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 SomaCow 372: End Of The Rainbow [1:03:54m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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In this, their finest hour, the guys talked about food, the internet, and TV… It’s much more than it sounds, trust me.

It’s that time of year again, kids go back to school, seasonal places start shutting down, and Geoff goes out of town a lot.

It’s usually good work, him being out of town. It just is hard being in a new place. At first glance, it looks like your choices for food are Taco Bell, Some Fancy Shmancy joint, and another Taco Bell. Even with the apps used between the two iPhones on the trip, it’s not always easy to find a good place to eat.

But leave it to Geoff to be resourceful and find some damn good food when he was out of town! If you don’t already, follow his twitter so you can make sure and not miss out on the many pics from his trips. This time he found a seafood looking sailboat and wood plank filled diner that served an awesome looking breakfast. And for dinner, he found a Cuban place that sold Ox Tail! He got it, of course. I was instantly curious, morbidly so, but could not find a local place that serves this. Gotta get his resources!

So has your mom joined facebook? Mine has. So far it’s been ok but I don’t think about her being on there and who knows what I might say one day. She found out Rowan took her first steps on FB, oops. Then again, I don’t have to email her pics separately anymore at least.

And finally, a sad farewell to a beloved show, Reading Rainbow. They have not kept the contract for the upcoming year. I did find out, though, that we have 2 PBS stations while looking for Reading Rainbow here.

But the real issue for me was when I saw them say that the focus is no longer on getting kids to enjoy to read but just how to read. Why can’t we do both? Seriously, all great to know how to read but if you don’t love it you’ll never use it! Whereas if you LOVE to read, you’ll figure out how sooner or later! And maybe it is time for a new show but to hear that the “focus” for children’s TV has switched? Not enlarged, not encompassed, but switched? I mean we have 80 bajillion channels, hell I have 2 PBS stations not including the Noggins or whatever they are! I think there’s room for both in our lives.

 

 251: Thanks, Given. [57:57m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

SomaCow Media is proud to present SomaCow, brought to you in this hour by Mom’s cooking, Grandma’s Potato Salad, J’s Martinis, and The Redboy Podcast. I know, weird, right?

In this hour, we gave thanks, mocked Twilight, and chatted up a good friend of the show, even if he is a Ginger.

I would prattle on here about family, and friends, and all that jazz, but the fact of the matter is I am in Fatty Free Fall, and feel that only through confession can I stop, or even staunch, my constant hunger.

In the last 4 days, I have eaten 3 ribeye steaks, 2 lbs of potato salad, a giant order of the new buttload of nacho nachos from Taco Bell, a giant plate of Scallopene Piccata, 6 Eggs, 4 slices of bacon, 4 pieces of toast, 4 sausages, 2 orders of hashbrowns, 4 more slices of bacon(seconds, bitch), 3 Ommegang beers, a massive order of double beef medium pad thai, at LEAST 4 dozen shrimp, a bag of cape cod potato chips, 2 packages of Ritter Sport candy, a bowl of cocoa puffs (and I don’t even LIKE cocoa puffs) 4 handfuls of chili con carne popcorn, half a pound cake (that’s half a pound of butter, half a pound of sugar, and half a pound of flour), 90+ cashews, heavily salted, 2 gallons of milk, 4 coronas, an order of potstickers, an order of ribs, a chicken sandwich (there must, always, be a chicken sandwich), 2 champ burgers, lemon scallops with brown rice, 5 budweisers, 2 double decker tacos, 1 seven layer burrito, half a pint of ice cream, a gallon of tea, a doughnut, 4 pots worth of coffee…

Round here… It’s just called “gettin’ ready for Thanksgiving”.

Or, you know, a myocardial infarction.

That gingerbread house looks delicious… be back later. Food Diary, my ass.

Before we go eat massive amounts of food, let us leave you with the true meaning of Thanksgiving, Charlie Brown… a story from a wonderful lady we call Franni the Lunchlady:

I was the child of very old parents, Mom being 48 and Daddy being 53 when I was born. I can remember being rustled out of bed in what seemed like the middle of the night. Wrapped in blankets my sister and I were put in the back of the Rambler stationwagon. When I woke up it was daylight and we were at my brother Bob’s house. Bob was born when my folks first got married, 28 years before me. I ran around with his 5 kids, all of us in our jammies, watching the Macy’s parade on TV when an interesting float or balloon came on. Other cousins, aunts & uncles were also there, it was quite the full house.

Then we got our faces washed and our Sunday clothes on and we sang for our supper. Each of us had to sing or recite some kind of Thanksgiving thing. The last year both my folks were alive, I was in 1st grade. Daddy came up with a song for me to sing that year. He and I practiced it for weeks, it was going to be the showstopper, he said. So when the day came and then my turn came, I stood up on the foot stool and belted this out (to the tune of “Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-aye”)

Happy Thanksgiving Time,
the family’s looking fine.
There’s lots of food to eat, And lots of folks to greet.

We’re really thankful that,
We’re getting nice and fat.
We cannot eat no more, Please roll us out the door!

I was a super star; best Thanksgiving ever!

Thankfully, you can read on…

• Macy’s Holiday Traditions
• The Friday Flashback: Chicago Christmas Caravan
• Recipes for Health :-))
• Music for Thanksgiving
• Family traditions.