Mmmfood

[cleolinda]

Happy Thanksgiving! And if you don't celebrate Thanksgiving, all I can say is that you should. Not because of the Deep, Uniquely American Cultural Meaning--hell, I don't think I heard the word "pilgrims" even once this year. I just think that every culture should have an Eating and Sleeping Day, because, let's face it, that's what Thanksgiving is. As for being thankful, I'm sorry, but it's kind of shitty to only do that once a year, so I maintain that really, the point of the holiday as a once-a-year event should be the food. Not that I even really like Thanksgiving dishes all that much, but I know other people do, and it's nice to have them out of commission on their sofas and recliners and not bothering me.

(Mmmfudgepie.)

Heh. I think I ate more for dinner than I did for lunch, but then, I basically want turkey and potatoes and maybe three of the fifteen different kinds of pickled produce on the table, and I'm happy. Oh, and cranberry sauce. The smooth, bland kind that's still holding the shape of the can after you've sliced it. (Hey, you're the one eating sweet potato casserole crusted in pecans and marshmallows, don't look at me.) Although Sister Girl did make cranberry dressing from scratch this year--it was hilarious watching us all make faces around the table as we ate it, not because it was bad, but because so many of us were unacquainted with what real, unprocessed cranberries do to your mouth. Anyway, I'm not weighted down with all the cream- and cheese-laden casseroles (I saw sweet potato, green bean, broccoli, and creamed corn, and God knows what else there was that I didn't even notice), so I tend to settle down with a book for the afternoon, after we've finished watching the dog show with J. Peterman. Which is what I woke up drooling on about two hours ago.

First Arrested Development, now Alias.

Stills of deleted GOF scenes?

Something I saw in the Wikipedia entry on the concept of beauty: According to an ancient Indian definition, the beautiful is that which from moment to moment is always new. I like it.

In response to my question the other day, from mystic_notions: christmas_music.

Many of you commented to note that I was still wrong about the Stevie Nicks song--it's "like a willow, I can bend," which I find hilarious. Not the actual lyrics, I mean, but that I could be so persistently wrong about them. But hey, c'est moi.

The pop princesses spent the holiday one-upping each other: Christina got married, Britney sold her baby out after all, and finally, Nick and Jessica are divorcing.

A directory of all-night eateries. Seriously, go look up your town and flesh the thing out; there's got to be someplace in town other than the Purple Onion that's open late.

I'm sure a lot of you have heard of PostSecret, which is an awesomely creepy thought-provoking site, but I think this one is particularly appropriate for Livejournal. (And here's another blog-turned-book, which I highly encourage you to order.)

Oh, and I saw on TV that some network is showing Attack of the Clones tomorrow night. I was about to say, "And now you can read along!," until I realized that the people with the book and the people with American TV channels mostly do not overlap on the Venn diagram. Sigh.

By the way, if you're in the mood for more linkspam, I go over to del.icio.us when I have a few moments and add more links--for me, if no one else. The category "ideas," by the way, is in the sense of "ideas for writing," if that makes any more sense.

Comments

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

I like the idea of a Sleeping and Eating Day but I propose we hold it in June. Firstly, because it would be nearer my birthday that way and secondly because your Thanksgiving is too close to Christmas, which is the other major Sleeping and Eating Day and you could only truly appreciate them if they were further apart. :)

[lotusbiosm.livejournal.com]

Well, but see, Thanksgiving is the day of Eating and Sleeping, and Christmas is the day of Food and Presents.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Exactly.

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

Good point, well made. :D

[bardintraining.livejournal.com]

We Canadians escape the pitfalls of Thanksgiving and Christmas too-close-together by doing it all in October, just before we all gorge ourselves on candy at Hallowe'en.
. . . What? We need to fatten up for hibernation!

[alliemolloy.livejournal.com]

Ahahaha! So true. But I was getting so hungry today online, reading about other people's feasts.

Love the icon, by the way. :-)

[bardintraining.livejournal.com]

True about the hungry. Thursdays are always a hungry day, because classes like to be at odd hours, force breakfast upon me at 8 and extend far over lunch and then it's practically dinner time and there is no hot food available in the cafeteria at 2:30 for late-lunchers like myself. Grr. Ohhhh for stuffing and turkey and potatoes and pie and home-made cranberry-orange sauce (a surprisingly tasty combination.)

Heh. I love this icon. I loved that show. I love Greg Jbara...whose last name I can never remember how to spell. ^__^

[evilbearhunter.livejournal.com]

Happy Thanksgiving!

