#95.Mystic Pop-Up Bar

[dandelionfairywish]

Yum Yum

i'm programmed into your heart.

1 .viki dramas and movies  

2. Netflix original dramas and movies 

3.  viki take of dramas and movie sometimes without warning and you might not see them depending on where you live  so   enjoy while you can and I'm going to keep them on the list if they do get removie because sometimes they put them back on.

1. Old Fashion Cupcake 

2. Dating in the Kitchen 

3. Let's Eat Dinner Together 

4. Tokyo Seimenjo 

5. How Are You Bread 

6. Oh My Ghost 

7. Flower Boy Ramen Shop 

8. Cupid's Kitchen 

9. Go Ahead 

10. Love Actually 

11. Delicious Destiny 

12. King Is Not Easy 

13. Love in the Kitchen 

14. Sweet Sweet 

15. My Sweet Dear 

16. Flavour It's Yours 

17. Dine With Love 

18. Wok of Love 

19. The Law Cafe 

20. Coffee Melody 

21. Cafe Midnight 

22. Cafe Midnight Season 2: Hip Up! Hit Up! 

23. Cafe Midnight Season 3: The Curious Stalker 

24. Café Kilimanjaro 

25. Coffee & Vanilla 

26. My Little Kitchen Season 1 

27. My Little Kitchen Season 2 

28. The Witch's Diner 

29. Ga Doo Ri’s Sushi Restaurant 

30. Immortal Classic 

31. Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok Joo 

32. Birth of a Beauty 

33. Himitsu no Ai-chan 

34. Bite Me 

35. Are We In Love? 

36. My Secret Romance 

.37. Best Chicken 

38. I Order You 

39. About Youth 

40. The Perfect Match 

41. Love Cuisine 

42. Ristorante Coreano 

43. Please Take Care of My Refrigerator 

44. Oxygen 

45. To My Star 

46. To My Star Season 2: Our Untold Stories 

47. My Name Is Busaba 

48. Ocean Likes Me 

49. The Tasty Florida 

50. Because of You 

51. Craving You 

52. Pleasantly Surprised 

53. Mr. Queen 

54. Coffee, Do Me a Favor 

55. Her Private Life 

56. First Romance 

57. Bromance 

58. Just You 

59. My Girlfriend Is an Alien 

60. My Girlfriend Is an Alien Season 2 

61. Love Is Phantom 

62. Wakako Zake 

63. Wakako Zake (Animation)

64. Wakako Zake Season 2

 65. Coffee Prince 

66. Playful Kiss 

67. Poong, the Joseon Psychiatrist 

68. Poong, the Joseon Psychiatrist Season 2 

69. Simmer Down 

70. She Is the One 

71. Nishiogikubo Mitsuboshi Youshudou 

72. Isekai Izakaya "Nobu"

73. Isekai Izakaya "Nobu" Season 2 

 74. Rokuhodo Yotsuiro Biyori

75. Smiling Pasta 

76. My Bubble Tea 

77. Until We Meet Again 

78. Delicious Romance 

79. Gourmet in Tang Dynasty 

80. The Girl Who Sees Scents 

81. Temperature of Love 

82. My Tooth Your Love 

83. DNA Says Love You

84. Beautiful Love, Wonderful Life 

85. My Dangerous Wife

86. Mr. Swimmer

87. Count Your Lucky Stars

88. Ase to Sekken

89. Panda and Hedgehog 

90. All the Liquors

91. Maiko-san Chi no Makanai-san

92.The Uncanny Counter

93.The Uncanny Counter

94.Chocolate

95.Mystic Pop-Up Bar 

96.Itaewon Class 

97.Roppongi Class 

98.The Devil Punisher

99.The Way You Shine 

[oceanlipgloss]

𝗔𝗕𝗢𝗨𝗧

ABOUT ME [THE WRITER]

Ra (pron. she/her) is a nickname I chose for myself. I may be in my 20s, but my mind is that of a tattered old lady, yes. Laziness devours me. I yearn for the old times and cling to my DVDs. Every now and then I disappear or go on hiatus because my affinity bar is maxed out with exquisite mental health.

+[1] a lover of art from almost each of its movements prior to the 21st century, while Pop Surrealism is the strange, modern dessert I delight in.

My taste in most things is quite curious. I write and supposedly make ‘art’ once in a blue moon as well, so I’m a semi-illustrator. Anatomy and I are longing strangers. And though dealing with romance in real life is undesirable to me, I do delight in painting my work with a palette of sweet love, tragic romances, and twisted hearts.

+[2] Russian literature is a drop of reality and tragic paradise.

+[3] Tragedy, dark/twisted themes, horror, and gore make my brain pulse with excited admiration.

+[5] I may have written—and continue to write—a considerable number of fanfiction works, but it is much, much too rare for me to read those of others.

+[4] A premium-grade night owl who can either stay up until morning and wake up at 8AM, or go much earlier to bed.

+[6] Years ago, perhaps in 2019, the ancestor of this blog was crafted under my current username @oceanlipgloss, and on its digital walls I also taped writings for the same games I write fics about now still (with the exception of both ‘Love and Deepspace’ and ‘What in “Hell” is Bad?,’ of course, since both projects had not yet gotten launched back then), so a number of my works are actually old; I chose to deactivate said account during April of 2022. Truth be told, however, I would never have managed to remember neither the month nor year of deactivation were it not for my awareness of a reblog on a once renowned fic of mine (fun fact #1: that fic is ‘Wishes to the Devil’; back then it was the most popularly beloved alphabetical creation I had made).

+[7] @graffitifactory makes for my secondary writing blog; it is particular to fics about Shaw of MLQC. Very rarely do I log-in and put anything up on it now.

+[8] I always give MCs and OCs names I’m fond of, meaning any in-game name that may appear in screenshots I post is not mine. In my mind, the stories are all unrelated to me, and each MC is an individual absolutely separate from and completely different from myself. To put it otherwise: as I play, I view myself as a distant reader and faraway spectator, for I have no interest in being doted on, quite frankly, whether that be in virtual worlds or reality :P

ABOUT MY WRITINGS [THE FANFICS]

On this little slice of internet I stack all my fics like scoops of ice cream—most of them are bitter with melancholy, a couple are spicy with sensuality, and some are sugary with romance.

My writings are not in the sort of style and themes normally sprinkled in popular culture. They can be as short as less than a 100 words and pretty peculiar, but I try to keep them as canonical as could be, for that caters to my tastes. Oftentimes, I make sure to conduct a study on characters and do not write any piece about them before I understand them to the bone, yet there may still be exceptions, however rare.

None of my works are ever sexually explicit, but all of them are written in the 3rd person perspective and maintain feminine pronouns; fanfics about ‘Mystic Messenger,’ ‘Love and Deepspace,’ ‘Love and Producer,’ and ‘What in “Hell” is Bad?’ revolve around the existing female MCs (including their official traits and appearances), while ‘Obey Me!’ fics star my original female MC (with descriptions of her looks, as well as mentions of her qualities, personality, talents, and hobbies).

The otome world knocked on my window about a decade earlier, so I’ve played about 99% of Voltage Inc.’s old games and 95% of NTT Solmare’s. As of now, though, the games I write—and have written—for are five:

+ MYSTIC MESSENGER

+ SHALL WE DATE? OBEY ME!

+ LOVE AND DEEPSPACE

+ LOVE AND PRODUCER

+ WHAT IN “HELL” IS BAD? [GAME_UNINSTALLED]

—note: someday, my writings may include Tokyo Ghoul.

