Category — Show and Tell

Welcome back to Show and Tell. Everyone is welcome to join, even if you have never posted before and just found out about Show and Tell for the first time today. In fact, we hope you do go back to your blog and post your own Show and Tell item and then return with the link to your post. Details on how to participate are located at the bottom of this post.

Let’s begin.

We spent the afternoon riding the Staten Island aimlessly. We wanted to show the twins the Statue of Liberty, their love sealed by a Wonder Pets episode. I know their jumping and clapping was because they recognized the statue from the television show. But I really did have an All-American lump in my throat when she came into view. It didn’t help that we were listening to Paul Simon as we drove into the city, and, at the risk of having everyone collectively roll my eyes at the choice, I give you a quote from “American Tune” (which–shush–IS one of my favourite Simon songs).

What are you showing today?

Want to bring something to Show and Tell?

• If you would like to join circle time and show something to the class, simply post each Sunday (or earlier in the weekend or on Monday if you can’t do Sunday), hopefully including a picture if possible, and telling us about your item. It can be anything–a photo from a trip, a picture of the dress you bought this week, a random image from an old yearbook showing a person you miss. It doesn’t need to contain a picture if you can’t get a picture–you can simply tell a story about a single item.
• Label your post “Show and Tell” each week and then come back here and add the permalink in the comments section below (make sure you don’t just comment that you participated: add a link to your blog in your comment so people can click over). I post a new Show and Tell post every Saturday night or Sunday. I usually move people up into the body of the post every few hours.
• Oh, and then the point is that you click through all of your classmates and see what they are showing this week.
• If you want it…
  I’ve now placed a Show and Tell archive on the sidebar that will be updated each week in case you miss it. And click here for the icon code if you wish to have it for your blog. It links to the ar
  chives.

Welcome back to Show and Tell. Everyone is welcome to join, even if you have never posted before and just found out about Show and Tell for the first time today. In fact, we hope you do go back to your blog and post your own Show and Tell item and then return with the link to your post. Details on how to participate are located at the bottom of this post.

Let’s begin.

No good words; just a picture of my favourite cookie to honour the man who built the company that used every day products to create change in the world. He donated $150 million dollars from Newman’s Own. Rest in Peace, Paul Newman.

What are you showing today?

Want to bring something to Show and Tell?

• If you would like to join circle time and show something to the class, simply post each Sunday (or earlier in the weekend or on Monday if you can’t do Sunday), hopefully including a picture if possible, and telling us about your item. It can be anything–a photo from a trip, a picture of the dress you bought this week, a random image from an old yearbook showing a person you miss. It doesn’t need to contain a picture if you can’t get a picture–you can simply tell a story about a single item.
• Label your post “Show and Tell” each week and then come back here and add the permalink in the comments section below (make sure you don’t just comment that you participated: add a link to your blog in your comment so people can click over). I post a new Show and Tell post every Saturday night or Sunday. I usually move people up into the body of the post every few hours.
• Oh, and then the point is that you click through all of your classmates and see what they are showing this week.
• If you want it…
  I’ve now placed a Show and Tell archive on the sidebar that will be updated each week in case you miss it. And click here for the icon code if you wish to have it for your blog. It links to the archives.

Welcome back to Show and Tell. Everyone is welcome to join, even if you have never posted before and just found out about Show and Tell for the first time today. In fact, we hope you do go back to your blog and post your own Show and Tell item and then return with the link to your post. Details on how to participate are located at the bottom of this post.

Let’s begin.

Prior to the Cheeburgerization of the suburbs, the first place I got to use a fixin’s bar (beyond stealing pickles and eating them off of a damp paper napkin) was at Cosmic Ray’s Starlight Cafe* in Tomorrowland at Disney World.

Veggie burgers are now in every hamburger restaurant, but fake meat was an anomaly back then and it made me feel so incredibly American to get to eat a hamburger just like every other person in that restaurant (except for the ones eating the galactic turkey legs–they have not made a vegetarian equivalent of that yet). Fake meat has leveled the playing field–I know it makes some vegetarians as squeamish as real dead cow, but I love having every recipe in the world open to me again. BLTs? We make them with vegetarian bacon. Ragu Bolognese? Boca Burger’s sausage patties. There is soyrizo and chicken nuggets and even strips of fake beef that can be added to a stirfry.

The point is that eating meat is an all-American activity similar to building our white picket fences or baking apple pie. While other countries enjoy their meat, we have a beef-eating culture. I think it will be a cold day in Hell before we have a vegetarian in the White House (tofu loaf at the next state dinner!). After all, English brings you the old adage: never trust a vegetarian. But fake meat? It blurs the line. You don’t know who is a red-blooded American and who is a ersatz citizen, crunching their way through a burger made of soy instead of meat.

I had the same Missy-no-mates feeling about not owning an iPod every time an Apple commercial came on television. In addition to eating meat, Americans own. We are a capitalistic, consumerist culture and we need to buy electronics. Josh tried to get me one a few times, but I never saw the point. And then suddenly I saw the point and I wanted an iPhone very badly. I wanted music with me (yes, I only listen to three or four CDs period, but I needed that music with me at all times) and videos and Internet access when I’m driving up I-95.

But I couldn’t justify buying an iPhone. But an iPod Touch–an ersatz iPhone that looks like an iPhone and feels like an iPhone but costs a lot less than an iPhone (without an ongoing phone bill to pay in addition to the product?). Well, that was an investment this little vegetarian could wrap her mind around.

I love owning.

