Bedtime in Alaska – Your Sugar Fix, and More!
13 02 2009Sweet!
If all goes well, and I have negotiated embedding this fabulous live streaming video into the tubes, this is what will happen. Today, Friday, February 13, from 10am-2pm Alaska time (11am-3pm Pacific, 2pm-6pm Eastern) in celebration of the 200th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln’s birth, and President Barack Obama’s inauguration, artist and baker Zilly Rosen will be creating a temporary portrait called “A New Birth of Freedom”, in conjunction with the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, made entirely of more than 5,000 cupcakes! And you can watch it here LIVE from Washington, DC. Isn’t it a great time to be alive?
Free live streaming by Ustream
If you are lucky enough to be in the D.C. area, you can participate in the dismantling of this increidble work of art on Saturday. (Yes, that means you get to eat a cupcake!)
More Sugar!!!
We have a winner for the new Sarah Palin Ice Cream Flavor! Here are the top five with over a thousand votes in:
#1) YouBetchaBerry
#2) Wasilly Hillbilly Vanilly
#3) Rocky Road to Nowhere
#4) I Can See Fudge From My House
#5) I’m a Narcissist Who Lies, Also. With Nuts.
Brian was very disappointed I forgot to include “Brian’s Revenge Moose Nougat Surprise”… Maybe next time!
Thanks to all who threw out suggestions and participated in the voting! The best part is that you can click HERE and make your very own virtual carton of Ben & Jerry’s style Sarah Palin Ice Cream. I had fun playing with our winner. I chose a base ice cream of white chocolate and coffee (that’s the best way to stay warm you know). Then a double dose of berries – blackberry (you can run the state of Alaska with one of those!), and raspberry (The Bronx cheer kind). Then a swirl of cake batter (Let them eat cake!) and voila! Sarah Palin’s YouBetchaBerry!
Good News from the Good Guys – Go Pete Petersen!
The long-awaited gas price gouging report from recently-resigned Attorney General Talis Colberg confirms the need for gas price gouging legislation, according to Rep. Pete Petersen (D-Anchorage). The report cites a lack of competition and a small Alaska market as the sources of higher-than-average prices at Alaska gas pumps. Petersen says that confirms the need for an anti-gouging law.
“It’s true that there’s only one refiner in Alaska,” Petersen said. “The former AG called that justification for socking it to Alaska consumers in a free market environment. The truth is, the free market only functions properly when there’s competition. That’s why we have anti-trust laws, and that’s why Alaskans need to be protected at the pump.”
Island Blog Love
Up here in the frozen North Country, my thoughts today turned to a nice quiet island somewhere south…. Kodiak! Here’s a great article about the bloggers of Kodiak Island, including Kodiak Konfidential, the Rogue Wave and Flats Rat Rants.
The paper actually had NICE things to say about them. They didn’t call them ‘pathetic’ or ‘annoying’. Wow. There’s some major blog love on the Island! Keep up the good work! (Snappy salute to the south south west).
Three Cheers for Alaskans for Truth!
I am remiss in not congratulating the fine folks at Alaskans for Truth for a couple major victories in the last week. Two of their four calls to action have been realized. Witnesses who refused to show up for questioning when served with legislative subpoenas were found in contempt, and now Attorney General Talis Colberg has resigned. That leaves censuring the governor for the Legislative Council’s own finding that she violated the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act and abused her power, and investigating potential perjury by the governor in her deposition to Personnel Board investigator Tim Petumenos. So far, Alaskans for Truth are batting 500….not bad!
For two great write-ups on this, check out Blue Oasis and Progressive Alaska.
February 13th, 2009 at 3:21 PM
@Martha and Women who run….
Thank you! I didn’t think about all the other reasons people go to PP. Now that I think about it, it IS a place for young women to get free bc pills (in some towns). And when my sister was 45 and had no health ins., she got a mammogram there. : )
February 13th, 2009 at 4:08 PM
Could I have another scoop of that Rocky Road to Nowhere, please?
February 13th, 2009 at 4:18 PM
“Sherry Johnston, neatly dressed in a white hoodie sweater…”
Seriously?
February 13th, 2009 at 4:32 PM
**FROWNING** I wanna cupcake
Tried to make brownies last night with powdered eggs don’t know what happened usually they turn out just fine this time YECK!!!
I have a major sweet tooth today, no y’all got me craving cupcakes!!! LOL
Hubby just went upriver via snowmachine with his brother to go cash his check, supposed to be bringing back eggs, bread and potatoes, so maybe I can make a sweet treat for Valentines Day
Really wanted eggs the other day when we went up but the trail was too rough. Glad it’s MUCH warmer today and now he can get us fresh potatoes too
Someone pass me a cupcake and some icecream too!!
Ann S.
February 13th, 2009 at 5:57 PM
On Halcro’s blog he has recently commented on a story that Heath phoned a politician and chewed her out for supporting the legislative contempt resolution.
http://www.andrewhalcro.com/put_me_through_to_colberg_errr_menard
The second comment on this, by Ratfish, is even better– he explains why the Palins are tribal in the good old Iraqui sense.
February 14th, 2009 at 10:10 AM
I read as much as I can find about Palin. I have tried to temper my obsession with her tremendous lies and power hunger, and finally come to the realization that I am WAITING. Waiting for her to be exposed, to admit that she is a joke, or for someone to officially say, ok, let’s admit she’s a pretty hick that somehow slipped through and got this job as governor…I never heard of her before the election, and she represents all those people in my life that float to the top for no apparent good reason. I study body language and nonverbal communication, and there are pitifully few things that come out of her mouth that her facial expressions and physical movements do not immediately contradict.