gobble gobble

There are a lot of great things about Thanksgiving and a couple of not-so-great things.

Not great:
-Genocide
-All of the turkey and ham and animal body fat that goes into the food
-Sometimes having to spend time with people that you don't like


Great:
-Really good friends: I'm so thankful for everyone who comes every year and makes my humble little apartment so warm and happy.
-Really good food: Cooking for other people makes me feel really blessed to have good friends. Eating with them makes me feel really lucky to have friends who share my taste in food :) A big thanks also goes out to Quorn for making my favorite vegetarian turkey. It looks like this:

-This weather: I'm considering having Thanksgiving on the porch if it doesn't get too cold. No wonder I've stuck it out in the south for so long

The thing about being an adult is that you have total control over how much of the bad stuff gets in with the good stuff. That isn't to say that you can erase the history of the event, but you can definitely re-appropriate it to show people how well they can eat without having to be cruel. And, if you are like me and stay home to make Thanksgiving dinner for the orphan grad students who are left around the city, you get to decide the guestlist :)

And although there are these kinds of pressures:

Ph.D. Comics

it is nice to take some time off from academic busy work and have a good time.

One last thing to be thankful for: there are still tickets to the Magnetic Fields at Town Hall in NYC for March 10 and 11. I just bought mine and can't wait for spring break!


Happy Thanksgiving!

The Magnetic Fields 2010 tour

Once again, The Magnetic Fields are completely skipping out on me, but I may travel to see one of these, depending on whether my DC, Boston, or San Francisco friends want me visiting in February (*wink wink*).

More info on House of Tomorrow but here is the schedule:

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THE MAGNETIC FIELDS - 2010 NORTH AMERICAN TOUR

February 4 (Thu)
WASHINGTON, DC
Lisner Auditorium @ George Washington University

February 6 (Sat)
MONTREAL, QC
Corona Theatre

February 8 (Mon)
TORONTO, ON
Queen Elizabeth Theatre

February 10 (Wed) & February 11 (Thu)
BOSTON, MA
Wilbur Theatre

February 13 (Sat)
BROOKLYN, NY
Howard Gilman Opera House @ BAM

February 21 (Sun) & February 22 (Mon)
PORTLAND, OR
The Aladdin Theater

February 23 (Tue) & February 24 (Wed)
SEATTLE, WA
Town Hall Seattle

February 27 (Sat)
OAKLAND, CA
The Fox Theater

March 1 (Mon)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
Herbst Theatre

March 2 (Tue)
LOS ANGELES, CA
Wilshire Ebell Theatre

March 4 (Thu)
MILWAUKEE, WI
Pabst Theatre

March 5 (Fri)
BLOOMINGTON, IN
Buskirk Chumley Theater

March 6 (Sat)
ST. LOUIS, MO
The Pageant

March 7 (Sun)
CHICAGO, IL
Harris Theater @ Millenium Park

March 10 (Wed) & March 11 (Thu)
NEW YORK, NY
Town Hall

March 22 (Mon)
LONDON UK ** Full Europe itinerary coming soon **
Barbican Centre

the real tragedy is that

no one within my immediate orbit seems to understand why this



speaks to me, aside from the typical, literal interpretations that don't mean anything anymore.

i just wish my screams could sound like that, that's all.

yes yes yes yes yes yes yesssssss

The new Magnetic Fields album, Realism will be out January 26, 2010 and the track list includes a song with the world "hootenanny" in the title.

01 You Must Be Out of Your Mind
02 Interlude
03 We Are Having a Hootenanny
04 I Don't Know What to Say
05 The Dolls' Tea Party
06 Everything Is One Big Christmas Tree
07 Walk a Lonely Road
08 Always Already Gone
09 Seduced and Abandoned
10 Better Things
11 Painted Flower
12 The Dada Polka
13 From a Sinking Boat

:)