Hodown's Journal

01/26/2010 16:18 #50913

Champagne Sabering

File under: Why I love New York. You learn the most random things when you least expect it.

Last night I was out to dinner celebrating a friend's 30th birthday. Our very French Chef insisted on serving us the bottle of Champagne we had to toast her 30th. He took the bottle and told us he was going to "chop it's head off". He then returned us the bottle with the top portion of the bottle cut off. I was amazed. After googling this I've discovered this is known as "Champagne Sabering". I'm kind of obsessed with learning how to do this now.

metalpeter - 01/27/10 19:46
That I have never heard of , but I can say that is one bottle you don't want to drink right out of. Also does anyone know when you crispin a ship what happens to what ever was in that bottle? I wonder what cutting the bottle like this does to the taste?

james - 01/27/10 15:59
I saw this on the travel channel a few months back and ran home to check it out youtube.

Magic.

lilho - 01/26/10 23:57
this is my fav entry of yours to date. good job.

mike - 01/26/10 17:48
ive seen that done a million times, get with the program, i am actually quite a champagne saberer myself...j/k

hodown - 01/26/10 17:25
I love that quote. I've never heard it before and I'm now also obsessed with it!

matthew - 01/26/10 16:58
"Champagne! In victory one deserves it; in defeat one needs it!" - Napolean

12/10/2009 16:20 #50531

Dear Santa

I hate to ask for things for Christmas. I feel like I don't actually need anything. But then I start to think about things I'd like and I can come up with one hundred things. I just came across this (see below) and my heart said "Please Santa!".

I'm going to consider going because KRS1 is one of my old school hip hop heros. Maybe this should be my present to myself.

hodown - 01/26/10 17:25
You hate KRS ONE? Wow Tony, wow. We may need to have a time out because I just can't handle that. Next thing I know you're going to tell me you also hate Big Daddy Kane.

enknot - 01/26/10 17:18
I hate KRS ONE. myopic nerd. ok, he's smart and musical, but really, that much wounded back lashing makes you look like a lady after a while.

tinypliny - 12/10/09 20:20
Heh, I would never have pegged you as a Hip-Hop fan.

12/06/2009 13:20 #50477

Just when I though..

it was not possible to love Obama more (totally irrational I know, and I don't think he is the next coming of Jesus and I realize he can not solve America's problems but..) this picture appears:

babies and president's!!

lilho - 12/08/09 00:12
i love it.

james - 12/06/09 13:41
Here is another Obama nd baby photo

:::link:::

12/03/2009 15:53 #50448

Facebook

Ok so I don't think you can really see this picture but Facebook has some sort of feature where your friends answer questions about you.

Apparently someone thinks:

I'm hot
I've lied to get out of a date (100% correct)
I could shoot someone if I had to (what kind of person do you think I am?)
I'm a good driver (if only they knew)
I'm a good friend (clearly)

lilho - 12/08/09 00:13
i just want to say again, i still really hate facebook.

metalpeter - 12/05/09 19:17
somehow I missed this, if you know How to do this on facebook send me the info over on facebook, thanks

lilho - 12/04/09 02:23
a few things, we can't drive. you may be a good friend but you are on sista probation! i think you are hot in a sisterly way... and you would totes shoot someone.

11/17/2009 12:05 #50329

Alaska

I went to Alaska in August. It was amazing. Below are some of my favorite pictures.

deeglam - 11/19/09 20:30
i love! looks so beautiful. Thanks for sharing!!

hodown - 11/18/09 17:48
(e:tiny)- So I'm pretty sure you can eat any of the mushrooms, but I'm not a huge mushroom fan anyway so I didn't even bother looking them up online.

(e:josh) - actually I hadn't taken a shower at all that day because I knew we were just going to hike all day. And the black sweater I'm wearing had dried fish guts all over it. I was a dirty girl in Alaska!

(e:terry) (e:peter) - Wow thanks! I actually had no idea I had taken pictures that turned out until I just went in Picassa and looked at them. It just makes me miss it more looking at these.

tinypliny - 11/18/09 10:04
Are both of those mushrooms poisonous? How can one tell?

terry - 11/17/09 21:04
wow seriously Jess nice pics! Who knew you were such a lil photographess?

metalpeter - 11/17/09 18:12
Nice Pictures hope it was a great time.

joshua - 11/17/09 15:24
It's all about looking fabulous while hiking, IMO!

hodown - 11/17/09 14:52
Thanks Matt! The glacier pictures were taken from a tour (the only one we took) boat. They bring you right up to the face of the glacier so you can hear it move. It was pretty amazing (and effing cold!).

Everything else was either from hikes or walking around.

matthew - 11/17/09 14:35
Wow, Beautiful photos! did you take the ice ones from a boat? How was the weather?