Tag: Christmas
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How is the Year Almost Over? (Welcome to Nothing Week)
Well, hellloooo. And welcome to my favorite week of the year – the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day. That weird in-between time/no-time where no one is working or doing anything productive. We’re all just lying around, embracing full decay mode. Just like all the memes on social media have suggested. We’ve certainly been…
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Holiday Shopping With a Bang
Despite having family and friends who are into hunting for both sport and sustenance, I am not a fan of guns. Like, at all. I’ve seen firsthand how guns can be used as weapons of intimidation in domestic abuse situations. There’s nothing that will cool your feelings on guns like seeing a supposed “head of…
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Friday Links: Sassy Cats See Buildings Shaped Like Food and/or Brains Edition
I’m frolicking in Naples, Italy right now, eating all of the thin crust pizza, and pasta, and creamy pastries, and just fried everything I can get my sticky little fingers on while my travel-buddy-for-life XFE actually works. Maybe the guys who make the expandable suitcase below could branch out into some expandable pants in time…
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All I Want for Christmas is World Peace. And a Gateau Basque.
So Christmas is always, in my experience, an emotional roller coaster. And I don’t like roller coasters. Or emotions, really. But what I do like is cake. Or, pie. Or, cookie/pie/cake hybrids. Which is why for Christmas this year, I made a Gateau Basque. Actually, we’re not very big on sweets in thePoeLog household. Neither…
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Happy Kwanzaa.
A real post is coming your way tomorrow. Promise. In the meantime, may I present: Rhett Miller of the Old 97s.
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Christmas Ennui
In lieu of a post, I bring you Henri, who is visited by the cats of Christmas past, present, future, etc. He learns nothing. The. End.
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‘Best Funeral Ever?’ More Like Best Idea for a Reality TV Show Ever
Listen, I know I owe all of you a real post. I’ve even started a post on our last stop in Spain (the alluring San Sebastian). But it’s not ready, and I’m super-important and really busy, and it’s the holidays, and there’s lots of baking, and entertaining, and partying, and fancy dressing going on, and…
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Bah Humbug. Bring on the New Year’s Champagne
Christmas is finally, FINALLY over. Thank Amazon.com, JCrew, and the other retail gods. See, I have what I call “white sheep syndrome.” It’s like a form of survivor’s guilt: I escaped soul-crushing poverty but doing so came at a definite cost. To save myself, I had to leave other people behind and not look back. Specifically,…
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Hotel Crashing: The Venetian, Las Vegas
Did you know that the Phantom of the Opera is playing at the Venetian in Vegas? If you’re staying at the hotel, you definitely do. Because it’s everywhere. The music in the elevators? Phantom. The music in the lobby? Phantom. The welcoming card in the bedroom? Phantom. We’ve stayed in quite a few places in…