Month: November 2011
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Happy Thanksgiving 2011!
Some links. Don’t overeat, if you can. Be grateful for what we have. Keep hope for what we don’t have. Be well.
Visual history of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade over at Time.com.
Mark Bittman at the NY Times had some cool links for Thanksgiving Eve (although we can still chew them today).
Time Out New York on the stats behind the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade.
Past Triscribe Thanksgiving posts, for your viewing/reading pleasure:
A little Coldplay…
A couple of other videos (including a Muppet one! and a clip of the Simpsons’ Thanksgiving) and links from Thanksgiving 2009 (and more).
Thanksgiving 2008 had the nice quote: “If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, ‘thank you,’ that would suffice.” – Meister Eckhart.
FC on good eating and shopping in Thanksgiving 2007.
Thanksgiving 2007: I linked to the NY Times’ Thanksgiving links and YC sent good wishes from Taipei.
Thanksgiving 2006: More food and thoughts from FC.
Thanksgiving 2005: a post from FC and a law-related Thanksgiving post from me, and a Thanksgiving Sunday post from me, along with a Beijing post from YC. Oh, and while this one had Nightline on Tuesdays with Morrie and a Thanksgiving intro to Ted Koppel-less Nightline, FC also makes it a “Lost” Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving 2004: warm thoughts from me. If you check posts around that post, you get great stuff from us at triscribe.
Thanksgiving 2003: then as now, the post-parade dog show gets referenced (yes, it’s on the tv RIGHT NOW).
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Civics Education
An interesting profile in the Washington Post on the activism of retired US Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. I agree with her that civics education in America needs help. An educated populace is a populace far more able to vote.
Civics education could have helped Rick Perry, as Jon Stewart amusingly presents the “oops” moment during the Republican debate, when the candidate couldn’t remember an agency he wants to eliminate. While errors are going to happen (Perry is only human and we all have those moments of forgetting) and that doesn’t stop one from becoming president, it doesn’t look good for Perry.
The history of “oops,” thanks to the Explainer at Slate.
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11/11/11
On this Veterans’ Day: A salute and thank you to past, present, and future Armed Services members. Take a moment to think about them and how we can all do better for/with them.
Oh, and take a look at the video that FC posted from last year’s Veterans’ Day.
JP Morgan Chase underwrote the Veterans’ Day parade in Manhattan today. They have a bunch of programs for vets, some new (per their announcements link) including a jobs program.
Some stuff I found so far on Tumblr: from New York Public Library and via the Atlantic: “In Flanders Field.”
(cross-posted on sswslitinmotion.tumblr.com – see here)
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News and Stuff
Something to amuse us:
From the 11/4/11 edition of “Mother Goose and Grimm” by Mike Peters:
Mother Goose: “See, Grimm, that’s a cardinal, but not all cardinals are red. Some cardinals are yellow, and some are grey.” (she’s reading a book on birds, during the bird watching)
Grimm, the dog (really bored): “Which is the most popular cardinal?”
Mother Goose (deadpan): “Stan Musial.”
Grimm: look of surprise.
Old joke, probably, but I thought that it was funny.
In the current storyline, for the week of 11/7/11, Grimm’s friend, a not-that-bright dog, Ralph, is dating G.M., the corporation, because he heard that corporations are people. Ralph’s dating life isn’t very good to begin with, and his dating corporations simply continues this. Poor Ralph.
In other news from the world of comics/comic strips:
The passing of Bil Keane of “Family Circus.” Jeff Keane’s been slowly taking over the comic awhile ago, so it’ll probably still continue. (“Billy” became an animator, in his real life identity as Glen Keane, who worked on many a modern Disney project; it’s all on “Jeffy” now).
Some links: from Time.com; MSNBC (via Associated Press). Nice thoughts from Gael Fashingbauer Cooper at MSNBC.com, Stephan Pastis of “Pearls Before Swine,” and even from The Comics Curmudgeon, who has amusingly teased, and will continue to tease, “Family Circus,” something we can all keep going back to in the comics section.
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Happy NaNoWriMo!
I had some of my NaNoWriMo 2011 analyzed. Apparently:
Well, I never read Cory Doctorow, so…?
Then, I had two paragraphs of one of my triscribe blog posts analyzed and I got this:
I also never read James Joyce. But, this is entirely amusing.
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1st November Weekend
Can’t believe that it’s November.
I also can’t believe that baseball season is over (St. Louis Cardinals beat the Texas Rangers in the World Series, for those not in the know; fun fact: Cardinals’ now-retired manager Tony LaRussa is a lawyer – JD and apparently passed the Florida bar exam back in the day).
Football in the throes of things: Sunday’s the big Patriots v. Giants game; go Giants!
Behind on “Community” episodes. “Fringe” is a little frustrating – with the latest iteration of the Fringe team, rather than the main one that I had grown accustomed to the previous three seasons; but I’m still open to seeing what’ll happen and watching the story unfold. Oh, and the moral of the latest episode, without giving away the plot too much, if at all: evil shapeshifters are pretty evil.
Angry Asian Man has a Q&A with John Cho and Kal Penn. I have no idea if I’m really going to see the latest Harold and Kumar movie (I missed the 2nd one as it is), but I liked that John Cho and Kal Penn were really thoughtful in this Q&A on the progress of APA’s on the big and little screens. There are still ways to go, but hey, smart/stupid/average APA’s are now getting more of a chance, not just the Dragon or Model Minority or Victim stereotypes.According to Angry Asian Man, Aasif Mandvi could be on a CBS comedy. I still can’t believe he was the latest Taco Bell spokesman. Or that guy in the “Avatar: The Last Airbender” movie. But, Aasif Mandvi with a sitcom could be a cool idea.
Saw “The Ides of March.” It was pretty good. Dark. But still: Ryan Gosling. Mmm…
The weekend before Halloween 2011 had snow, yes, but still: Xmas commercials are simply way too early. (yes, I count those Layaway commercials in that category too). Ridiculous.
The passing of 60 Minutes’ Andy Rooney. I’m linking to the Ken Tucker’s commentary about Rooney over at Entertainment Weekly; good read.
