344: Lights and sound

We put up the Christmas tree today.  In celebration, here's my favorite Christmas lights video:

343: Alcoho-ho-ho

If you're in Minnesota, North Dakota, or Wisconsin, consider buying yourself a Finnegans beer this month.  Why?  Let the Star Tribune tell you:

Throughout December, beer distributors will give donations that match sales of Finnegans beer, doubling the money going to food shelves. To find where it's sold near you: finnegans.org.

(During the other eleven months of the year, 100% of profits from sale of the beer goes to local charities.)  Read the full article about Finnegans at the Strib's website here.

Relevant because I'm halfway through a bottle while writing this post.  Trufax.

342: Cold outside

I haven't seen most of the Sing-Off Christmas special, but this was darned cute:

341: Retro tourism

We're hosting Christmas for the first time in at least a decade (it's just too difficult to get a wheelchair-bound nonagenarian over the river and through the 'burbs to anyone else's house), so there's a lot of panicked cleaning and a little bit of discovering fun old stuff, like the late-seventies tourist brochures from Montreal:

sad shoe worm.

There was also a guide to food in New Orleans and the merch brochure for the 1970s(?) King Tut exhibit.

This concludes the crappy iPod photo slideshow.

340: Picturesque

Look at this gentle frakking snowfall.

It's just so goddamn picturesque.

(from this morning)

339: Harrowing

I admit it: I made an impulse buy today.

via TeeFury

 Because seriously, I can't not buy the $10 shirt featuring the only Boardwalk Empire character I still like.

Appropriate graphic:

338: Bloopers

Sometimes you just want to watch a bunch of blooper reels.

Here's one to get you started:

337: Winter

I wish I had a wintry photo of my own, but I was too busy trying to see through the snow while driving to pull out whatever camera-enabled devices I had on me.  Alas.  Here's one found on the Minneapolis tag on tumblr:

by dmd.hashw on Flickr

336: Chandelier

Semple Mansion, Minneapolis, 2009.

I'm not sure if I like this or not.

Slightly creepy.

335: Unsolicited sharing

Unexpected TV crushes from the last 365 days

Corey Stoll (Detective TJ Jaruszalski, Law & Order: Los Angeles)
Jack Huston (Richard Harrow, Boardwalk Empire)
Tobias Menzies (Brutus, Rome)
Alan Cumming (Eli Gold, The Good Wife)
Matt Bomer (Neal Caffrey, White Collar)

Although, honestly, I should’ve seen that last one coming.