Subjects and themes I am fond of writing about—as well as may tint my works with at times—on the other hand, are as such:

+ art & surrealism

+ classics & history

+ fairy tales & folklore

+ vintage times & pop culture

+ broken souls & romance

+ tragedy, identity & death

+ sacrilege & the forbidden

+ crime, infidelity & obsession

+ dark themes* & messy selves

+ gore, thrillers & body horror

+ psychological torture & toxicity

+ religion, destiny & philosophy

*like: somnophilia, non-consensual sex, sex with dubious consent, as well as much of the above material which has been aforementioned.

+ MYSTIC MESSENGER: ¹ the twins | ² Jumin Han, V | ³ Rika (interest × loathing; she is such an intriguing and complex soul, but I will hate her to death even as I lie a cold corpse in my black grave).

FAVOURITE CHARACTERS* [THE RANKINGS]

*from media in my writings.

+ SHALL WE DATE? OBEY ME!: ¹ Mephistopheles | ² Raphael, Simeon | ³ Mammon, Belphegor, Lucifer, Satan.

+ LOVE AND DEEPSPACE: ¹ Sylus | ¹½ Rafayel | ² Xavier | ³ Zayne.

+ LOVE AND PRODUCER: ¹ Shaw | ² Gavin | ³ Victor.

+ WHAT IN “HELL” IS BAD?: ¹ Satan, Lucifer, Leviathan.

©𝙤𝙘𝙚𝙖𝙣𝙡𝙞𝙥𝙜𝙡𝙤𝙨𝙨

[isisparker]

Welcome Welcome WELCOME to My Unapologetically CHAOTIC Random Fandom Blog!

[oh look another update not including her new icon!]

to the beautiful amazing people that grace my blog [yes you. I’m talking about you. oldie, newbie, follower, non-follower, and mutual], the following media/fandom will be continuously flowing throughout. because I am that Random, That Very Much Fandom, and Oh So Chaotic in my hyperfixations.

Random Book/Library/Hotel/Food/Library/City Aesthetics [yes yes little ol’ basic me. I don’t do IG but I love me some tumblr visual aesthetics.]

Random Nostalgic Media that brings me lots of joy - [because why would I hurt myself with (re)blogging things I don’t enjoy. granted yes I reblog certain media the hurts my heart, but there is a difference between HURTS REALLY BADLY vs. HURTS SO GOOD]

Random Kdramas: Squid Game [... yes. but I’m in it for the cast], Sweet Home, Mystic Pop Up Bar [absolutely a comfort fave that I will rewatch an infinite amount], My Name [listen LISTEN when I tell you that I never lusted so hard over a baddie], Move to Heaven [LEAVE ME AND MY TEARS ALONE], Prison Playbook [yes I am doing a rewatch too].

Random Comfort TV: The Mandalorian, Julie and the Phantoms, The West Wing, The Newsroom, Community, White Collar, Burn Notice - [random shows I adore and have been revisiting as of late because COMFORT TV.]

Currently Airing Shows: The Rookie [it’s all about the Tim/Lucy ship at this point], 911 Fox [MY COMFORT FIREFIGHTERS ARE BACK], The Big Leap [it’s so underrated, so good, and so more than likely to be cancelled], Home Economics [listen LISTEN after being burned by Modern Family, honestly this show is a BLESSING], Stargirl Season 2 [if you’ve watched the OTHER CW DC shows and have yet to watch Stargirl? Yo... what are you even doing? that show has NO RIGHT TO BE THAT GOOD].

MCU/Marvel - [… okay this is me proclaiming myself as that Marvel Loving Asshole. I am a WEAK MARVEL BITCH. also I will be alternating between being an unbearable blogger hyping the hell out of Ma Dong Seok/Don Lee and his character from The Eternals and being an unbearable blogger hyping the hell out of my disaster archer Clint Barton when Hawkeye drops on Disney+]

Random Recommendation Lists [Some are lists of recs that I like to keep track of for my personal gain, others are because I know some of my followers also would appreciate the recs as well!]

And like it was stated on prior pinned posts, of course because my blog is THAT random, there will be other content old and new, fiction and non fictional that will be peppered in throughout. some non-fandom reblogs [because while I want to try to keep this blog 95% fandom related, I live in this (beautiful and flawed and utterly fucked up) world too and unfortunately I can’t always escape the reality we live in] and posts about Hawaii [because it is my homestate and I am quite fond of our little island home…]  Thank you visiting my little corner of this bluehellscape and hopefully you’ll stick around!

[gizkasparadise]

Hi! I love your fics :D I originally followed you for them and continue to read them, but your Kdrama posts have absolutely caught my attention!

As a complete newbie who is also an English speaker, what’s the best way to watch them?

Thank you! <3

ayyy welcome aboard!!! (and thanks for reading my fic :D !!!)

i only know english, but there’s a lot of options for subbed (english subtitled) content! 

i have a getting started with dramas post, but here���s the quick and dirty of it:

95% of kdramas are self-contained stories, meaning that they’re 1 season (usually 16 eps) and then the storyline’s resolved/finished

primary sites for the legal viewing of kdramas i would say are viki and netflix has been putting out a solid catalogue lately. some of my favorites on netflix are mystic pop-up bar, chicago typewriter, reply 1997, because this is my first life, hello my twenties, vagabond, and arthdal chronicles

there’s 8000 different genres and types, so it really depends on what you’re into to start watching! if you want to let me know some tropes, ships, etc. that you like, im happy to make a Getting Started rec list! 

[chatsbuginette]

My 2020 Tumblr Top 10

1). 224 notes - Mar 22 2020

To anyone affected by this morning's earthquakes in Zagreb (capital and the biggest city in Croatia) I send out hopes and...

2). 182 notes - Jun 25 2020

Just wanted to let everyone know that one of my favorite ships is between a rock and a tree

3). 153 notes - Feb 28 2020

Stanley Barber's father: is abusive Me:

4). 119 notes - Aug 8 2020

I just want a fic that's all about what was Douxie doing while everyone was having problems with troll's/aliens like was he...

5). 95 notes - Jun 24 2020

Everyone who is following mystic pop up bar didn't expect to get this attached to the show but here we are

6). 91 notes - Dec 30 2020

Translation He is guarding his house even now. A house that doesn't exist anymore.

7). 71 notes - Jan 23 2020

8). 53 notes - Sep 26 2020

Heroes of Paris everyone

9). 45 notes - Jun 11 2020

The reason why Kang Bae, Chief Gwi and the prince did the same thing with the moon is because Chief Gwi is the prince and Kang...

10). 36 notes - Dec 29 2020

I thought epicenter was close cus you could feel it strongly but it's actually all the way over there, apparently almost the...

Created by TumblrTop10

sucks that my top post for last year is about the earthquake 

[noivade]

Doramas que já assistir

1 - Pousando no Amor - Crash Landing on You*

2- Amanhã a gente se vê -  TOMORROW WITH YOU*

3 -  Something in the Rain

4 - Herdeiros -  The Heirs

5 -  PERSONAL TASTE - Gosto Pessoal*

6 -  Memórias de Alhambra

7 -  Descendants of the Sun - Descendentes do Sol *

8 -  Legend of the Blue Sea  - A lenda do Mar Azul *

9 - Goblin *

10 - O que houve com a secretaria Kim*

11 - Emergency Couple *

12 -Oh My Vênus *

13 -  Devilish Joy - Sorte Travessa

14 -suspicious partner - Parceira Suspeita

15 -strong woman do bong soon - Mulher Forte do Bong Soon

16 -  The K2

17 - Boys over flowers

18 -Oh my ghost

19 - Healer 

20 -  Find Me in Your Memory

21 -  O Rei Eterno

22 - Por que esta é minha primeira vida

23 - Primeira vez amor *

24 -  Page Turner

25 - 1% de alguma coisa

26 - Fated To Love

27 -  Her Personal Life

28 -  Moonlight Drawn By Clouds -

29 - Encontro

30 -  Thirty But Seventeen -  Trinta, mas Dezessete

31 - another miss oh -

32 -  BACKSTREET ROOKIE

33 -  it's okay to not be okay!

