Many thanks to faithful commentor LAMH!
We’re off to our favorite Chinese restaurant (heeya, Adam). Play nice… or at least clean up the worst of the mess after yourselves.
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Many thanks to faithful commentor LAMH!
We’re off to our favorite Chinese restaurant (heeya, Adam). Play nice… or at least clean up the worst of the mess after yourselves.
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(via Schrodingers Cat)
(via Wenchacha)
… Everybody’s been there, everybody’s been stared down
By the enemy
Fallen for the fear and done some disappearing
Bow down to the mighty
Don’t run, stop holding your tongue
Maybe there’s a way out of the cage where you live
Maybe one of these days you can let the light in
Show me how big your brave is…
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As of 11:48pmEST Monday night, the gradual decline into darkness reached its nadir for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, and from this morning on the days get longer. Colder and nastier and presumably snowier, at least for those of us in New England, but longer!
If you can’t be at Newgrange, Nazca, or Karnak, here’s hoping everyone can find a moment to celebrate the triumph of light over darkness, evanescent as it may be…
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Apart from astronomical events, what’s on the agenda for the day?
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And the geese are being fattened for slaughter. Ran across this on YouTube, and thought to myself: This includes every ‘tasteful’ holiday performance trope of the last 150 years, except possibly the pantomime dame.
Apart from crass explotation of the season, what’s on the agenda as we start another week?
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Yeah, the holiday doesn’t officially start until sunset, but who knows how much news will be happening then? Meanwhile, candles against the darkness, sweets, potato pancakes, community — what’s not to like?
As for my choice of music, could be much worse, per NPR:
… On Saturday, the eve of Hanukkah, NPR’s Scott Simon took the opportunity to open up the songbook with Josh Kun, co-founder of the Idelsohn Society for Musical Preservation…
“It’s funny, you know, my relationship to Hannukah songs really comes through — I guess what you could say the back door, but maybe it’s the front door — of Christmas songs. So first, like, my favorite Jewish Hanukkah songs are actually some of the greatest Christmas songs that have been written by Jews … like kind of, oh, all of them? “[I’m Dreaming of a] White Christmas,” “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” — most of the great English-language pop Christmas songs were written by American Jews. Some of the greatest Christmas albums are, of course, Christmas albums by American Jews like Barbra [Streisand], Neil [Diamond], Barry [Manilow] and the like….”
Started a new Hanukkah tradition this year where I hang up the phone on my dad because he says he likes Marco Rubio.
— OhNoSheTwitnt (@OhNoSheTwitnt) December 6, 2015
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