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I am doing this
Dec. 3rd, 2009 05:26 pmAnd I am behind, so I have to do the first three days today...
This is The Best of 2009 Blog Challenge.
How to participate:
1. Write on one or all thirty-one of the prompts below for the month of December
2. A post can be a sentence, photo or 3,000 word essay
3. Tag your posts and photos #best09. Follow others sharing their stories from the year. There's a widget at the bottom of the post aggregating mentions of the tag on Twitter.
Share your best moments of 2009 over the course of December. Don't get hung up on details or length - if there's an aspect of the question that doesn't resonate, change it to meet your needs.
( day-by-day prompts below the cut )
Dec. 1: Trip--I think my best trip this year was the Berlin/Norway trip in the summer. I had a wonderful, eclectic time in Berlin, balancing between a really interesting conference and random plans with a lively variety of people, occupying totally different and largely non-overlapping corners of the Berlin universe. i saw an amazing blues show, ate copious amounts of dirt cheap and delicious sushi, babysat a bunch of kids, visited a four-story thirftstore, and every day was filled with meaningful conversations, politically and personally. Plus Berlin in the summer is so magical and green and slow and relaxed and perfect for night walks along the canal, with trees assuming anthropolomorphic shapes and circus wagons huddled up in the darkness. Then onto Norway where I visited![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
shum_listvi's wooden witchy house, and we embarked on a picaresque/psychodelic adventure, a road trip through the fjords, the birch woods, the abandoned houses surrounded by bushes and bushes of ripe raspberries and moss and trees growing on the roofs. It was one of the most magical places I have ever been.
Dec. 2:Restaurant moment--oh there are so many! The nostalgic satisfaction of the Middle Eastern platter amidst the kitch-sparkle of Yaffa, fish tagines in Morocco, feeding the staff of an ice-cream parlor blood oranges in Paris withrezendi, but again I am going to have to go with the Berlin sushi in Neukölln, because it was so delicious, plentiful and cheap--an impossible trifecta anywhere else. Spicy tuna rolls and spider rolls and rainbow rolls and eel and avocado rolls...I am salivating just thinking about it. I got it as take-out and ate it with a bunch of bohemians and a three-year old with what is clearly a sophisticated pallette, followed by red wine, tea, whiskey, more red wine, more tea.
Dec. 3: Article--well, like everyone I got the LOLS from that op-ed where a right-wing douchebag proclaimed that Stephen Hawking wouldn't have a chance under the UK healthcare system. But I think the most important article of last year is Bait and switch: How the “public option” was sold, both because it is an excellent analysis, and because it offers empirical proof to counter the discursive Orwellian re-memorying of "the public option was never on the table" and "American legislators cannot produce a strong public option" etc. etc.
This is The Best of 2009 Blog Challenge.
How to participate:
1. Write on one or all thirty-one of the prompts below for the month of December
2. A post can be a sentence, photo or 3,000 word essay
3. Tag your posts and photos #best09. Follow others sharing their stories from the year. There's a widget at the bottom of the post aggregating mentions of the tag on Twitter.
Share your best moments of 2009 over the course of December. Don't get hung up on details or length - if there's an aspect of the question that doesn't resonate, change it to meet your needs.
( day-by-day prompts below the cut )
Dec. 1: Trip--I think my best trip this year was the Berlin/Norway trip in the summer. I had a wonderful, eclectic time in Berlin, balancing between a really interesting conference and random plans with a lively variety of people, occupying totally different and largely non-overlapping corners of the Berlin universe. i saw an amazing blues show, ate copious amounts of dirt cheap and delicious sushi, babysat a bunch of kids, visited a four-story thirftstore, and every day was filled with meaningful conversations, politically and personally. Plus Berlin in the summer is so magical and green and slow and relaxed and perfect for night walks along the canal, with trees assuming anthropolomorphic shapes and circus wagons huddled up in the darkness. Then onto Norway where I visited
shum_listvi's wooden witchy house, and we embarked on a picaresque/psychodelic adventure, a road trip through the fjords, the birch woods, the abandoned houses surrounded by bushes and bushes of ripe raspberries and moss and trees growing on the roofs. It was one of the most magical places I have ever been.Dec. 2:Restaurant moment--oh there are so many! The nostalgic satisfaction of the Middle Eastern platter amidst the kitch-sparkle of Yaffa, fish tagines in Morocco, feeding the staff of an ice-cream parlor blood oranges in Paris with
rezendi, but again I am going to have to go with the Berlin sushi in Neukölln, because it was so delicious, plentiful and cheap--an impossible trifecta anywhere else. Spicy tuna rolls and spider rolls and rainbow rolls and eel and avocado rolls...I am salivating just thinking about it. I got it as take-out and ate it with a bunch of bohemians and a three-year old with what is clearly a sophisticated pallette, followed by red wine, tea, whiskey, more red wine, more tea.Dec. 3: Article--well, like everyone I got the LOLS from that op-ed where a right-wing douchebag proclaimed that Stephen Hawking wouldn't have a chance under the UK healthcare system. But I think the most important article of last year is Bait and switch: How the “public option” was sold, both because it is an excellent analysis, and because it offers empirical proof to counter the discursive Orwellian re-memorying of "the public option was never on the table" and "American legislators cannot produce a strong public option" etc. etc.