34 -  Irei quando o tempo estiver bom

35 -  Mystic Pop-Up Bar

36 -  Was It Love?

37 -  City Hunter

38 -  Quarta-feira, 3:30 da tarde

39 - Ventos de Inverno 

40 -  Flower of Evil

41 -  ROMANCE IS A BONUS BOOK *

42 - Extra Ordinary You

43 - Louvor a Morte

44 -  Oh My Baby

45 -  While You Were Sleeping ( Enquanto você dormia )*

46 -  Meow, the Secret Boy

47 - Chocolate

48 - splash splash love

49 - Ele é psicometrico 

50 - Hospital Playlist

51 -  Angel’s Last Mission Love

52 - it’s Okay, That’s Love / Tudo Bem, Isso É Amor

53 -  Tale of the Nine-Tailed ( O conto das nove caudas )

54 -  Find Yourself C- drama

55 -  Do Do Sol Sol La La Sol ( Melodia da Esperança )

56 -  Start-Up ( Apostando Alto)

57 - Melo Holic

58 -  100 DAYS MY PRINCE

59 -  True Beauty  - Beleza Verdadeira (2021)

60 -  Pinocchio

61 - Dear My Friend

62 - Mr Queen

63 -  My Dear Lady C-drama

64 - Vá em frente  C-drama 

65 - um conto taiwanês de duas cidades - T drama

66 - Um pouquinho de felicidade- C-drama

67 - Run On - Kdrama

68 - Navillera

69 -  Love Alarm

70 - Apaixonados na Cidade

71 - O Milagre

72 - Entre a razão e a emoção - C-drama

73 - Apesar de tudo amor

74 - Amor, casamento e Divórcio

75 - Dali and the Cocky Prince

76 -  Doom at Your Service! - A

 77 -  A Fada Do Levantamento de Peso, Kim Bok Joo

78 -  Twenty Five Twenty One

79  - business proposal

80 -  Clima de amor

81 - Well-Intended Love

82 - Crazy Love

83 - Tou Raise Me Up

84 - Amanhã

85 - O som da magia

86 -  Hae Ryung – A Historiadora

87 - O rei de  Porcelana

88  -  Shooting star

89 -  AGORA,ESTAMOS TERMINANDO

90 -  Woori the Virgin

91 - A distância a primavera é verde 

92 - Link - Eat Love Kill

93 - As células da Yumi

94 - A fada da Limpeza

95 - Intensivão do amor

96 - A lição

97 - Divorciados

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Break Out the Ugly Sweaters (and More Winter Food Events)

All the local food and drink events you’ll actually want to attend

Welcome to the Eater Boston event round-up of fun food happenings taking place soon around the Boston area. Updated regularly, this curated guide features a few select events coming up in the weeks ahead, from special dinners and festivals to fundraisers and parties.

Here’s the rundown for the final days of December, with a sneak peek at some early January events.

Want to submit an event for potential inclusion in this round-up? Emailboston@eater.com.

DECEMBER

Now through December 24

Miracle at the Kimpton Marlowe Hotel What: A Christmas-themed pop-up at this Cambridge hotel kicked off November 24 and will run through December 24, featuring special holiday cocktails made with gingerbread bourbon, gin, sage, and more, along with vintage Christmas decor. Also catch Miracle at Mystic Station in Malden and Citizen in Worcester. Where: 25 Edwin H. Land Blvd., East Cambridge Details: Festivity reigns at Miracle from 5 to 10 p.m. daily, through December 24.

Sulmona Fish Feast What: Starting December 11 and running through Christmas Eve, Sulmona will offer a version of the Feast of the Seven Fishes during dinner service, starting at 5:30 p.m. Menu items include grilled octopus, lobster agnolotti, uni, and panettone bread pudding for dessert. Where: 608 Main St., Kendall Square, Cambridge Details: Menu available a la carte until Christmas Eve.

December 19

Ho-Ho-Hojoko Holiday Party What: Celebrate the holidays with $6 cocktails and $3 beers, plus festive karaoke. Guests are encouraged to wear holiday attire, and there will be a cookie swap at midnight. Where: 1271 Boylston St., Fenway, Boston Details: Event runs until 12 a.m., menu items available a la carte.

December 20

Select Oyster Bar Fishes Feast What: An Italian-American holiday dinner from Select Oyster Bar features a full spread of seafood, starting with yellowfin tuna crudo and ending with a Maine lobster spaghetti and a grilled bronizno. Where: 50 Gloucester St., Back Bay, Boston Details: Reservations required. Dinner offered for $95 per person.

December 21

Ugly Sweaters at Oak What: Anyone who shows up to Oak Long Bar + Kitchen between 6 and 9 p.m. on Thursday will receive one free drink for their festivity. There will be food specials available for purchase, including pigs in a blanket, nuts, olives, and deviled eggs. Where: 138 St James Ave., Back Bay, Boston Details: No cover; food and drink (beyond first free drink) available a la carte.

December 22

Pizza Party What: Pizza is back at the Blue Frog Bakery in Jamaica Plain. The legacy of La Rana Rossa lives on in this pop-up, which got its start at the bakery. Pizzas will be on the menu on Friday night. Where: 3 Green St., Jamaica Plain, Boston Details: Pizza will be available from 5 to 8 p.m., a la carte.

December 24

Alta Strada Fish Feast What: A full Feast of the Seven Fishes will be available on Christmas Eve in an a la carte format, alongside the restaurant’s holiday menu. Where: 92 Central St., Wellesley Details: Dinner will be offered from 4 to 10 p.m.

Coppa’s Feast What: Seven courses of fish with optional wine pairings will be offered, with dishes including crab and calamari salad, oven-roasted oysters, fried smelts, marinated mackerel, butter-poached lobster, pumpkin risotto with clams, and swordfish meatballs, among others. Where: 253 Shawmut Ave., South End, Boston Details: Reservations available from 4 to 8 p.m. Seven courses for $75, wine pairings an additional $45.

JANUARY

January 1

Magnum PI Brunch What: Bar Mezzana’s New Year’s Day brunch is back, with more Hawaiian Shirts and mustaches. There will be tiki cocktails, brunch specials, and champagne magnums to celebrate the new year. Where: 360 Harrison Ave., South End, Boston Details: Reservations can be made online, or by calling 617-530-1770.

January 5

The Lodge at Publico What: A ski loft-inspired transformation of Publico Street Bistro & Garden’s interior courtyard will debut on January 5 and stay around until March, featuring flannel blankets, retro signs, and snowy effects to go alongside a special food menu and seasonal hot cocktails. Where: 11 Dorchester St, South Boston, Boston Details: The space will open with its new effects on January 5 and will stay open through March with periodic special events.

[cloudfather]

Marijuana Conspiracy

SHOULD anyone still believe that the use of marijuana is spreading because of the Mafia conspiracy or a Communist plot to sap the will of our youth, let me tell of a 40‐year‐old who tried it for the first time this summer. He is a major figure in the advertising world; but despite that fact, he seldom drinks liquor and never smokes cigarettes.

What led him to pot? His 14‐year‐old daughter gave him three miserably rolled joints for a Father’s Day present. He smoked only one of them in my presence and had to be taught by the others in his room how to inhale. The thing burned like a small bonfire (no one had told him to lick the cigarette before lighting it), making little explosions (un cleaned marijuana contains seeds that sometimes go “pop” when fire hits them) as the gentleman struggled to “swallow” the smoke. He nearly choked. I doubt that he’ll ever go near it again.

