Holidays
Goodbye to the worst decade ever
Here in the Smoking Lounge we’re seeing in the New Year with a bottle of Freixenet Cordon Negro Brut and a Lindt 70%-cocoa chocolate bar. We’re also bidding farewell to the old year and the old decade, which totally and completely sucked.
Noteworthy features of the decade which we are happy to see the back [...]
I only turn on the TV once a year. You’d think there would be something on.
Greetings, people of the world. (Or people who read my blog — not quite the same thing. Though there is the President of Finland.) I’m sitting here in my study, quietly working away on the Christmas gift I’m making for my mother. I have the TV on for company, which is [...]
I’m giving myself a B+
But that’s just until Raoul gets a job and can start picking up the tab for my prescriptions. Then I think I’ll bump it up to A-minus.
What lambert said: asshole.
In other hilarious news, President Obama claims that he “did not run for office to be helping out a bunch of fat [...]
Happy Thanksgiving!
We’ve got almost a whole continent to be [snark]thankful[/snark] for:
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Open thread, of course. I’ve got to set the table.
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I thought I’d put up a picture of a something Thanksgiving-y, but I was distracted this morning by the reviews of Red Cliff, the new John Woo movie. Tony Leung is so beautiful I can’t stand it:
The gorgeous Takeshi Kaneshiro is also in the movie, but I prefer the way he looked in [...]
Dried fruit?
I think it’s fabulous that the Obamas went all out for Halloween. Major style points for the whole thing: the big house lit up with orange, the skeleton band, even the First Lady in a cat woman outfit (which I thought was absolutely adorable).
But this, this:
Barack and Michelle Obama [...]
Take back Halloween!
Halloween used to be my second-favorite holiday (after Christmas). Back in the 80s, before Halloween became Dress Like A Whore Day, I used to love going to costume parties. One year I went as a floor lamp. Another I went as a mermaid. I still remember the costume winners at [...]
Happy Lupercalia!
I didn’t do much for Valentine’s yesterday, but Lupercalia is a big deal in our house. This morning we sacrificed a toy stuffed goat, smeared ketchup on our foreheads, and then ran through the woods with our goat thongs (actually canvas) whipping the trees so they would be fertile. Molly and I did [...]
Christmas comes but four or five times a year
Depending on what you count as Christmas. Today is the eve of St. Nicholas Day, a big deal in some European countries. Then there’s December 25, the birth of Sol Invictus Mithras Jesus. There’s Boxing Day, which isn’t really Christmas but might as well be, seeing how the Brits carry on about [...]
Let’s talk about food, family, home, cooking and baking, spinning and weaving, chickens — no, not chickens!
Freak out your family this Thanksgiving with this hideous centerpiece idea from some magazine. Because really, what’s more festive than blackened lemon slices?
Hello, everybody. (Said the way Katherine Hepburn delivered the line in The Philadelphia Story, the morning she wakes up with the mother of all hangovers. Except with a sinus headache [...]
