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Jonathan and I were actually at the Mercury Cafe the night 23 Skidoo performed this dance. (In fact, the guy in the white shirt a little to the left with his back to the camera - that's Jonathan.) This recording is of their practice before the largest swing dance competition in the world. They competed and WON with this routine. Check it out; it's amazing how fast they move!
We want to wish you and yours a safe and happy holiday, and for our friends who don't celebrate Christmas, enjoy a wonderful day away from the hustle and bustle of everyday life!
Oh, and we wanted to share one of our favorite holiday recipes with you too.
Warm and Toasted
Dear friend,
I know you wanted the recipe I recently made, so I'm writing it down for you as I'm making it, as I have the recipe in my head.
1 cup of water
1 tsp baking soda
1 cup of sugar
1 tsp salt
1 cup or brown sugar
4 large eggs
1 cup nuts
2 cups of dried fruit
1 bottle Jose Cuervo Tequila
1. Sample the Cuervo (Just to to check the quality.)
2. Take out a large bowl and get all your ingredints ready.
3. Check the Cuervo agin, to be sure it is of the highest quality pour one level cup and drink.
4. Turn on the electric mixer n bete one cup of butter in a large fluffy bowl.
5. Add one teaspoon of sugar in a bowl.
6. And 1 tsp bking soda
6. Beat again.
7. At this point I like to make ser best to make sure the Cuervo is still OK, try another cup just in case.
8. Turn off the mixerer thingy.
9. Break 2 leggs, ad to the bwl and chuck in the cup of dried fruit.
10. Pk the frickin fruit off the floor.
11. Shample the Cuervo agin. Never kn be too shure.
11. Mix on the turner. If the fried druit gets stuck in the beaterers just pry it loose with a drewscriver.
12. Sample the Cuervo to check for tonsisticity.
13. Next, shift 2 cups of salt or something.
14. Now shift the lemon juice and strain your nuts. Add one table.
14. Add a spoon of sugar, or somefink. Whatever you can find.
14. Greash the oven. Turn the cake tin 360 degrees and try not to fall over.
15. Dont forget remmbr to beat off the turner.
16. Finally, thro the bowl thruh the wnidow
finish the Cose Huervo and b shure to pt the stov in th dshwshr.
Cherry Mistmas...
It's Christmas season, and you know what that means?
It's time for crazy Christmas "lights" season.
Even if you've already seen this, it's still a nice welcome into the time of year which is known to some as the festival of lights.
Enjoy!
Background on the amazing "lighted houses"
THis video comes from www.friscochristmas.com from a guy's home in Frisco, TX (This was his 2005 video - more videos from '06 and '07 to be posted soon).
The first mass-distributed Christmas lighted house display of this kind was the work of Carson Williams, a Mason, Ohio, electrical engineer who spent about three hours sequencing the 88 Light-O-Rama channels that controlled the 16,000 Christmas lights in his annual holiday lighting spectacular (from Christmas 2004). His 2005 display included over 25,000 lights that he spent nearly two months and $10,000 to hook up. So that the Williams' neighbors aren't disturbed by constant noise, viewers driving by the house are informed by signs to tune in to a signal broadcast over a low-power FM radio station to hear the musical accompaniment.
The rough quality of the original video led some viewers to believe it was put together in stop-action form from still photographs, but that is an artifact of the high compression used in the clip circulated via e-mail. Mr. Williams has posted instructions for recreating his "Wizard in Winter" sequencing.
Carson's Christmas display proved so popular that it was featured in a Miller Lite beer commercial in December 2005.
Now, the two most important questions...
What does he do when one goes out?
Would you want to be his neighbor?