But he has now become part of the most rapidly growing estimated statistic officially issued by the United States Government. Last October, a Na tional Institute of Mental Health pamphlet made the “conservative estimate” that about 5 million juveniles and adults had used marijuana at least once. Five months later, in March, another N.I.M.H. pamphlet said that “more than 8 million people have used the drug.” Then, a month later, the N.I.M.H. reported to Congress that the number “conservatively was between 8 million and 12 mil lion.” In June, Dr. Stanley F. Yolles, then director of N.LM.H., used the figure 20 million. A standard projection curve suggests that by now one could easily find someone at N.I.M.H. willing to go for 25 or even 30.

OBVIOUSLY, the N.I.M.H. figures rely on some wild guesswork, but no one at all awake through out the last decade can doubt the direction in which they point. We Americans are using a lot more marijuana than we used to, and we will be using a lot more than that. It is now the very rare college student who has never tried the drug.

In New York and the outlying areas where day time New Yorkers go to sleep, high‐school students complain that they must either smoke or learn to enjoy solitude. A ninth‐grader in Scarsdale High School estimates that 50 per cent of her friends have tried marijuana and says that not infre quently it is smoked in the school (“like during fire drill, when we’re jammed into the vestibule between the cafeteria and the outside door”). She knows of seventh‐graders in Scarsdale who are smoking; children in New York private schools are aware of its use in sixth grade. Juvenile‐delin quency cases involving possession of marijuana get into the papers under datelines from Los Angeles to Hyannis Port.

This progression of marijuana down the age scale is extremely disturbing, and properly so, to adults. Marijuana, psychiatrists inform us, is a euphoriant and can be used as a rigid defense against the problems of growing up. It is unques tionable that a certain number of children have seriously damaged their personal development by habitually turning off their problems through drugs and never learning to solve them. Thirteen‐year‐olds who turn on at recess probably do them selves no more harm than 13‐year‐olds who get drunk at recess, but psychiatrists tend to find the prospects for both quite dismal.

In conjunction with that worrisome use of mari juana by younger and younger children, however, is its use by older and older adults. Marijuana long ago bridged the generation gap and has since been streaming across like the First Army at Remagen.

Undoubtedly, the most important reason for the sudden outbreak of marijuana use in the adult working world is that young people have grown older. The pot‐smoking art student of 1965 is the pot‐smoking art director of 1970. The pot‐smoking coed of last year is today’s pot‐smoking “assistant buyer of better dresses.” And Seventh Avenue is adjusting to her.

As she explains, “You go into a showroom, and there’s a straight set of salesmen for the old ladies, and they offer the old ladies a drink, but there are also hip salesmen, guys with real long hair and groovy clothes; and they just take you in the back and turn you on. In some of the houses the design ers, the models, everybody is spaced out of his mind. And sometimes they lay dope on you. They’re very cool about it. They come over while you’ve got your book out and you’re writing orders, and they say, ‘What do you do for kicks? Do you get high? I’ve got some very interesting stuff here,’ and they give you an ounce.”

A lot more marijuana‐smoking among adults can be explained as experimental in nature. As the father of three teen‐age girls recently told me, “I’ve now tried pot twice, just to see what the girls are up to. I wanted reassurance that it wouldn’t kill them.”

ONE would have to be a man of very little curiosity not to wonder what the mari juana experience is like. Enough authorities have now indicated that the drug does no apparent harm that the risk in trying it seems to many to be solely a legal one, and people do seem willing to risk the law’s wrath on this issue. A Nobel laureate re cently asked psychiatrist Lester Grinspoon, an advo cate of legalized marijuana sales, whether he could pro vide him with a few joints. Needless to say, Dr. Grin spoon couldn’t and didn’t; but the intellectual level of his petitioner was no surprise to him. He lists among the more enthusiastic older smokers in the Boston area “social scien tists and academic people, astronomers and physicists.”

But no single explanation such as “curiosity” covers the thousands of adults who five or six years ago feared and shunned marijuana but use it today. I’ve recently met en gineers, Wall Street brokers (one of whom, three years ago, threw his best friends out of his home for offering his wife a marijuana cigarette —the break between the two families has never been re paired) and film editors, all of whom were in their 30’s before trying the drug, but who now would rate them selves as regular users. One film editor uses it in place of all other possible drugs. It is his first cigarette of the morning, his coffee break, his martini, his sleeping pill. He nevertheless manages to function.

Statistics don’t exist on this matter, but it is this observ er’s impression that in New York marijuana is being used most widely by adults in the arts and the commercial arts, in the teaching profes sion (where it is argued that one could not conceivably understand the students if one did not grasp their highs), and in the “helping” profes sions. Four members of the New York Psychoanalytic So ciety recently agreed on the estimate that 95 per cent of their colleagues in their own age group (between 35 and 45) had experimented with marijuana and that many continued to use it from time to time. Moreover, to the best of their knowledge, all the psychiatrists under the age of 35 whom they personally knew, and certainly all of their own psychiatric resi dents, smoked pot regular ly, many of them daily Knowl edgeable Bostonians suggest that their psychoanalytic com munity is equally turned on.

The smoking of marijuana, in other words, can no longer be interpreted as a sign of alienation. Great numbers of pot smokers are very nicely adjusted to our society. They make love; they make money; and for that matter, reports from Vietnam indicate, they make war. (A study in Febru ary showed that one out of five front‐line soldiers smoked marijuana every day.)

THIS wide use of marijuana is plainly a new phenomenon, at least in the middle‐class East Coast culture. (On this sort of fad—if that is what it is—we generally tend to be two or three years behind California, two or three years ahead of Kansas.) It is caus ing people to ask themselves rather serious questions about their own morality and values. It is changing the nature of many social gatherings and, more important, it is affecting many social relationships, in cluding those of parent and child, husband and wife.

I have recently been talking with middle‐class adults about their own attitudes toward marijuana. I wanted to know why they were using it or not using it, and what it was do ing to their lives.

Marijuana is not new to all members of the middle class. Its use by some of them in the past, however, had something to do with slum ming. Throughout most of its long history, marijuana has been a cheap pleasure of the most downtrodden poor of the poorer nations. (“In Moroc co,” said a man raised there 50 years ago, “we’d see the servants smoking hashish [a stronger form of marijuana]—they were forbidden to smoke in The house—but no one who had servants would smoke.”)

When marijuana began to enter this country from Mex ico in the nineteen‐twenties, however, young people in the Southwest found it not only cheap and abundant, but good for laughs at parties. It is not at all hard to find people with pleasant memories of using “the weed” 45 years ago in Albuquerque. It is even easier to find others reminiscing happily about smoking “tea” in Greenwich Village in the thirties outside of Bohemia, marijuana tended to be found mostly in the black slums, where a number of white middle‐class boys ran into it because of their love for jazz.

For almost everyone who smoked, decades past, it was simply a means to a good time. “We didn’t make a mys tique or a religion of it,” said a woman editor who smoked in the nineteen‐thirties. “We were left‐wing artists and writers not at all mystically oriented.”

“It was a form of naughti ness,” explains a female phy sician of her high‐school days in the Village in the early nineteen‐fifties. “I went out with a black guitar player who brought it down from Harlem. He thought it made him Segovia; I just thought it was fun to do something il legal. But you know, I was too young to drink, too, and it was just as big a thrill to go into a bar and get served Scotch.”

“Also, adults then didn’t seem to get as clutched by the idea of their kids smoking pot as they do now. When I told my father, all he said was, ‘Just stay out of auto mobiles. The driver’s timing might be off.’ That was the extent of it.”

Many marijuana smokers of 20 or more years ago gave up the drug when they “no long er had friends in the jazz world,” or “went off to col lege,” or found that they had to put any effort at all into getting it. Many marijuana smokers appear to take pride in the fact that they have never bought it. Now that marijuana has become so easily available, many smok ers of years ago have returned to it.

