Reasons to be Thankful

v/blog world headquarters will be closed this week in recognition of the holidays. Please keep an eye on the internet while we are gone. Here are some reasons to be thankful:

Lou Reed. Baseball. Mexican food. Converse Chuck Taylors. Krautrock. 5ives. Mrs. V. Oxo brand kitchen products. Al Green. Elephants. Homemade macaroni & cheese. PC Linkdump. The ocean (Pacific). Seedless grapes. Courderoy pants. Spoilt Victorian Child. Krazy Kat. Mark E Smith-uh. Beer. The first two Violent Femmes albums. Glide brand dental floss. WFMU. Moogs. LSD-25. Sunglasses. Lost Bands of the New Wave Era. Fred Frith. Howard Zinn. The Red Victorian Movie House. Duct tape. All the worlds' cheesemakers. Bumrocks. Larry David. Ben Davis. The New York Review of Books. An Idiots Guide to Dreaming. Roger Angell. Thai food. Rudy Van Gelder. 'Buked and Scorned. The Swiffer. Samuel Beckett. Hawkwind. Mexican chocolate. The beauty of the suicide squeeze. The entire nation of Ecuador. Growabrain. The Bevis Frond. Calistoga mineral water.

Feel free to make your own list. Be back next week.