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FRAN: Pumpkin cookies!
DWIGHT: Ah, pumpkin! The autumn-specific treat! Why are pumpkin dishes so seasonal?

FRAN: Because pumpkins grow in the fall?
DWIGHT: Sure, the first person to eat a pumpkin probably did s because it was there. It was a crisp October day?the only sound the crunching of leaves and the slightly squishier sound of the very first pumpkin being et.

DWIGHT: But now pumpkins are cultivated. We buy them from India. You could get a pumpkin on Valentine’s Day, if you wanted.
FRAN: (hint, hint)
DWIGHT: The demand for pumpkins was such that an industry grew up around them. We wanted this seasonal thing so much, we made it NO LONGER SEASONAL. Yet we still pretend that we can only eat pumpkin at certain times of year.

DWIGHT: I’m sure that’s a profound metaphor for something.
FRAN: It’s a metaphor for how some people will go to any absurd length to make every cookie into a metaphor.

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#677, Much musing about Pumpkin transcribed by in

FRAN: Pumpkin cookies!
DWIGHT: Ah, pumpkin! The autumn-specific treat! Why are pumpkin dishes so seasonal?

FRAN: Because pumpkins grow in the fall?
DWIGHT: Sure, the first person to eat a pumpkin probably did s because it was there. It was a crisp October day?the only sound the crunching of leaves and the slightly squishier sound of the very first pumpkin being et.

DWIGHT: But now pumpkins are cultivated. We buy them from India. You could get a pumpkin on Valentine’s Day, if you wanted.
FRAN: (hint, hint)
DWIGHT: The demand for pumpkins was such that an industry grew up around them. We wanted this seasonal thing so much, we made it NO LONGER SEASONAL. Yet we still pretend that we can only eat pumpkin at certain times of year.

DWIGHT: I’m sure that’s a profound metaphor for something.
FRAN: It’s a metaphor for how some people will go to any absurd length to make every cookie into a metaphor.

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{{alt-text: Do you even know what a metaphor is}}

#677, Much musing about Pumpkin transcribed by in

FRAN: Pumpkin cookies!
DWIGHT: Ah, pumpkin! The autumn-specific treat! Why are pumpkin dishes so seasonal?

FRAN: Because pumpkins grow in the fall?
DWIGHT: Sure, the first person to eat a pumpkin probably did s because it was there. It was a crisp October day?the only sound the crunching of leaves and the slightly squishier sound of the very first pumpkin being et.

DWIGHT: But now pumpkins are cultivated. We buy them from India. You could get a pumpkin on Valentine's Day, if you wanted.
FRAN: (hint, hint)
DWIGHT: The demand for pumpkins was such that an industry grew up around them. We wanted this seasonal thing so much, we made it NO LONGER SEASONAL. Yet we still pretend that we can only eat pumpkin at certain times of year.

DWIGHT: I'm sure that's a profound metaphor for something.
FRAN: It's a metaphor for how some people will go to any absurd length to make every cookie into a metaphor.

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{{alt-text: Do you even know what a metaphor is}}

Do you even know what a metaphor is

#677, Much musing about Pumpkin

  — November 16th, 2010

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New ways to get Bolted!

July 24, 2026 by David Malki !

In addition to buying things directly from me, the normal way, my game Bolted! is also now available on Amazon dot com.

On that famous website, you can also get the Creature-Crafting Magnets Set, which is made of the same artwork from the game, but is just a weird little trinket (not a playable game).

My kiddo made the elaborate version below to show off just how many magnets you get in the set (it’s 150 pieces in all — this isn’t even all of them).

Also now on Amazon is my set of Multi-Purpose Greeting Cards — a full dozen cards with envelopes in a fancy, unbranded, foil-stamped box!

Event alert!

I’ll also be showing off Bolted! at Greenwood Games, an event in Seattle this Saturday:

Greenwood Games is a free, all-ages community game event that invites players to spend the afternoon walking Greenwood Avenue from 65th to 80th, collecting clues, cracking puzzles, and discovering games made right here in Washington.

Think of it as Pride Hop, ArtWalk, and the Gumshoe all rolled into one,  except the whole thing is built around games and puzzles.​

Local game designers will be set up at different places along Greenwood Avenue in Phinney Ridge (near Ballard). My specific spot will be the “Holy Mountain Phinney Ridge Taproom”. All the information about all the different games & venues is on the website!

(If you’re in Seattle generally but not free tomorrow, Bolted! is also stocked at Blue Highway Games in Queen Anne.)

Next week, I’ll be at Gen Con! I personally will be hanging with my buddy Sam Logan at BFE Webcomics, booth #1217… but I have it on good authority that copies of Bolted! will be available at the CRWN Studios booth, #2549.

Visit one booth! Then the other! The order…is up to you.


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