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| Sunday, November 15th, 2009 |
seraphimsigrist
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11:21a |
The Baron. Pushkin's Tragic Vision. The Chrysler Building in a Glory of night.
Friends, Yesterday was the last day of Pushkin's Little Tragedies at the Baryshnikov Theater and we, a group of his friends, saw Peter Von Berg play three roles and in particular that of the Baron in "The Knight Miser". Here is Peter as Baron. and some other pictures ( Read more... )and as you see I have added some thought on the Little Tragdedies. After, good pasta and wine and talk and then coming to Grand Central Station I saw the Chrysler building strikingly radiant in the mist after a day of light rain. I put a small image at the end but here it is larger ( Read more... )I realized again and newly what a beautiful building the Chrysler Building and what a beautiful place the City is... and perhaps you will enjoy seeing it with me here, and as always inviting all your thought on these things or on anything else at all, yours +Seraphim  . Perhaps it is partly the mist, like the fog of sherlock holmes' London
of romance, but we see a New York of romance don't we? Is that City always
there within the city if not always as clearly visible as here...? |
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2:30p |
Sunday Sweets: Tour De Force, Pt 3
http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/2009/11/sunday-sweets-tour-de-force-pt-3.html You've already seen all the fun "Wrecks" our volunteer bakers provided for the tour this past week. Well today, I thought it'd be nice to feature more of their NON- wrecky work. So if you live in one of these cities, now you'll know at least one baker who will "get it" if you order a Cake Wreck. ;) In New York City, we had two great bakeries. First up, Perfect Endings Bakery:  Take note, all: this is the only acceptable form of a "cupcake cake." Plus, don't you love cakes that look readily edible? (Say that 5 times fast.)  Most of their work seems to be fondant-free, too; a good thing for you buttercream purists. Our second baker in New York was Jacy Cakes, who provided a gluten-free cake so delicious you'd never know it was gluten-free. Here are a few more examples of what they can do:
 I love this modern design - so cool. Our next stop was Bethesda, MD, where we had Fancy Cakes by Leslie provide the goodies. Leslie's site is overflowing with classic, elegant cakes, but she also knows how to bring the fun:  Cute!  I'm still a sucker for pink and orange. Love it. Next up was Boston/ Framingham, where we again had two bakers. You may remember Cakes by Erin as the ones who made the Fenway Park cake. Well, here are a few more of their goodies:  Those are some mad figure modeling skills. Sweet.  And oh-so-pretty! Birchgrove Baking, our second Boston bakery, drove all the way from Vermont to deliver the Cake Rex to the show. Check out some of their other work:  I love the colors and design on this modern wedding cake. And here's one to make you go "awww":
 Last but not least, we have Feast Catering from Atlanta. Lisa took on the responsibility of feeding over 400 people all by herself, by the way, and she did it all with a big smile on her face. In fact, all of our bakers were like that: so happy to be there, you'd think they were getting paid. (Which, just to be clear, they were NOT. Heheh.) Anyway, you saw Lisa's quirky side with here cakes yesterday, so here are some of her more elegant designs:   Thanks again to all of the bakers who gave their time and effort during our tour! I'm sure I speak for the thousands of people who got sugar buzzes thanks to your efforts when I say, Your the 'Best!'
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bhanfhlaith
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9:16a |
Santa's list update
Target, KMart & Glade are on Santa Casey's naughty list.
Kmart gets 1 point of forgiveness because its ads promote LAYAWAY instead of "put all these expensive presents you can't afford on your credit card and worry about it in January, wheee!"
