A Big Surprise

My siblings and I surprised my parents with a 60th birthday party, with about 60 of their friends and family:



This is one of the slides my dad brought of my parents from back in the day:

Christmas Oh Seven

Honey, the Best Dog Evs:

Giant christmas balls at the scary and giant Mall of America:

At the cookie party ma won an award for her excellent decorating skillz:

Brother Will and ma:

My bro turned 30 on xmas eve, so Nora and I made him a cake:

Cousins for life:

Tuns got a squirrel for christmas!

A Blog Entry for the People

People, I am obsessed with the internetz. Below are some things that you might enjoy. First, one of the best videos by strikers about the writers' strike:

Next, from the local news, the worst car you could hit while drunk driving is probably a cop car...maybe a cop car that is in the process of giving a DWI. A Saint Cloud, Minnesota lady did just that! Click here to read more!
Somehow colorblind people have taken over Pantone offices (what color are their walls?!) and chosen the "Color of the Year" for 2008. At least its not mauve right? Click here to see and read about it.
And now for more local news, a surgeon photographs a tattoo while inserting a catheter, and now the patient is suffering from a lack of a sense of humor. Click here to read about it!
Now for laughs, a list and portraits have been compiled of 50 animals that have day jobs. Click here to see the entire list.

Yule and Whatnot

Nora and Nate got the world's smallest and cutest xmas tree

Why I Love Buses

1. They are already warm when you get in,
2. Rich people don't ride them,
C. They're good for the environblahblahblahsnore
and
4. You can use them as a getaway vehicle after robbing a bank. When police board the bus, you can try to escape out the back door of the bus, after you wait those awkward two seconds for the back-door-is-ready-to-open light.

White Christmas Mash-Up

Jana's Birthday, and Shopping/Bar-hopping for the Poor

Dustin wearing a tiny denim jacket:

Some of the family met up to do some charity holiday shopping. This is a Grolsch christmas tree.

Yay charity!

Get Some Perspective

Questionable Food / 10,000 flakes

The first person to sign up for the holiday party pot luck is bringing the vaguely titled Minnesota classic. Pictured below is the snowy office courtyard.

Hot Chip

Daft Punk + Junior Boys + the Joker from Batman + Robert Palmer + drugs =

Juno

This film was written by a Minnesotan

Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Stop Please

After waiting an hour for a bus in a snowy sh*tstorm during rush hour, I got home and heated up my tootsies, which I couldn't feel, with my hairdryer. Leonard, a guy who rides my bus, goes "Welcome to Minnesota!"

In other news, Happy Birthday Mom!!! You're the best mom in the world!!

Hillary's Mixed Messages

High Five Hollywood

First Snowstorm

Perpetuating Stereotypes

Worse Than The Pox

Planet Unicorn

This was sent to me by Kathi, and it's splendid!

The Boyz Are Back in Town

If you leave your chair, Desmond will take it. Also he loves red wine.

Dustin finally got back from his T-givs trip, and at first things were tense...the boyz were warring:

But later everything was okey dokey.

Two Things

1. EP (my hometown for you non-MN readers) won the football state championship again (snore!). The best quote from the article is this: "Domination? You can't spell it without an E and a P." ... wow. I can't help but notice that you also can't spell creEPy without an EP.

And 2. Seriously there are this many crunchberries in cap'n crunch these days?! Whoa.

"Don't Put This on Your Blog Heidi"

Aunt Joie and Uncle Moose (aka the awesome T-Givs hosts that fed me and the other abandoned cousins and friends) are like Brangelina and Joie wants everyone to know that she got dressed first, they didn't like plan to wear matching clothes on purpose. Joie+Moose= Joose or Moie, either one works. Some fun facts about them: Moose and I have the same birthday, Joie makes a SUPER good mac and cheese from scratch, I thought Moose was his actual real name until like 2 years ago, Joie is hi.lar.io.us, and Moose is a Republican! Celebrate diversity on the holidays, right?!?

I love them and love that they love being on this blog!

T-Givs 07

Stef brought those buns, I had two and they were good. Meg made a tasty app and later on people ate my pumpkin pie. Cousin Drew ate like half the turkey.

Baked

In preparation for Thanksgiving, Nora and I made Pumpkin pies. There was leftover pumpkin mix so we tried to make muffins but they ended up more like flavorless dumplings... and that is the story of how I invented Pumplings!

Thunder Hands

Vampire Hands mixed with Thunder in the Valley played a 70s show at the Hexagon on Monday and Chris did an amaaaaayzing version of Without You ("I can't liiiiiiive if livin is without youoooo...")

Finally Someone Explains Football

Click here for a very useful how-to guide.

Oofdah!

The NY Times published this article about the closing of the Norwegian consulate in Minneapolis; click here to read about it.

Mulaney Stand Up Sample

I like this guy, and although this starts out slow it gets real good:

A Bit Much?

9ish Years Older

Ben found his old yearbook... clearly a lot has changed:

Apatow on McSweeney's

This is a documentary about working at 826LA:

Good Ol' Corruption

Click here to read a fun Washington Post article listing the many, many, many scandals of D.C.. Also known as What Happens When Old White Guys Stop Being Polite and Start Being Real.

Optical Indie

This is the music video for the song Golden Cage by the Berlin band The Whitest Boy Alive. It will tickle the part of your brain that controls visual perception:

Cousin Shawn's Birthday

Cousin Shawn and his wife were in town and we celebrated his birthday at Pizza Luce downtown Minneapolis.

Down the Hall from my Office

When things get slow at work they let me go watch the printers print...