[etherealshores.livejournal.com]

There's not very many good tv shows left these days.

It's sad.

I want the GOF dvd NOW! xD

Happy Turkey Day. :)

It's official. I can't type. xD

[atalantapendrag.livejournal.com]

*checks out all-night-food site*

The quality of the reviews are awfully uneven, I'm assuming they're reader-submitted. Pretty cool, though.


I hate Thanksgiving, though. There is always a disaster on Thanksgiving. This year it was a pipe giving out on my toilet, flooding my bathroom and hall and leaking into the apartment downstairs.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Yeah, totally reader-submitted. Which is why I'm throwing y'all at it, to class the joint up. ; )

(Yikes!)

[outinthestorm.livejournal.com]

Here's hoping that we get all the GOF deleted scenes on the DVD.

*crosses fingers*

[trede.livejournal.com]

What do you think of this latest scandal, Cleo?

Bush talked of bombing Al-Jazeera

Bush spoke of targeting Al-Jazeera's headquarters in Doha, Qatar, when he met Blair at the White House on April 16, 2004. The Bush administration has regularly accused Al-Jazeera of being nothing more than a mouthpiece for anti-American sentiments.
(http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2005-11-22-bush-al-jazeera_x.htm?csp=34)

And from CNN today:

Jazeera fury over 'U.S. bomb' memo (http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/11/24/jazeera.protest/index.html)

[trede.livejournal.com]

Oops, I think you covered this in a previous post.

My bad.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I did, but it's been developing still. I don't know... isn't he claiming he was being facetious (which the rest of the evidence does not seem to back up)?

All I know is, there's almost nothing Bush could do to surprise me anymore.

[larabeaton.livejournal.com]

I'm not too surprised about Alias. I've only watched it a couple of times this year, because I just find it disturbing to watch a heavily pregnant woman as a spy.

(Besides, Michael Vartan (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0890232/) isn't on it anymore, so there goes half the reason I was watching it.)

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

Although Sister Girl did make cranberry dressing from scratch this year--it was hilarious watching us all make faces around the table as we ate it, not because it was bad, but because so many of us were unacquainted with what real, unprocessed cranberries do to your mouth.

Heeeee! We New England persons know all about that.

[greenwitch.livejournal.com]

And if you don't celebrate Thanksgiving, all I can say is that you should. Not because of the Deep, Uniquely American Cultural Meaning--hell, I don't think I heard the word "pilgrims" even once this year. I just think that every culture should have an Eating and Sleeping Day, because, let's face it, that's what Thanksgiving is.

We had our new British neighbors over for dinner :D THEY HAVE BEEN CONVERTED!!!

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Huzzah!

[the-wanlorn.livejournal.com]

A directory of all-night eateries.

Thank you! THANK you!! I recently moved to Boston and me and my friends' biggest complaint is that there's nowhere to get food at 4AM after we've finally finished our CS project.

You're my hero.

But only if it turns out all-night eateries exist in Boston.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Dude, if we have one in Birmingham, you have some in Boston. I promise.

[the-wanlorn.livejournal.com]

There ARE!!! There's two all-nighters and two until-3AMers!! And one of the latter is right down the street from me and we never found it! But it's there! It's a MIRACLE!!!!

<33333333333333333333333333333

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Hee! My work here is done. *cape swish*

[bardintraining.livejournal.com]

The closest I can get is a city that's a good two-hour boat ride and at LEAST half an hour of driving away from where I live. :( And what do they serve aaaaall night? Donuts. >__< The ONE deep-fried food that I can easily get sick of after a few TimBits coated with sugar...
Although...pump that sucka full of Bavarian creme and coat it in chocolate and I might be persuaded to worry some down.

[edda.livejournal.com]

*buuuuuuuuurrrrrrrrrrrp*

Thanks, you too.

[mouseykins1.livejournal.com]

Fwee! I love Turkey Genocide Day! It's good to know that all these birds died so we could use them as leftovers.
My mom made pecan pie, and I swear, it is the most sugary think you shall ever eat. It didn't work out right, and it was just a liquid, so we put it on ice cream and my throat is burning from the sweetness.
And WTF waterfall at Hogwarts? Wha?

[adoresixtyfour.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry...I'm sleepy from eating too much. Were you saying something?

Happy Thanksgiving, one and all.

[madusa.livejournal.com]

Happy Thanksgiving to you all!

