Monday morning pastiche
Dec. 13th, 2004 11:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
magidDoes anyone have a copy of the December 5 New York Times Magazine I could have? There's some cool black and white mathy photos that I'd like to hang in my cube. Well, actually, I have some of them up, but I'd like to have the other sides of the pages up too, and no, they don't photocopy well.
(Side note: having them hanging is emphasizing how it can be that my cube is cooler than others, with some of the pages moving in the breezes of air-conditioning.)
I realized that though I don't like being bombarded with carols and such, I don't have a problem with commercial establishments decorating their stores (visually and aurally) for the holiday. It may be a horrible commercialization, but that seems to be where our society is these days. What I do have a problem with is when the government puts up trees and other symbols of (the majority) religion. It bothers me that Boston had a tree-lighting ceremony, for instance, and there are lots of other examples. Decorating trees that are already there with white lights doesn't cross the line for me. Importing a huge tree corpse and decorating that does (though I know the main one is sent from Halifax, in recognition of Boston's help in their huge disaster. Even so.).
Noted: the Mahoney's on Memorial Drive is closing December 31. I think the banner said that it was becoming Harvard (green?) space, and there would be a new location for the store in Allston, but I don't know any more than that.
ETA
My mom gave me some bittersweet chocolate gelt that has the patterns of Israeli coins. The brands I saw at the Butcherie were less interesting, with the brand emblazoned on one side, and something like American coins on the other. For sheer variety, though, the gelt from Trader Joe's wins, hands down: they have gold, silver, and bronze coins in a variety of sizes, including many different coins from Canada (loonies!), the US (quarters and silver dollars, and Europe (euros and English pounds). It's a little odd that there aren't any Israeli coins in the mix, though. And they're milk chocolate, so obviously not as good as bittersweet :-).
Current flavor: Italian R"H fruit-nut cookies, aka sfratti
(Side note: having them hanging is emphasizing how it can be that my cube is cooler than others, with some of the pages moving in the breezes of air-conditioning.)
I realized that though I don't like being bombarded with carols and such, I don't have a problem with commercial establishments decorating their stores (visually and aurally) for the holiday. It may be a horrible commercialization, but that seems to be where our society is these days. What I do have a problem with is when the government puts up trees and other symbols of (the majority) religion. It bothers me that Boston had a tree-lighting ceremony, for instance, and there are lots of other examples. Decorating trees that are already there with white lights doesn't cross the line for me. Importing a huge tree corpse and decorating that does (though I know the main one is sent from Halifax, in recognition of Boston's help in their huge disaster. Even so.).
Noted: the Mahoney's on Memorial Drive is closing December 31. I think the banner said that it was becoming Harvard (green?) space, and there would be a new location for the store in Allston, but I don't know any more than that.
ETA
My mom gave me some bittersweet chocolate gelt that has the patterns of Israeli coins. The brands I saw at the Butcherie were less interesting, with the brand emblazoned on one side, and something like American coins on the other. For sheer variety, though, the gelt from Trader Joe's wins, hands down: they have gold, silver, and bronze coins in a variety of sizes, including many different coins from Canada (loonies!), the US (quarters and silver dollars, and Europe (euros and English pounds). It's a little odd that there aren't any Israeli coins in the mix, though. And they're milk chocolate, so obviously not as good as bittersweet :-).
Current flavor: Italian R"H fruit-nut cookies, aka sfratti