the inside of the cake that the unicorn shat on! while cutting there was some double-rainbow-esque screaming happening. i try my hardest to incorporate internet memes into birthdays.
so, my sister is awesome. great celebrations with the family this weekend. welcoming 28, later this week, with such great people in my life warms the heart.
walking back from the uhhh-mazing vermont farmers dinner we stopped to admire the sunset that we had been enjoying all evening. the lumps from left to right are betsy, big john, al, tommy, and kate. I had the flash on and everyone said it went off, but i guess the sunset was all “screw that” and shut that bad boy down. i was a bit upset because this was the only family-shot opportunity that i took the whole time we were there, but then i went to bingo and witnessed one of the best almost-wins of all time. like, i think bri’s loss was better than actually winning.
another vacation where the d90 didn’t get used once. shame.
lover’s spit by broken social scene
this is the song alex choreographed and danced to last night, with lara clemens, at shut up and dance.
he entitled his piece be like water, my friend. it was gorgeous.
missed this but can’t wait to see video.
Synesthesia (also spelled synæsthesia or synaesthesia, plural synesthesiae or synaesthesiae)—from the Ancient Greek σύν (syn), “together,” and αἴσθησις (aisthēsis), “sensation“—is a neurologically-based condition in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to…
file under things you didn’t know about your brother.
But aside from making me really hungry, the video also made me think of how certain media is presented to allow for an experience, to make the technology behind it disappear. That oh-so-smooth transition from “video on a video hosting website” to “Salsa Show!” was clutch to making me view this as more than a 40-second clip about a vegetable I really couldn’t care less about and something I wanted to click away from. Movie theaters are certainly designed to be invisible, and I think physical books are as well, providing only the turn of a page as the sole interruption between the written word and the reader’s imagination. Even then, that interruption is the mark of a good book: a “page-turner.” With the boom of electronic reading devices, it’s important to keep this feature in mind; which device will allow you to have an experience with a book, to make you want that salsa and nothing else, and then give it to you?
my sister is a better blogger than i am.
me, trying to be a tough guy.
tomorrow, alex heads back down to philly after break from dancing & classes. all six of us had dinner for the last time probably until katie’s birthday in a few weeks.
mom told her story again about great grandma ackerman’s sister, who worked at grand central station as a reservations agent, memorized the timetables for the entire united states rail system.
i also whipped up some apple sauce raisin cake. mom and pop’s wedding cake. from the recipes of grandma eliza taylor ratcliffe (1900-1986), edited by mom and eva taylor barclay in 1993:
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 1/2 cups applesauce (homemade or McIntosh store bought)
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon and a little more
- 2 cups flour
- 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter
- 1 cup raisins
- Pinch of allspice
- No eggs
- Preheat oven to 325o - 350o
- Cream butter and sugar, add applesauce and spices.
- Add flour.
- Bake in greased and floured 13”x9” pan until cake leaves sides of pan and springs back when you touch the top. Leave in pan.
- When cool ice with white butter icing.
“I’m sorry, I don’t measure very much, so can’t help you too much, experience is the best teacher, do it when you are not having company.
Lots of love, Grandma”
Aunt Eva says Grandma always put a good meal on the table even though dinner was always being interrupted by people coming by to talk to Grandpa because he was in politics. Many evenings dinner was rushed because Grandma had to have her sons, Bob and Jackie, dressed and ready to go with Grandpa to the Preakness Farmers’ ball games. Grandpa managed the team and Uncle Roy played on it. Grandpa always had to have his sons along with him at the games.
nice evening with the fam.
“quality without compromise.”see’s candy is dad’s favorite.
today was heavy, long but good. the holidays always get you right when you think they won’t.
