Friday, November 7th, 2008
Tina and I love America. You bring us the sweet joy of television, elections that are way more interesting than ours, movies that we talk about seeing and then don’t end up seeing, and populate the internet with a vast variety of people we wish we actually knew in real life.
That’s why, this week at Choosy Beggars, we’ve started to help you prepare for your American Thanksgiving (the one with a four-day weekend), by sharing some of the joy from our Canadian Thanksgiving (the one that feels vaguely like a rip-off when you start thinking about American Thanksgiving). As a lead up to your main event, we’ve started with the sides, desserts and beverages — including:
Sausage, fennel and orange stuffing with oregano
Grappa cranberry sauce
Artichoke and Olive Oil Mashed Potatoes
To be washed down with (possibly disappointingly, but you’re welcome to try for yourself):
Post Road Pumpkin Ale
And closed out with:
White chocolate pots de creme with candied orange
It’s the least we can do, and who would blame you if you wanted to practice a few of these before the big meal? Certainly not us.
Friday, November 7th, 2008
…I was just waiting for something interesting to say about it. As a Canadian and overall outsider to the process, it’s really impossible for me to offer insights beyond, “Wow people really cared about that election, and wow people really couldn’t have given a toss about the one we just had in Canada.” I read enough snotty comments on the internet through the campaign that made me bristle, so I can only guess how irritating it must be to an actual American to endure the peanut gallery when it felt like — and probably still does — the whole world is about to change.
What I can offer, however, is my admiration. Nobody, and I do mean nobody, does election photography like the US of A.
First, Boston.com’s The Big Picture gallery of the new President-Elect. I am willing that nobody will find a set of photographs as interesting, captivating or articulate about Canada’s just re-elected Prime Minister. And if you’ve never seen The Big Picture before, it’s one to add to your feed reader — everything from hurricanes to horses are featured, and it’s always worth spending a few minutes to scroll through and absorb the images.
Second, the Obama campaign’s own Flickr site of election night photographs. These are the sorts of pictures that at one time you’d have had to travel to a Presidential museum to see, and now you can scroll through them at your desk when you should be working. You may not having a flying car, but have no doubt: You’re in the future.
Congratulations, America, on conducting a campaign that spurred possibly the highest voter turnout in a hundred years. When you do it up, you do it up big.
Friday, October 31st, 2008
Is there any greater way to celebrate Hallowe’en, which around our household is like Christmas and New Year’s multiplied by ten thousand?
I don’t think so.
Happy Hallowe’en, everyone. It’s been a great one.
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
And not just chocolate, mind you: Double chocolate.
It’s good things that go with other good things week, over at Choosy Beggars, so come check it out. And no, my relentless pimping will never end.
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
This is my new profile picture on Facebook, because it is possibly my favorite image ever. I am lost in its myriad details. When one aspect no longer makes me giggle, I merely move on to the next one. Next to I Has a Bucket, I have never been so tickled.
(via Boner Party)