Monthly Archives: November 2011

201 and 1: Day 2

I’m posting this on my FB page as well as this site; feel free to post it to yours.  The goal is to come up with 201 single-word items that typify this year.  By the end of December, we will have a people/places/things banner poem to wrap around the year and send off into the annals of history.  The game stops when 201 words have arrived.  The “1” part is a surprise that we will get to once we have the first 201 words.  In Comments below, add your word.  Here we go,  … Get your words in!

1.  Illuminati

2.  Zombies

3.  Mathy-apolis

4.  Anonymous

5.  Kardashian

6.  “Really?”

7.   Irene

8.  Scribbling(s)

 

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Let’s Play 201 and 1

I’m posting this on my FB page as well as this site.  The goal is to come up with 201 single-word items that typify this year.  It can be an idea, occurrence, inspiration, what have you.  One can riff off another (as they certainly did this year).  By the end of December, we will have a people/places/things banner poem to wrap around the year and send off into the annals of history.  The game stops when 201 words have arrived.  The “1” part is a surprise that we will get to once we have the first 201 words.  Please get your friends to play too.  In Comments below, add your word.  (You can add more than one but each should be able to stand alone).  Since I’m kinda in charge here (at least in my own bloggiest imaginings), I’ll start us off with two themes that kept popping up for me (probably since I spent more time online this year than ever before)….  Here we go,  …

1. Illuminati

2. Zombies

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Good Stuff’s Going On

Instead of gorging on hyperconsumptionism this Friday (and helping stores full of foreign manufactured crap increase their sales enough for the first time of the year to get out of the red and into the black, thus the origin of the name “Black Friday”), why not occupy some space and take a stand against excess by participating in Buy Nothing Day (originated by Adbusters, those quirky Canadians behind the Occupy Wall Street protests that took over Zucotti Park in Manhattan and sites across the globe).  Don’t do it for Adbusters but do it for yourself.  In Brooklyn, a potluck is being held at All Souls Bethlehem Chruch in Park Slope.  I’ll be working but I recommend it for anyone who wants to avoid the crowds and the pocketbook drain typical of Black Friday.  Details as follows….

 

 

Come to Sustainable Flatbush’s first annual Buy Nothing Day Community Meal!

Buy Nothing Day offers an alternative to the consumerist excess of Black Friday: a chance to unshop, unspend, and unwind. Bring a dish to share, or bring ingredients (Thanksgiving leftovers are great) and join the communal cooking fun! Meet your neighbors and join Sustainable Flatbush as we build a local sharing economy.

The idea is to create a space where people can come together to enjoy a healthy free meal, get to know each other, and exchange ideas on how we as a community can become more engaged in the transformation to a society that is more equal and sustainable. To plug out of the mainstream for a day, abandon the tradition of Black Friday that comes with excessive consumerism, and discuss real alternatives.

Hope to see you there!

WHAT:
Sustainable Flatbush first annual Buy Nothing Day Community Meal! 

WHEN:
Friday November 25th from 6 until 8pm 

WHERE:
All Souls Bethlehem Church
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The Best Food in Town Is at the Swap

Well, it was.  Now it’s in my kitchen, and Aimee‘s kitchen, and Scott‘s kitchen, and ….

Yes, my first visit to the BK Food Swap did not disappoint.  My partner and I brought brown sugar whiskey vanilla ice cream and butter cream cupcakes (one set with orange zest icing and begonia petals, the other with chocolate chips, with a chocolate chunk & Kahlua cream frosting).  Oohs and Aaahs were overheard in every inch of the room.  Unbridled yumminess the whole night long.  Brooklyn has some amazingly talented foodcrafters, by the way.  I’m also looking forward to perusing the various blogs and sites noted on hand-made tags and labels that came with the various goodies. My stash is quickly dwindling but before it goes, goes, gones, here are some pics from the night…

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I’m Gonna Eat My Houseplants!

Yay!  Happy Friday to me!  I just got the good (Googled) news that Begonias are edible.  This, my revel friends, I did not know.  I got them this summer just because they were pretty, seemed sturdy, and added a pop of color to my garden.  Not gonna tell you what I’m going to do with this exciting news, but it’s gonna be yuuuuuuuummmmmmmmy!  thank you, God (& Shannon’s on Ft. Hamilton Pkwy.), for begonias…

http://whatscookingamerica.net/EdibleFlowers/EdibleFlowersMain.htm

http://homecooking.about.com/library/weekly/blflowers.htm

and check out this blog, titled Eat the Weeds and other things too…I like!

http://www.eattheweeds.com/begonia-bonanza/

And you, now that we’re getting close to being home-bound, and you find yourself inspecting house plants and other items, are you encountering any surprise edibility?  Go ahead … gimme the dirt (just don’t make me eat it, I think)….

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