Prop 8, Bad. "Prop 8 The Musical," Good.

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A while back after the election, I posted Keith Olbermann's Special Comment on the passage of Proposition 8 in California --a righteous rant if there ever was one-- and though many folks' inner anger is still seething (probably by the day) about this revocation and denial of our basic rights, at least now we can afford ourselves some much needed levity. And by now, I'm sure this video has gone completely viral across the web, so let me also put my pitch in for this clever song and dance routine from some of our favorite Hollywood libruls. With the likes of Jack Black, John C. Reilly, Allison Janney and Margaret Cho (Neil Patrick Harris too, hehe!), that raises certain expectations that are more than adequately met in this short number (it's less than 2 min!). Though I saw this posted early today, I made myself wait until I was done working for the night to check it out, and boy howdy, I was not disappointed. It definitely put many smiles on my weary face and provoked chuckles tonight. So if you're up for a well done little number, check the video out! I think you'll smile too....

So while we're on the topic of songs ....

As some of you know (oh gentle readers...), I (try to!) frequent some very good garden blogs around the web (though not as many as I'd like to, alas), I haven't run across many that actually post original songs, save for Annie in Austin, who periodically posts her original songs as videos done with her husband Philo. Well, she has a lovely new one posted this week, Can I Recover Christmas, and if you aren't familiar with her work, it's definitely worth a look! It's part of a longer project she has been working on, Roots in Austin, a musical play in progress.... If you haven't already seen this poignant video yet, click on the image below....
As Annie told me today, frost is forecast in Austin tonight ... well here, we had about another 2 in. of snow today, with bitter cold and brisk winds, which made it rather unpleasant to be outside, though at least this time it didn't freeze on the satellite dish and knock out our signal, which just came back on yesterday with a brief thaw from Sunday's rain/snow mix. Whew. So I was able to see my usual round up of news programs (Keith and Rachel) and recorded the newest episode of Pushing Daisies, my new (and only ) favorite network program just canceled after an all too brief brilliant and innovative run. It was great while it lasted, and I can only hope that ABC will still air the remaining 5 episodes they have completed. (Again, I have to give a hat tip to Annie who first brought this series to my attention a few months.)

It looks like we'll be getting a tree this weekend, probably on Saturday, when we're forecast to have a positively balmy high of 31F/-1C, because it looks to be the warmest day we're going to get until next week. So Ornament Blogging and Tree Decorating aren't far off ... we also hope to get the porch decorations up if it's not too cold to work out there on Sunday. With this weather, it also looks like Potage and Baguette time in the kitchen, now that the season of cold weather comfort food is upon us. I may even thaw out one of our pork tenderloins to go along with that, since winter food seems to be my specialty these past few years. So if anyone wants me to go all "Food Networky" again, I can plan on blogging these recipes too. Potage is one of my favorite French dishes to make in the cold months, and Baguettes, I can practically make those in my sleep after so many years, lol.

Here's hoping that it's warmer where you are now, as we're now currently at 13F/-10C as I finish this post!