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| Saturday, November 14th, 2009 | |
cakewrecks
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11:00p |
Southern Comfort [Atlanta Pics]
http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/2009/11/southern-comfort-atlanta-pics.html We have come to the very last stop on our Cake Wrecks "World" Tour, dear Wreckies. Now I know, I know; you're going to miss seeing your fellow Wrecktators' Wreckplicas, and the wreckalicious Wrecks our local Wreckerators prepared in each city, but what can I say? (Something starting with "wreck," perhaps?) Well, without further ado, here are the treats the folks in Atlanta got to partake of earlier this week:  This gravity-defying bit of prettiness was provided by Lisa of Feast Catering. Lisa actually first contacted me waaay back before the first half of the tour, begging us to come to Atlanta so she could provide the cake. How's that for dedication? In fact, Lisa made TWO cakes. The pretty one, and the...well, let's call it the "fun" one:  [snicker] Isn't it fabulous? The mixing bowl was a strawberry cake so delicious that even I couldn't snag a piece (but I got to hear about it from everyone who did). Heh.  This one was appropriately Wrecked. ;) I especially love the little piping bag. Our standing-room-only crowd of Wrecktators:  By the way, I don't think I've mentioned this before, but you guys should know that we broke signing-attendance records left and right on this tour. And for those stores that had seen larger events, the employees almost always assured us they'd never hosted one that was this much fun. You guys made that happen, so thank you! Ok, back to the photos. Here are our three Wreckplica contest "winners":  From the left, that's Amanda, Daniel, and "girl who has to e-mail me her name because I can't read it on the plate." (I'm guessing her parents were hippies.)Here's a close-up of their entries:   The crowd agreed that Daniels' Coiled Crap Hound was the way to "go."  The Sandra Lee Kwanzaa cake was entered literally as we were about to announce our top 3, which is my excuse for not having a better photo of it. ;) And a few more favorites:    As usual, you can see the rest of the fabulous entries in the CW Facebook album here. And that's it for the tour wrap-up entries! Stay tuned for tomorrow's Sweets edition, where you'll see more gorgeous creations from our participating bakers. Thanks again, everyone!  |
henrytroup
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4:45p |
That time of year
Packing two Operation Christmas Child boxes. I know that there are reservations about the program, but it's better than doing nothing. An incomplete list: Boy 5-9: - deflated size 5 soccer ball
- air pump and inflating needle
- dollar-store binoculars
- soap, washcloth, toothbrush
- pencils and erasers
Girl 5-9: - brown baby doll
- sewing kit
- hair clips and elastics
- geometry set
- soap, washcloth, toothbrush
- pencils and erasers
Virtually everything (except the soap) was made in China! Current Mood:  quixotic |
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seraphimsigrist
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8:58a |
Words from the desert
Friends, Will be in the City today. Pushkin Little Tragedies at the Baryshnikov this afternoon... Last night talking with a friend, the question of what is a Christian equivalent to the famous Zen saying "If you see a Buddha in the road kill him." Which is of course a warning against inflation... There is "only the hand that erases can write the true thing." But that, and for that matter the Zen tradition too, is rather sophisticated. I look in the desert fathers sayings ,sayings which are simple and unrefined, not within a tradition but newly made. There is of course "If you see a brother rising up to heaven pull him down." but here is one less familiar maybe...
"Even if an angel should indeed appear to you,
do not receive him..."A couple of others strike me and may interest you, or someone...
"A man may seem to be silent, but if his heart is condemning
others, he is babbling ceaselessly. But there may be another
who talks from morning till night and yet he is truly silent..."and "There was a man who ate a lot and was till hungry, and another
who ate little and was satisfied. The one who ate a lot and was
still hungry received a greater reward than he who ate little and
was satisfied."These then in haste before starting out. They are easy to apply to others but there is no-one I think to whom it does not apply also ,to myself, to everyone that there are areas of self satisfaction, of inner babbling, of inflation and fascination with a false ideal self like an angel... well anyway they are road signs...vectors... as always welcoming all your response on these or other I am yours +Seraphim  . |
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| Friday, November 13th, 2009 | |
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6:26p |
Friday Five for 13 November 2009
Since today is Friday the 13th, we bring you this set suggested by ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) awstuff4friends. 1. Do you believe in ghosts?