According to an ancient Indian definition, the beautiful is that which from moment to moment is always new
Ahh, i like it too. Sometimes, it takes people from other cultures to make you aware of the beauty of your own... :)

[okydokypokey.livejournal.com]

Oh, and I saw on TV that some network is showing Attack of the Clones tomorrow night. I was about to say, "And now you can read along!," until I realized that the people with the book and the people with American TV channels mostly do not overlap on the Venn diagram. Sigh.

I definitly overlap! sup middle part.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Heh. Another channel (WE?) is showing Titanic, so you get to take your pick. : )

[karintheswede]

TV here has, in the time since your book came out, showed LotR and the first two [new] StarWars. Also Braveheart. Oh, and one of the Harry Potters, but I didn't see that.

As for an eating and sleeping holiday, Swedes do that on midsummer, which is the Friday after the solstice. I think I've said this before, but I'll say it again: if someone got it into their head that invading Sweden was a good idea, they should do so the day after midsummer, because the entire country is hungover. Other good dates are May 1st and Christmas day.

[ulicqel-droma.livejournal.com]

My sister and I both asked for the book for Christmas and we don't care if it's international shipping. We wants it! It is our preciousssss!!

Did I tell you I'm getting a new LJ? Can I still be on your flist with the new one?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Are you getting a different journal or just changing your name?

[bluinkalchemist.livejournal.com]

Both. ;) It was time for a change and some major house-cleaning. So here I am.

[fadagaski.livejournal.com]

"I just think that every culture should have an Eating and Sleeping Day"

Christmas Day, Boxing Day.

[sea-of-tethys.livejournal.com]

Oh, the postsecret you linked to won't display. :(

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

It says, "I copy stuff from other peoples [sic] online journals and put it in my own..."

[sea-of-tethys.livejournal.com]

Bwahaha!

[txvoodoo.livejournal.com]

OK, I have a wee issue w/ the PostSecret book. See, your book? Is full of your hard work, your ideas, your wit, your jokes, etc etc. The Postsecret book reaps the work of others. Yes, they had a great initial idea, but ti's the creativity of others that makes them unique. Yeah, they've got the legal disclaimer and so forth but, it just doesn't sit well with me. Just call me the grinch :D

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I can see what you mean. The exhibits they mention running sit a little better with me--it's more like curating folk art. Although, to be honest with you, I wonder how many of the postcards come from people behind PostSecret. In theory, none of them, but some of them are so artful and/or shocking that I wonder.

[txvoodoo.livejournal.com]

Maybe I'm just overly cynical or suspicious :D

Then again, my government has encouraged that!

Happy holiday, dear

[elyim.livejournal.com]

Loving how on those HP calendar deleted scene scans Snape, Hogwarts, McGonagall, and Voldemort are all TM'd.

Christmas and Boxing Day is enough eaty-sleepy for me, quite frankly.

[spooke.livejournal.com]

Here in Denmark the gorge-and-sleep day is Christmas, but in reality the whole month is full of feasts while visiting friends, and Christmas itself lasts 3 days.

[sillyworx.livejournal.com]

I just think that every culture should have an Eating and Sleeping Day, because, let's face it, that's what Thanksgiving is.

Oh don't you worry, we have second Christmas day, second easter day (hey I'm just giving the direct translations here) and even Queensday... no shortage on Eating and Sleeping Days here!

[bell-witch.livejournal.com]

I like baked yams, not the casseroles. They're too sweet and gross me out.

Cranberry sauce doesn't grow in cans like that? (My sister was making this jest yesterday. I like it that way, better than fresh. It's just fun. Deal me in!)

We went out to supper, and it was really nice.

BPAL

[3hours.livejournal.com]

I got my order! An extra imp was included though, is this normal on a plain 6 imp order? I'd ordered O, Vixen, Velvet, Debauchery, Morocco and Snake Oil, and they gave me Black Pearl for free. Only tried Morocco so far (literally just opened the box) but I think I might be in love :[

[bacardibreezer7.livejournal.com]

Seen this?

Woman dumps kittens, judge orders her to spend the night in the woods (http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/1123animal-sentence23-ON.html)

Mmmmm late night eatery

[slash-puppy.livejournal.com]

A directory of all-night eateries. Seriously, go look up your town and flesh the thing out; there's got to be someplace in town other than the Purple Onion that's open late.

Heh, I added my favorite: Steak-N-Shake. ^_^

[foresthouse.livejournal.com]

That's the kind of cranberry sauce I like best too. The only other acceptable kind is the one my grandmother makes with lemon jello. For some reason, it's awesome.

I am v. sad about ALIAS. *sniff*