I'll be celebrating by watching the NBA doubleheader, going to Chinatown Express, and watching Alien Versus Predator: Requiem. And, probably, writing more blog posts. The rest of you do whatever it is y'all do....
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Merry Christmas
25 Dec 2007 02:02 am
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Happy Appropriate Seasonal Greetings AND Merry Christmas, Matthew!
Also: don't burn out dude! I'm pretty sure you don't have to actually match the entire output of all the top liberal blogs every damn day. (If The Atlantic won't pay you because of a failure to hit that mark, you probably shouldn't be working for those people anyways! Dammit.)
max
['You'll get hairy palms or something!']
If Obama keeps going down his current path of attacking universal healthcare and unions, I'll vote Clinton over Obama if the corn people don't validate Edwards in 8 days.
Spend your Christmas urging Obama to start acting like a Democrat, Matthew.
I'm going to spend Christmas worshipping the new Linas Kleiza shrine I've just built. There is no lord but Linas.
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Clip 'n' Save Iowa prediction:
38 Edwards 32 Clinton 26 Obama
Ah, Chinese food: the old Jewish staple on Christmas. Aren't there any good Indian places open on Christmas in D.C. for a change of pace?
Max:
Compare Matt's volume of posts to Megan's. As long as Megan is happily employed at The Atlantic and Matt is lapping her in productivity, I think he'll be fine.*
*I hope Megan doesn't read this and feel compelled to start writing faster. She'll be more likely to slip-up on some economic issue, get called on it, and then we'll have to read through a week of recriminations and counter-recriminations. Take your time, Megan. No worries. It wouldn't look good for The Atlantic to can its only lady blogger for not writing fast enough.
"Ah, Chinese food: the old Jewish staple on Christmas."
Huckabee is Jewish?
A "y'all" could just as well come from Hillary Clinton addressing a black audience. I ain't no ways tired of listening to Hillary keepin' it real.
That sounds like a pretty good holiday line-up. Merry Christmas.
I just critisized my sister for making the broad generalization that all Jewish Americans eat Chinese food on Christmas.
Christmas?
Bah! Humbug!
I'll be upgrading my openSUSE 10.2 to 10.3 tomorrow.
But I had a large all-meat pizza tonight and watched "Hackers" for the umpteenth time.
Speaking of movies, go see the latest "National Treasure" - it's good. Top-notch actors all around (although they don't give Harvey Keitel much to do) and a cool plot. And you can't fault Diane Kruger!
I noticed MY's use of "y'all," too -- as the quintessential Southern word, "y'all" probably should be restricted to bona fide Southerners. Otherwise, it sounds awkward, a bit like the street Yiddish I've acquired in my years in New York.
Once, not long after I moved to the city, I was working on a project with a colleague at a publishing company, an older Jewish lawyer and a sweetheart of a guy. There were problems with this project, and one afternoon in frustration I begged him him not to "kuh-vetch at me."
"What did you just say?" he asked.
"Please, please don't kuh-vetch," I said.
"Kuh-vetch?"
"Yes, you know, "kuh-vetch."
"So adorable," he clucked, smiling and shaking his head.
Happy holidays, y'all!
Matt: Really, you need to branch out some. Hong Kong Palace in Virginia for szechuan; or (as I plan) Bob's 66 or Bob's 88 in Rockville for Taiwanese. CE is good for the noodles, and sometimes the soy chicken, but then . . . what?
Matt,
My xmas plans sound disturbingly similar, although here in sunny old Longmont, CO, Thai Kitchen is the gentile holiday destination of choice.
It seems very, very wrong that I am so excited to see Alien vs. Predator: Requiem . It's going to suck, I know it's going to suck, but I'm absolutely going to see it anyway.
So, anyhow, Merry Whateverday, and for the record, I agree with Max: you're allowed to slow down every once in a while. Try and convince your readers to go spend quality time with their families, or something. It's good for them.
I'm camped out in Starbucks, the only local establishment that hates Jesus enough to remain open today. I see some Chinese food and a movie in my future.
There is no reason to confine y'all to the South. It's the only way to distinguish the second person plural from singular. For somewhat similar reasons, my Latin teacher was a supporter of the word ain't, but only used in the first person singular, which otherwise lacked a contraction.
I'm camped out in Starbucks, the only local establishment that hates Jesus enough to remain open today. I see some Chinese food and a movie in my future.
There is no reason to confine y'all to the South. It's the only way to distinguish the second person plural from singular. For somewhat similar reasons, my Latin teacher was a supporter of the word ain't, but only used in the first person singular, which otherwise lacked a contraction.
I'm camped out in Starbucks, the only local establishment that hates Jesus enough to remain open today. I see some Chinese food and a movie in my future.
There is no reason to confine y'all to the South. It's the only way to distinguish the second person plural from singular. For somewhat similar reasons, my Latin teacher was a supporter of the word ain't, but only used in the first person singular, which otherwise lacked a contraction.
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you, Matt and to all the commenters!
My wife is Jewish, and I'm a Bokononist, so we always need alternatives for Christmas. We're gonna go see "Charlie Wilson's War" this afternoon. My son works at the theatre, so we can get comped.
This is the time of year when I really miss Tower Records, just about the only establishment in LA besides liquor stores that was open on Christmas. And Christmas was a great day for a browse -- the pre-holiday frenzy meant the popular (and crappy) inventory was largely weeded out.
Oh well.
Roddy, as long as you're not going to die on the bridge of Toome today, I'm sure you'll have a great time.
Matt - post something on Phoenix's pathetic defense tonight, how they were unable to guard Bynum, a player who can't create his own shots or shoot from beyond 4 feet, and the problem this will pose to a group of people who believe they have a championship-worthy team.
Oh, and I'd also like to see a reasoned attack on Mitt Romney's "free-market" centered health-care plan.
First things first.
"The rest of you do whatever it is y'all do...."
I don't know about you but every Christmas my family re-enacts the nativity scene complete with a gay satan skulking in the shadows like a praying mantis and a swarthy Jew milling around the periphery, biding his time.
".....whatever it is y'all do...."
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Whatever you say, Fuzzy.
I'll contribute something like this on Passover.
Really, I don't think it's necessary to belittle what Christians do on Christmas. How about a little empathy? I've read that its a good evolutionary trait.
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"whatever it is y'all do"
Go skiing for the day. "Y'all" is useful, but do you really think you can pull it off?
Posted by washerdreyer | December 25, 2007 2:20 AM