#cook of the house

[i-am-the-oyster]

A little place down in Montauk

It's a 17 minute drive from Paul's house in the Hamptons to Montauk Motel.

Just take your clothes off honey, and stick your nose in money.. why don’t we… do it in the road?! (Laughs) A little hotel where we used to screw A little place down in Montauk Just you, me, the cook and the servants too

-- Studio recording August 1980

I like to think the 'cook' reference is because Linda was invited.

Let's not forget that John Lennon said about (JL)SO: "I'm really talking to the people that grew up with me and saying here I am now, how are you?"

(ps One Sweet Dream podcast did an interview where May Pang agreed with the host (JL)SO was for Paul and emphasised that it wasn't about Yoko -- it's a patrons-only episode so I can't link it, but it's April 2023, around the 1h29 mark)

[toodrunktofindaurl]

she heard the news

[lady-alicent]

ALICENT HIGHTOWER and RHAENYRA TARGARYEN HOUSE OF THE DRAGON — S1E5 x S2E8

[ewans-mitchell]

EMMA D'ARCY & OLIVIA COOKE — Entertainment Weekly (May 14, 2024)

[barbieaemond]

Genetics, chico. They never lie.

[artnoonewants]

Poor delusional Viserys 😔

[sersh]

OLIVIA COOKE & EMMA D'ARCY Harper's Bazaar UK One on One, June 2024

[franzkafkagf]

what if you‘re alicent hightower and you gave birth to all your grief and your pain and your broken dreams and he wears your face

[its-sweet-like-cinnamon]

[nebulousfishgills]

Listen, Otto realizing that he helped put a moron on the Iron Throne and then going through the five stages of grief before dipping is peak comedy, bro really fucked around and then found out.

[christophernolan]

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON 2.06 | "Smallfolk"

[i-am-the-oyster]

I love Linda with all my heart, but Cook of the House is a terrible song

[erinmakesgifs]

King Aegon II Targaryen trying his best

[inkskinned]

probably time for this story i guess but when i was a kid there was a summer that my brother was really into making smoothies and milkshakes. part of this was that we didn't have AC and couldn't afford to run fans all day so it was kind of important to get good at making Cool Down Concoctions.

we also had a patch of mint, and he had two impressionable little sisters who had the attitude of "fuck it, might as well."

at one point, for fun, this 16 year old boy with a dream in his eye and scientific fervor in heart just wanted to see how far one could push the idea of "vanilla mint smoothie". how much vanilla extract and how much mint can go into a blender before it truly is inedible.

the answer is 3 cups of vanilla extract, 1/2 cup milk alternative, and about 50 sprigs (not leaves, whole spring) of mint. add ice and the courage of a child. idk, it was summer and we were bored.

the word i would use to describe the feeling of drinking it would maybe be "violent" or perhaps, like. "triangular." my nose felt pristine. inhaling following the first sip was like trying to sculpt a new face. i was ensconced in a mesh of horror. it was something beyond taste. for years after, i assumed those commercials that said "this is how it feels to chew five gum" were referencing the exact experience of this singular viscous smoothie.

what's worse is that we knew our mother would hate that we wasted so much vanilla extract. so we had to make it worth it. we had to actually finish the drink. it wasn't "wasting" it if we actually drank it, right? we huddled around outside in the blistering sun, gagging and passing around a single green potion, shivering with disgust. each sip was transcendent, but in a sort of non-euclidean way. i think this is where i lost my binary gender. it eroded certain parts of me in an acidic gut ecology collapse.

here's the thing about love and trust: the next day my brother made a different shake, and i drank it without complaint. it's been like 15 years. he's now a genuinely skilled cook. sometimes one of the three of us will fuck up in the kitchen or find something horrible or make a terrible smoothie mistake and then we pass it to each other, single potion bottle, and we say try it it's delicious. it always smells disgusting. and then, cerimonious, we drink it together. because that's what family does.

[zendayacolemann]

Alicent Hightower looking out for her daughter Helaena Targaryen

[winnysplayground]

amen