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[Dec. 29th, 2009|11:02 am] |
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Los Cuates! Yep, that's where we'll be tonight (Tuesday, 12/29/2009), from 5:30 to 7:30 pm (or later, depending on when people are able to get there).
So, please join us if you can. Bring friends who may not have seen this or the email, if they'd like to. And cross your fingers we don't get snowed out. |
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[Dec. 21st, 2009|05:33 pm] |
This is how we spent the snowstorm...
Driving down to Philly!
We weren't about to let a Pricelined hotel room go to waste just because the family we were supposed to be meeting couldn't make it out of the driveway. Let's have an adventure!
The first few flakes were just starting to drift down in Brooklyn when we headed out, we were about halfway down the Turnpike, around exit 7A or so, when it started to stick and everything slowed down to 15mph. The inclines of exit ramps were a little nervewracking, especially when better-equipped cars than ours were stopped to the side, but we ended up at our destination safe and sound.
And met ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) vagab0nd in Northern Liberties for seitan cheesesteaks and lots of whiskey. This was the view across the street.
Philly really was a winter wonderland, all the little shops and cafes of Rittenhouse Square blanketed with fresh sparkling snowfall. Walking around in the night, softness underfoot, all was stone and silence. White darkness lit up with rows of streetlamps, the violet glow of a fortuneteller's sign, distant giggles of somebody trying not to fall down.
An unexpectedly and absolutely enchanting weekend. |
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[Dec. 17th, 2009|10:04 pm] |
Right now I'm watching the Stephen Colbert Christmas Special, and I am once again reminded how the holidays are second only to patriotism in mindblowing displays of bad taste. This show is whacking me across the chops with both. I can only sit here and goggle helplessly.
Last week we visited the Holiday Lane at Macy's to see how it stacked up to the one in San Francisco (meh, half the trees weren't even finished), and to pick out the most craptacular ornament to throw into Cory's family's steal-the-present swap next week. We got some hot chocolate on the mezzanine and ascended into the soothing clackery of the wooden escalators, and wound up having this conversation about Cradle of Filth being a supposed black metal sellout while perusing tiny glittering skyscrapers. I ended up getting a cute little chandelier because I decided I wanted my swap entry to be something people would fight over. I also got ornaments to tuck into my cousins' gift packages - none of this tacky glitzy crap, those reindeers were made of black velvet.
We also did the Google party which was at the Museum of Natural History. It started out jazzy and sedate, and then proved that the entire world is always three drinks away from busting out the disco. Even when they're dancing beneath a giant whale. |
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