Monthly Archives: November 2008

The First Thanksgiving

After my cousins and uncle and mother and grandfather left tonight, I realized that the last time that part of my family had a nice, home-cooked meal together was probably well over ten years ago. When my cousins arrived and Scott offered them a drink – wine: merlot, reisling, chardonnay; soda: diet coke, 7up; water, [...]
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Misc. Dog

I.Last Thanksgiving, Scott and I decided that we were going to have Thanksgiving at our house this year. Since my mom’s family is [such a long story], it seemed like the right thing to do. And, we figured, it would give us a deadline for finishing our basement. We decided it would be a good [...]
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Friday Night Bites

This afternoon I did a test run of veganized green bean casserole for Thanksgiving, and it came out so well that Scott and I devoured the whole pan for dinner. I was planning to use mushroom bouillon and soymilk to approximate condensed cream of mushroom soup, but I was delighted to find that Imagine Foods [...]
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Electorama.

The election was big and important. I have nothing to articulate that has not been well articulated many times over. But this happened: while I was watching CNN and waiting for Obama’s speech, I read “President Elect Obama” as “President Elect-O-Rama,” on my itty-bitty TV, and wondered what the hell kind of sub-culture vernacular CNN was [...]
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PROJECTION!

CNN now projects that a state of annoyance will go to Lauren! Lauren will pick up significant aggravation by breaking the months-long news blackout! Regardless of what I think of the results, it pisses me off election results of closed states are made public before the polls close nationally. It’s not going to change any election [...]
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