It certainly can’t yet be said that marijuana has been accepted by the New York middle‐aged middle class. As was the case some years ago with the young, it is general ly thought to be the more politically progressive and possibly more intellectual of their elders who are currently smoking. Recently this writer met with a group of 30 Long Island parents (by ac cident almost all liberals) to discuss the pot situation on the North Shore and found them in agreement that in their part of the world there are absolutely no right‐of center adults who use it.

Psychoanalytic evidence might back up this concept. The four analysts with whom I’ve discussed the matter de scribe those among their pa tients who are most against marijuana as “rigid‐moralis tic,” “struggling to control their own impulses,” “meno pausal churchgoing,” “the peo ple who oppose sex education in the schools,” “the same people who never talk about sex.” But being in analysis at all suggests a certain adven turousness; and one analyst said, “Almost all those I’ve seen in their 20’s and 30's—even the conservative, rigid ones—have tried both sex and pot, though they might feel a bit guilty about both. It seems to me that my adult patients use pot very much the way I do: occasion ally at a party or just for the fun of it. They don’t use it the way the kids take it, which is every day or to solve prob lems or to deal with tension.”

IT does not really make sense, however, to view the marijuana issue as simply age related, or political, or a sign of good or poor mental health. Many people who oppose mar ijuana are frightened of it for intelligent reasons. Marijuana does have powerful effects on human beings. No one knows precisely how marijuana cre ates its effects and there is no certainty that its action is harmless. There have been sci entific reports from Arab coun tries describing a form of psy chosis traced directly to the use of hashish.

Most American researchers at the moment doubt the ex istence of a syndrome specific to the use of cannabis, and it is hard to find a New York psychiatrist who believes in it. This can be frustrating to any one who is convinced he is suffering from it. A young writer, who is awaiting the publication of his first novel, recently described his symp toms to me as “feeling as if I’ve been stoned for a long time, and now I’m almost down but not quite, and I’m tired, and I have a kind of trippy feeling and a slight dizziness; and nausea keeps coming and going. This has been going on for six weeks.” He blames it on three years of daily pot‐smoking, claims to have friends who have simi larly suffered from long‐time heavy marijuana use (and they have all given up the drug as a consequence) but who have not yet been able to come up with a physician who would blame their symptoms on anything more than “an xiety.” Said the writer, “The last fellow I saw told me that once my book was out and well‐reviewed I’d be my old self again.”

ALTHOUGH doctors, for the moment might tend to feel the cannabis psychosis is mythical, they do seem to agree that the use of mari juana could very well trigger a psychotic reaction in a person whose ego is already shaky. It might, however, be the case that this problem, too, is self‐limiting. A study that Dr. Grinspoon made of 41 acute schizophrenic college age patients admitted to his research ward bore out an im pression that he’d had before “that schizophrenic and pre schizophrenic people tend to stay away from the drug. Only six of them,” says Dr. Grinspoon, “had ever used marijuana, which is remark ably few for that age group. In four of them, it was clear that the onset of the psycho sis was so removed in time from the use of the drug that (the two) wouldn’t have been related; in the last two I was unable to say one way or the other. I couldn’t implicate or exonerate the drug. It stands to reason that a drug like this might precipitate psychosis. But putting it into perspective with other things, if you get someone who is psychosis prone or is prepsychotic, any number of things might do it, such as, let’s say, an alcoholic debauch, a severe automobile accident, the loss of an im portant loved one….”

Dr. Grinspoon himself might be part of one of the more im portant influences leading adults to try marijuana for

It turns some people off. It turns some marriages off the first time. A highly au thoritative article of his in last December’s Scientific Ameri can, which surveyed world scientific literature on the sub ject of marijuana and essen tially found it less harmful than either liquor or tobacco, has been mentioned to me by at least two people as a fac tor that encouraged them to dare try the drug.

Marijuana, in other words, has been getting a much‐im proved press these last few years. Although, many people ask quite sensibly, “Why, with all the problems we have with alcohol, do we need another socially acceptable method for turning off our problems, act ing inanely, and killing our selves in automobiles?”, vir tually everyone, smoker or nonsmoker, under the age of 40 and reasonably educated with whom I’ve talked, is aware that marijuana is not a narcotic, is not addictive, does not produce hangovers and is furthermore considered, in some circles, chic.

IT became evident in talking with middle‐class adults that the main problem they see in the use of marijuana is that it is illegal. About half of the group of 30 I talked with in Long Island had tried mari juana. Some of them had chil dren too young to be interest ed, but none of them had told their children that they had used the drug.

Some felt that they would make that confession when a proper occasion arose. Many of these parents had very carefully worked‐out speeches to explain why “as adults we can smoke but you as a child cannot.” In general, they go: “There are things that physi cally and emotionally are harmful to children. When you’re mature enough, you can drink, you can drive an automobile, you can make love and you can use mari juana, but all of that can cause trouble for a 13‐year‐old.” Most people rehearsing such speeches feel that the legalization of marijuana with prohibition of its sale to minors would make their case more convincing.

Most smokers found the very concept of letting their children know that they had broken this law disturbing. In New York City, I did meet marijuana ‐smoking parents who have told their children they smoke, in hopes, one ex plained, “of making it seem less exotic,” but at the same time, I’ve met very few par ents who have actually smoked in front of young children. A comment I’ve now heard many times is, “We wouldn’t make love in front of them.” The connection between the two concepts remains elusive to me. But clearly this is a worri some question in many homes.

Although few adult smokers choose to smoke in front of their teen‐aged children, teen agers have a tendency to find out about such parental hab its anyway; and the use of marijuana by the older gener ation is not totally loved by the younger ones. A Westport commuter told me of a pro gressively reared 16‐year‐old who became infuriated on walking into her house and finding her parents and three other couples turning on. She accused them of being hypo crites, a favorite accusation by the young, and had to be reminded that her parents had never complained so loudly when she came in that way. Nevertheless the next day she announced that she was off marijuana for good. She explained, “If you and the rest of those sellouts are do ing it, there must be some thing wrong with it.” She did indeed quit; her thing is now macrobiotics.

But like it or not, the young will simply have to get used to the fact that there is no youthful monopoly on hedon ism. Like high‐school students who fear being left out, par ents, too, enjoy good parties, and in New York, these days, they frequently involve mari juana. Recently, for example, a New York editor found that he was excluded from a grass smoking dinner party because he had let slip that he’d never learned to inhale. To make up for the slight, his hostess‐to be invited him to a second dinner party with a bunch of drinkers, but he still felt that he’d missed the real fun.

He was, probably, just as well off, for as anyone who has ever attended one knows there is nothing more dismal than a pot party when you’re straight. There is no one type of pot party. Marijuana is easily titrated. As a study re ported to New York’s Mayor La Guardia in 1944, most ex perienced smokers know just how high they like to get, and when they reach that point they stop. For most adult smokers, that point is well within their own ability to snap out of the high, behave rationally and carry on a fair ly normal conversation. One can find people smoking at cocktail parties behaving like everyone else in the room.

But one characteristic of marijuana is that it turns peo ple thoughtful and frequently when it is smoked in small groups, people tend to grow quiet, listen to the music (a common adult reaction is, “I never understood rock music until I turned on”) and inves tigate their own fantasies. Such quiet gatherings can drive the nonsmoker to new extremes of boredom.

On the other hand, mari juana can make such state ments as “Please pass the mustard” seem fraught with hidden meanings of oracular import, and the struggle to decode them can break up everyone in the room. Abso lute uncontrolled hilarity is one of the great and mysteri ous pleasures of group mari juana use. At times it is al most clear what is knocking everyone out. (An event that apparently brought down the house at one party was a young lady’s forgetting that she had already eaten dinner and announcing that she was starved; at another party it was a young man’s holding up a roast chicken and remark ing that it looked like Bran cusi’s Bird in Space—every one agreed with him, then cracked up.)

