Groovy Tunes; Thursday [11/11].

[x_discospider_x]

Feeling oddly inspired by the musician he'd discovered last week, Troy thought maybe he could try his own hand at making some of his own music and sick beats, which meant that he'd dragged one of the keyboards to the counter with him, where he was experimenting with some sounds and scribbling down some potential lyrics in between dealing with whatever customers managed to wander in that day.

This was all pretty new to him, and most of what he was working on seemed to be poor attempts to disguise lyrics about particular girls that he knew and liked and also a much deeper piece about the somewhat emphemeral current existence of the tangled headphones wire monster ('Could it have been/you were a part of us this whole time/and all it took was a single line/to unravel the real you?'), but he felt they weren't actually that bad, and he wondered what it might take to convince Astrid to let him debut some of it on their radio broadcast tomorrow. Or at least next week, at the latest, so he could maybe polish it up a little before hand, or something...

But you know that, before too long, any attempts at legitimate song writing had devolved into just stringing together silly sound effects again, because who could possibly resist that?

Groovy Tunes is open!

Community Center Class: Beyond Cup Noodle; Thursday Evening [11/11].

[chef_chocobro]

While Ignis's approach to this class these days was focused heavily on trying to consider what would prevent any raging kitchen fires and what might potentially allow him to not have to use the mop bucket ready and within reach, this week was a bit....inspired because he had earlier been helping Prompto prepare some snacks for his little "cat date" that evening. And while Prompto made for a much more competent (if somewhat distractable) student than the ones that gathered every Thursday evening in the community center, he hoped these would be simple enough that even they could manage something edible and enjoyable out of it.

"Out of all the convenience foods at our easy disposal," he began, "snacks are probably the most ubiquitous, and also possibly the most abused. I'm sure we've all been there," he actually had not, but he was trying to be relatable here, "when we crack open a bag of crisps with the intention of just having a few, and, before you know it, you've reached the bottom of it with nothing to show for it but crumbs, greasy fingers, and empty calories. The urge to snack does not have to lead to a handful of processed tidbits and regrets. Today, I will be teaching you three different easy and homemade snacking options that will curb those cravings in a much more satifying way. We have a light and sweet caramel kettle corn, we will...attempt a baked potato chip, and, somewhat...ambitiously," this was definitely where Ignis was making a concession to the idea that this class would always involve considerable clean-up, "a treat colloquially known as puppy chow.

"Let's begin."

The Perk, Thursday (... Definitely Thursday) Morning

[doctorgingerspice]

Today - no, yesterday, by now, Will was absolutely sure there'd been a sunrise at some point between the FBI stuffing him in a car and dropping him off at O'Hare, and then picking him up at BWI and dropping him off at... a causeway? A causeway! - Yesterday should have been the best day of his life, finally married to the woman he loved and by all rights he should be on his honeymoon now and not-

Not in some coffee shop on some tiny little island off the coast of Baltimore, drinking some peppermint-and-caffeine-laden concoction in an effort to keep himself awake.

Yeah, he knew he ought to take the duffel bag he'd been allowed to pack and check in to the hotel room that had been arranged for him, but he knew as soon as he caught sight of anything bed-shaped he'd be tempted to sleep and just... no. Nope. Nope.

[ooc: ayyyy I have the day off entertain meeee.]

Devil's Nest, Thursday, November 11, 2021

[texted3times]

Shirtless Thursday was back, and so Eric ws there in leather pants and very little else, sipping a stupidly expensive vodka and giving Tiny's sign, which offered a veterans' discount, a baleful look.

"You know half the adults here are some kind of military, right? We're going to make no money tonight."

But at least it would be pretty to look at.

The Devil's Nest was open! And slightly drafty.

[OOC: OCD free.]

Luke's, Thursday

[betterthanaplan]

"Hang on, let me see that recipe," Bobby demanded, when he saw Duke and Greg setting up for the day's specials.

"Ugh, what now?" Duke rolled his eyes and showed the kid the recipe he'd found online. "Tell me that doesn't look delicious."

"Uh huh, yeah, fine, but." Bobby thwacked the paper with the back of his hand. "No Old Bay. You can't call it 'Maryland style' if there's no Old Bay."

"He's right," Ali said with a sage nod. "My boyfriend is a Maryland native. He puts that shit on everything."

"I just caught these suckers this morning!" Duke protested. "These are literally Maryland crabs!"

"No Old Bay, no Maryland."

Duke rolled his eyes and pulled out his chalk marker.

Today's specials
CATCH OF THE DAY!
Maryland style Crab cake sandwiches with chive honey mustard

"Happy now?"

Luke's was open and sans OCD.

The Photo Hut - Thursday

[flamesburned]

Liz had heard back from Professor Bruttenholm and he had suggested that she order it in as a case by case basis since the odds of daguerreotypes making a come back were rather low.

So Liz had had her first case of dealing with a certain hipster and wow … Prompto hadn’t exaggerated at all about the annoying hipster jerk vibes, when she had called him to let him know that they could order in what he was after and it would arrive next week. The response had been to say any legitimate photo shop would have already had his very specific request in stock so she hadn’t known what to say to that but thankfully the call had ended before she had to come up with a reply.

Now that that was done, Liz decided to finish doing inventory and see if there was anything else she needed to order in in addition to the daguerreotypes request.

[the Photo Hut is open]