{"id":148,"date":"2005-11-27T14:34:35","date_gmt":"2005-11-27T18:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/2005\/11\/27\/lorange-a-smorgasboard-post\/"},"modified":"2005-11-27T14:34:35","modified_gmt":"2005-11-27T18:34:35","slug":"lorange-a-smorgasboard-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/2005\/11\/27\/lorange-a-smorgasboard-post\/","title":{"rendered":"L&#8217;Orange (A Smorgasboard Post)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1040'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Philly was chilly and restful.&nbsp; Thanksgiving was spent flipping through back copies of the <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">New Yorker<\/span>,<br \/>\nwhile staggering dishes in the oven (this year&#8217;s menu: (1) brined<br \/>\nturkey; (2) apple, cranberry, challah stuffing; (3) lobster corn<br \/>\nchowder paired with a light, souffle-style corn pudding; (4) pork loin:<br \/>\n(5) molasses-free gingerbread; (6) <span style=\"rgb(255, 153, 0);\">orange<\/span>-syrup-drenched<br \/>\nMoroccan almond cake; (7) yams; (8) green beans; (9) spiced, mulled<br \/>\nwine, and other spirits; and (10) fresh cranberry sauce).&nbsp; As<br \/>\nalways, it devolved into an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/B000002VTR\/qid=1133130310\/sr=2-1\/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1\/104-0825312-3975163?v=glance&amp;s=music\">Ultimate New Wave<\/a> dance party by 10:00 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Oddly, the images from the weekend that stand out are the&nbsp; <span style=\"rgb(255, 153, 0);\">Hermes<\/span> tie boxes in <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/stories\/storyReader$1041\">Evil K&#8217;s closet<\/a> and the <span style=\"rgb(255, 153, 0);\">CheeseWiz<\/span> on our authentic Philly cheesesteaks.<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and find out how prone you are to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/science\/humanbody\/mind\/surveys\/smiles\/index.shtml\">spotting hucksters<\/a> (it doesn&#8217;t count as a quiz if it&#8217;s from the BBC).&nbsp; Sadly, I scored an 11 out of 20.<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>The East Coast cold and repeated <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/11\/27\/nyregion\/27bugs.html?ex=1290747600&amp;en=3f15540faed107cf&amp;ei=5090&amp;partner=rssuserland&amp;emc=rss\">NYC bed-bug infestation stories<\/a> have convinced me to stay away from the Big Apple.<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>Plane-reading: I don&#8217;t normally agree with what Old Hitch has to say, but here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/review\/2005_11_22\">very good essay<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/cgi-bin\/biblio?inkey=1-0679723161-8\">Nabokov&#8217;s masterpiece<\/a> turning 50.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philly was chilly and restful.&nbsp; Thanksgiving was spent flipping through back copies of the New Yorker, while staggering dishes in the oven (this year&#8217;s menu: (1) brined turkey; (2) apple, cranberry, challah stuffing; (3) lobster corn chowder paired with a light, souffle-style corn pudding; (4) pork loin: (5) molasses-free gingerbread; (6) orange-syrup-drenched Moroccan almond cake; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legalese"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}