Entries Categorized as 'Holidays'
May 23, 2009
I hope this isn’t as bad as it looks. I really hope that.
And I understand that we’ve always allowed the Japanese to sugar-coat their own history, and pretend that the rape of Nanking (for instance) never happened.
But the solution to that is to encourage honest scholarship among the Japanese. And any nation must [...]
Posted in Americana, Around the 'Sphere, Democracy, Like Wildflowers Over the Hills, Germany, Ghost Stories, History, Holidays, Matters Military, Obama Administration, Pajamas Media/PJTV, Patriotism, Remembering . . ., United Kingdom, Western Europe, new media, politics 
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April 13, 2009
Is there anyone working at the White House these days who isn’t a narcissist?
There was, yesterday, the usual odd pairing of ‘tude (”this is the bestest Presidential administration in the history of Presidential administrations!”) with abysmal incompetence.
So we are treated to the spectacle of an Easter Egg Roll on the White House lawn that features [...]
Posted in Americana, Around the 'Sphere, Faith and Faiths, Holidays, Obama Administration, new media, politics No Comments »
December 28, 2008
December 28, 2008
Just close family; I didn’t bother with a shower or makeup. Of course, there’s not too much evidence of how bad I looked, since I was behind the camera most of the time.
Best pic of the night:
Posted in Ain't This the Life?, Christmas, Family No Comments »
December 27, 2008
I’m here at one of the cousins’ places in Seattle; nice to be here. The husbands’ extended family is all mildly curious at the cold snap that leaves snow, intact, on the ground even as it rains. This does not, however, slow these erstwhile Hoosiers down on the freeways: they drive in rain and snow [...]
Posted in All About Meeeee!, Americana, Christmas, Lanterns and Scimitars, Upper Midwest [U.S.] No Comments »
December 25, 2008
There weren’t many agents at the U.S. Airways desk this morning at LAX. Consequently, a lot of people missed their flights due to the two-hour delay to get a boarding pass and/or check luggage. After a certain point, the situation started to snowball, because of course the existing agents were so occupied with re-booking those [...]
Posted in Airlines, All About Meeeee!, Americana, Christmas 1 Comment »
December 23, 2008
But the sea near Seattle will be safe from salt.
So I’ll have that going for me.
Posted in Ain't This the Life?, Christmas 1 Comment »
December 23, 2008
My husband is in the town in Oregon where his cousins live, but they had to make an emergency trip to the hospital. If they don’t get back to their ranch tonight, he may drive on ahead to Portland to beat Storm #2 (he intentionally drove just behind Storm #1). And then maybe we’ll see [...]
Posted in Ain't This the Life?, Christmas No Comments »
December 20, 2008
I went to a hardware store today, and bought:
• some holiday decorations;
• a few things for around the house;
• spackle, those “spatulas” one uses for applying it, steel wool, and duct tape;
• one more electronic mouse-zapping trap; and
• 20 standard wooden spring-type traps; and
• a flashlight with a powerful magnet on it, [...]
Posted in Ain't This the Life?, Christmas, Editorial Endeavors No Comments »
December 3, 2008
From Marie Kwabler at the INI News Desk:
PBS Plans Christmas with Bill Ayers
BOSTON, MA - WGBH intends to broadcast a holiday special starring former terrorist William Ayers this month. The special, described by one source as “like spending the holiday being scolded by a scary man,” initially seemed doomed. “The show was four hours long,” [...]
Posted in Americana, Christmas, Entertainment, Terrible Terrorism 9 Comments »
November 27, 2008
I’m thankful to be healthy, brilliant, and not too hard on the eyes.
I’m thankful to have things to do, and clients to annoy.
I’m thankful to live in an age when a lot of people stand a fighting chance against cancer that they wouldn’t have a generation ago, and when heart-bypass operations are likely to be [...]
Posted in Ain't This the Life?, Americana, Art and Technology, Culinary Concerns, Media, Prayer Requests, Technology and New Horizons, Terrible Terrorism, Thanksgiving, new media 2 Comments »
November 25, 2008
For your non-vegetarian friends, the Claire Booth Luce Institute has just published its “Pretty in Mink” wall calendar, and it rawks. (Malkin! Ham! Coulter! A bevy of beautiful women with huge tracts of . . . cerebral cortex.)
For the vegetarians among us, you might try one of Gina’s lovely cheesecake calendars, the proceeds of [...]
Posted in Fundraising, Girlz, Happiness Is a Warm Gun, Holidays, Matters Military, Puppies!, Queen Ann, Sex/Drugs/Rock 'n' Roll, Uncategorized 4 Comments »
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