Burning Man Gangnam Style? Tix on Sale!
Keeping with the Gangnam Style theme of resent posts (NASA style and Wine Country Style), today I posted a Burning Man Gangnam Style video to go along with information on how to get your 2013 Burning Man “Cargo Cult” tickets.
Once again, Burning Man is offering tickets to this year’s festival at a premium price of $650– just in time for you to stuff your favorite stockings (up to four, anyway!)
The trick? YOU MUST PREREGISTER NOW through noon Weds. December 19, 2012 in order to buy tickets http://tickets.burningman.com/registration-holiday2013.html
Then on Thurs. Dec. 20, at noon, 3000 tickets will be sold first come first served.
Not up for spending $650?
Burning Man says tickets will be a lot cheaper and on January 4, Burning Man will announce how many and at what prices and when tickets will be made available. In 2013, they will be sold be first-come first-served — no lottery like last year. To weed out scalpers, buyers will pre-register. Once again in 2013, Burning Man will facilitate Low Income Ticket Program and Secure Ticket Exchange Program (STEP), a safe, hassle-free exchange of tickets between people in the aftermarket.
They will not be implementing identity-based ticketing (e.g. name-on-ticket). Read why by Larry Harvey: http://blog.burningman.com/?p=23887.)
Full Burning Man ticket information: http://tickets.burningman.com
Ticketing FAQ (http://tickets2.burningman.com/faq.php)
Ticketing forum (http://ticketsupport.burningman.com/home).
Read about the 2013 Burning Man theme “Cargo Cult.”
There are lots of other Burning Man posts on this blog too–just search under Burning Man!
Another great Gangnam Style parody! Cheers!
Once a week, Jordan Winery posts a new video on their youtube channel. Yesterday, award winning Jordan blogger and PR person extradinaire Lisa Matttson and her team at Jordan went “Gangnam Style” and posted this parody of PSY’s K-POP youtube megahit that has had the most views of any video ever. While the Jordan video may not hit the million mark, it went from 250 yesterday to nearly 1000 views today and is sure to bring a laugh to wine drinkers familiar with the images in the original.
There are a number of parody videos out there; some like Jordan’s, parody the images but others also change the lyrics like “Annoying Orange’s Nya Nya Style” which is a favorite of my son or my personal favorite, NASA Style which combines intelligent lyrics with an amazing location–the Johnson Space Center!
Cheers!
PS Time for bubbles! Tomorrow 12/16 is the…
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NASA Goes Gangnam Style!
The incredible location of the Johnson Space Center and the inteligent lyrics of this NASA parody of PSY’s K-POP hit “Gangnam Style” make this one standout from the hundreds currently crowding YouTube. Listen closely, learn, and enjoy!
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End of the World? Make mine wine!
Get ready for the end of the world–or holiday parties!–by attending one of these Ventura County wine events or by joining us online for the next Thirsty Girl Twitter Tasting of bubbly from Chateau Ste Michelle!
Saturday and Sunday December 15th and 16th from 11 – 5 is Old Creek Ranch and Vino V‘s Annual Open House December 15th and 16th from 11 – 5. 10024 Old Creek Road, Ventura, CA where you can sample wine from the barrel, purchase futures, taste library wines, try a limited number of Chardonnay verticals, and winemaker Michael Meagher will happily tell you why he’s excited about the 2012 harvest and how this year’s warmer summer was a welcomed change that allowed “the grapes to ripen gradually, yet with an emphasis on fruit flavor.”
Sunday, December 16 from 2-4pm is the Ventura Wine Company’s annual champagne tasting held at the Cave, 4435 McGrath Street #301 Ventura, CA 93003. (805) 642-9449. For $35, you can taste a selection of 40 Sparklers and Champagne, listen to live entertainment by Veron Thomas, and sample light appetizers from The Cave. Dress warmly and bring a rain jacket because the event is held primarily outside. Anyone can come and take advantage of special pricing on sparklers on Sunday!
Wednesday, December 19 at 5pm (Pacific) will find me in bubbles again as we pop corks from Chateau Ste Michelle for another Thirsty Girl Twitter Tasting, this time of Domaine Ste. Michelle’s Brut & Brut Rose. I’m very excited also to announce that Thirsty Girl has added my wine blog, Wine Predator, to their site!
Finally, celebrate the end of the world in style with “Baubles” the new bubbly at the Four Brix Foodie Friday 12/21/12 from 4-8pm. For $15, get fresh Oysters on a half shell, Wine Barrel Smoked Oysters, and a Smitten Clam Chowder. RSVP! Find Four Brix Winery, 2290 Eastman Ave., 109, Ventura, CA 93003.
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“We are such stuff,
as dreams are made on.”
Shakespeare
“I was thinking,
about a series of dreams.”
Bob Dylan
“You gotta follow that dream,
wherever that dream may lead you.”
