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A CELEBRATION EVERY DAY: “The Moon of Long Nights” (& My Mom’s Chicken Soup)

Posted in The Kitchen, tagged , , , , , on December 17, 2009 | 8 Comments »

When I began thinking about this first post for my N.O.T. monthly-ish series on the chapters of Full Moon Feast by Jessica Prentice, the first thing I thought was, “Jeez, ernski, way to pick an off time to start celebrating nature. Everything is cold and basically dormant. It gets dark at 4:30, and the freshest [...]

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A CELEBRATION EVERY DAY

Posted in The Kitchen, tagged , , , , , on December 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »

It’s easy to think of the holidays as being few and far between. This perception, however, as we have seen here at These New Old Traditions, is basically false. Holidays are certainly special, but they are also plentiful. Days to mark and honor the passing year are constantly popping up—at least once a month—no matter [...]

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NEW THANKSGIVING TRADITIONS: Five New Old Tips

Posted in Holidays, tagged , , , , , , on November 24, 2009 | 7 Comments »

As we alllll know, later this week most people in America are going to stop what they are doing and cook up a giant bird along with a pile of season-appropriate side dishes. They’ll chatter, drink, and connect themselves to the rest of their national community through parades and sports. Well, some of them will….

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THE AUTHENTIC THANKSGIVING

Posted in Holidays, tagged , , , , , , on November 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Club some seals, and other ways to have an authentic Thanksgiving How to celebrate like the Pilgrims did it. Those awful, awful Pilgrims By Sean O’Neal November 23, 2009 Excerpted from A.V. Club Milwaukee America has a proud history of taking its most sacred holidays and allowing shrewd marketing types to distort them beyond all [...]

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THE IMPORTANCE OF THE TOAST

Posted in New Old Traditions, tagged , , , , on November 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

At the party minds and voices swirl to the momentum of small semi-autonomous gatherings as people respond in body to one another’s stories. Some taken with the absurdity of a joke’s end allow their smile to release into cacophonous laughter, while others who have heard something terrible console with a sympathetic brow. The party is [...]

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Lucky Thirteen

Posted in All That is Sacred, tagged , , , , , , , , on November 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

It’s Friday the 13th and These New Old Traditions want to celebrate. Turns out that most superstitions stating that Friday the 13th is unlucky are pretty recent conventions, but there are some theories that trace the day’s bad rep back to the Pagan Norse goddess Frigg, an important and fabulous goddess of love (she’ll show [...]

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NEW OLD HALLOWEEN 2009 RECAP: Guests of Honor

Posted in All That is Sacred, Holidays, New Old Traditions, tagged , , , , , on November 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The arrival of Halloween’s guest of honor is a much anticipated event in any home celebrating the New Old Halloween Tradition. This year the Hermetic Review‘s very own Molly Q, along with her wonderful roommate Angelica, took on the responsibility of transporting Jack of the Lanterns who, with the help of both Molly and Angelica, [...]

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NEW OLD HALLOWEEN 2009 RECAP: Eats

Posted in Holidays, New Old Traditions, The Kitchen, tagged , , , on November 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Central to New Old Traditions is The Feast. We come together to sing, reflect, and celebrate while along the way we awaken our senses through the food we make for each other. Indeed, the eating of foods made by ourselves and shared with each other brings necessity, importance, and giving together in an instant. And [...]

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PATRON SAINT as EXQUISITE CORPSE

Posted in All That is Sacred, New Old Traditions, tagged , , , , on November 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Every gathering of Revelers in the name of the New Old Traditions manifests its own unique Patron Saint, whom we conjure through the collective practice of Exquisite Corpse.

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NEW OLD HALLOWEEN 2009 RECAP: Revelers

Posted in Holidays, New Old Traditions, tagged , , , , on November 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Halloween signifies the inversion of social norms, and is a time to subvert all dead energy that pesters the living. Taboos, inhibitions, closeted skeletons are all given the opportunity to expose themselves if they so desire. To this end, Revelers in the New Old Tradition take on a-typical roles and flaunt their alter-egos in an [...]

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