2. Do you believe in extraterrestrials?
3. Do you believe in mythical creatures (unicorns, vampires, etc.)?
4. Do you believe in a higher power (God, Allah, Buddha, Hecate, Zeus, etc.)?
5. Do you believe in the power of crystals?Copy and paste to your own journal, then reply to this post with a link to your answers. If you'd like to suggest questions for a future Friday Five, then do so here: http://www.livejournal.com/community/thefridayfive/1466.htmlOld sets that were used have been deleted, so please feel free to suggest some more! Remember that we rely on you, our members, to help keep the community going. |
kes_zone
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4:39p |
Friday the 13th
Today is a sort of anniversary for me. I say "sort of" because the date itself is the anniversary. My Sweetie and I had our first date on a Friday the 13th oh so many years ago. As the 13th of any month can fall on a Friday, this is our strange roving anniversary. Our celebrations will have to wait, however... My Sweetie has a Masonic function tonight and I have a staff meeting. Oh well! We do have a late night rendezvous planned in front of the fireplace to share a glass of bubbly. To everyone else out there, I hope the date proves to be as lucky for you as it has for me! Happy Friday the 13th! Current Mood:  content |
mikepictor
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4:38p |
Finally had a smooth run...no issues, no hiccups, everything ticked...I think we're ready for opening night! If you are coming to see the show (Little Women), let me know which night, I'll come say hi after the show. Got your tickets for Beauty and the Beast yet? You can get them online at http://www.suzart.ca/ (which also has a picture of the show poster now) |
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Label Makers
http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/2009/11/label-makers.html I think these decorators may have watched one episode too many of Clean House. Look, I'm all for having things clearly marked, but this is getting a little ridiculous:  Ah, there's nothing like that personal touch.  Don't you agree, Groom?
(I like to think this was ordered by Keith's bride in revenge. [snicker]) Oh, but it gets better:  In case you don't recognize it, this is a "foalball shape cake."
 And this is a "Wedding Cookie," only misspelled. Maybe to go along with Groom's cake? You know what's better than a misspelled label cake, though?
One with the wrong label, of course:
 Dude, the Irish are gonna be piiiissed.
Come to think of it, Jonathan H., Booklet, Suzanne M., Megan T., & Anony M., the French probably won't be too pleased, either. ;)
- Related Wreckage: It Sends a Message, Alright |
seraphimsigrist
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10:24a |
M-I-C-K-E-Y . Kubrick +Holiday + Purple Leaves+ To read or to write?
Friends, Some news yesterday reminded me of the conclusion of Full Metal Jacket. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmILOL55xP0the mickey mouse song wove in and out of my night... now looking at the thing again I am reminded that Joker said that while the world around him is askew he is alive and not afraid, going on as best he can with his comrades, that is a positive thought isnt it? Speaking of the movie I like that its effect is neither dovish nor hawkish, it is non-political in that way. The peace sign and the 'born to kill' on Joker's helmet show the poles within which his road runs... Kubrick the director was nonpolitical...His Barry Lyndon is a film I like,for its theme music perhaps the most moving music to me that I know(sarabande) but also its bitter sweet view of life...The music is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erKsIJyfB_Qand the visual clips epitomize the mood nicely... Else thinking about Thanksgiving and hoping to formulate a plan so I will not be forlorn. The family I am usually with is not doing a Thanksgiving this year. Perhaps I could drive somewhere on a two day vacation although it would cost money. In Autumn the leaves turn red and yellow but also some of the reds shade into purple and the photo at the end today shows a bit of that, and it is a transformation I particularly like... If you also like purple leaves and would like to see this photo from yesterday a little larger click here. ( Read more... )If only we could also have some blue leaves! Else reading along in the four books I am reading (perhaps I will add on one or another) One by and one about Kandinsky, Nabokov's Gift and the Conjure Man Dies. I think for many of us it can be more of a useful thing to read than to write novels. I say subversively of nanowrimo. But really I understand how it is a creativity for many and for of course some of you (I think also for some there could be publishable elements that might appear within a novel unpublishable as a whole and that is great) and its just that I ,likely rightly, sense I dont have any worthwhile novel in me. Old Japanese story of writer doing a novel based on his father, and then one on his also deceased mother, looking across breakfast table at his wife and saying "you know I think I have one more novel in me." Today these various...they are in effect just a few purple leaves maybe...and as always I invite all your thought on these or anything else, yours +Seraphim  . Purple leaves...the whole rather like a painting perhaps?
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cortejo
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8:35a |
*YAWN* Today I have to - clean-out car
- Pack up my SCA garb
- Lydia's garb
- Giovanni's garb
- Giovanni's fencing stuff
- Mundanes for Lydia and I
- road food
- Err directions...which are somewhere...
- hole punch my doc
- nap lots more
- hang with Alex and Em
- Pick Giovanni up from work
- drive lots
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