Bruce Springsteen
And so I am here in Anaheim after 37 years of watching this man spin dreams in the form of songs, one after another, which emanate from the darkness that he and all of us must pass through.
He walks on stage, and unlike any other rock star I can think of, he asks: “Are you ready to be transformed?”
Burning Man 2013 Theme Announced: Cargo Cult?
Burning Man 2013 Theme: Cargo Cult
The Burning Man Organization recently announced the theme of the 2013 event: Cargo Cult.
Huh? Yes, if you ask me, this is a jaw dropper of a theme.
Each year Larry Harvey, without or without a little help from his friends, comes up with a theme which is announced the night of the Burn or sometime soon after so that the citizens of Black Rock City can get their theme on. Read more…
Happy Thanksgiving 2012!
May your thanksgiving celebrations be as colorful as this turkey by my nine year old son which we taped to our purple front door (look Mom, he said, no brown!)
May your heart be full of gratitude and your tummy full of tasty treats!
May you take a moment to hold hands with friends and family and count your many blessings.
I am grateful for so much this year: my life is full of countless blessings. My son and his creativity, my husband and his patience are just two ways that I am grateful this year.
I also want to thank you for being one of my readers and subscribers; I am grateful to you.
What are you grateful for this Thanksgiving? Did you blog about Thanksgiving?
I’d like to encourage you to read this blog post about Thanksgiving and gratitude by a wine blogging, cartoon drawing friend of mine.
Wondering what wine to serve with your holiday meals? Here are the fruits of my research over the years…and this morning’s tasting before breakfast!
This is the time of year where everyone wants to know which wine they should have with Thanksgiving dinner. Since most people don’t want to break the bank, what follows are a numbe rof recommendations that land squarely on the less expensive side of a $20 bill.
Personally, my go to wine for turkey OR ham is zinfandel. There is alchemical magic in that combination!
How do I know? Many years ago, I worked the tasting room at Ridge and so of course I brought a bottle of zin to that Thanksgiving table.
Last year, during the weekend before Thanksgiving, I convinced my husband to make a turkey AND then a ham so I could try a bunch of wines with these classic holiday meals. I came up with these three blog posts:
white and rose wines with Turkey
Since holiday meals usually…
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This Thanksgiving, I am grateful for the rain that brings the mud that brings the lotus. What are you grateful for?
No mud,
no lotus.
Thich Nhat Hanh
And no rain, no mud.
It feels like I’m slogging through a lot of mud just now–and there’s no end in sight.
May my path be furrows; let the flowers come in spring.
The lotus pictured is by Leslie Rinchen-Wongmo, one of the only westerners trained in the rare Buddhist art of silk applique thangkas. His Holiness the Dalai Lama gave his blessings to Leslie’s work and encouraged her to make images that speak to the spiritual aspirations of people across religions and cultures.
Learn more about Leslie’s work from the documentary film, Creating Buddhas: the Making and Meaning of Fabric Thangkas. See photos from Leslie’s recent trip to India here: http://journeyinindia.tumblr.com.
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I want YOU to VOTE!
Every election my son rolls, walks, or scooters with me to the polling place down the street and helps me cast my ballot. (Related: blog post about the post election party four years ago where kids weren’t allowed.)
This year, because he has science club and I am teaching today, he wanted to get up at 6am and go with me to the polls at 7am.
We assured him that we didn’t have to set the alarm for 6am and if we got dressed quickly at 7am, we could ride bikes up there at 7:15 then get back in plenty of time for breakfast and 8am school.
When I got up at 6:45am, he was already dressed and ready to go! While I had some tea and he had a bowl of cereal, we went over and marked the sample ballot in preparation for voting.
The morning was brilliant: warm, clear, perfect for a bike ride down the street to our polling p
lace–the same one, as far as I can remember, that I’ve voted at since I moved to my house in 1997.
A bunch of people were standing around outside–locked out! Around 720, we got in and they set up, then three of the ten of us waiting didn’t have ballots there! Not to assume, but I’d bet the big black guy was voting the same as us…
I had my provisional registration filled out when I realized my sample ballot listed a different polling place so we went there and got our “real” ballots. On the way, we ran into other neighbors who also weren’t polling on our street as usual.
At our new polling place on Santa Clara, they had no power and also got started late. A Democrat woman there didn’t have her ballot although others on her street were voting there. To save time figuring out where she should be voting, she used a provisional ballot.
What should have taken 10 minutes took 45–and my son was almost late for school. I have never seen so much chaos at a polling place, much less at two–maybe because I have always gone after dinner, not early morning.
Do you need to know where to vote? Here’s a polling place locator.
Experiencing anything strange at your polling place? Record it with your cell phone! Report it here: 1-866-Our-Vote – a national non-partisan hotline.
And remember, most importantly, exercise your right to vote!
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