Foto Friday: Turducken, continued. 25 November 2011 10:25 am
Posted by Tracy in : cooking,events,family,food as spectator sport,friends,fun,hot mess,not even vegetarian,people,photos,pictures , add a commentHappy Buy Nothing Day!
I can’t even begin to tell you how hard it was to avoid making comments on Wednesday’s pictures, readers. If any of you clicked through to Flickr for larger versions (uh, correction, saw hover text from Flickr, since I didn’t quite have the technical ability: see below), you may have noticed a touch of verbosity in the captions there… Yup, those would be my efforts to channel away all the text I couldn’t use on a Wordless Wednesday. ANYWAY. In case you haven’t seen enough turducken to last you a year or more (believe it or not, this was Peter and my third such effort), and you didn’t eat so much yesterday that you don’t want to look at food till Sunday or so, eventually this post will be filled with more pictures of the ghosts of Thanksgiving two years past. For now, however, I am still at my brother’s place in Vermont, where neither Internet nor phone coverage are quite reliable enough to post much, so for now I will leave you with some teaser placeholder pics:
Another weekend, another epistle. 19 November 2011 9:38 am
Posted by Tracy in : cross-posting,events,fangirl,video,writing , add a commentToday I have kind words about my love of soccer (football for non-U.S. English discussers of the sport) over at my Open Letters blog. Also, because this post was looking so small, and because hunting around YouTube was a good way to ignore the upstairs neighbors’ music (too early for a Saturday morning, kids), a bonus video:
Also, I kinda like having this song stuck in my head.
Back to Open Letters for the weekend! 12 November 2011 1:41 pm
Posted by Tracy in : cross-posting,events , add a commentToday’s epistle is to weddings, and it starts,
Dear weddings,
More than six years ago, I started writing you a letter that began, “I hate you, even when I like the people involved.” Today, I am amending that to say that now that I’m married, I still think you suck.
So, don’t say you weren’t warned?
Another Twitter Tuesday! 8 November 2011 11:24 pm
Posted by Tracy in : America's Test Kitchen,diet stress is a health hazard,events,fangirl,fast food,food safety,food snobbery,health at every size,media,meta,news,Twitter Tuesday , add a commentHey, so like I confessed yesterday, I really didn’t know what to blog about today, only then suddenly, to my surprise and delight, the Twitters, which I kinda sorta really hadn’t been watching since last Tuesday, came through for me in a big way. Check these out! First and foremost, my former classmate Shanti with news that makes me want to make horrible puns about sticky messes:
Shanti Elise Prasad (@shantielise)
If you eat honey, this may blow your mind. Tests Show Most Store Honey Isn’t Honey… foodsafetynews.com/2011/11/tests-…
I’m having a little trouble wrapping my head around this story, personally, because as far as I can tell from the article, the definition of “honey” being argued about here is whether or not (for example) the sweet golden goo in the plastic bear has pollen in it. But the article’s scandal-monger-y lede:
More than three-fourths of the honey sold in U.S. grocery stores isn’t exactly what the bees produce, according to testing done exclusively for Food Safety News.
really rubs me the wrong way. Because with the possible exception of some wild-caught fish, pretty much no animal product sold in U.S. grocery stores is exactly what the animals in question produce. It’s all processed one way or another. (more…)
Today at Open Letters: Global Climate Change. 6 November 2011 1:37 pm
Posted by Tracy in : cross-posting,events,writing , add a commentI’ve said this before and will no doubt say it again, but I believe in global weirding and would like very much for it to stop proving its existence with meteorological disasters, please.
