Friday, October 21, 2016

Friday: Pizzadventures.

I woke up early today due to a horrible nightmare, which I tweeted about:
Really, it was an awful dream, as shown by the fact that it pulled me awake.
Then, later on, I noticed I had a twitter notification that that had been liked, followed up by a reply.
From Papa Johns.
Now I know that the person tweeting from the PJ Hawaii account is very unlikely to be Papa "Fuckface" John himself.  So that means I'm posting this here, instead of replying on twitter, since it's silly to bother someone who's job is probably to search for "pizza" in "Hawaii" and try to engage.  Still, there's no way in hell I'm buying Papa John's crappy pizza.

I'll get it from Pizza Hut.
 Yes, it's also bad, greasy, unhealthy pizza.
But sometimes you just want to eat the same pizza you had as a kid.
Plus they had a carryout special for a large one topping plus breadsticks for $10, $2 extra to add mushrooms as well.  Not Hot-N-Ready level, but there aren't any of those left on this side of the island.

Tldr Lovecraft:

  • Title:  The Thing on the Doorstep
  • Date:  1933
  • Summary:  Edward Pickman (ugh) Derby marries Asenath Waite, daughter of Ephraim Waite and clearly an Innsmouth mother.  It's all ok, but she's a bit weird, but eventually the marriage drives a wedge between Derby and the narrator.  There are shenanigans, but the crux of things is that Ephraim knows how to switch bodies, and does that to Asenath, before poisoning her in his old body.  Then, he decides that he doesn't want to be female (an part Innsmouth-ian, and literally, those two things are equal: "that female shell that wasn’t even quite human"), so he plans to switch bodies with Derby.  This mostly works, but when Derby gets back to his body one day, he murders Asenath/Ephraim with a candlestick.  He buries it in the basement, but the evil wizard can mind switch still, so Derby gets put back into the corpse, which he eventually dislodges from the basement grave, writes a note to the narrator, and walk/oozes across town to deliver it.  Derby is the TotD.  The narrator goes to the Arkham Sanitarium (where Derby's been confined for a reason I'm too lazy to look up now), and shoots him/her/other him/it to death.  This is an odd story.
  • Real Villain:  Marriage.  Especially to your wife's evil wizard father.
  • Last line in italics?  No.
  • Writer writes instead of fleeing?  No.
  • Rating:  5/10.
  • Read it:  Here.
Pizzapizzapizzapizzapizzapizzapizza.



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