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Archive for November, 2008

Three Haisku: Cranberry Sauce

Thanksgiving jelly
Ruby-red ring-rimmed relish
Who needs a turkey?
Fresh from your tin can
Your thin, round slices shimmer
In your crystal dish.
Tangy solid sauce –
You are no mere condiment.
Eat you with a spoon.
PS — Check out this cool photostream for more images of food that takes the shape of its container.
–lori

Like Shooting Turkeys in a Barrel

I know it’s sorta beyond schadenfreude at this point, but this is just too good.

With over two million views on YouTube so far, the odds are good that you’ve seen this already. But just in case you haven’t, it’s worth a look.
I don’t know what’s funnier: the fact that former veep candidate Sarah Palin was filmed [...]

Three Haisku* — The First Snow of Winter

Can’t find the snow brush
So Visa card scrapes the ice
Where’d I leave my gloves?
Bright white window glow
Wakens me early today
Snow sounds like quiet
Goodbye, autumn crunch
Crunch, crisp, rake, sweep — goodbye
Hello, winter slush
–lori
* “Haisku” pluralization courtesy of Fishsuit

President Obama in One Sentence

Salon has a nice piece today whereby reporters, commentators, and academics were asked the question “What does Obama’s victory mean?”  and then asked to confine their answer to a single sentence that begins with the same two words: “It means …”
I have a couple of favorites (It means the world is ready to follow if America [...]

The Goddess Watches the Election Results
(so you don’t have to)

The General Tso’s chicken is at the door, the wine is being poured, the pajamas are on, and in the Goddess Attic Election Center, we’re in for a hell of a night.
6:20: Watching CNN unveil their new Super-Holograph-o-Vision election technology. It appears that the rotating Capitol Building floating over Campbell Brown’s desk is frozen. Much [...]

Top 10 Reasons to Vote for Obama Tomorrow

10.  To be a part of history.  Just think: the first Muslim Marxist terrorist president!
9.    He’s brand spanking new! Like an Android-powered G1.
8.    He still talks about global warming and energy policy without resorting to chanting.
7.    Two words: President Palin.
6.    Because hope is audacious, and possibly contagious.
5.    He’s made of kittens and smells [...]

A Two-Minute History of the Presidential Election

In March of 2006, Delaware senator Joe Biden became the first to announce his candidacy for President of the United States. It would be another 20 months before a single vote was cast, and by the time of the Iowa caucuses, 16 people would be running for the office from the two major parties. On Tuesday, there will be [...]

Trick or Treat!

It was a lot quieter at the house this year, which is odd because the weather was tailor made for trick-or-treating. Our house doesn’t get much Halloween love to begin with, being located uphill from the main drag and across the street from a hospital. Oh well, more miniature Clark bars for me I guess.
Princesses [...]

Capsule Movie Reviews

Up in the Air
Pittsford Plaza 01.01.10
Fantastic. So simple, so small, but kinda perfect. And very on point with the current economic situation.

Avatar
Pittsford Plaza
The day a filmmaker with an actual story to tell ("unobtanium?!" hilarious.) gets his or hands and this amazing visual technology, that will be something.

An Education
The Little 11.24.09
Sally Sparrow from Dr. Who is all-grown up! You do feel as if you are watching a star in the making in Carey Mulligan.

Pirate Radio
The Little 11.13.09
Funny in bits (best bit: Bill Nighy dancing) but not funny as a whole. A bit episodic, with a ridiculous ending.

A Serious Man
The Little 11.07.09
The Coen brothers have made another divisive film: I really like it; Mr. Goddess hated it. I thought it was deeply funny and deeply ... deep.

Capitalism: A Love Story
The Little 10.05.09
Unlike other Michael Moore docs, this was more of a piece of investigative journalism than a political screed. Moore shines his light on for-profit prisons, the appallingly low salaries of airline pilots, and the "dead peasant" insurance policies companies take out on their own employees -- all in the name of making a profit out of anything.

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