood flooded and unable to return home, some owners are calling the Humane Society for help getting their pets rescued.

On Wednesday, two workers from The Humane Society of the United States waded through knee-deep water and trudged into a destroyed home in Dickinson, Texas.

A cat tries to find dry ground around an apartment complex after it was inundated with water following Hurricane Harvey on August 30, 2017 in Houston, Texas.

They searched the flooded house for a cat and dog. Although they whistled and called for the missing animals, they were greeted with silence.

At a nearby house, two, loose dogs — Snoopy, an 8-year-old poodle and Abby, an 8-year-old English poodle had been found. The owner was called after the dogs were taken to a nearby shelter.

Volunteers and officers from a neighborhood security patrol help rescue residents and their dogs in the River Oaks neighborhood after it was inundated with flooding on August 27, 2017 in Houston.

Soon, a family member of the owner came to retrieve the dogs.

“My father-in-law can sleep tonight. He will be happy,” said Ryan Johnson, who came to pick up the dogs.

Evacuees have been able to bring their pets to a temporary shelter in downtown Houston’s George R. Brown Convention Center, which has more than 10,000 people.

Not all animals and their owners have been so fortunate.

Credit: CNN

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40 Notes on Japan (or How I Forgot to Wipe in the Land of the Rising Sun)

40 Notes on Japan (or How I Forgot to Wipe in the Land of the Rising Sun)

Around the New Years that transitioned between 2016 and 2017, I went to Japan with my girlfriend. These are things I noticed or thought worth noting…

The Japanese don't have a phrase they say after someone sneezes.

They have bootleg Kanye items with @caramelbobby-esque designs. (Which reminds me of people always jokingly saying, "I'm huge in Japan.")

I'm quickly realizing that if wearing fuzzy things were a religion, my girlfriend would devote her life to it.

Though the culture is very respectful and serious, a river of playful and adorable things run through the culture. Even animations on the subway are cuddly-looking.

In a restroom, a sign said: 'Please flush only toilet paper and what nature provides.' Which is the most poetic way I’ve ever heard that said.

I’m tall-ish, so I expected to hit my head in more places in Japan. Though I only ended up hitting my head in 2 places: leaving the Delta flight to Tokyo and on a stairway lamp in a shop in Daikanyama.

My girlfriend and I sat for an hour in Tsutaya Books' lovely upstairs cafe trying to figure out what is in a gimlet. We weren't able to remember, but it was the best drink we had in Japan.

I wish I had a guide for Japan called 'Places to Sit for an Hour'. It would feature wonderful places to feel a city's pace. Somewhere between visual feasts and a city's symphony, one could bathe in everything that isn't water. No photos because you should create your own picture of a place. Descriptions as encryptions, where each word helps you know more and less about each place. If I were to write a place, I'd start with the second-story Cafe of Tsutaya Books in Daikanyama. Each person gets surrounded by a kaleidoscopic background littered with literature. Text halos in sunshine, bound outlines in moonlight. Your ears meet taps, and trumpets, and loose pianos, and free fingers. Even the clanks of cups and steps of strangers keep time with the songs stretching out through the speakers. Darkened mirrors looks into other universes. 5000 yen gets you an hour of pleasure and a couple drinks.

Walking 12.7 miles in one day shouldn't he humanly possible. It definitely isn't humane. (Note: After this full day of walking and being fully exhausted, I considered walking down to the front desk to ask where I could get water. I had forgotten it came out of the faucet. And is after I just after showered.)

In Japan, noise feels like an art form. Studied, noted, and fully aware: it feels like everyone coos at the same frequency creating a friendly hum. People never really shout or boisterously laugh. Noise is almost always kept around a small choral swell of voices. Even stores that played Muzak seemed to never lose themselves to the human voice. When entering stores, the greetings from the salespeople seem to come out just barely above a whisper. The only truly loud noise I heard was a Lamborghini that seemed like it had lost its mother and was crying out. I'd assume even their chiseling jackhammers sound like lullabies that could put infant to sleep. 

Small Coke bottles are the heaviest I've felt at the size. They seem like they're at least twice the thickness of American bottles, and a few pounds each.

The taxis of Tokyo are like the Catholic's idea of the Holy Spirit, they are ever present. And when a door is opened to you, seemingly with magic, it is brightly lit with colorful LED beams.

My father would love this place because it's quiet, clean, and respectful.

The Japanese wear a lot of doctor’s masks for hygienic purposes. For that reason, it’s hard to feel as if you could be friends with anyone wearing one.

Though people who wear the masks are only supposed to be doing so when they are sick (I was told it was to protect others from their sickness), I haven't seen one person wearing a mask cough yet.

In the same way that people who wear doctor's lab coats perform better on tests, I wonder if people wearing doctor's masks here also feel smarter.

The masks aren't as stylish as I'd hope they'd be. Maybe because they throw them away after each day. Though, near the end of our trip My girlfriend found a store that sold animal-style masks that resembled their faces. I assume their for children and kid-ults.

