[Sca-cooks] Philly, was Christmas dinner...

[Kirsten Houseknecht]

which theater? i live in philly and can tell you this is NOT a homogenous
city... it is neighborhoods and one theater will have a very different crowd
than another....


next time you are in philly call me
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Kirsten Houseknecht
Fabric Dragon
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Philadelphia, PA     USA
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I worry about you, wear a reflective sweater...
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <lilinah at earthlink.net>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 4:31 AM
Subject: [Sca-cooks] Christmas dinner...


> I'm still catching up on the list, as i was gone for a week visiting
> my daughter in Philadelphia. I left NoCal last Monday, arriving
> Monday night, and came back this past Sunday. So far, i'm up to
> Friday's messages.
>
> I brought along a book i had purchased from Devra/Poison Pen Press at
> the Known World Costume Symposium - Silk Road Vegetarian Cooking. I
> was hoping my daughter and i would get to cook some dishes from it,
> but we never got to use it. Wednesday, Christmas Eve, the food stores
> all closed early and we didn't get there in time.
>
> My daughter, her boyfriend, and i saw "The Lord of the Rings: Return
> of the King". It was terrible - not the movie, but the experience.
> The audience was small - but it seems as if they all had bad manners
> or bad attitudes. Some people were mocking out loud the various
> "Celtic" accents of the Hobbits. Others were hooting and cheering
> during the many scenes of battle - they didn't really care who was
> fighting whom, it seemed that they just came to watch some heavy butt
> kickin'. Toward the end of the film various people began laughing in
> unsuitable places, and some complained out loud during the "coda".
> I'm almost sorry i saw the movie in Philly.
>
> We went to the last show, which started around 7:30, and what with
> the seemingly endless extended versions of TV advertisements and
> various trailers, it was around 11:30 when we got out, and we hadn't
> eaten dinner. Try finding a place to eat close to midnight on
> Christmas eve. We eventually found a bar that was open that served
> standard East Coast pizza slices (not, in my opinion, very good). We
> each had a slice of that flat thin stuff. That was our Christmas Eve
> dinner.
>
> Since we had no food in the house, on Christmas day, my daughter and
> i followed what is apparently a tradition for many non-Christians -
> that is, we had Chinese food delivered. It, too, was rather mediocre.
> I do, however, have sympathy for folks who were working that day.
>
> We also saw the show at the Philadelphia Art Museum on the couturier
> designs of Elsa Schiaparelli. Nothing to do with Medieval or
> Renaissance clothing, although apparently some of her clothing was
> "inspired" by the Italian Renaissance.
>
> While in Philly, I ended up buying a bunch of yarn (and got half of a
> scarf knit) and some knitting patterns - on the way home my suitcase
> got searched, as i expected, because of the big black "shadow" caused
> by that very large cookbook and all the knitting books.
>
> This is still my favorite e-list and i send you all a rather belated
> Winter Solstice holiday greetings and best wishes for a Happy New
> Year.
>
> Anahita
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