Today is my wife's birthday, and there have already been TWO birthday miracles:
1) our local and venerable candy factory, Birnn Chocolate, actually made a batch of dark chocolate raspberry jellies-- they are by far the best in the known universe . . . honestly, most raspberry jellies made in America taste quite gross (apparently these taste more like the European version) but for whatever reason, Birnn rarely makes them and we haven't had them in years-- this is odd, since they are by far the best thing that they make . . . but I am no chocolatier and times are tough on the choclate front-- apparently, because of global warming, ageing trees, and gold mining, there is a cocoa bean crisis and quality chocolate (and cocoa beans) are hard to come by-- I learned this from the Asian lady that has worked at Birnn for many, many years-- she gave me an entire lecture on the current global state of chocolate and cocoa beans;
2) I managed to clip and upload my favorite cinematic Thanksgiving scene-- a moment from the excellent Thanksgiving movie Pieces of April-- if you haven't seen it, it's worth a watch-- excellent ensemble cast, and a funny, poignant, dysfunctional-family-over-the-holidays story with a brilliant plot . . . I'm sure I broke some copyright laws in posting this scene-- I had to pirate the file, then convert it, then load it into iMovie, then clip the appropriate portion-- but I've been searching YouTube for it forever, and no one has ever posted it-- so this is my contribution to the digital disaster-- I hope someone enjoys it.
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