New Years celebrations at the Shibuya Crossing were akin to NYC's Times Square.

Smoking still has its hand on the throat of Japan. It’s everywhere, but in a restrained way. There are smoking sections in trains and restaurants and coffee shops. Thankfully their sealed in little glass and metal bubbles. Except in bars, where it is everywhere.

All of their transit will say the directions in Japanese, then repeat them in English -- which makes getting around impossibly easy.

The babies of Japan seem to mostly be carried kangaroo-style in little front-side pouches, and almost exclusively by the men. (Also, my girlfriend noticed that they don’t see to support the child’s neck. The baby’s head just seems locked back, and all of the necks of the youth look fully normal. So there’s that.)

I was in Japan for 12 days and it wasn’t until 2 days before we left that I heard a baby cry for the first time there..

Lots of poster boards menus line the crowded streets. To keep the outer casing of the lights from burning passerby that bump the lights, they wrap the lights in aluminum foil (which doesn't keep heat) to keep people from burning themselves.

In the whole of the trip, I only heard one car honk its horn.

Cars don't have dents in Japan. Or rust. Or bumper stickers. Sometimes, they'll have stickers on their back window, but none seem humorous or accomplishment based (like Americans proud of running half-marathons).

The restrooms in all public train stations don't have soap.

I've noticed that Japan, like the USA, dances deeply with alcohol and energy drinks. They're everywhere and advertised as much. I wondered how a country so deeply seeped with tea would handle things like Monster Energy drinks -- and it appears they've given them the full embrace. They're in every shop and convenience machine I've seen. (Though I haven't seen Red Bull anywhere.) At our Ryokan, we were going to take a calligraphy class led by monks and they requested that we not have any alcohol before. But there were not limitations for caffeine, which I think equally shifts my mental-state, though obviously in a different direction.

I have a feeling in my gut that when I leave Japan, the thing I'll miss most is the silence. The Japanese seem to respect the Quiet in a way that I've never seen before.

The bullet trains of Japan can take you across the country in only a few hours. It's truly magical and slightly perplexing, especially since this is my first time riding one. The insides of each cart resemble essentially an airplane's economy-class on steroids. Leg room for Paul Bunyan, and windows the size of a manhole cover. The ride is absurdly smooth at all times, but at night the effect is even more stimulating. Lights—neon, iridescent, street corners, et cetera—fly by at an incredible speed. It’s like springtime for blossoming filaments. Black and then a hundred blips of warm and cool light with a few dashes of color, then black again with only your reflection in the window. The rural emptiness and jumbled metro, each expressed in moments as small as a few seconds. All across a horizon that can't be met but does feel known, filled with lights waving goodbye from a city previously visited. And because the tracks outside the bullet train aren't visible, it almost feels like you're riding on a bizarro air plane, being piloted by the a penultimate Yves-Klein bluest-of-blue Blue-Angel of aeronautics only 80 feet above the ground. It's sublime in the way only the most terrifying things can also be equally, if not more so, beautiful.

I haven't seen anyone kiss. I've seen a few young couples holding hands, though they could be foreigners visiting. Love is not in the ocular-air.

Slurping is accepted and encouraged with noodle dishes. What I want to know is: can someone be considered attractive for how well they slurp? (And is all slurping accepted, e.g. finishing a drink through a straw?)

I saw a visiting white traveler run out of pure excitement that he found a sparingly seen public trash can.

The only construction I've seen is for towers. Nothing on the ground or near it.

When you call somewhere, the ringing of the phone that the caller gets to hear sounds like a cooing pigeon.

People look good. Because 99.9% of them are svelte, their clothes look great on them. Bright colors are rare in fashion. I don't know if this a recent thing or something they've been at for a while. While in Japan, I wore a bright red coat and, at times, I felt like a garish sun burst.

Snoopy and Mickey and Minnie Mouse are everywhere. Mario is nowhere. I saw one Mario Run ad while I was here on the subway, and that was it. People don't even wear him on clothes. I didn't understand this at all.

Most major cities I’ve visited smell pretty bad. Especially in downtown areas. Piss, trash, spoiled food. Tokyo had none of that, at least where we were.

As an English speaker, adjusting to Japan phonetically was a little tough. None of their words remotely resemble ours.

It's a Coca-Cola country. It's everywhere, and in most restaurants. Whereas Pepsi is only found in vending machines.

The country is filled with toilets that handle everything for you (except for the actual going). The seat is warmed. Water is sprayed. Lots of options and mild initial confusion, but it was great once I accepted the toilet’s offerings. Though, when I returned home to Los Angeles, restrooms felt odd. Somehow, when confronted with the challenge of wiping, I'd forgotten what to do. Or at least lost my natural, well-practiced motion. The self-cleaning toilets of Japan left me too rectally adventurous, and now I had to pay for my own sins.

If you enjoyed this list, in some ways I wrote it because of Jan Chipchase’s 61 Glimpses of the Future.