Having an iPod Touch makes me feel as all-American as the football players in the pizza joint and the cheerleaders gossiping about them in the bathroom. It makes me feel like I should jump up on a chair and belt out the anthem or, at the very least, “It’s a Grand Old Flag.”

I am a huge fan of blending. And I have never blended more with my fellow Americans than with my new iPod Touch. Oh, and all the features–they completely rock. We have been passing it around in our house, filling up the chip with Brothers and Sisters episodes (thank you, Lindsay!) and YouTube bookmarks.

And while I may have sounded sarcastic in this post, I really am a huge fan of all things American even if I don’t partake in the beef eating (which, perhaps, has fallen culturally by the wayside due to all those studies about the effects of red meat).

*According to this website, Cosmic Ray’s Starlight Cafe is the world’s second busiest fast food restaurant with the winner being a McDonald’s in Moscow.

What are you showing today?

Want to bring something to Show and Tell?

• If you would like to join circle time and show something to the class, simply post each Sunday (or earlier in the weekend or on Monday if you can’t do Sunday), hopefully including a picture if possible, and telling us about your item. It can be anything–a photo from a trip, a picture of the dress you bought this week, a random image from an old yearbook showing a person you miss. It doesn’t need to contain a picture if you can’t get a picture–you can simply tell a story about a single item.
• Label your post “Show and Tell” each week and then come back here and add the permalink in the comments section below (make sure you don’t just comment that you participated: add a link to your blog in your comment so people can click over). I post a new Show and Tell post every Saturday night or Sunday. I usually move people up into the body of the post every few hours.
• Oh, and then the point is that you click through all of your classmates and see what they are showing this week.
• If you want it…
  I’ve now placed a Show and Tell archive on the sidebar that will be updated each week in case you miss it. And click here for the icon code if you wish to have it for your blog. It links to the archives.

Welcome back to Show and Tell. Everyone is welcome to join, even if you have never posted before and just found out about Show and Tell for the first time today. In fact, we hope you do go back to your blog and post your own Show and Tell item and then return with the link to your post. Details on how to participate are located at the bottom of this post.

Let’s begin.

While the Phantom Tollbooth is my favourite book of all time, a close second is Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (as well as Through the Looking Glass). A long time ago, people would buy me Alice memorabilia and copies of the books. And then this stopped with the exception of a copy of Helen Oxenbury’s illustrations that I bought for myself several years ago.

The guinea pigs, just because guinea pigs are a hot topic in our home right now and Josh lives in fear of the day that he comes home and finds one happily living in our guest room.

The Mad Hatter scene because for a long time, it was my favourite passage in the book.

I just loved the way Oxenbury captured Alice’s grief with this drawing. Don’t you feel that way some days?

My brother asked me today what I wanted as a belated birthday gift. I want to bring back the Alice. I am asking for one of three copies: illustrations by Lisbeth Zwerger, Alison Jay, or Mauro Evangelista. Aren’t they incredible?

What are you showing today?

Want to bring something to Show and Tell?

• If you would like to join circle time and show something to the class, simply post each Sunday (or earlier in the weekend or on Monday if you can’t do Sunday), hopefully including a picture if possible, and telling us about your item. It can be anything–a photo from a trip, a picture of the dress you bought this week, a random image from an old yearbook showing a person you miss. It doesn’t need to contain a picture if you can’t get a picture–you can simply tell a story about a single item.
• Label your post “Show and Tell” each week and then come back here and add the permalink in the comments section below (make sure you don’t just comment that you participated: add a link to your blog in your comment so people can click over). I post a new Show and Tell post every Saturday night or Sunday. I usually move people up into the body of the post every few hours.
• Oh, and then the point is that you click through all of your classmates and see what they are showing this week.
• If you want it…
  I’ve now placed a Show and Tell archive on the sidebar that will be updated each week in case you miss it. And click here for the icon code if you wish to have it for your blog. It links to the archives.

Welcome back to Show and Tell. Everyone is welcome to join, even if you have never posted before and just found out about Show and Tell for the first time today. In fact, we hope you do go back to your blog and post your own Show and Tell item and then return with the link to your post. Details on how to participate are located at the bottom of this post.

Let’s begin.

I met Karen from Chookooloonks at BlogHer and she asked why I wasn’t participating in Shutter Sisters. “I don’t have a great camera like you guys,” I said, showing her my Canon.

“But this is the same camera that Kate uses,” she said.

“But my pictures never look gorgeous like Kate’s!” I exclaimed.

“Do you know how to use the camera?” she asked.

“No,” I admitted.

So I actually opened the manual and began fiddling around with buttons and I’ve started to learn. First stop, these action shots of water at a fountain outside a museum in Washington, D.C.

What are you showing today?

Want to bring something to Show and Tell?

• If you would like to join circle time and show something to the class, simply post each Sunday (or earlier in the weekend or on Monday if you can’t do Sunday), hopefully including a picture if possible, and telling us about your item. It can be anything–a photo from a trip, a picture of the dress you bought this week, a random image from an old yearbook showing a person you miss. It doesn’t need to contain a picture if you can’t get a picture–you can simply tell a story about a single item.
• Label your post “Show and Tell” each week and then come back here and add the permalink in the comments section below (make sure you don’t just comment that you participated: add a link to your blog in your comment so people can click over). I post a new Show and Tell post every Saturday night or Sunday. I usually move people up into the body of the post every few hours.
• Oh, and then the point is that you click through all of your classmates and see what they are showing this week.
• If you want it…
  I
  ‘ve now placed a Show and Tell archive on the sidebar that will be updated each week in case you miss it. And click here for the icon code if you wish to have it for your blog. It links to the archives.