In general, what it is that amuses everyone is a total mystery. No one knows what anyone else is laughing about and the attempt to explain only makes it seem funnier—if you happen to be high. The fellow who is not finds the entire situation at the emo tional level of a nursery school, and stomach‐turning. He often starts smoking out of self‐defense.

But gatherings solely for the purpose of smoking seem not to be part of the adult, regular smoker’s world. He is far more likely to use mari juana precisely the way he previously used alcohol, and there are now middle‐aged circles in which the drinking of liquor has almost disap peared. As a 40‐year‐old fin ancier told me over a glass of sparkling Perrier water, “I once had a great fondness for icy martinis. They had many good qualities. Of most im portance, they were lubrica tors of social interaction and the alimentary canal.

“Well, I can hardly remem ber the last time I saw a drink at a dinner party. In fact, I can’t remember the last time I had a drink.

“You know, the homes to which I get invited aren’t that remarkable. I’d say they’re upper ‐middle ‐class, typical East Side Manhattan, South Shore folks who fear drug abuse, would shun cocaine and run from LSD, but it is a rarity in their homes that I’m not offered pot in beautifully rolled joints. I ’d say that there’s a cut‐off date in this: I don’t see pot in the home or anyone older than his early 40’s unless he’s a photogra pher or an extraordinarily wealthy unreconstructed Bo hemian.

“But it seems to me that there will be an ever‐greater tendency for hostesses of all ages to provide pot as an al ternative to cocktails as the word spreads that if people turn on before dinner, there are no bad meals.

“Last weekend my wife prepared leg of lamb, casse role of rice and mushrooms, salad and cheese. We had two other couples to dinner. The leg of lamb was huge. We ex pected it to last us through Sunday. Every bit of it went. Everything went. The brie was snapped up as if there were imminent danger of war with France. When dieting, I can not smoke before I dine.

“I think,” the marijuana smoking venture capitalist went on, “that it’s ridiculous to fear that pot leads to other things, at least not for grown ups. Most pot‐smokers, I find, are serious‐minded family peo ple, politically oriented, and they smoke pot because it is a deliciously communal thing to do and it tends to sharpen everything from movies to sex; but the idea that if this is terrific, wouldn’t cocaine be better, never occurred to them.‘’

SINCE marijuana smoking is so new to the middle class, there is still a certain amount of confusion as to how one should serve it, use it, and be have under its influence. But certain rules seem to be evolv ing.

In general, in relaxed cir cumstances, it’s traditional to pass around a single mari juana cigarette The stuff is still somewhat scarce. By pass ing it around, more smoke goes into people and less into the air. But there is something about passing around a single joint at a dinner party that resembles passing around a single glass of Scotch. Host esses are now spending after noons with their rolling ma chines making enough joints to turn on three times the number of guests expected, if they smoked economically.

The question of marijuana high conversations is an in teresting one. On first turning on, almost everyone is in need of guidance. The experience is subtle, and the novice smoker needs someone to ex plain to him what it is that he is feeling and how to ride with it rather than fight it. Paranoid reactions are com mon on first smoking. Be cause of that, old‐time smok ers tend to talk new ones through the experience. That, however, is a training process; it is not done in public, for to most adult smokers it is a bore.

In fact, in adult smoking circles it is now considered bad form to discuss (as is common among new smokers) the quality of the pot, the town in Mexico from which it came, or precisely what it is doing to one’s head. One does not ask others if they are feeling it. One does not say, “Oh, wow,” or “Dynamite!” If it leads one to a feeling of unity with the universe, one keeps it between oneself and God.

The people who today seem most excited about marijuana are those who have gone for years detesting alcohol yet envying people who seemed to enjoy it. “I’d go to parties, and hold one drink all night,” a housewife in her mid‐30’s told me. “I hated the taste of alcohol. And it made me diz zy, and it left me with a hangover. Marijuana was a godsend. It’s much milder than liquor and much pleas anter, so I carry my own. When everyone else drinks, I open my cigarette case, pull out a joint; and everyone is very impressed: ‘Barbara the swinger!’ But I just smoke enough to get a slight high. I don’t really like the super‐boo that takes the top of your head off. I just want to feel more relaxed, more in the mood for a party. I love it.”

This use of marijuana, as if it were Scotch, to get through parties, however, does not ap peal to everyone. For ex ample, says one typical long time, weekend marijuana smoker, “I can’t stand using it except with my husband and sometimes close friends. I think it’s an intimate experi ence. You see, alcohol takes you out of yourself. It makes you cloddish and indiscrimi nate. Everybody’s your bud dy. But grass gets you into yourself. It heightens what ever it is you really feel, and if you’re with someone you don’t like, or with someone who is acting phony, the grass makes you really hate them.

“Grass sharpens things. The ugly gets uglier—you can’t stand to listen to bad music or a raucous voice—but the beautiful develops subtleties. I personally never see colors at all; I couldn’t tell you the color of your eyes; but on grass all colors are amazingly vivid for me.

“And I really have touch ing, personal, mysterious ex periences on it. An example?

“Well, I was walking around the block very high with a close friend one night, and suddenly he knelt down and put his arm around a fireplug. Well, you see, I found that touching, terribly significant. I still do, but I can’t say why.”

There are people who find that marijuana causes prob lems in their marriages. As one psychologist says, “Mari juana leads you to pick up a lot of non‐verbal signals that you normally don’t notice and that’s not always good for a marriage. One of my patients has been getting along for years with a very minimal sexual life. She began to smoke pot, found that it turned her on sexually, and did nothing at all to her hus band. It became completely clear to her that he didn’t want her, she didn’t want him.”

Many pot smokers insist that the drug clearly affects their sex lives. A study made of 200 marijuana users by sociologist Eric Goode showed that 68 per cent found that marijuana increased their sex ual enjoyment and 44 per cent claimed that it increased their sexual desire. A good number of pot smokers with whom I talked insisted that it im proved their marital relations, but others claimed that it cut out sex entirely by putting them to sleep.

MARIJUANA, it may be said, is now firmly rooted in our society. It helps to produce good times for influential peo ple. Unless it should be proved that it seriously harmed ev eryone who smoked it, it is unlikely that the growth of its popularity could be halted. Even then, it is not certain that the American public would not accept it as it has accepted tobacco and alco hol.

Past attempts to stop the flow of marijuana into this country either came to very little or have proved actually harmful. Last year’s “Opera tion Intercept,” along with causing the most massive traf fic jam Mexico has ever ex perienced, did create a na tionwide marijuana “famine,” but it also led gentlemen farm ers throughout the nation to lay in crops of their own. Most American marijuana is of poor quality, but says one can nabis horticulturist, “We’ve only begun to research the matter. Consider how long it took to produce a drinkable New York State champagne.” Last summer’s marijuana fam ine had more serious conse quences as well: with the rela tively mild marijuana denied them, many young people pushed on to much stronger and more dangerous stuff.

Ours is indeed a drug culture, and marijuana is generally the second or third drug (after cigarettes and alcohol) tried in a progression that can lead to disastrous addictions and ruined lives. The middle class is for the first time becoming aware of the drug menace that has so long plagued the black ghettos, now that heroin is beginning to appear in its own colleges and high schools. Pressure must surely soon build up to redraw lines between what is acceptable and what is for bidden in our drug‐taking society. But this time, let us have the sense not to misrepresent what we are doing. As Dr. Grinspoon points out. “Kids who feel lied to about marijuana’s dangers tend to assume that they are also being lied to about LSD, and cocaine, and heroin.

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Welcome Welcome WELCOME to My Unapologetically CHAOTIC Random Fandom Blog!

to the beautiful people that grace my blog [yes you. I’m talking about you. oldie, newbie, follower, non-follower, and mutual] the following media/fandom will be gracing my blog continuously for the first month or so of the new year. because I am that Random, That very much Fandom, and oh so very Chaotic in my hyperfixations.

