Yes, I live in Canada. Why do you ask?

[foxtongue]

Jeepers, I thought last night was unexpectedly exciting, what with successfully hooking Nicole up with Nick for the holidays, finally meeting Dominique's new little baby, SURVIVING NICK'S NEW VAN CATCHING FIRE, (no one was hurt. I pulled Nicole out and we put the fire out with snow), and admitting rather bashfully to someone that I wrote about our personal life on the interblags, but today's news sort of trumps it, so I'll just get it out of the way and talk about yesterday in the next post...

I've just been hired as a cameraperson for Chanukah on Ice.

"Skate to Chanukah music or watch and nosh latkes and doughnuts.
Monday, December 22, 2008, 6:00-7:30 pm.
West End Ice Rink, 1750 Haro Street (Between Denman & Bidwell).
Admission: By donation. Skates are free."
Which sounds, on the surface, like it's going to be a Yiddish Icecapades, people dressed as sparkling, spinning dreidel, singing songs and throwing glitter under a rainbow of lights, but apparently it's something a thousand times more hard-core bizarre. Something I would never have the wit or imagination to think up myself.

It's a Candle Lighting on an Menorah made of ice, a meter high and shaped like hockey sticks.

Did you get that? Shaped like hockey sticks.

Comments

Hockey sticks.

[wileypeter]

Wow.

I . . . uh . . . erm . . .

WOW.

terribly

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

I'm terribly impressed.

[coffeeman.livejournal.com]

Rad! I demand pictures of the Menorah! The whole thing sounds awesome, but pictures can never tell the whole story.

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

You can bet there's going to be pictures. Hell, I'm going to see if I can't get a whole bunch of my friends to show up.

[coffeeman.livejournal.com]

It would so be worth the trip, if only I didn't have a relative showing up FROM vancouver as well as a holiday party that night.

[silveredmane.livejournal.com]

A hockey-stick Channukiah. I thought hyphenated identities were about nationality, but maybe it's possible to be Jewish-Canadian, which is different from [Jewish and Canadian.]

Channukiahs (which are menorahs, but with nine arms instead of the standard seven) are made in many shapes. My sister has a Menorahsaurus, which is a stegosaurus with candle-holder cups on each of its spinal plates. If this sort of thing entertains you, have a look at this.

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

That link provided a solid half hour of shock and hilarity. Thank you!

[virtual256.livejournal.com]

This? I would so totally go to were travel possible in a reasonable timescale.

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

It's going to be So Silly!!