Tag: thanksgiving

Natty Bumpercar: so here's the thing bumper podcast it's me natty bumper car and there's been so much going on that i haven't told you about because i haven't been here in a couple of weeks because there was there was a holiday and i got busy and i don't know so i gotta jam pack a lot into this episode i apologize for the weird laugh the very beginning i understand that was weird um man i uh i i'm in an art show uh it's a benefit for the aclu which is nice i made a painting it's got it's it's it's nice i like it it made me happy because i uh i uh i was getting down to the deadline where i wasn't you know i was like i gotta get this thing made i gotta get this thing made and so what i did was i i did the design in my head and i even made revisions in my head where i was just like oh i think this should be good i think this should be good i think this should be good i think this should happen no i think this should happen i think this this and then like i i just haven't done that in a while uh because what i used to do when i was painting especially is i would do a lot of layers uh and so like i would make a painting and then i would essentially paint over that painting and it would just be uh with transparencies and stuff it would be like a window to a window to a window into this deeper thing so you could like stare at the painting and be like i'm seeing a lot of different things uh and that's awesome and i do love that and i do kind of miss that um it was also a really good idea to do a painting of a painting of a painting of a painting of a painting also a heartbreaking and treacherous way to make paintings because sometimes i would make stuff that i really liked and it would get obliterated and i would be like but i think that's also kind of what gave those paintings uh a little bit more gravitas at least to me because there was substance behind them there was kind of not whatever but there was like destruction like because there was this nice thing like oh let's say there was a bunny right and then uh half the bunny's going away and now there's an octopus and now the octopus has kind of gone away or different colors come in uh and i would keep working and reworking the uh the structure and the layout of of the painting and until it became what it whatever it was supposed to be i guess and um and that's and that's not how i get to do it these days because i don't have as much time to spend on paintings uh and so i kind of hit a a fork in the path and i and i have gone over to where i'm making uh uh i like to say that they're distilled versions of the old paintings and what that means is i i'll take one of the layers and then uh put it on a painting like on a board or on a piece of paper whatever and a canvas and um and so instead of doing layer on layer on layer then i just kind of split the layers into different um which you're like oh but isn't that making it miss out on something well a long time ago i really thought it did but then i got to start adding stuff like patterns and i got to really start working on um where things were in the paintings and how they interact with each other and how the different colors interact with each other and um texture and stuff like that and so it's it's different but i this on this one especially i was really happy with how it turned out because like in my brain i would be like all right this is gonna go here and this is gonna go here this is gonna go okay and then it worked out and i took enough time where i i did the drawing is on a board and then i uh i was able to actually prime it so that means you put down some white uh gesso which is white paint kind of it's a base and then uh and i did that so that when i put the uh the bright colors on it wouldn't get soaked up into the wood and because sometimes if you paint on wood uh it's got you know the wood has holes where like it it's a tree and so it it sucks up the uh the the liquid and the pigment and sometimes it makes things a little bit more dull but the gesso causes the paint to be on top of the board so it's like color oh and then after i got all the color on i went through and i uh i got colored pencils and so i was able to go through and do little texture and do little lines and little you know marks or whatever to kind of give a little bit more depth so yay painting yay being in an art show very happy yay to being in a benefit i like that that's what i liked i like doing benefits uh when i do the comedy i like doing benefits when i you know it's it's nice to know that the stuff that i make is maybe helping people that makes me feel good um and then we had thanksgiving we had 16 people here at headquarters and i cooked for everybody and i i started cooking on tuesday so i was doing prep like i uh i would have i did a bag of carrots bag of onions some uh celery like anything that i could do in advance i did the cranberry sauce i did um i forget what else one or two other things but i had a lot of stuff ready oh i had uh i made like a sausage stuffing and so there was half i did half sweet sausage and then i had to break the casings for the spicy sausage and i cooked all that down uh and i put some uh white wine into it and i put it in the in the fridge so that it wouldn't dry out and then i did the other stuff and i did the other stuff out and um then wednesday came around and i worked from home and so it was like i do this thing i do uh carrots with citrus honey and wait what is it orange honey ginger orange honey ginger carrots oh god they're so good i'm not even joking they're so good and then i started working on some cornbread stuffing and then i started working on the uh the other stuffing which is like just regular bread stuffing and then i started i made some uh green beans and i blanched because those are going to go in the green bean casserole and then i cooked a whole thing of bacon uh and did some uh brussels sprouts in in the bacon grease and then uh then thursday came around and it was um the 21 pound turkey and i put butter and thyme and sage and um what else was it not parsley thyme sage rosemary uh i cut all that stuff really fine and some garlic and i put that all under the skin salt and pepper and then uh in the cavity there was uh lemons and oranges and then in the pan there was uh white wine so that it would cook up through god was so good and sad today's actually the last day for of leftovers like uh i've eaten everything else i still have uh some turkey left but and then we also so uh thursday so saturday i uh i took the rest of the turkey and i made i had this huge huge pot and i made uh i made stock which i'd never made before so here's what you do with stock which i didn't know it's a lot of water and then you throw the uh the turkey in there and i had celery i had onions i had carrots i had uh other stuff probably oh uh peppercorns black peppercorns and some salt and i let all that for a long time and uh boil and i guess it's you know soaked up all the yummy stuff and then ran it through a cool ran it through a strainer and now i've got like i would say a solid two gallons of uh of stock and i tasted it and it tastes insane so good so i'm happy about these things these are things that i'm happy about um elfie elfie has shown up at our house that officially happened this morning so hooray for that shenanigans who knows that elfie's gonna get into every year the advent calendar is up which you know means i gotta go get stuff for the advent calendar and start putting stuff in there and threatening the children that if they're not good that maybe the advent calendar won't be full maybe elfie's not gonna come he's gonna go back to santa claus and he's gonna tell him what you did what did we do you were naughty no yes the other night i was sitting in emerson's room and i was putting him in the bathroom and i was like oh my god i'm gonna put him to bed and um he he was having a rough day i guess and uh he says to me he goes i mean no i got him into bed he was he was done right and and and he was laying there and then he starts sobbing and i was just like buddy what is what's going on with you and he goes uh hey i just don't want to die and my little my heart my heart it broke right it i was just like buddy he's like and i don't want you to die and i was just like emerson listen everybody dies right as a parent i had to i wanted to immediately say you know get that out of the way this is a thing that happens this is reality this is life um but then you know once i kind of lay out this thing i said but you know you have every single day of your life you have every single day of your life that you are here on this planet that you are around your family that you are around your friends everyone who loves you so much to to be the best emerson that you can be to be the nicest to be the most inclusive to not push anyone out to not uh denigrate anyone or be mean to anyone or bully anyone you have this time that you've been given to be the best you that you can be and it was a real it was one of those moments where i i was just like i am parenting so good right now and all the words that were coming out of my mouth i could tell that he was listening to and and i just really wanted to impress on him and i think it's super important for everyone and this is where i kind of bring you know what i'm talking about because you don't have unlimited time you don't have all the time in the world um sometimes i get made fun of not me know what i've poked fun at because i go constantly i make constantly i do constantly right i'm either doing comedy or doing the podcast or painting or anything i make as much stuff as i can and they're like just relax i'm like there's no relax i don't know when this ends and i want to make sure that i do everything that i can and everything that i'm supposed to to make the world even a half of of a one-time 10 better because that's all we have hey and real quick this 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