Random Book/Library/Hotel/Food/Library/City Aesthetics [because I am That. Basic.]

Random Nostalgic Media that brings me lots of joy - [because why would I hurt myself with (re)blogging things I don’t enjoy. granted yes I reblog certain media the hurts my heart, but there is a difference between HURTS REALLY BADLY vs. HURTS SO GOOD]

The Mandalorian - [speaking of hurts so good: HOW DARE THEY BREAK MY HEART. but also PEDRO PASCAL YOU BEAUTIFUL DADDY FIGURE YOU]

Sweet Home [a Netflix gem of a horror drama wherein the characters and their journey and connection to each other are why I put up with the blood and gore, aka things I avoid like hell. also Lee Do Hyun came for me this year with a lot of his acting choices and his character of Eun Hyuk is my current fave. I love him. My heart oh MY HEART]

We Can Be Heroes - [listen... PEDRO PASCAL. but also besides PEDRO PASCAL, I did genuinely enjoy this kid’s movie. but also PEDRO.]

Random Current Kdramas: The Uncanny Counter, Run On, A Love So Beautiful - [these are currently giving me joy, thus I’ll be reblogging whatever content I can find (or making random posts about them) until the drama finishes... or for some reason I can’t stomach them and/or they bore me. it’s been known to happen.]

Julie and the Phantoms, The West Wing, The Newsroom, Community, Mystic Pop Up Bar, Dawson’s Creek - [random shows I adore and have been revisiting as of late because COMFORT TV.]

Random Recommendation Lists [Some are lists of recs that I like to keep track of for my personal gain, others are because I know some of my followers also would appreciate the recs as well!]

And like it was stated on prior pinned posts, of course because my blog is THAT random, there will be other content old and new, fiction and non fictional that will be peppered in throughout. some non-fandom reblogs [because while I want to try to keep this blog 95% fandom related, I live in this (beautiful and flawed and utterly fucked up) world too and unfortunately I can’t always escape the reality we live in] and posts about Hawaii [because it is my homestate and I am quite fond of our little island home...]  Thank you visiting my little corner of this bluehellscape and hopefully you’ll stick around.

Let’s Hope 2021 Gives Us a Fresh and Wonderful Start!

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Welcome Welcome WELCOME to My Unapologetically CHAOTIC Random Fandom Blog!

to the beautiful people that grace my blog [yes you. I’m talking about you. oldie, newbie, follower, non-follower, and mutual] the following media/fandom will be gracing my blog continuously for the first month or so of the new year. because I am that Random, That very much Fandom, and oh so very Chaotic in my hyperfixations.

Random Book/Library/Hotel/Food/Library/City Aesthetics [because I am That. Basic.]

Random Nostalgic Media that brings me lots of joy - [because why would I hurt myself with (re)blogging things I don’t enjoy. granted yes I reblog certain media the hurts my heart, but there is a difference between HURTS REALLY BADLY vs. HURTS SO GOOD]

The Mandalorian - [speaking of hurts so good: HOW DARE THEY BREAK MY HEART. but also PEDRO PASCAL YOU BEAUTIFUL PARENTAL FIGURE YOU. how DARE you attack me and my parental issues having ass!]

Sweet Home [a Netflix gem of a horror drama wherein the characters and their journey and connection to each other are why I put up with the blood and gore, aka things I avoid like hell. also Lee Do Hyun came for me this  in the hell year that is 2020 with a lot of his acting choices and his character of Eun Hyuk is my current fave. I love him. My heart oh MY HEART]

We Can Be Heroes - [listen... PEDRO PASCAL. but also besides PEDRO PASCAL, I did genuinely enjoy this kid’s movie. but also PEDRO.]

Random Current Kdramas: The Uncanny Counter, Run On, True Beauty, A Love So Beautiful - [these are currently giving me joy, thus I’ll be reblogging whatever content I can find (or making random posts about them) until the drama finishes... or for some reason I can’t stomach them and/or they bore me. it’s been known to happen.]

Julie and the Phantoms, The West Wing, The Newsroom, Community, Mystic Pop Up Bar, Dawson’s Creek - [random shows I adore and have been revisiting as of late because COMFORT TV.]

MCU/Marvel - [... yeah I’m still That. Marvel Loving Asshole. what can I say I am WEAK for Sharon Carter, Hawkeyes (both of them) and a few associated others.]

Random Recommendation Lists [Some are lists of recs that I like to keep track of for my personal gain, others are because I know some of my followers also would appreciate the recs as well!]

And like it was stated on prior pinned posts, of course because my blog is THAT random, there will be other content old and new, fiction and non fictional that will be peppered in throughout. some non-fandom reblogs [because while I want to try to keep this blog 95% fandom related, I live in this (beautiful and flawed and utterly fucked up) world too and unfortunately I can’t always escape the reality we live in] and posts about Hawaii [because it is my homestate and I am quite fond of our little island home...]  Thank you visiting my little corner of this bluehellscape and hopefully you’ll stick around.

Let’s Hope 2021 Gives Us a Fresh and Wonderful Start!

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Welcome, lovelies, to My Unapologetically CHAOTIC Random Fandom Blog!

to the beautiful people that grace my blog [yes you. I’m talking about you. oldie, newbie, follower, non-follower, and mutual] the following media/fandom will be gracing my blog continuously for the upcoming weeks. because I am that Random, That very much Fandom, and oh so very Chaotic in my hyperfixations.

Random Fall and Winter Aesthetics [I have a thing apparently for those two seasons in particular].

Random Holiday Media [I won’t go overboard with the Decking and the Halling but I can’t make promises on Twinkle Lights and Showtunes... Especially in regards to a new Aaron Tveit holiday film. I am, afterall, but a weak human being.]

The Mandalorian [MY CHILD AND HIS MANDO DADDY IS BACK AND I COULD NOT BE MORE HAPPIER. I would like to apologize for the barrage of Baby Yoda reblogs but... it’s going to be a lot.]

Tale of the Nine Tailed, Eighteen Again/18Again, Search [currently airing kdramas as I’m typing this and the only ones that are apparently giving me much joy]

Ducktales 2017 [I love the Duck/McDuck family. I also love the Mallard/McQuack family aka Darkwing Duck found fam. What can I say? I love this little show!]

Julie and the Phantoms [I still haven’t gotten off this train. Choo choo?]

The West Wing, The Newsroom, Community, Mystic Pop Up Bar, Reply 1988 [past shows I adore and have been revisiting as of late because COMFORT TV.]

Random Books and Book Recommendation Lists [Some are lists of recs that I like to keep track of for my personal gain, others are because I know some of my followers also would appreciate the recs as well!]

And of course because my blog is THAT random, there will be other fandoms/medias old and new that will be peppered in throughout. I also will have some political reblogs [because while I want to try to keep this blog 95% fandom related, I live in this (beautiful and flawed and utterly fucked up) world too and unfortunately I can’t always escape the reality we live in] and posts about Hawaii [because it is my homestate and I am quite fond of our little island home...]  Thank you visiting my little corner of this bluehellscape and hopefully you’ll stick around.

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Break Out the Ugly Sweaters (and More Winter Food Events)

All the local food and drink events you’ll actually want to attend

Welcome to the Eater Boston event round-up of fun food happenings taking place soon around the Boston area. Updated regularly, this curated guide features a few select events coming up in the weeks ahead, from special dinners and festivals to fundraisers and parties.

Here’s the rundown for the final days of December, with a sneak peek at some early January events.

Want to submit an event for potential inclusion in this round-up? Emailboston@eater.com.

