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Feb. 14th, 2006 01:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cblj_backupWell, I said I was thinking about it and I've been ramping up to do it -- so, happy Dead Year, one and all. :D Today (the 14th, considering it's barely past midnight here) marks the official start of the Dead Year, which at this point will probably end on Halloween with an actual closing on Thanksgiving, creating a limnal space during November. This is subject to change, however, depending on how the Year goes.
I'm inaugurating it in the evening with a documentary on Typhoid Mary. I was going to have a Dead Year feast because the fam was going to be gone for the weekend, but that ended up not happening and I'm not really sure they would grasp the concept behind the Dead Year, so I let that fall by the wayside. I figure Typhoid Mary is, you know, food related...
(As a side note, in Sacramento there is a restaurant called Hamburger Mary's which in addition to serving incredibly good food always made me think of Typhoid Mary with the result that whenever I ate there I had the wonderful sensation of living on the edge, as if at any moment my food might kill me.)
So! If you happen to have any interesting funeral or death-festival food recipes (authentic pan de muerto, anyone?) or anecdotes or thoughts regarding your own Dead Years or your ideas about same -- some of you have already shared some with me privately, which have been quite edifying and interesting -- feel free to comment with them here.
Otherwise, have a nice and morbidity-free day :D
I'm inaugurating it in the evening with a documentary on Typhoid Mary. I was going to have a Dead Year feast because the fam was going to be gone for the weekend, but that ended up not happening and I'm not really sure they would grasp the concept behind the Dead Year, so I let that fall by the wayside. I figure Typhoid Mary is, you know, food related...
(As a side note, in Sacramento there is a restaurant called Hamburger Mary's which in addition to serving incredibly good food always made me think of Typhoid Mary with the result that whenever I ate there I had the wonderful sensation of living on the edge, as if at any moment my food might kill me.)
So! If you happen to have any interesting funeral or death-festival food recipes (authentic pan de muerto, anyone?) or anecdotes or thoughts regarding your own Dead Years or your ideas about same -- some of you have already shared some with me privately, which have been quite edifying and interesting -- feel free to comment with them here.
Otherwise, have a nice and morbidity-free day :D