DECEMBER

Now through December 24

Miracle at the Kimpton Marlowe Hotel What: A Christmas-themed pop-up at this Cambridge hotel kicked off November 24 and will run through December 24, featuring special holiday cocktails made with gingerbread bourbon, gin, sage, and more, along with vintage Christmas decor. Also catch Miracle at Mystic Station in Malden and Citizen in Worcester. Where: 25 Edwin H. Land Blvd., East Cambridge Details: Festivity reigns at Miracle from 5 to 10 p.m. daily, through December 24.

Sulmona Fish Feast What: Starting December 11 and running through Christmas Eve, Sulmona will offer a version of the Feast of the Seven Fishes during dinner service, starting at 5:30 p.m. Menu items include grilled octopus, lobster agnolotti, uni, and panettone bread pudding for dessert. Where: 608 Main St., Kendall Square, Cambridge Details: Menu available a la carte until Christmas Eve.

December 19

Ho-Ho-Hojoko Holiday Party What: Celebrate the holidays with $6 cocktails and $3 beers, plus festive karaoke. Guests are encouraged to wear holiday attire, and there will be a cookie swap at midnight. Where: 1271 Boylston St., Fenway, Boston Details: Event runs until 12 a.m., menu items available a la carte.

December 20

Select Oyster Bar Fishes Feast What: An Italian-American holiday dinner from Select Oyster Bar features a full spread of seafood, starting with yellowfin tuna crudo and ending with a Maine lobster spaghetti and a grilled bronizno. Where: 50 Gloucester St., Back Bay, Boston Details: Reservations required. Dinner offered for $95 per person.

December 21

Ugly Sweaters at Oak What: Anyone who shows up to Oak Long Bar + Kitchen between 6 and 9 p.m. on Thursday will receive one free drink for their festivity. There will be food specials available for purchase, including pigs in a blanket, nuts, olives, and deviled eggs. Where: 138 St James Ave., Back Bay, Boston Details: No cover; food and drink (beyond first free drink) available a la carte.

December 22

Pizza Party What: Pizza is back at the Blue Frog Bakery in Jamaica Plain. The legacy of La Rana Rossa lives on in this pop-up, which got its start at the bakery. Pizzas will be on the menu on Friday night. Where: 3 Green St., Jamaica Plain, Boston Details: Pizza will be available from 5 to 8 p.m., a la carte.

December 24

Alta Strada Fish Feast What: A full Feast of the Seven Fishes will be available on Christmas Eve in an a la carte format, alongside the restaurant’s holiday menu. Where: 92 Central St., Wellesley Details: Dinner will be offered from 4 to 10 p.m.

Coppa’s Feast What: Seven courses of fish with optional wine pairings will be offered, with dishes including crab and calamari salad, oven-roasted oysters, fried smelts, marinated mackerel, butter-poached lobster, pumpkin risotto with clams, and swordfish meatballs, among others. Where: 253 Shawmut Ave., South End, Boston Details: Reservations available from 4 to 8 p.m. Seven courses for $75, wine pairings an additional $45.

JANUARY

January 1

Magnum PI Brunch What: Bar Mezzana’s New Year’s Day brunch is back, with more Hawaiian Shirts and mustaches. There will be tiki cocktails, brunch specials, and champagne magnums to celebrate the new year. Where: 360 Harrison Ave., South End, Boston Details: Reservations can be made online, or by calling 617-530-1770.

January 5

The Lodge at Publico What: A ski loft-inspired transformation of Publico Street Bistro & Garden’s interior courtyard will debut on January 5 and stay around until March, featuring flannel blankets, retro signs, and snowy effects to go alongside a special food menu and seasonal hot cocktails. Where: 11 Dorchester St, South Boston, Boston Details: The space will open with its new effects on January 5 and will stay open through March with periodic special events.

[tonyduncanbb73]

Break Out the Ugly Sweaters (and More Winter Food Events)

All the local food and drink events you’ll actually want to attend

Welcome to the Eater Boston event round-up of fun food happenings taking place soon around the Boston area. Updated regularly, this curated guide features a few select events coming up in the weeks ahead, from special dinners and festivals to fundraisers and parties.

Here’s the rundown for the final days of December, with a sneak peek at some early January events.

Want to submit an event for potential inclusion in this round-up? Emailboston@eater.com.

DECEMBER

Now through December 24

Miracle at the Kimpton Marlowe Hotel What: A Christmas-themed pop-up at this Cambridge hotel kicked off November 24 and will run through December 24, featuring special holiday cocktails made with gingerbread bourbon, gin, sage, and more, along with vintage Christmas decor. Also catch Miracle at Mystic Station in Malden and Citizen in Worcester. Where: 25 Edwin H. Land Blvd., East Cambridge Details: Festivity reigns at Miracle from 5 to 10 p.m. daily, through December 24.

Sulmona Fish Feast What: Starting December 11 and running through Christmas Eve, Sulmona will offer a version of the Feast of the Seven Fishes during dinner service, starting at 5:30 p.m. Menu items include grilled octopus, lobster agnolotti, uni, and panettone bread pudding for dessert. Where: 608 Main St., Kendall Square, Cambridge Details: Menu available a la carte until Christmas Eve.

December 19

Ho-Ho-Hojoko Holiday Party What: Celebrate the holidays with $6 cocktails and $3 beers, plus festive karaoke. Guests are encouraged to wear holiday attire, and there will be a cookie swap at midnight. Where: 1271 Boylston St., Fenway, Boston Details: Event runs until 12 a.m., menu items available a la carte.

December 20

Select Oyster Bar Fishes Feast What: An Italian-American holiday dinner from Select Oyster Bar features a full spread of seafood, starting with yellowfin tuna crudo and ending with a Maine lobster spaghetti and a grilled bronizno. Where: 50 Gloucester St., Back Bay, Boston Details: Reservations required. Dinner offered for $95 per person.

December 21

Ugly Sweaters at Oak What: Anyone who shows up to Oak Long Bar + Kitchen between 6 and 9 p.m. on Thursday will receive one free drink for their festivity. There will be food specials available for purchase, including pigs in a blanket, nuts, olives, and deviled eggs. Where: 138 St James Ave., Back Bay, Boston Details: No cover; food and drink (beyond first free drink) available a la carte.

December 22

Pizza Party What: Pizza is back at the Blue Frog Bakery in Jamaica Plain. The legacy of La Rana Rossa lives on in this pop-up, which got its start at the bakery. Pizzas will be on the menu on Friday night. Where: 3 Green St., Jamaica Plain, Boston Details: Pizza will be available from 5 to 8 p.m., a la carte.

December 24

Alta Strada Fish Feast What: A full Feast of the Seven Fishes will be available on Christmas Eve in an a la carte format, alongside the restaurant’s holiday menu. Where: 92 Central St., Wellesley Details: Dinner will be offered from 4 to 10 p.m.

Coppa’s Feast What: Seven courses of fish with optional wine pairings will be offered, with dishes including crab and calamari salad, oven-roasted oysters, fried smelts, marinated mackerel, butter-poached lobster, pumpkin risotto with clams, and swordfish meatballs, among others. Where: 253 Shawmut Ave., South End, Boston Details: Reservations available from 4 to 8 p.m. Seven courses for $75, wine pairings an additional $45.

JANUARY

January 1

Magnum PI Brunch What: Bar Mezzana’s New Year’s Day brunch is back, with more Hawaiian Shirts and mustaches. There will be tiki cocktails, brunch specials, and champagne magnums to celebrate the new year. Where: 360 Harrison Ave., South End, Boston Details: Reservations can be made online, or by calling 617-530-1770.

January 5

The Lodge at Publico What: A ski loft-inspired transformation of Publico Street Bistro & Garden’s interior courtyard will debut on January 5 and stay around until March, featuring flannel blankets, retro signs, and snowy effects to go alongside a special food menu and seasonal hot cocktails. Where: 11 Dorchester St, South Boston, Boston Details: The space will open with its new effects on January 5 and will stay open through March with periodic special events.